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People sit at a bus stop at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 21, 2021, a day after Derek Chauvin was convicted of Floyd s murder. - The conviction of white officer Derek Chauvin for George Floyd s murder raised hopes on April 21 in the Black community of a historic turning point in US justice, but the police killing of another African American cast a shadow over prospects for change. ((Photo by Kerem Yucel / AFP) (Photo by KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images))
Early one morning in late March, as former officer Derek Chauvin sat on trial in downtown Minneapolis for murdering George Floyd, more than a dozen police converged to evict residents of an encampment of unhoused people in one of the city’s main Black neighbourhoods, Near North.