There Will Be More Derek Chauvins
Powerful political actors are committed to ensuring that the system of American policing remains unchanged.
During his closing argument, Steve Schleicher, one of the prosecutors trying the former police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, insisted that jurors could convict Chauvin without convicting policing.
“This is not an anti-police prosecution,” Schleicher told the jury. “It’s a pro-police prosecution.”
For his part, Chauvin’s defense attorney, Eric Nelson, told the jury that “all of the evidence shows that Mr. Chauvin thought he was following his training. He was, in fact, following his training.”
Both were correct.
In May 2020, four days after the harrowing video of Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck while he begged for his. Yesterday, as my colleague , he became one of the even fewer to be convicted.
