Chauvin guilty verdict a landmark moment in US criminal justice history

<p>Analysis: The testimony against the ex-officer was damning – it was clear this case was different from so many that had come before </p><p>The trial saw 44 witnesses and 15 days of testimony. And, in the end, less than a day to decide that Derek Chauvin, the white former Minneapolis police officer, was guilty of murdering George Floyd.</p><p>It is a landmark moment not just in the history of US policing and criminal justice, but around the world. George Floyd’s death came to embody the struggle for racial justice and equality in so many ways they are impossible to condense: from forceful calls for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/mar/11/andrea-jenkins-first-black-transgender-woman-us-public-office-minneapolis-george-floyd">police reform in Minneapolis</a> and <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7120">new legislation in Washington</a>, to a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/08/the-fall-of-edward-colston-statue-bristol-it-didnt-even-take-long-about-four-tugs">reckoning on the history of British imperialism in the UK</a> and a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jun/02/hundreds-march-in-sydney-to-protest-against-indigenous-deaths-and-george-floyd-killing">resurgence in activism</a> over Indigenous deaths in custody in Australia.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/20/derek-chauvin-guilty-verdict-george-floyd-analysis">Continue reading...</a>