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The Derek Chauvin verdict won’t stop cops murdering black people

By Kellie Carter Jackson*

Minneapolis on edge as jury resumes deliberations in Floyd trial

Jurors on Monday began mulling the fate of the white ex-Minneapolis policeman accused of killing African-American George Floyd, a death that sparked a nationwide reckoning on racism and which prosecutors called a “shocking abuse of authority”.

Chauvin's supervisor says there was no justification to keep knee on Floyd’s neck

Derek Chauvin’s police supervisor told his murder trial that there was no justification for the officer to keep his knee on George Floyd’s neck for nine minutes.