For one man and his family: Justice.
For the country: But one step in a larger journey toward racial justice, too long deferred.
Those were the reactions from Los Angeles Countyâs elected officials on Tuesday, April 20, in the wake of a Hennepin County jury finding former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of all three counts he faced â including murder â for killing George Floyd last year.
Floyd, a Black man, died May 25 when Chauvin kneeled on his neck for more than nine minutes. A crowd witnessed the killing. Smartphones captured it â and broadcast it across the world.
The countryâs latest reckoning with police brutality and systemic racism stretched into the summer.Â