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    Two years after George Floyd’s murder, what’s changed?

    It’s been two years since Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd during a police stop. What has changed—and what still needs to be done? Two law professors weigh in.
    by Sharon Driscoll-Stanford May 26, 2022 1 minute
    two children look at mural depicting George Floyd in front of sunflower and the names of other victims of police violence

    It’s been two years since Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd during a police stop by keeping his knee on Floyd’s neck. What has changed since?

    Chauvin’s actions, that continued despite protests from a growing crowd of onlookers, sparked nation-wide protests and pressure for police reform. Since then, Chauvin and three other police officers involved in the stop have been convicted of multiple charges.

    “We cannot ignore the fact that policing operates within a society with stark economic inequalities and racial segregation.”

    Stanford University law professors Ralph Richard Banks and David Sklansky discuss the law, policing, and racism in the US below.

    Banks is a professor of law at Stanford Law School, the co-founder and faculty director of the Stanford Center for Racial Justice, and professor, by courtesy, at the School of Education.

    Sklansky is a professor of Law and faculty co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center. He is the author of A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What It Means for Justice (Harvard University Press, 2021).

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