There’s hope for racial justice in America. But it comes from the people – not the courts | Simon Balto

While I don't find hope in one man's conviction, I do find it in multitudes elsewhere

On Tuesday afternoon, a jury confirmed what many of us have known to be true for the better part of a year: the former Minneapolis police department officer Derek Chauvin was guilty of murdering George Floyd.

On Wednesday morning, US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a justice department pattern-or-practice probe to determine if the Minneapolis police department's general operating norms are unlawful and unconstitutional, in violation of the rights of the citizens they police.