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CHAUVIN was born three years after George Floyd, and grew up in Cottage Grove, a suburb of the Twin Cities 20 miles from the corner where one man killed the other. Cottage Grove is a place of detached bungalows, private yards and public driveways connected by shared lawns. Several houses have large pick-up trucks parked in front. Some fly outsized American flags from their flagpoles. This is not a rich place, but it is several rungs above Cuney Homes, the complex of apartments in Houston’s third ward where Mr Floyd was raised. A boy born in Cottage Grove 30 years ago could expect to grow up in a household with an annual income of $55,000 (the median for America is $68,000). At the latest census, 85% of the inhabitants were white.
Cop Derek Chauvin is taken to maximum security prison and placed on suicide watch after being found guilty on ALL three charges of murder and manslaughter in death of George Floyd as Joe Biden calls the killing a stain on the nation s soul
The veteran cop was emotionless as Judge Peter Cahill read the jury s decision, which centred around nine minutes and 29 seconds of Chauvin kneeling on the unarmed black man s neck in May last year
Cheers rose from crowds gathered outside the courthouse and down at the intersection of 38th and Chicago, now known as George Floyd Square, where the fatal arrest had taken place