Derek Chauvin s trial, Earth Day, and other top Opinion reads this week
From the Chauvin trial verdict, to electric cars, Earth Day, and Walter Mondale s death, here are some of our top columns you may have missed.
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In today s fast-paced news environment, it can be hard to keep up. For your weekend reading, we ve started in-case-you-missed-it compilations of some of the week s top USA TODAY Opinion pieces. As always, thanks for reading, and for your feedback. USA TODAY Opinion editors
By Starita Smith Why didn t anyone intervene to save George Floyd s life in Minneapolis? They had more than 9 minutes to do it while he was under Derek Chauvin s knee, but no one did. Some in my diverse group of longtime friends wondered about this recently on Facebook why no bystander bolted forward to break the chokehold, even knowing they d be arrested.
Chauvin trial, Earth Day, Walter Mondale, and police: Top columns
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Good morning, it’s March 16, 2021. Fifty-eight years ago today, two young men shook hands at the end of a basketball game, their last as collegiate players. Although the game was played in the Michigan city of East Lansing, it pitted Mississippi State against Bowling Green, both playing their last game in the 1963 NCAA tournament. The handshake took place between each team’s best player, Mississippi State forward Leland Mitchell and Bowling Green center Nate Thurmond, a future professional Hall of Famer.
Their easy gesture of good sportsmanship had followed a similar, more publicized handshake before the tipoff of Mississippi State’s game the previous night against Loyola of Chicago. In each of these two instances, a white Mississippi State player (all the team’s players were white) had shaken the hand of a black opponent. At the time, this meant a great deal.
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