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Black Lives Matter protesters led by Romel Clark (center) march through Fishtown on June 2, 2020. (Layla A. Jones/WHYY)
I’ve been replaying a memory from last summer for months. It’s May 31, 2020, and I’m standing in the ShopRite on 52nd and Parkside, about a mile from my Mill Creek apartment building. I’m there buying red velvet cake for my roommate Shay. It’s her birthday weekend, and red velvet cake is her favorite.
I’m standing at the self-checkout holding my red cake with my feet planted on the white tile floor that’s now red with wine.
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Angela Harrelson, right, aunt of George Floyd, talks to supporters at George Floyd Square after a guilty verdict was announced at the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 death of Floyd, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
It’s been a week since a Minneapolis jury found former cop Derek Chauvin guilty on all three counts in the killing of George Floyd, and across the country most people were relieved.
But for much of the Black community, it was not a time for celebration, but the start of long-needed accountability for police misconduct. For many, justice is about more than one trial. Some believe the whole system of policing needs examination to determine the conditions that allowed Chauvin to murder Floyd in the first place.
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