Photos: How America reacted to Derek Chauvin being found
guilty of killing George Floyd
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA – APRIL 20: People react after the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial 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. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
A mixture of celebration and relief erupted across America after a Minnesota jury found former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter charges. He was the man in the now-famous video pinning George Floyd to the ground by kneeling on his neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds.
The verdicts cap a three-week trial that riveted the nation as it highlighted a case that brought a reckoning over race and justice in America. The jury came back with a decision after 10 hours of deliberations over two days. Chauvin was found guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
Here are the reactions from Minneapolis and across the country.
MINNEAPOLIS
People celebrate at the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue on April 20 in Minneapolis after hearing the verdict in the Chauvin trial.(Brandon Bell/Getty Images) A man jumps off a truck that had attempted to make its way past the crowd in Minneapolis that gathered to hear the verdict in the Chauvin trial. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON
London Williams, 31, of Harrisburg, Pa., bursts into tears on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Washington, after hearing that former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
NEW YORK
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People listen to the live reading of the verdict at the Derek Chauvin trial in Brooklyn on April 20. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
HOUSTON
People gather inside the Twees Foods Store in Houston to watch the the verdict in Chauvin’s trial. Floyd grew up in the city’s Third Ward. (Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images)
