One is unfolding in the courtroom where a jury will decide whether former police officer Derek Chauvin is culpable in Floyd’s death after pinning him to the ground with a knee on his neck. Outside the courtroom, the case is widely seen as a trial of the US system itself — a test of whether justice is possible for a Black man who died while under arrest, triggering a global racial reckoning.
The trial promises to be as big as the uproar over Floyd’s death. It is on cable TV and streaming online. A huge security net has been placed around the courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. By the time…
