‘Just the beginning’: joy and wariness as crowds celebrate Chauvin verdict
by Guardian staff and agencies from on (#5GVN7)
Jubilation across the US as sense of relief is tinged with awareness of difficulties ahead
Crowds across the US reacted with jubilation, and with deep awareness of the progress left to be made, after a jury convicted the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin of murder in the killing of George Floyd.
Loud cheering erupted from Floyd's family members watching in an adjacent courthouse room as the judge read the verdict to a city and nation on edge. Outside of the heavily fortified courthouse, people chanted All three counts" and Whose victory? Our victory!"
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