Derek Chauvin, the white police officer who knelt on Floyd, was convicted of two counts of murder as well as manslaughter, a verdict that brought some solace to activists for racial justice
FILE -- Protesters rally in New York, June 4, 2020. Over the next 11 months after the death of George Floyd, calls for racial justice touched nearly every aspect of American life on a scale that historians say has not happened since the civil rights movement of the 1960s. (Demetrius Freeman /The New York Times)
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