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All eyes were on Minnesota as the jury convicted former Minneapolis police officer 

 in a Minneapolis courtroom. A day later, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a 

How did Minnesotans and people around the world react to Chauvin’s murder conviction in the killing of George Floyd? How has policing failed communities of color? What do the conviction and the federal probe mean for the broader movement for police reform and accountability?

MPR News host Angela Davis talked with two journalists and a legal expert about how we reached this point and what comes next.

“People were surprised and shocked that even this small modicum of accountability could occur in our nation. And I think that’s a poor statement on our country,” University of Colorado Law School professor Aya Gruber told Davis.

Star Tribune columnist and ESPN reporter and host Myron Medcalf was among those who felt shock at the guilty verdicts, given the outcomes of other police brutality cases over the years: “We’ve watched this so many times, and there wasn’t justice, so we’re conditioned to believe that the Derek Chauvins of the world get to walk away and go home.”

What might have been different in the Chauvin trial? Former Pioneer Press columnist Ruben Rosario said that this time, with the bystander footage of Floyd’s killing, the jurors “saw what we all saw, and they put a label to that. As the prosecutor said: This was not policing. This was murder.”

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