Derek Chauvin Found Guilty on All Counts in His Murder Trial

The case following the alleged murder of George Floyd has come to a conclusion

It was the case to end all cases, a year’s worth of justice wrapped up into a few short weeks of testimony and a few short hours of jury deliberation. All of us remember the chaotic mixture of feelings that welled up inside of us last year, in May of 2020, when we watched the video that appeared to show the murder of an unarmed black man under the knee of a police officer named Derek Chauvin. We all now know that man’s name is George Floyd.

It was horrific to watch. It seemed to anyone that this was the most undeniable case of police brutality and murder since Rodney King.

In the immediate aftermath, protests swept the country under the banner of Black Lives Matter, with crowds turning up in downtown city centers the nation over.

The following day after the video was uploaded, the protests in downtown Minneapolis were met with even more force from police. It was insane. The police were countering anti-police brutality protests with police brutality, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Buffalo, New York; from Los Angeles, California to Seattle, Washington.