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Derek Chauvin Guilty of Murder in Death of George Floyd

4/20/21
from The Wall Street Journal,
4/20/21:

Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder in the death of George Floyd, a Black man whose killing last May in police custody was captured on video that went viral and set off a summer of unrest over law enforcement’s treatment of people of color.

The anonymous jury deliberated for more than 10 hours over two days, and without asking the judge a single question, filed back into the Hennepin County Government Center on Tuesday afternoon to a courtroom under tight security and Covid-19 restrictions. Mr. Chauvin, 45 years old, sat impassively as Judge Peter Cahill read that he was guilty of all counts: second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter.

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