Derek Chauvin found guilty of George Floyd’s murder

<ul><li>Jury finds ex-Minneapolis police officer guilty on all counts</li><li>Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes</li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/apr/20/derek-chauvin-verdict-trial-jury-returns-george-floyd-death">Derek Chauvin guilty verdict – follow live updates</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/20/george-floyd-life-biography">Life of George Floyd: ‘He knew how to make people feel better’</a></li></ul><p>Derek Chauvin has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/apr/20/derek-chauvin-verdict-trial-jury-returns-george-floyd-death">convicted of murder</a> for killing George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes, a crime that prompted waves of protests in support of racial justice in the US and across the world.</p><p>The jury swiftly and unanimously convicted Chauvin of all the charges he faced – second- and third-degree murder, and manslaughter – after concluding that the white former Minneapolis police officer killed the 46-year-old Black man in May through a criminal assault, by pinning him to the ground so he could not breathe.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/20/derek-chauvin-verdict-guilty-murder-george-floyd">Continue reading...</a>