As thunderstorms rolled through Boston Wednesday evening, activists marched through the city, calling for an end to police brutality one day after Derek Chauvin, a white former Minneapolis police officer, was convicted for the death of George Floyd.
Shouts of “all three counts,” a reference to Chauvin’s conviction on murder and manslaughter charges, and “No Justice, No Peace, you’ve got to prosecute the police,” echoed from the Massachusetts State House to Nubian Square, the heart of Boston’s Black community.
As rain fell, the families of several victims of police brutality gathered outside the State House to share their stories — and to call for the prosecution and conviction of the police officers responsible for their deaths.