IT SHOULD NOT TAKE SO MUCH TO CONVICT POLICE - Justice requires transformation.

“Nearly a year after the death of George Floyd, a jury found his killer, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, guilty of all charges. My initial reaction was relief—that this trial, which felt so momentous, had concluded with accountability for Chauvin’s crime—but for many of us, relief was tempered by real sorrow and anger at knowing that this accountability will not bring Floyd back to his loved ones and community.”

“The moment of Birmingham led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The moment of Selma led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. And the verdict in the trial of George Floyd’s murder must lead to the moral and legal transformation of our policing system. Otherwise, it will just be another moment of trauma, pain, and despair, instead of a harbinger of hope.”

Read the whole article here: https://sojo.net/magazine/july-2021/it-should-not-take-so-much-convict-police