‘The work continues’: Black Americans stress that police reform is still needed

<p>The Obamas and Bernice King were among those to encourage justice for other victims of police brutality after the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict</p><p>Prominent Black Americans expressed relief after white former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/20/derek-chauvin-verdict-guilty-murder-george-floyd">convicted of murdering George Floyd</a>, but warned that police reform, and justice for other victims of police brutality, are still necessary.</p><p>While Chauvin was found guilty of all the charges he faced – second- and third-degree murder, and manslaughter – by the jury in Minneapolis, the families of other Black Americans killed by police in recent years have yet to see their killers jailed, or even face a jury.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/20/derek-chauvin-verdict-reactions-obamas-black-americans">Continue reading...</a>