America s sordid racial saga may have finally reached an important turning point.
The trial of Derek Chauvin, the white former police officer whose knee-to-the-neck of George Floyd on a Minneapolis street last May sparked a fresh national conversation and nationwide protests on race and policing, ended late Tuesday with an across-the-board guilty verdict.
Chauvin, his mouth and nose covered by a surgical mask, sat silently in a gray suit in a Minneapolis courtroom, his eyes darting from judge to jury. He will likely face a long prison sentence as many as 40 years behind bars.
But what about that uniquely American conversation that exhumed once again the centuries-old dirty history of how police have all too often brutalized African Americans?
Why guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin is a turning point
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Why guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin is a turning point
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As much of our nation was preoccupied with the televised testimony from a Minneapolis courtroom where a former cop was on trial for murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, something strange happened in New Jersey.
State law enforcement officials in Trenton quietly opened a website where anyone can track any incident in which a New Jersey police officer used any kind of force.
Punches. Kicks. Shootings. It’s all there for anyone to see and assess. And what’s notable besides the information itself in some cases is that this is the first time any government agency anywhere in America has taken such a step to peel back the curtains of secrecy on police behavior.
Can NJ police reform be America s example?
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