A sense of justice s triumph echoed across the country shortly after a jury in Minneapolis convicted Derek Chauvin in George Floyd s death. To some, however, that feeling was tempered by the simple fact that Floyd should have been alive today.
The conviction of the former Minneapolis police officer quickly emerged as a complicated moment in America s long history of racial injustice. While some shared tears of joy and saw it as a result of last year s unprecedented protests, others saw little reason to celebrate or evidence of systemic change. Accountability is exactly what we have gotten, Tera Brown, one of Floyd s cousins, told CNN on Wednesday. It sends a message but we also need to have the laws change.
Justice may have been served in the legal sense, but true justice would be George Floyd still being alive
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Justice may have been served in the legal sense, but true justice would be George Floyd still being alive
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Justice may have been served in the legal sense, but true justice would be George Floyd still being alive
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Of terror and testimonies: Living through the Derek Chauvin trial
I want to know the things we lost are not greater than the things we hold on to. People participate in a rally outside of the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, Monday, April 19, 2021, after the murder trial against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin advanced to jury deliberations. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
April 20, 2021
But there is no prayer.
There are words. But they are not mine. “I stayed in my body.” Words from a testimony at the Derek Chauvin trial a trial I could not watch, only read in glimpses.