Ex-Cop Chauvin Convicted on All Counts in Floyd’s Murder Bloomberg 1 hr ago Adam M. Taylor, Erik Larson and Stephen Joyce
(Bloomberg) Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of killing George Floyd when he knelt on the man’s neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, a videotaped death that ignited a summer of rage and the greatest racial reckoning in the U.S. since the 1960s.
A jury on Tuesday convicted Chauvin of second-degree murder and lesser charges for cutting off Floyd’s air supply last May 25 as he lay handcuffed and begging for mercy. The conviction, which stood out against decades of impunity for most police excessive-force cases, could mean decades in prison for the 45-year-old. Chauvin will face sentencing in eight weeks.
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The Senate has confirmed Vanita Gupta to be associate attorney general, the DOJ s No. 3 leadership position.
Gupta is a civil-rights advocate who has supported giving law enforcement more resources to do its job.
Her experience in civil rights and advocacy work has made her a favorite among progressive groups.
The president of one of the country s top police unions braced himself for a phone call in February that he expected wasn t going to be easy.
On the other end of the line was Vanita Gupta, a well-known civil rights champion, who at the time had just been nominated to serve under Attorney General Merrick Garland as the third highest-ranking official at the Justice Department.
The Alamance County Sheriff’s office cannot prohibit protests at the courthouse Confederate monument, and demonstrators cannot be arrested for swearing at deputies, under a court settlement finalized Tuesday.
The NAACP and demonstrators sued the City of Graham, Alamance County commissioners, and Alamance Sheriff Terry Johnson in federal court last year over limits on protests outside the courthouse and around the Confederate monument. The settlement settles the lawsuit and says demonstrators are allowed in areas that the Sheriff’s Office made off limits last summer.
Graham repealed its ordinance, which strictly limited protests, soon after the lawsuit was filed.
“We are happy to have negotiated this settlement agreement for racial justice demonstrators who were denied their First Amendment rights by the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office, but if law enforcement officials had followed the U.S. Constitution this settlement would not have been needed in the first place, Elizabe