'Let This Be a Turning Point': Chauvin Conviction Sparks Calls for 'True Justice'

May 14, 2021
Common Dreams

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Center for Constitutional Rights:

"Despite today's guilty verdict, true justice for George Floyd and the other Black lives snuffed out by police has yet to be done... Derek Chauvin will now serve a penalty for acts deemed exceptional. But his behavior was not exceptional, and treating George Floyd's murder as a consequence of extraordinary acts neither protects Black people nor captures the unreformable depravity of our system of policing. His murder is the predictable outcome of policing's origin in slave patrols and the ongoing, constant threat to Black people of arrest, incarceration, violence, and death."

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May 14, 2021