The announcement of the guilty verdict has renewed calls for police reform, placing increasing pressure on Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act and for police agencies to reexamine the use of force policies.
People of color, activists say, are still being profiled, brutalized and killed by police officers every day. Some were fatally shot by police even as the Chauvin trial went on, including teenagers Adam Toledo in Chicago and Ma’Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio. Another, 20-year-old Daunte Wright, was killed in a Minneapolis suburb just 10 miles from where Floyd died…
