guilty on all counts. a jury in minnesota convicting ex-police officer derek chauvin of murder and manslaughter in the death of george floyd last year. guilty of second-degree unintentional murder with a maximum sentence of 40 years. guilty of third-degree murder, maximum sentence, 25 years, and guilty of second-degree manslaughter, maximum sentence, ten years. chauvin will be sentenced in about two months. tonight president joe biden calling his conviction a giant step towards justice in america, but saying much more needs to be done. i want to get to omar jimenez live for us in minneapolis where he s been covering this story now since the very beginning. omar, good evening to you. you are in george floyd square, the site where he was murdered. it s become a memorial. what s it like tonight? reporter: yeah, don. a lot of today has been celebration, as you can imagine. right now in the cold minneapolis night hours, it is really reflection trying to look back and realize the
heard them? charlie? charlie is charlie can t hear, so we re going to move on. mayor, let me ask you this question, then, because you can t forget that georgia was ground zero to the former president s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. the man he tried to pursue to try to find more votes on that infamous phone call is secretary of state brad raffensperger, running against jody hice. hice has repeated false claims about the 2020 election. so the big lie is on the ballot in this race for sure, no? yes, and i have long believed that donald trump does not make winners. he goes with winners. so he doesn t have some magic wand that he can just anoint someone a winner, and he has not made good choices in georgia. it s going to be interesting to see. we know what s happening with perdue. the polling is showing that he is down by a lot, so people are expecting that kemp may win tomorrow without having to go into a runoff, win the primary tomorrow. the secretary of state s rac
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Justice warriors, but also not naive. that s why we have to be critical of our dear brother biden. it was he who said america is not a racist society. sister harris, vice president, said that s true. that s a lie. it is a racist society. so when you get trump and the others and the neofascists come along with their replacement theory, what do you get? you get a fascist version of that. that s what 21st century fascism is. we are being replaced by these people of color, by these women and so forth. and the challenge is, is there a kind of replacement taking place? absolutely. you look at high places. you don t see it lily white like the national hockey league. it is more diverse. but it s more diverse in the name of what? fairness. we ve got to explain that to our right-wing brothers and sisters, explain that to the neo-nazis in terms of accountability. change is taking place. get used to the change, but that change is also going to be connected to a fairness to you as white brothers or
Neofascism comes along when fairness is given up on and is simply a class of hatred and greed and power, and there s always going to be more right-wing vicious forms of hatred and greed than there s going to be love, justice, and fairness. that s just the way human history is, my brother. let s talk about something because you mentioned the president and the vice president, kamala harris and joe biden. and you have an opinion piece in the guardian. you say the biden administration and democrats in power have dropped the ball on racism in this country. how so, and how should they be responding to this growing problem? well, just look at how brother biden responds to defending taiwan and defending ukraine. unbelievable priority. same intensity when it comes to defending democracy in america, defending voting rights for black people, defending black assets to high quality edu