This doesn’t right the wrongs or fix the disparities. It’s not even “a start.” It’s simply a man being held accountable for the murder of another man.
It’s not a first step. It’s long overdue equally delivered justice.
We all watched a video of this man nonchalantly murdering another man. This is the absolute least that can be done. A reckoning of tectonic shift proportions need to happen, not simply one man being held accountable.
I watched this with my hand over my mouth and tears welling in my eyes. The pride I felt for my city was lost the minute I saw the video of Derek Chauvin killing George Floyd and learned that this is only “the best place in all the land” if you’re white.
The minute the judge read the jury’s convictions, my tears fell and hope overcame me.
Nobody thought the revolution would start in Minneapolis except Prince.
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