Chauvin guilty verdict is rare instance of police murder conviction
Officers who kill black people tend to avoid prosecution and are usually acquitted by US juries.
New York | The decision by a Minnesota jury to convict Derek Chauvin of murdering George Floyd represented a rare instance in which a US police officer was held accountable for the killing of a black person.
Police killings are a frequent occurrence in the US. But there are few instances in which charges are then filed against the officers involved. The number of occasions when prosecutors actually win criminal convictions, as they did on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST), is vanishingly small.
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