to this moment. crucially, his murder was caught on camera in chilling detail. george floyd was pinned to the ground with derek chauvin s knee on his neck for 9 minutes and 27 seconds. more than 20 times, mr floyd cried out: i can t breathe. i can t breathe, i can t breathe. it traumatised the community and shocked the world, prompting the biggest protests since the civil rights era. breaks down do you need a minute? sighs the trial was so compelling that the jury delivered a unanimous guilty verdict after just 10 hours of deliberations. this outcome was in no way inevitable. still, this one sentence of this one disgraced police officer will only do so much to advance racial equality and the struggle of being black in america. this is the longest sentence a police officer has received
this is bbc news. very good to have you with us. i m rich preston. our top stories: a period of 270 months, that is two, seven, zero. 22.5 years for derek chauvin, over the killing of george floyd. accountability at last, say mr floyd s supporters and family. no one is above the law, and no one is beneath it. a police officer is not above the law, and george floyd is certainly not beneath the law. 159 people are still unaccounted for, after the collapse of an apartment block, near miami beach. us vice president kamala harris visits the southern us border for the first time since taking office as a wave of cross border
50 years to go to convict a police office of murder. and that officer only received seven years and they think he will be out in three. in some ways, this is a victory so there will be closure and peace for the family but certainly no substantive reform has actually been implemented since george floyd s death. in fact, during the duration of the trial, about three people per day died at the hands of police. and the day after the verdict, about six people died in the 24 hour period, so there was no kind of deterrence as we think about this kind of punishment. no official reform, as you say, but will this sentence set a precedent, do you think, for cases like this in the future? i ve been studying these cases for a really long time, before they were on the kind of public consciousness of america and the world, and i will say there is something different about this era. i think the video of seeing george floyd begging for his life, and the bystanders videoing and begging the officer to st
from the vice president. people don t want to leave home if they don t have to. but it is the suggestion that kamala harrisjourneyed here because she had to, afterformer president donald trump announced he would be visiting soon, that dominated her trip to this migrant processing centre, which also represents one of this us administration s trickiest issues. mark lobel, bbc news. you are watching bbc news, the headlines: ajudge in minneapolis has sentenced the former us police officer, derek chauvin, to 22.5 years in prison for the murder of george floyd. officials in florida say the apartment block that collapsed near miami on thursday, leaving more than 150 people missing, was due to undergo extensive repairs this year. here in the uk, downing street says, the british prime minister has accepted his health secretary matt hancock s apology for breaching social
i think that changed the public consciousness. we saw that when they were selecting a jury, they were having a hard time, the defence was, finding these kind of pro policing, hardline blue lives matter folks, right? people had kind of changed in their attitudes. if you go back even a few years, there was the death of philando castile, he was shot in his car, doing nothing. he was complying with the officer, and the officer felt a sense of fear, and he was shot, and he was found not guilty, the officer, and it was a jury. so, i think the public tide is turning a bit, but the question is, will white americans feel like this verdict is enough? the answer is no, and i hope that we still have the momentum of the public to create real political reform. you mentioned philando castile, mr floyd s murder along with the deaths of many other black men and women