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People react after the verdict was read in the Derek Chauvin trial on April 20, 2021 In Minneapolis, Minnesota. Former police officer Derek Chauvin was on trial on second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter charges in the death of George Floyd May 25, 2020.  After video was released of then-officer Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds, protests broke out across the U.S. and around the world. The jury found Chauvin guilty on all three charges. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Experts react to Chauvin guilty verdict

Alexis Karteron, Jeannine Bell, Rashad Shabazz - The Conversation
OJ Adeyemi and daughter Adenike listen to people speak before they march through the streets after the verdict was announced for Derek Chauvin on April 20, 2021 in Atlanta, United States. Former police officer Derek Chauvin was on trial on second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter charges in the death of George Floyd May 25, 2020. After video was released of then-officer Chauvin kneeling on Floyds neck for nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds, protests broke out across the U.S. and around the world. The jury found Chauvin guilty on all three charges. (Megan Varner/Getty Images)

Is Chauvin verdict "justice"? Not really

Chauncey DeVega
Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Tucker Carlson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The right makes Derek Chauvin a martyr

Amanda Marcotte
A journalist watches their mobile phone showing Derek Chauvin taking back into custody after the verdict in his trial over the death of George Floyd has been announced in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 20, 2021. - Sacked police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter on april 20 in the death of African-American George Floyd in a case that roiled the United States for almost a year, laying bare deep racial divisions. (KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images)

The impressive trial of Derek Chauvin

Heather Digby Parton
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Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Florida Sheriffs Association)

Florida sheriff issues warning to voters

Jon Skolnik
Protesters gather in a call for justice for George Floyd, a black man who died after a white policeman kneeled on his neck for several minutes, at Hennepin County Government Plaza, on May 28, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images)

Guilty: Jury says Chauvin killed Floyd

Jon Skolnik
Marjorie Taylor-Greene, Maxine Waters and Kevin McCarthy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP attacks on Waters and white whining

Amanda Marcotte
A protestor holds an anti-LMPD sign in front of Louisville Metro Police Department officers during a rally in remembrance of the one year anniversary of the death of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky on March 13, 2021. - Twelve months after the killing -- in which police shot Taylor while looking for a former friend of hers -- only one of three police officers has been charged, and only for endangering Taylor's neighbors by firing wildly. (JEFF DEAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Louisville police punch protester

Jon Skolnik
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Protesters march through Logan Square neighborhood during a rally on April 16, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. The rally was held to protest the killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo by a Chicago Police officer on March 29th. (Max Herman/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Protests spread as Chauvin trial ends

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
Activist Nola Darling talks on the megaphone in front of the Brooklyn Center police station at a protest over the police killing of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, U.S., on April 13, 2021. (Christopher Mark Juhn/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Right-wing media defends Wright killing

Zachary Petrizzo
Pat Robertson demonstrated the difference between a Glock handgun and a Taser on air (700 Club)

Less-than-lethal is the wrong standard

Heather Digby Parton
Pro-Trump protestors clash with police outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Wednesday, January 6, 2021. | Police in riot gear toss a projectile at protesters after they refused to leave the area after the police killing of Duante Wright during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center near where Derek Chauvin is on trial in the death of George Floyd, in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, United States on April 11, 2021. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Crackdown in Minn.; restraint at Capitol

Chauncey DeVega
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A crowd formed a circle around a memorial for Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. (Carlos Gonzalez/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Daunte Wright bodycam footage released

Zachary Petrizzo
Police officers in Virginia held an Army officer at gunpoint and pepper-sprayed him (CBS)

Driving while Black and in the Army

Jon Skolnik
Merrick Garland | Proud Boys (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden's DOJ must drain Trump's swamp

Heather Digby Parton
Capitol Police and MPD used physical force and tear gas to force the Trump supporters further away from the U.S Capitol, on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. The protesters stormed the historic building, breaking windows and clashing with police. Trump supporters had gathered in the nation's capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 election. (Shay Horse/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Feds say Proud Boys targeted police

Roger Sollenberger
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People celebrate at Times Square in New York after Joe Biden was declared winner of the 2020 presidential election on November 7, 2020. (KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

Alabama cop urges murder of Biden voters

Alex Henderson - Alternet
President Donald Trump greets supporters following a Fox News Town Hall event with moderators Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum on March 05, 2020 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Among other topics, President Trump discussed his administration's response to the Coronavirus and the economy. (Photo by (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Trump makes it clear

Cody Fenwick - Alternet
Portland police officers fires less lethal rounds through smoke while dispersing a crowd of about 150 people from Portland City Hall on August 25, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. Crowds chanted in support of Kenosha Wisconsin on the 90th night of protests Tuesday, where demonstrations have continued for days following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Cracking down on "less-lethal" weapons

Jay Hancock, Kevin McCoy, Donovan Slack - KFF Health News
Federal officers walk through tear gas during a dispersal of about 300 protesters in front of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention building on August 26, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. Protests continued for the 91st night in Portland as activist called for solidarity with rallies in Kenosha, Wisconsin. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Militarizing the police got us here

Rich Wallace
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White nationalist attend a rally on October 28, 2017 in Shelbyville, Tennessee. The event billed as a White Lives Matter rally is hosted by Nationalist Front, which is a coalition of several white supremacist organizations. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/Salon)

DHS: White supremacy top threat to U.S.

Alex Henderson - Alternet
A person wears a hat of US far-right men's organisation Proud Boys. (Getty/Thomas Patterson)

Police let Proud Boys go after beating

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
U.S. Attorney General William Barr hears from Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Stephen Boyd as Barr testifies before the House Judiciary Committee in the Congressional Auditorium at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center July 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Bill Barr will do anything for Trump

Heather Digby Parton
Donald Trump | About two hundred persons protesting police brutality spray graffiti and start fires at the Portland Police Union building, in Portland, Oregon, United States on August 28, 2020, the 93rd day of consecutive protests. Police declared a riot and arrested many people. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump wants to "defund" U.S. cities

Matthew Chapman - Raw Story
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