Derek Chauvin found guilty of George Floyd’s murder

Derek Chauvin has been convicted of murder for killing George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes, a crime that prompted waves of protests in support of racial justice in the US and across the world.

The jury swiftly and unanimously convicted Chauvin of all the charges he faced – second- and third-degree murder, and manslaughter – after concluding that the white former Minneapolis police officer killed the 46-year-old Black man in May through a criminal assault, by pinning him to the ground so he could not breathe.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/20/derek-chauvin-verdict-guilty-murder-george-floyd

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At the intersection of 4th and 2nd

Amendments, qualified.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-immunity-guns/

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When cops and America’s cherished gun rights collide, cops win

When cops kill civilians lawfully armed under the Second Amendment, they are often protected from liability by the legal doctrine called qualified immunity.

Louisville police officers cleared of criminal charges in Breonna Taylor death

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (Reuters) - Two white policemen who fired into the apartment of Breonna Taylor, a Black medical worker, will not be prosecuted for her death because their use of force was justified, but a third was charged with endangering her neighbors, Kentucky’s attorney general said on Wednesday.

Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced the Louisville grand jury’s decision at a news conference as protesters against racial injustice and police brutality massed in the streets of Kentucky’s largest city. ...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-usa-louisville-report/louisville-police-officers-cleared-of-criminal-charges-in-breonna-taylor-death-idUSKCN26E2KZ

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Louisville anti-racism protests resume amid tensions over Breonna Taylor ruling

A second night of anti-racism protests got off to a tense but mostly peaceful start in Louisville, Kentucky, on Thursday, a day after a grand jury decided not to bring homicide charges against police officers involved in the fatal shooting of...