Derek Chauvin found guilty of George Floyd’s murder

The jury returned guilty verdicts on all three counts

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Derek Chauvin in court (PBS/YouTube)
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Derek Chauvin was found guilty of the murder of George Floyd in a Minneapolis courthouse on Tuesday.

Jurors deliberated for 10 hours before returning a guilty verdict on all counts: second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.

Floyd’s death on May 25 last year was witnessed by several bystanders outside of the Cup Foods deli in northern Minneapolis. A video showing the final minutes of Floyd’s life, shot by teenager Darnella Frazier, went viral and prompted a wave of summer protests and riots in American cities and worldwide. In the clip, Officer Chauvin restrained Floyd with…

Derek Chauvin was found guilty of the murder of George Floyd in a Minneapolis courthouse on Tuesday.

Jurors deliberated for 10 hours before returning a guilty verdict on all counts: second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.

Floyd’s death on May 25 last year was witnessed by several bystanders outside of the Cup Foods deli in northern Minneapolis. A video showing the final minutes of Floyd’s life, shot by teenager Darnella Frazier, went viral and prompted a wave of summer protests and riots in American cities and worldwide. In the clip, Officer Chauvin restrained Floyd with his knee, pinning his head to the tarmac alongside a car.

Floyd had initially been apprehended for use of a counterfeit banknote in the deli. A toxicology report showed that Floyd had fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system at the time of his death — but a forensic toxicologist from the lab that conducted the report testified that the level of norfentanyl in Floyd’s system was not consistent with a typical overdose.

Earlier in the day, President Biden said he was ‘praying the verdict is the right verdict. Which is — I think it’s overwhelming in my view.’