Today’s verdict isn’t ‘justice’. But accountability is a first step to justice | Keith Ellison

In a short speech following the George Floyd verdict, Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison distinguished between the concepts

In a press conference following the news that a jury had found the former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on multiple counts of the murder of George Floyd, Minnesota's attorney general, Keith Ellison, delivered a short but powerful statement.

Here are Ellison's remarks in full.