MINNEAPOLIS – President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be reacting to the verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin.
The event started shortly after 7 a.m. Tuesday, April 20, 2021.
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On Tuesday, the jury reached a verdict Tuesday at the murder trial of former officer Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, the Black man who was pinned to the pavement with a knee on his neck in a case that set off a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S.
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The verdict, arrived at after about 10 hours of deliberations over two days, was to be read late in the afternoon in a city on edge against the possibility of more unrest like that that erupted last spring.
The courthouse was ringed with concrete barriers and razor wire, and thousands of National Guardsmen and other law enforcement officers were brought in ahead of the verdict.
Floyd died last May after Chauvin, a 45-year-old now-fired white officer, pinned his knee on the 46-year-old Black man’s neck for about 9 1/2 minutes.