‘My brother got justice’: George Floyd’s family praises guilty verdict

Members of Floyd's family have become leaders in the movement sparked by his death

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LaTonya Floyd watched in anxious silence, her hands pressed together in front of her face, as the judge prepared to read the verdict in the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer who had killed her brother last year.

As Judge Peter Cahill said the jury had found Derek Chauvin guilty on all three counts for the murder of George Floyd, she broke into tears.