Chauvin Guilty
The verdict of the jury in the Derek Chauvin murder trial has just been published, and it’s guilty on all three counts. I believe this verdict is appropriate especially since Chauvin showed reckless disregard of George Floyd’s life as it drained away under his knee. This trial is not just one trial of one murder. It was hopefully a turning point in policing and our own culture that has accepted for far too many years inequality according to skin color and economic status. This sordid story should change the conversation in America about race and the police. How we respond to it will determine the direction of that change.