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20 Apr, 12 tweets, 5 min read

Jurors have reached a decision in the trial of fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, charged with killing George Floyd:

• Second-degree unintentional murder: Guilty
• Third-degree murder: Guilty
• Second-degree manslaughter: Guilty

Derek Chauvin has been found guilty on all three counts. Here’s Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill reading the verdict:

Derek Chauvin is handcuffed after the verdict: "Bail is revoked, bond is discharged, and the defendant is remanded."

@CoriBush

"This is accountability, but it's not yet justice."

— Rep. @CoriBush (D-MO) with fellow members of @TheBlackCaucus following the Chauvin verdict.

The crowd outside the Hennepin County court celebrates upon hearing Derek Chauvin's guilty verdict.

Restoration Incorporated member in Minneapolis reacts to Chauvin guilty verdict:

“Now we have to release that anxiety that I once had that doesn’t have to be transferred to my grandson when he decides to get behind the wheel and go outside in public.”

Minnesota AG Keith Ellison: “The work of our generation is to put an end of the vestiges of Jim Crow, and the centuries of trauma, and finally put an end to racism — we can end it.”

"The same elected officials who showed up to George Floyd's funeral are some of the biggest roadblocks to progress with legislation today."

— Minnesota Justice Coalition President Jonathan McClellan

Rev. Al Sharpton is visibly emotional after leading a prayer following the guilty Chauvin verdict.

Philonise Floyd on Emmett Till: "To me, he was the first George Floyd."

Philonise Floyd describes having to relive the footage of his brother George's death "over and over" in the courtroom.

He then references Daunte Wright: "He should still be here ... We will have to do this for life."

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) on Minnesota: "We need to take away that qualifier. It's not just ‘the best place to live if you're white,’ it needs to be the best place ever."

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