Minneapolis police watch a crowd of protesters, May 27, 2020 / Image: Chad Davis
A century of failed liberal attempts at policing reform in Minneapolis supports the view that none of the city council’s current proposals will prevent there from being another George Floyd.
The trial of Derek Chauvin has concluded with a guilty verdict. But the police killing of Daunte Wright in a Minneapolis suburb only weeks ago drives home that one guilty verdict doesn’t go nearly far enough. Building on the weeks-long protests that galvanized Minneapolis and the country in the summer of 2020, the demand to transform U.S. policing, not just convict so-called “bad apples,” continues to gather momentum.
In the wake of Derek Chauvin's conviction many Americans have been asking the question: "Has justice been served?" Ali Velshi traveled back to Minneapolis to reconnect with a group of six Black Minneapolis locals he first met with in March to discuss the issue. Dr. Felicia Washington Sy says, “I think that people will either evolve or we will revolutionize. That if we don't allow ourselves to evolve and to evolve well and to keep moving in a consistent pace towards the right direction, that it will lead to our own undoing.”
Victims of racist violence, 65 years apart: Emmett Till and George Floyd.
CHICAGO (AP) A Black Chicago teen’s lynching in 1955 galvanized the Civil Rights Movement. A Black Minneapolis man’s killing by police last year propelled a worldwide call for racial justice and ending police brutality.
The murders of Emmett Till and George Floyd were separated by more than six decades, contrasting circumstances and countless protests, but their families say they feel an intimate connection in their grief and what comes next.
For Floyd’s brother, Till immediately came to mind on Tuesday after now-fired white police Officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of multiple murder charges and manslaughter in George Floyd’s death. “People forgot about him,” Philonise Floyd said of Till, who was 14 when he was killed. “But he was the first George Floyd.”
Another moment like this : Al Sharpton to deliver eulogy at funeral for Daunte Wright, 20-year-old Black father shot by police Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY
Hundreds mourning at Daunte Wright s public viewing, another sad day for Minneapolis
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Family and friends of Daunte Wright will gather Thursday at a funeral in Minneapolis to honor the life of the 20-year-old Black father fatally shot during a traffic stop by a veteran Minnesota police officer.
Civil rights leader Al Sharpton will give a eulogy at the service 11 days after Wright s death in nearby Brooklyn Center, which sparked anger, sadness and frustration in a community already on edge amid the trial of Derek Chauvin.