The George Floyd verdict would not have happened without months of protest | Nesrine Malik
Martin Luther King Jr famously said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” President Obama was fond of the saying and used it often – but it could do with a second part. The arc of the moral universe does not bend on its own. It is bent in the right direction by protesters, campaigners and dissenters. It was their hands that forced it towards justice last week, when the former police officer Derek Chauvin was of the second-degree murder of George Floyd. We cannot celebrate and take comfort in
