The jury deliberated less than 11 hours before finding 45-year-old Chauvin guilty of all three charges against him: second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter. Chauvin faces up to 40 years in prison on the most serious charge — second-degree murder. George Floyd’s brother Rodney told AFP that Black people in America had been victims of deadly injustice at the hands of the authorities for hundreds of years. “Justice for Black America is justice for all of America!”Barack Obama, the nation’s first Black president, said “a jury did the right thing” but “true justice requires much more”. Prosecutors, in closing arguments on Monday, showed excerpts from the harrowing bystander video of Floyd’s death that was seen by millions around the world.

Source: Pakistan Today April 21, 2021 14:15 UTC