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The Chauvin Verdict Has to Be Just the Beginning
The three guilty verdicts are a huge victory—and not enough.
Derek Chauvin did not just murder George Perry Floyd Jr.
He tortured him to death.
- Joan Walsh
- The Nation
Maybe that’s what got the jury to find Chauvin guilty on all three counts.
Watching the closing arguments made by Hennepin County prosecutor Steve Schleicher, I should have known the jury would do that.
But I didn’t let myself believe it.
Even though I wasn’t covering the trial, I always had it on in the background these last weeks.
And when Schleicher began his close, I started taking notes, which…