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"content": "\u003cp>Four years ago, I was sitting on a bench in downtown Oakland when sign-carrying people began gathering at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza near Oakland City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To some, the plaza, symbolically renamed for Oscar Grant during the 2011 Occupy Oakland demonstrations, is a place of resistance. Grant, a Black man who was fatally shot by a BART police officer on the Fruitvale Station platform on Jan. 1, 2009, wasn’t the first Black person brutalized by police officers in a video that played on an inescapable loop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That ignominious distinction belongs to Rodney King, whose vicious beating by baton-swinging Los Angeles police officers was captured by a camcorder and became a nightly presence on the news. Grant was the first of the social media era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987038\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987038\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-03-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-03-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-03-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-03-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-03-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-03-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-03-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march on Broadway in Oakland on May 29, 2020, during a protest over the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On May 29, 2020, the people came to protest the death of George Floyd, a Black man murdered by police in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. The agonizing final minutes of his life, recorded by a bystander and shared on social media, sparked nationwide uprisings not seen in America since 1967 when outrage over racial injustices boiled over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the social unrest was more than a half-century apart, the catalyst was the same: police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the protests began peacefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11987069 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/009_KQED_Oakland_BriannaNoble_05292020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/009_KQED_Oakland_BriannaNoble_05292020.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/009_KQED_Oakland_BriannaNoble_05292020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/009_KQED_Oakland_BriannaNoble_05292020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/009_KQED_Oakland_BriannaNoble_05292020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/009_KQED_Oakland_BriannaNoble_05292020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brianna Noble rides her horse, Dapper Dan, alongside demonstrators on Broadway in Oakland on May 29, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Oakland four years ago, the energy was palpable. And that was before \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822227/oaklands-protest-rider-on-why-she-took-to-horseback-for-george-floyd\">Brianna Noble showed up in style on a horse\u003c/a>. My colleague, Beth LaBerge, took one of the photos of Noble that went viral as Noble led the march down Broadway. Anchored by LaBerge’s photos, this commentary documents the Oakland protests and examines what resulted from the weeks of racial uprisings that swept the Bay Area, California and America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highways were shut down as peaceful protesters voiced their frustrations. People shouted, “Hands up, don’t shoot,” and “I can’t breathe” as they marched. They demanded a portion of city budgets reserved for policing be instead earmarked for community programs to address systemic issues such as poor schools, income inequality and the lack of opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most people wore masks because the pandemic was raging. But get this: the crowds were a representation of America, as Black, white, Latino and Asian people marched shoulder-to-shoulder for racial justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The response by police — pepper spray, rubber bullets and baton swipes — caused frustration to erupt into vandalism and theft. Storefront windows were broken, and buildings and cars were set on fire. This was the racial reckoning America needed, I thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987040\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987040\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-30-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-30-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-30-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-30-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-30-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-30-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-30-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police fire tear gas to disperse demonstrators on Broadway near the Oakland police headquarters on May 29, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987041\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987041\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-13-BL-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-13-BL-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-13-BL-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-13-BL-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-13-BL-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators break the windows of a Walgreens in downtown Oakland on May 29, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1990px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987042\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-21-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1990\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-21-BL.jpg 1990w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-21-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-21-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-21-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-21-BL-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-21-BL-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1990px) 100vw, 1990px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: A fire burns during protests in downtown Oakland on May 29, 2020. Right: Police clash with protesters in downtown Oakland during a protest over the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Instead of reserving ire for looters, I urge you to question the system that’s historically refused to acknowledge human rights violations until property is damaged,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Angry-about-looters-Redirect-rage-toward-15323248.php\">I wrote in a column\u003c/a> for the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>, my employer then. “Sadly, the brutalization of Black and brown people doesn’t get the same attention as looting does. But when cities burn, elected officials listen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One elected official did more than listen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social upheaval from four years ago provided the legislative support for Assembly Bill 3121, which created a task force to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans. It was introduced by then-Assemblymember Shirley Weber in February 2020. The bill was enacted on Sept. 30, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just knew that we had had enough conversation in the nation about reparations at the federal level that it wasn’t going to happen immediately,” Weber, who was appointed secretary of state in December 2020, told me in 2022. “I didn’t ask permission from anybody. I didn’t coordinate and collaborate. I informed the Black Caucus what I was doing. I didn’t even ask their permission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948198/examining-reparations-and-the-historical-harms-of-slavery-and-racism-in-california\">The California Reparations Task Force\u003c/a>, the first statewide body to study reparations, wasn’t a performative gesture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know the damage has been done,” Weber said. “So I didn’t want to spend my years talking about whether there was or not damage. We needed to talk about how much was done and what we need to do to rectify it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber continued: “I knew I could get it through California. And I knew once I got it on the governor’s desk, we could get the necessary people to basically support it. And he would, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987942\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987942\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/010_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04132022_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/010_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04132022_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/010_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04132022_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/010_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04132022_qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/010_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04132022_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/010_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04132022_qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the California Reparations Task Force listen to public comment during their first in-person meeting on April 14, 2022, at the Third Baptist Church in San Francisco’s Fillmore District. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987941\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/014_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/014_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/014_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/014_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/014_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/014_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/014_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/014_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People line up to speak during public comment during a California Reparations Task Force meeting in Sacramento on March 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last June, the task force released a \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/report\">1,000-page report\u003c/a> on how the state government had supported slavery and dozens of discriminatory laws. The report included more than 100 recommendations to right the wrongs instituted in the past and continue today. In January, the California Legislative Black Caucus introduced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976617/state-lawmakers-propose-14-bills-to-provide-reparations-for-black-californians\">14 reparations bills\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the state Assembly passed a bill \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986615/state-assembly-passes-bill-apologizing-for-californias-role-in-supporting-slavery\">apologizing for California’s role in supporting slavery\u003c/a>. We need more than an apology, but I’ll save the argument for another column.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At KQED, my colleagues, including Guy Marzorati, Annelise Finney, Lakshmi Sarah, Manjula Varghese, LaBerge and others, have been chronicling the reparations movement. With our \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981271/track-the-success-of-californias-14-reparations-bills-for-black-residents\">reparations tracker\u003c/a>, we’re keeping tabs on the bills as they move through the Assembly and the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the state passed historic legislation that provided financial reparations to people who were forcibly or involuntarily sterilized while incarcerated in state prisons after 1979 or at state-run hospitals, homes and institutions during the eugenics era between 1909 and 1979. While the legislation had nothing to do with the reparations task force, it does offer a window into how reparations might be widely provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why we’re investigating how the state is rolling out reparations for people who were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965926/survivors-of-californias-forced-sterilization-denied-reparations\">forcibly sterilized\u003c/a>. Among the applicants who volunteered their demographic information, the majority self-identified as Black or African American. Of the almost 600 people who applied, roughly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965926/survivors-of-californias-forced-sterilization-denied-reparations\">70% were denied reparations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, a Contra Costa County superior court judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975584/californias-groundbreaking-racial-justice-act-cuts-its-teeth-in-contra-costa\">threw out sentence enhancements in a criminal case\u003c/a> where Antioch police officers sent racist text messages about four men accused of murder. It was the second time the judge ruled that anti-Black bias had shaped elements of the case, which Antioch officers investigated. The defendants used the Racial Justice Act, a state law enacted in 2020 that was designed to eliminate racial bias by empowering defendants to challenge racism in the justice system. Strengthening the act was part of the state reparations task force’s recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seems like Floyd’s death indeed sparked a national reckoning on racism — until we look at the backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987054\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987054\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/032_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/032_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/032_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/032_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/032_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/032_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrianna Mitchell speaks into a megaphone while marching with friends Akilah Walker and Kadeem Ali Harris during a Juneteenth rally in Oakland on June 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987055\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200619-GeorgeFloyd-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200619-GeorgeFloyd-02-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200619-GeorgeFloyd-02-BL-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200619-GeorgeFloyd-02-BL-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200619-GeorgeFloyd-02-BL-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200619-GeorgeFloyd-02-BL-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200619-GeorgeFloyd-02-BL-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Political activist, scholar and author Angela Davis speaks at a Juneteenth demonstration near the Port of Oakland on June 19, 2020. Right: Paul Williams’ five children, ages 4 to 13, sit on the hood of a car during a Juneteenth rally in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Critical Race Theory, an academic concept that posits race as a social concept embedded in legal systems and policies, has been villainized. So has DEI, the programs and strategies that promote diversity, equity and inclusion. In some states, the teaching of Black history has come under fire. In so-called progressive cities like Oakland, tough-on-crime rhetoric has handcuffed political races and spread fear even as \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/oakland-crime-rate-down-19429327.php\">crime is declining\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Jackson, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication who studies how media, journalism and technology are used by and represent marginalized people, told me that a propagandistic success of people clinging desperately to white supremacy was labeling people who want to talk about race as racist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the responsibility of folks that are committed to those ideals to be having hard conversations about issues that affect everyone dearly,” she told me in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Jackson pointed out to me, the issues that affect Black Americans are often the same that affect others, including white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want good schools. We want good jobs. Everybody wants that stuff,” she said. “But some of those things are unique, like police brutality, like reparations, like some of these other issues that many media institutions and many members of the public just aren’t used to having to talk about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years after Floyd’s death, I’m still waiting for America to have a lasting, open discussion about race that goes beyond apologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987043\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200603-GeorgeFloyd-01-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200603-GeorgeFloyd-01-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200603-GeorgeFloyd-01-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200603-GeorgeFloyd-01-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200603-GeorgeFloyd-01-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200603-GeorgeFloyd-01-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200603-GeorgeFloyd-01-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley Williams and Dujuanna Archable stand during a protest against police violence at 14th and Broadway in Oakland on June 3, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987050\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987050\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/029_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/029_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/029_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/029_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/029_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/029_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/029_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/029_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators mark Juneteenth with a march from the Port of Oakland to Downtown Oakland on June 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: Because of an editing error, an earlier version misstated when AB 3121 was introduced to the state Assembly. It was before the death of George Floyd. The subsequent uprising spurred the passage of the legislation. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Four years ago, I was sitting on a bench in downtown Oakland when sign-carrying people began gathering at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza near Oakland City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To some, the plaza, symbolically renamed for Oscar Grant during the 2011 Occupy Oakland demonstrations, is a place of resistance. Grant, a Black man who was fatally shot by a BART police officer on the Fruitvale Station platform on Jan. 1, 2009, wasn’t the first Black person brutalized by police officers in a video that played on an inescapable loop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That ignominious distinction belongs to Rodney King, whose vicious beating by baton-swinging Los Angeles police officers was captured by a camcorder and became a nightly presence on the news. Grant was the first of the social media era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987038\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987038\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-03-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-03-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-03-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-03-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-03-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-03-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-03-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march on Broadway in Oakland on May 29, 2020, during a protest over the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On May 29, 2020, the people came to protest the death of George Floyd, a Black man murdered by police in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. The agonizing final minutes of his life, recorded by a bystander and shared on social media, sparked nationwide uprisings not seen in America since 1967 when outrage over racial injustices boiled over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the social unrest was more than a half-century apart, the catalyst was the same: police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the protests began peacefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11987069 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/009_KQED_Oakland_BriannaNoble_05292020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/009_KQED_Oakland_BriannaNoble_05292020.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/009_KQED_Oakland_BriannaNoble_05292020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/009_KQED_Oakland_BriannaNoble_05292020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/009_KQED_Oakland_BriannaNoble_05292020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/009_KQED_Oakland_BriannaNoble_05292020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brianna Noble rides her horse, Dapper Dan, alongside demonstrators on Broadway in Oakland on May 29, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Oakland four years ago, the energy was palpable. And that was before \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822227/oaklands-protest-rider-on-why-she-took-to-horseback-for-george-floyd\">Brianna Noble showed up in style on a horse\u003c/a>. My colleague, Beth LaBerge, took one of the photos of Noble that went viral as Noble led the march down Broadway. Anchored by LaBerge’s photos, this commentary documents the Oakland protests and examines what resulted from the weeks of racial uprisings that swept the Bay Area, California and America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highways were shut down as peaceful protesters voiced their frustrations. People shouted, “Hands up, don’t shoot,” and “I can’t breathe” as they marched. They demanded a portion of city budgets reserved for policing be instead earmarked for community programs to address systemic issues such as poor schools, income inequality and the lack of opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most people wore masks because the pandemic was raging. But get this: the crowds were a representation of America, as Black, white, Latino and Asian people marched shoulder-to-shoulder for racial justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The response by police — pepper spray, rubber bullets and baton swipes — caused frustration to erupt into vandalism and theft. Storefront windows were broken, and buildings and cars were set on fire. This was the racial reckoning America needed, I thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987040\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987040\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-30-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-30-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-30-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-30-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-30-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-30-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-30-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police fire tear gas to disperse demonstrators on Broadway near the Oakland police headquarters on May 29, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987041\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987041\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-13-BL-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-13-BL-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-13-BL-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-13-BL-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-13-BL-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators break the windows of a Walgreens in downtown Oakland on May 29, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1990px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987042\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-21-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1990\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-21-BL.jpg 1990w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-21-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-21-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-21-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-21-BL-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-21-BL-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1990px) 100vw, 1990px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: A fire burns during protests in downtown Oakland on May 29, 2020. Right: Police clash with protesters in downtown Oakland during a protest over the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Instead of reserving ire for looters, I urge you to question the system that’s historically refused to acknowledge human rights violations until property is damaged,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Angry-about-looters-Redirect-rage-toward-15323248.php\">I wrote in a column\u003c/a> for the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>, my employer then. “Sadly, the brutalization of Black and brown people doesn’t get the same attention as looting does. But when cities burn, elected officials listen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One elected official did more than listen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social upheaval from four years ago provided the legislative support for Assembly Bill 3121, which created a task force to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans. It was introduced by then-Assemblymember Shirley Weber in February 2020. The bill was enacted on Sept. 30, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just knew that we had had enough conversation in the nation about reparations at the federal level that it wasn’t going to happen immediately,” Weber, who was appointed secretary of state in December 2020, told me in 2022. “I didn’t ask permission from anybody. I didn’t coordinate and collaborate. I informed the Black Caucus what I was doing. I didn’t even ask their permission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948198/examining-reparations-and-the-historical-harms-of-slavery-and-racism-in-california\">The California Reparations Task Force\u003c/a>, the first statewide body to study reparations, wasn’t a performative gesture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know the damage has been done,” Weber said. “So I didn’t want to spend my years talking about whether there was or not damage. We needed to talk about how much was done and what we need to do to rectify it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber continued: “I knew I could get it through California. And I knew once I got it on the governor’s desk, we could get the necessary people to basically support it. And he would, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987942\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987942\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/010_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04132022_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/010_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04132022_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/010_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04132022_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/010_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04132022_qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/010_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04132022_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/010_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04132022_qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the California Reparations Task Force listen to public comment during their first in-person meeting on April 14, 2022, at the Third Baptist Church in San Francisco’s Fillmore District. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987941\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/014_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/014_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/014_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/014_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/014_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/014_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/014_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/014_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People line up to speak during public comment during a California Reparations Task Force meeting in Sacramento on March 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last June, the task force released a \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/report\">1,000-page report\u003c/a> on how the state government had supported slavery and dozens of discriminatory laws. The report included more than 100 recommendations to right the wrongs instituted in the past and continue today. In January, the California Legislative Black Caucus introduced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976617/state-lawmakers-propose-14-bills-to-provide-reparations-for-black-californians\">14 reparations bills\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the state Assembly passed a bill \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986615/state-assembly-passes-bill-apologizing-for-californias-role-in-supporting-slavery\">apologizing for California’s role in supporting slavery\u003c/a>. We need more than an apology, but I’ll save the argument for another column.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At KQED, my colleagues, including Guy Marzorati, Annelise Finney, Lakshmi Sarah, Manjula Varghese, LaBerge and others, have been chronicling the reparations movement. With our \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981271/track-the-success-of-californias-14-reparations-bills-for-black-residents\">reparations tracker\u003c/a>, we’re keeping tabs on the bills as they move through the Assembly and the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the state passed historic legislation that provided financial reparations to people who were forcibly or involuntarily sterilized while incarcerated in state prisons after 1979 or at state-run hospitals, homes and institutions during the eugenics era between 1909 and 1979. While the legislation had nothing to do with the reparations task force, it does offer a window into how reparations might be widely provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why we’re investigating how the state is rolling out reparations for people who were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965926/survivors-of-californias-forced-sterilization-denied-reparations\">forcibly sterilized\u003c/a>. Among the applicants who volunteered their demographic information, the majority self-identified as Black or African American. Of the almost 600 people who applied, roughly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965926/survivors-of-californias-forced-sterilization-denied-reparations\">70% were denied reparations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, a Contra Costa County superior court judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975584/californias-groundbreaking-racial-justice-act-cuts-its-teeth-in-contra-costa\">threw out sentence enhancements in a criminal case\u003c/a> where Antioch police officers sent racist text messages about four men accused of murder. It was the second time the judge ruled that anti-Black bias had shaped elements of the case, which Antioch officers investigated. The defendants used the Racial Justice Act, a state law enacted in 2020 that was designed to eliminate racial bias by empowering defendants to challenge racism in the justice system. Strengthening the act was part of the state reparations task force’s recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seems like Floyd’s death indeed sparked a national reckoning on racism — until we look at the backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987054\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987054\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/032_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/032_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/032_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/032_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/032_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/032_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrianna Mitchell speaks into a megaphone while marching with friends Akilah Walker and Kadeem Ali Harris during a Juneteenth rally in Oakland on June 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987055\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200619-GeorgeFloyd-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200619-GeorgeFloyd-02-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200619-GeorgeFloyd-02-BL-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200619-GeorgeFloyd-02-BL-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200619-GeorgeFloyd-02-BL-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200619-GeorgeFloyd-02-BL-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200619-GeorgeFloyd-02-BL-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Political activist, scholar and author Angela Davis speaks at a Juneteenth demonstration near the Port of Oakland on June 19, 2020. Right: Paul Williams’ five children, ages 4 to 13, sit on the hood of a car during a Juneteenth rally in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Critical Race Theory, an academic concept that posits race as a social concept embedded in legal systems and policies, has been villainized. So has DEI, the programs and strategies that promote diversity, equity and inclusion. In some states, the teaching of Black history has come under fire. In so-called progressive cities like Oakland, tough-on-crime rhetoric has handcuffed political races and spread fear even as \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/oakland-crime-rate-down-19429327.php\">crime is declining\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Jackson, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication who studies how media, journalism and technology are used by and represent marginalized people, told me that a propagandistic success of people clinging desperately to white supremacy was labeling people who want to talk about race as racist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the responsibility of folks that are committed to those ideals to be having hard conversations about issues that affect everyone dearly,” she told me in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Jackson pointed out to me, the issues that affect Black Americans are often the same that affect others, including white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want good schools. We want good jobs. Everybody wants that stuff,” she said. “But some of those things are unique, like police brutality, like reparations, like some of these other issues that many media institutions and many members of the public just aren’t used to having to talk about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years after Floyd’s death, I’m still waiting for America to have a lasting, open discussion about race that goes beyond apologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987043\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200603-GeorgeFloyd-01-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200603-GeorgeFloyd-01-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200603-GeorgeFloyd-01-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200603-GeorgeFloyd-01-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200603-GeorgeFloyd-01-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200603-GeorgeFloyd-01-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200603-GeorgeFloyd-01-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley Williams and Dujuanna Archable stand during a protest against police violence at 14th and Broadway in Oakland on June 3, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987050\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987050\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/029_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/029_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/029_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/029_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/029_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/029_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/029_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/029_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators mark Juneteenth with a march from the Port of Oakland to Downtown Oakland on June 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: Because of an editing error, an earlier version misstated when AB 3121 was introduced to the state Assembly. It was before the death of George Floyd. The subsequent uprising spurred the passage of the legislation. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871951/grabar-a-la-policia-lo-que-hay-que-saber-y-como-estar-seguro-al-hacerlo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#before\">Your rights, and how to prepare to record the police\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#during\">How to film effectively while staying safe\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#after\">Advice on how and where to share videos\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Bystander videos can provide important counternarratives to official police accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you find yourself in a situation where you feel compelled to start recording a police encounter, how can you stay safe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, where should you send the footage? What are your rights in that moment? And how can you ensure your video isn’t contributing to the psychological harm felt by communities already traumatized by police violence?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101883134/how-to-exercise-your-right-to-film-the-police\">KQED Forum spoke with two experts about how to film police encounters safely\u003c/a>, effectively and ethically:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Brendesha Tynes\u003c/strong>, professor of education and psychology, USC Rossier School of Education\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Geoffrey A. Fowler\u003c/strong>, technology columnist, \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em>; author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/22/how-to-film-police-smartphone/\">“You have the right to film police. Here’s how to do it effectively — and safely”\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You can also listen to KQED \u003cem>Close All Tabs\u003c/em>‘ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069590/are-you-allowed-to-record-ice/\">January 2026 episode on filming Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"before\">\u003c/a>Before you start filming\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Know that you d\u003ci>o have \u003c/i>the right to record\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The First Amendment gives us the right to film police who are actively performing their duties,” says Geoffrey A. Fowler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A good rule of thumb is if you have a legal right to be present — such as on a public sidewalk or even on private property where you have permission of the owner — then you can be there with your camera,” Mickey Osterreicher, general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association, told \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/22/how-to-film-police-smartphone/\">in Fowler’s story on \u003cem>your\u003c/em> rights while filming police\u003c/a>. Osterreicher runs training programs for both journalists and police.[aside postID='news_11821950,news_11955465,news_11967439' label='Related Guides']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to private property, if you have permission to be there, Fowler says you also have the right to record police there, just like you have the right to record anybody on private property. “If you’re in someone else’s space, they could ask you to stop, [because] you could be violating somebody’s privacy by doing so.” If you’re unsure about this, “err towards filming,” says Fowler, “if this is a police officer doing their job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Know what the police can ask of you …\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t get in the way of a police officer doing his or her job,” says Fowler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you can expect a police officer might ask you to move away, or stand back, “and you have to do that.” If they put up yellow tape, you can’t then cross that line, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the police \u003cem>shouldn’t\u003c/em> ask you to “stand so far back that you can’t bear witness,” says Fowler. “That is your right as an American.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>… but also know how police might treat you\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brendesha Tynes says it’s crucial to recognize that in reality, people often experience “a different system of policing for Black and brown people” in the U.S. — and that any recommendations for recording the police \u003cem>as\u003c/em> a Black or brown person must take this into consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By suggesting that a white person filming the police will get the same response as a Black or brown person doing the same thing, “we’re assuming that police know our rights and will respect them,” says Tynes. “And we’re assuming that they don’t see Black and brown people as threats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Always\u003c/em> prioritize your personal safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Secure your phone first\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re heading into a situation that may potentially become intense or volatile, like a protest, Fowler recommends you investigate ways to temporarily turn off your phone’s ability to be unlocked with face ID or your fingerprint. These, says Fowler, “are techniques that police could use to try to access your phone without your explicit permission, by holding it up to your face or handcuffing you and putting your thumb on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he recommends you use \u003cem>only \u003c/em>a six-digit passcode to unlock your phone. “As long as that’s on there, the police officer can’t force you to tell them your code so that they can access it,” says Fowler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Think about whether you’re going to stream \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Streaming a video live to a social media platform like Facebook, says Fowler, has pluses: For one thing, a copy of your video will at least be stored online automatically. “That means that the police could not delete it even if they got your phone and they got into it,” says Fowler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the other hand, once you begin streaming live, you’ve lost control of where that video goes, and who sees it (more options for choosing how you release a video are below). You also might decide that you actually don’t want the video out there, perhaps “because it doesn’t serve the purposes of the person you’re trying to help,” says Fowler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consider using an app to record\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using a specialized app to film is a way of instantly sharing it with other people without necessarily sharing it publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might use an app like \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police/mobile-justice\">the American Civil Liberties Union’s Mobile Justice\u003c/a> app, which allows you to record video while streaming to your closest contacts and your local ACLU, as well as providing information about your rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fowler also recommends the \u003ca href=\"https://www.justusapp.org/\">Just Us app\u003c/a> created by Los Angeles-based clinical psychologist Charmine Davis, which can be activated by voice and allows broadcasting to a chosen group of contacts. This voice activation may be particularly relevant in situations like traffic stops, says Fowler, when “it may be very unsafe for you to try to reach for your phone or to hold your phone to record the police officer while it’s happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11871542\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11871542\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS27057_20170927_Uc-Berkeley-Free-Speech_Credit_Adam-Grossberg-9-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS27057_20170927_Uc-Berkeley-Free-Speech_Credit_Adam-Grossberg-9-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS27057_20170927_Uc-Berkeley-Free-Speech_Credit_Adam-Grossberg-9-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS27057_20170927_Uc-Berkeley-Free-Speech_Credit_Adam-Grossberg-9-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS27057_20170927_Uc-Berkeley-Free-Speech_Credit_Adam-Grossberg-9-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS27057_20170927_Uc-Berkeley-Free-Speech_Credit_Adam-Grossberg-9-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A UC police officer watches a free speech demonstration in Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley on Sept. 27, 2017. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"during\">\u003c/a>While you’re filming\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Prioritize your personal safety in the moment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Always, \u003cem>always\u003c/em> consider your own safety before you start filming, urges Tynes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you feel safe to do so, make it very clear that your phone is out in front of you, instead of partially hidden, so it cannot be mistaken for a weapon. This is something Darnella Frazier — who \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/21/989480867/darnella-frazier-teen-who-filmed-floyds-murder-praised-for-making-verdict-possib\">filmed the murder of George Floyd by Derek Chauvin in May 2020\u003c/a> — took particular care to do, says Fowler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She made it very obvious that she was filming. She didn’t try to hide it in her jacket,” Fowler says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Record clearly\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Darnella Frazier did exactly right in her filming, says Fowler, was that “she acted like a journalist in this situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frazier chose a clear vantage point, and “she stood back from the police to keep herself safe” as she did so, notes Fowler. She also “used a very steady hand as she recorded for a long period of time, so that the evidence would really make an impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frazier also did not narrate the video she was recording — something Fowler says is a plus. By not providing her own commentary, she allowed the footage to speak for itself — and also did not draw the police’s attention to the footage she was capturing, and risk engaging them herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It might feel incredibly hard not to react in the moment to something you’re seeing, and verbalize that in your footage, but “if you \u003cem>do\u003c/em> start engaging with a police officer, then you become part of the story,” says Fowler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your job in this instance is to bear witness and that can have a really powerful impact,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"after\">\u003c/a>After you’ve filmed\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consider where you share the footage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tynes acknowledges that there are many people who advocate against sharing these kinds of videos because of the traumatic impacts they can have on viewers. But ultimately, she says, “for as long as we have a system of policing that allows police to kill Black and brown people with impunity, we need to share the videos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without the videos, especially in the George Floyd case, we would have had the police report that said this was a ‘medical incident,'” Tynes notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you’ve taken one of these videos, how can you responsibly share it? Both Tynes and Fowler say it’s crucial to consider a person’s family first and foremost — especially if the video contains their dying moments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You should think about allowing that family, those survivors, to remain in control of that person’s humanity,” says Fowler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that reason, he thinks that your first step should not necessarily be posting a video to social media, but instead “to find that person’s family, find that person’s lawyer, find some community organization that will have the ‘big picture’ about what is the right thing to do with that video.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not only about compassion and the dignity of the person you filmed, says Fowler, it’s also about how your video might well become crucial evidence, for whom, and how it might challenge another video out there from the police. “You might not be able to see the big picture that a lawyer can,” says Fowler. “So get it in the hands of a lawyer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re unable to make contact with the person’s family and connect with their lawyer, Fowler recommends you seek out “a community organization who you think will have the appropriate context, and might be able to help you find that lawyer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Know your rights if the police demand your footage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police might ask you for a copy of your video, notes Fowler. They could also try to “temporarily seize your phone and try to get a search warrant to go through it.” This is why securing digital access to your phone, as above, is so important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the police do get your phone and you share the video with them, they’re not allowed to delete it, Fowler stresses. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to private property, if you have permission to be there, Fowler says you also have the right to record police there, just like you have the right to record anybody on private property. “If you’re in someone else’s space, they could ask you to stop, [because] you could be violating somebody’s privacy by doing so.” If you’re unsure about this, “err towards filming,” says Fowler, “if this is a police officer doing their job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Know what the police can ask of you …\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t get in the way of a police officer doing his or her job,” says Fowler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you can expect a police officer might ask you to move away, or stand back, “and you have to do that.” If they put up yellow tape, you can’t then cross that line, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the police \u003cem>shouldn’t\u003c/em> ask you to “stand so far back that you can’t bear witness,” says Fowler. “That is your right as an American.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>… but also know how police might treat you\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brendesha Tynes says it’s crucial to recognize that in reality, people often experience “a different system of policing for Black and brown people” in the U.S. — and that any recommendations for recording the police \u003cem>as\u003c/em> a Black or brown person must take this into consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By suggesting that a white person filming the police will get the same response as a Black or brown person doing the same thing, “we’re assuming that police know our rights and will respect them,” says Tynes. “And we’re assuming that they don’t see Black and brown people as threats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Always\u003c/em> prioritize your personal safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Secure your phone first\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re heading into a situation that may potentially become intense or volatile, like a protest, Fowler recommends you investigate ways to temporarily turn off your phone’s ability to be unlocked with face ID or your fingerprint. 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This is something Darnella Frazier — who \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/21/989480867/darnella-frazier-teen-who-filmed-floyds-murder-praised-for-making-verdict-possib\">filmed the murder of George Floyd by Derek Chauvin in May 2020\u003c/a> — took particular care to do, says Fowler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She made it very obvious that she was filming. She didn’t try to hide it in her jacket,” Fowler says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Record clearly\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Darnella Frazier did exactly right in her filming, says Fowler, was that “she acted like a journalist in this situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frazier chose a clear vantage point, and “she stood back from the police to keep herself safe” as she did so, notes Fowler. 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"content": "\u003cp>A Minnesota judge sentenced Derek Chauvin to 22.5 years in prison Friday for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/20/989283638/jury-finds-derek-chauvin-guilty-on-all-counts-in-killing-of-george-floyd\">murder of George Floyd\u003c/a> — a punishment that exceeds the state’s minimum guidelines but falls short of prosecutors’ request of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/06/03/1002815551/chauvin-30-years-time-served-sentence-george-floyd-murder\">30-year sentence\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The punishment will include time Chauvin has already served, the judge said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, a jury found the former Minneapolis police officer, who is white, guilty of murdering Floyd, who was Black, last year. The killing triggered \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/07/27/896043971/portland-protesters-file-suit-against-trump-administration-over-federal-response\">massive protests \u003c/a>against racial injustice and also \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/27/990580272/with-slow-progress-on-federal-level-police-reform-remains-patchwork-across-u-s\">prompted reviews\u003c/a> of the police use of force — including how much the law should protect officers when someone dies in their custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in earlier proceedings, the sentencing hearing was livestreamed from the courtroom. The sentence announcement followed emotional victim impact statements from Floyd’s family, as well as a heartfelt message of support from Chauvin’s mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/ap21176695885351-a93a1aff358bd47fb425f55a49dd97d3e3c82963-e1624651424112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11879372\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this screen grab from video, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is seen at his sentencing hearing on Friday.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Court TV, via AP, Pool)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chauvin was seen on video pressing his knee onto Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds as Floyd lay facedown on the asphalt outside a convenience store with his hands cuffed behind his back. The police had been called to the store after Floyd allegedly used a counterfeit $20 bill to pay for cigarettes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guilty verdict against Chauvin was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/20/989335036/finally-america-reacts-to-chauvin-guilty-verdict\">hailed as a civil rights victory\u003c/a>. Since then, his prison sentence has been awaited as a possible affirmation of that victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chauvin has been jailed since his guilty verdict. He was in court for Friday’s sentencing hearing, wearing a suit rather than a prisoner’s uniform by a special order of the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Chauvin Offers Condolences in a Brief Statement\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Chauvin, who did not testify during his trial, addressed the court in remarks that he said would be kept brief as he is still facing other legal issues — including federal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to give my condolences to the Floyd family,” Chauvin said as he looked toward Floyd’s relatives in the courtroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in a cryptic moment, the former officer added, “There’s going to be some other information in the future that would be of interest. And I hope things will give you some, some peace of mind. Thank you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Minnesota law, people sentenced to prison become eligible to be considered for parole after serving\u003ca href=\"https://mn.gov/msgc-stat/documents/Guidelines/2020/2020StandardSentencingGuidelinesGrid.pdf\"> two-thirds of their sentence\u003c/a>, as long as they’ve had no disciplinary problems while in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chauvin “is the first white officer in Minnesota to face prison time for the killing of a Black man,” according to member station \u003ca href=\"https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/06/24/chauvin-first-white-officer-in-minn-to-face-prison-time-for-killing-a-black-man\">Minnesota Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Floyd’s Daughter, 7, Gives Her Victim Impact Statement\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Floyd’s loved ones delivered four victim impact statements in court. The first was a video conversation with Floyd’s seven-year-old daughter, Gianna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ask about him all the time,” she said, adding that she wants to know, “How did my dad get hurt?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gianna said her father is still with her in spirit. When she sees him again, she said, she wants to play with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I miss you and I love you,” she said she would tell her father, adding that every night, he used to help her brush her teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The girl added that other people have helped her father, after “those mean people did something to him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/ap21176683080099-db15c1c754292960f54fc3cca2a6daa4950c7cd9-e1624651675412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11879373\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this image taken from video, Philonise Floyd, brother of George Floyd, becomes emotional during victim impact statements at Derek Chauvin’s sentencing hearing Friday.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Court TV via AP, Pool)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Floyd’s Brother Asks Chauvin: ‘Why?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“This situation has really affected me and my family,” Floyd’s brother Terrence Floyd said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing Chauvin in the courtroom, Floyd said he has some questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why? What were you thinking? What was going through your head when you had your knee on my brother’s neck?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He then took a moment to compose himself, after growing emotional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went on to describe how, in one of his last conversations with his brother, they had been planning playdates for their daughters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asking for a maximum penalty against Chauvin, Terrence Floyd said there should be “no more slaps on the wrist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philonise Floyd, who has become an outspoken advocate for his brother after his death, then told the court that he has relived Floyd’s death repeatedly in the past year. He no longer knows what it feels like to get a full night’s sleep, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family and I have been given a life sentence” to live without George Floyd, Philonise Floyd added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='george-floyd']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Chauvin’s Mother Says She Supports Her Son ‘100 Percent’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Chauvin’s mother, Carolyn Pawlenty, spoke in court on his behalf and for her entire family, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All their lives changed forever the day Floyd died, Pawlenty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her son is not an “aggressive, heartless and uncaring person,” or a racist, she said. “My son is a good man,” Pawlenty said, noting his years of dedication to being a police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saying that she supports her son 100 percent, she added that the past year has taken a toll on him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you sentence my son, you will also be sentencing me,” Pawlenty told Judge Peter Cahill. She noted that if her son serves a long prison term, his parents may not be alive when he is released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing Chauvin, Pawlenty said she is on his side and told him to be strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Remember you are my favorite son,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lawyers Argued Over Aggravating Factors\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Minnesota guidelines called for Chauvin to be sentenced to around 12 1/2 years for second-degree unintentional murder, given his lack of prior criminal history. But state prosecutors pushed for a 30-year term, saying Chauvin “acted with particular cruelty,” among other aggravating factors in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution also cited Chauvin’s abuse of a position of authority and Floyd’s killing in front of children and other witnesses, saying his punishment requires an “upward departure” from the guidelines. Cahill \u003ca href=\"https://www.mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases/27-CR-20-12646/Order05112021.pdf\">agreed\u003c/a>, saying that aggravating factors had been proven beyond a reasonable doubt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Nelson, Chauvin’s defense attorney, asked for Chauvin to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases/27-CR-20-12646/Memorandum06022021.pdf\">sentenced to probation\u003c/a> along with time already served, saying that Chauvin, 45, would likely be a target in prison. He also says that with the support of his family and friends, Chauvin still has the potential to be a positive influence on his community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chauvin was found guilty of unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. But he’s being punished only for the most serious charge: second-degree murder while committing a felony. In Minnesota, a person convicted of multiple crimes that happened at the same time is typically only sentenced for the most severe charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s maximum prison term for second-degree unintentional murder \u003ca href=\"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/609.19\">is 40 years\u003c/a>, although the \u003ca href=\"https://mn.gov/msgc-stat/documents/Guidelines/2020/2020StandardSentencingGuidelinesGrid.pdf\">sentencing guidelines\u003c/a> for second-degree unintentional murder largely taper off at 24 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Chauvin Also Faces Federal Charges\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1857px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/ap21167806766190_custom-891cab8dc94e289d84be7e0ac99e8caea07036b9-e1624651756396.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1857\" height=\"1236\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11879374\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin listens to verdicts at his trial in April for the 2020 death of George Floyd at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter charges in state court and is scheduled to be sentenced June 25.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Court TV via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Weeks after Chauvin was found guilty of murdering Floyd, the Justice Department announced federal criminal charges against him and three of his fellow former officers over Floyd’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal grand jury \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/05/07/987737695/justice-department-brings-federal-criminal-charges-against-derek-chauvin-3-other\">indicted the four on charges\u003c/a> of violating Floyd’s civil rights, with Chauvin accused of using excessive force and ignoring the medical emergency that ended in Floyd’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other former officers — J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao — are also accused of not getting immediate medical help for Floyd, with Kueng and Thao facing an addition charge of failing to intervene and showing “deliberate indifference” to Floyd’s predicament.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grand jury also indicted Chauvin over an arrest he made in 2017, in which he allegedly used a neck restraint and beat a teenager with a flashlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No trial date has been announced for the federal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three other former officers were already facing a state trial in August, on charges of aiding and abetting. But that trial has now been postponed until March of 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All four of the Minneapolis officers involved in Floyd’s death were fired days after the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nelson had asked the state court for a new trial for Chauvin, saying intense press coverage tainted the jury pool. He also alleged prosecutorial misconduct, related to issues such as sharing evidence and handling witnesses. But Cahill \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/06/25/1010290622/derek-chauvin-new-trial-rejected-george-floyd-murder?live=1\">denied Nelson’s motion\u003c/a> on the eve of Friday’s sentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Police Killings Rarely Result in Criminal Charges\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Floyd’s murder and other high-profile cases, such as the police killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky., have put intense scrutiny on the police use of deadly force against Black people, particularly by white officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/25/956177021/fatal-police-shootings-of-unarmed-black-people-reveal-troubling-patterns\">NPR investigation\u003c/a> from early this year found that police officers in the U.S. shot and killed at least 135 unarmed Black men and women since 2015, and that at least 75% of the officers were white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officers in the U.S. killed 1,099 people in 2019 — by far the most in any wealthy democracy in both raw numbers and per capita, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/\">the Prison Policy Initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those killings result in only a small number of officers being charged with a crime each year, and convictions of police on murder charges \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/20/989292294/where-the-chauvin-verdict-fits-in-the-recent-history-of-high-profile-police-kill\">are very rare\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year brought a spike in the number of officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/22/1008975458/more-police-officers-have-died-on-the-job-so-far-this-year-than-in-2020-why\">who died on duty\u003c/a>, but as in most years, traffic incidents accounted for the largest share of those deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Chauvin Case Propelled Calls to Change Policing in the US\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The uproar over Floyd’s death has helped change how some police departments train officers to use force, particularly chokeholds or carotid restraint holds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as NPR reported last summer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/16/877527974/how-decades-of-bans-on-police-chokeholds-have-fallen-short\">bans on neck restraints\u003c/a> have been mostly ineffective or unenforced. Chauvin’s actions against Floyd, for instance, were described by Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo as violating the department’s policies on the use of force, as well de-escalation and rendering aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates of police reform also say it’s time to limit or revoke qualified immunity — a legal doctrine established by the Supreme Court in 1967 that has been used to shield officers from facing liability for egregious actions while on-duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people pushing for this change say the Supreme Court has tightened qualified immunity so much in recent decades that it’s become nearly impossible for courts to recognize even blatant examples of police misconduct as illegal,” NPR’s Martin Kaste \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/08/872470083/qualified-immunity-a-doctrine-that-made-it-much-harder-to-sue-the-police\">reported last year\u003c/a>. “But police see things very differently. 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She noted that if her son serves a long prison term, his parents may not be alive when he is released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing Chauvin, Pawlenty said she is on his side and told him to be strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Remember you are my favorite son,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lawyers Argued Over Aggravating Factors\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Minnesota guidelines called for Chauvin to be sentenced to around 12 1/2 years for second-degree unintentional murder, given his lack of prior criminal history. But state prosecutors pushed for a 30-year term, saying Chauvin “acted with particular cruelty,” among other aggravating factors in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution also cited Chauvin’s abuse of a position of authority and Floyd’s killing in front of children and other witnesses, saying his punishment requires an “upward departure” from the guidelines. Cahill \u003ca href=\"https://www.mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases/27-CR-20-12646/Order05112021.pdf\">agreed\u003c/a>, saying that aggravating factors had been proven beyond a reasonable doubt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Nelson, Chauvin’s defense attorney, asked for Chauvin to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases/27-CR-20-12646/Memorandum06022021.pdf\">sentenced to probation\u003c/a> along with time already served, saying that Chauvin, 45, would likely be a target in prison. He also says that with the support of his family and friends, Chauvin still has the potential to be a positive influence on his community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chauvin was found guilty of unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. But he’s being punished only for the most serious charge: second-degree murder while committing a felony. In Minnesota, a person convicted of multiple crimes that happened at the same time is typically only sentenced for the most severe charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s maximum prison term for second-degree unintentional murder \u003ca href=\"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/609.19\">is 40 years\u003c/a>, although the \u003ca href=\"https://mn.gov/msgc-stat/documents/Guidelines/2020/2020StandardSentencingGuidelinesGrid.pdf\">sentencing guidelines\u003c/a> for second-degree unintentional murder largely taper off at 24 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Chauvin Also Faces Federal Charges\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1857px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/ap21167806766190_custom-891cab8dc94e289d84be7e0ac99e8caea07036b9-e1624651756396.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1857\" height=\"1236\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11879374\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin listens to verdicts at his trial in April for the 2020 death of George Floyd at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter charges in state court and is scheduled to be sentenced June 25.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Court TV via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Weeks after Chauvin was found guilty of murdering Floyd, the Justice Department announced federal criminal charges against him and three of his fellow former officers over Floyd’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal grand jury \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/05/07/987737695/justice-department-brings-federal-criminal-charges-against-derek-chauvin-3-other\">indicted the four on charges\u003c/a> of violating Floyd’s civil rights, with Chauvin accused of using excessive force and ignoring the medical emergency that ended in Floyd’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other former officers — J. 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He also alleged prosecutorial misconduct, related to issues such as sharing evidence and handling witnesses. But Cahill \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/06/25/1010290622/derek-chauvin-new-trial-rejected-george-floyd-murder?live=1\">denied Nelson’s motion\u003c/a> on the eve of Friday’s sentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Police Killings Rarely Result in Criminal Charges\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Floyd’s murder and other high-profile cases, such as the police killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky., have put intense scrutiny on the police use of deadly force against Black people, particularly by white officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/25/956177021/fatal-police-shootings-of-unarmed-black-people-reveal-troubling-patterns\">NPR investigation\u003c/a> from early this year found that police officers in the U.S. shot and killed at least 135 unarmed Black men and women since 2015, and that at least 75% of the officers were white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officers in the U.S. killed 1,099 people in 2019 — by far the most in any wealthy democracy in both raw numbers and per capita, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/\">the Prison Policy Initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those killings result in only a small number of officers being charged with a crime each year, and convictions of police on murder charges \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/20/989292294/where-the-chauvin-verdict-fits-in-the-recent-history-of-high-profile-police-kill\">are very rare\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year brought a spike in the number of officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/22/1008975458/more-police-officers-have-died-on-the-job-so-far-this-year-than-in-2020-why\">who died on duty\u003c/a>, but as in most years, traffic incidents accounted for the largest share of those deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Chauvin Case Propelled Calls to Change Policing in the US\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The uproar over Floyd’s death has helped change how some police departments train officers to use force, particularly chokeholds or carotid restraint holds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as NPR reported last summer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/16/877527974/how-decades-of-bans-on-police-chokeholds-have-fallen-short\">bans on neck restraints\u003c/a> have been mostly ineffective or unenforced. 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"content": "\u003cp>George Floyd’s presence can still be felt in downtown Oakland, where murals bearing his likeness remain, along with numerous signs saying his name in large yellow letters, covering some business windows along Broadway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exactly one year ago, Floyd went out to buy cigarettes at a grocery store in Minneapolis. A store employee called the police, thinking Floyd had used counterfeit currency. The officers confronted Floyd and one of them, Derek Chauvin, knelt on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes even as the 46-year-old Black man pleaded that he couldn’t breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floyd’s murder, for which Chauvin was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870396/court-says-jury-has-reached-verdict-in-derek-chauvins-murder-trial\">convicted\u003c/a> in April, sparked hundreds of protests across the country led by organizers who demanded accountability for Floyd’s death, an end to police brutality and major structural reform in the nation’s policing systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875360\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1505px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11875360\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49502_024_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"James Burch from Anti-Police Terror Project (APTP) speaks to a crowd in Oakland on May 25, 2021.\" width=\"1505\" height=\"1003\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49502_024_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg 1505w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49502_024_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49502_024_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49502_024_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1505px) 100vw, 1505px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Burch from Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) speaks during an event organized by the Anti Police-Terror Project and the Defund Police Coalition on May 25, 2021 to honor George Floyd one year after his murder. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not too far from Frank Ogawa/Oscar Grant Plaza in downtown Oakland – the site of dozens of such demonstrations – organizers from the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) and the Defund Police Coalition on Tuesday held a press conference to honor George Floyd on the anniversary of his murder. Despite pressure put on city officials and a promise to reinvest dollars spent on policing into communities, advocates said change still hasn’t come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the height of the George Floyd uprising, there was an intense political pressure put on the City Council and the mayor,” said James Burch, APTP policy director. “They committed to a pathway to reimagine public safety, and [to] reinvest 50% of the dollars spent on policing … That’s where we were last summer. And between then and now, some members of city government have retreated and retrenched themselves into the status quo.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Barbara Doss, mother of Dujuan Armstrong, who died in Santa Rita Jail in 2018\"]‘There is no justice … If I do get justice, what is the justice?.’[/pullquote]Among those attending the event was Barbara Doss, the mother of Dujuan Armstrong, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/19/us-police-shootings-george-floyd-press-releases-reports\">lost his life in Santa Rita Jail\u003c/a> in Dublin on June 23, 2018. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6396888-Dujuan-Armstrong2018-02007.html\">coroner’s report\u003c/a>, officers in the jail immobilized Armstrong using a full-body restraining device called a WRAP and covered his head with a hood, making it extremely difficult for him to breathe and resulting in his death by asphyxiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doss still bears the pain of the death of both her son, and of Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here to demand justice for my son … and not just for Dejuan but we got more people out here that no one even hears about,” she said. “I’m not going to let it lie down. I’m not letting it die down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of 2019, Armstrong’s family \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/12/04/family-of-inmate-who-died-in-death-trap-device-sues-for-wrongful-death/\">sued Alameda County\u003c/a>. And while Doss continues to demand accountability from the county, she questions what more this will give her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no justice,” she said. “If I do get justice, what is the justice?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addie Kitchen, whose grandson \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Steven-Taylor-s-grandmother-I-m-hurt-but-15542028.php\">Steven Taylor\u003c/a> was shot and killed by a police officer in a San Leandro Walmart last year while experiencing a mental health crisis, also indicated the magnitude of change that’s needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875363\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11875363\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"Addie Kitchen, the grandmother of Steven Taylor, speaks to a crowd in Oakland.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Addie Kitchen, the grandmother of Steven Taylor, speaks during an event organized by the Anti Police-Terror Project and the Defund Police Coalition on May 25, 2021 to honor George Floyd one year after his murder. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People have asked me how I feel about the conviction of Chauvin for Floyd’s murder,” Kitchen said at the press conference. “And I keep telling them it’s a pebble in the ocean. It doesn’t even make a ripple. There is so much more that needs to be done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed out that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870691/we-need-justice-mourners-demand-alameda-police-provide-answers-in-death-of-mario-gonzalez\">Mario Gonzalez\u003c/a> died in the hands of the Alameda city police on April 19, 2021, one year and one day after her grandson’s death. That incident \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871887/alameda-leaders-weigh-police-reforms-after-death-of-mario-gonzalez\">spurred police reform proposals\u003c/a> such as requiring a non-police response to certain types of 911 calls, including those related to potential mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things are still the same. We need changes. We need the politicians and leaders to do their job. We’re asking for protection from law enforcement,” Kitchen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='george-floyd']APTP and its coalition members have been critical of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873608/dozens-of-oakland-police-officers-collect-6-figure-overtime-payments-straining-citys-budget\">proposed budget\u003c/a> for the 2021-2023 budget cycle, which would increase total police spending from about $317 million to $341 million starting in July — or roughly 41% of the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some organizers, that move felt like a contradiction of what Schaaf had promised last year: to invest more in community-driven public safety mechanisms like mental health and gender-based violence services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Libby Schaaf continues to fund more police,” said Marlene Sanchez of the Ella Baker Center, a civil rights and organizing group. “If you’re going to talk the talk, then walk the walk. We want to see a budget that really reflects our values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier on Tuesday, the Oakland NAACP and other groups hosted a separate George Floyd remembrance event in East Oakland, where speakers included Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, and newly minted California Attorney General Rob Bonta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875367\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11875367\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A person dances wearing a facemask.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">High school senior Zoei Brown dances during a community remembrance event held by the Oakland NAACP at Youth UpRising in Oakland on May 25, 2021to pay tribute to George Floyd. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The doors to accountability, well they’ve been cracked open,” Lee said. “But until we realize a world in which Mr. Floyd and so many others were never ever killed in the first place, our fight must continue … We’re here to do just that today, once again to demand justice, to demand respect and to demand Black lives matter in these United States of America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, also one of the speakers, said law enforcement reform is possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I took on this job, I promised that we would reform this department,” Armstrong said. “It has to be centered around getting rid of those that should no longer wear badges. So holding people accountable is critical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875368\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11875368\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong speaks during a remembrance event to pay tribute to George Floyd.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong speaks during a remembrance event held by the Oakland NAACP at Youth UpRising in Oakland on May 25, 2021 to pay tribute to George Floyd. ‘When I took on this job, I promised that we would reform this department,’ Armstrong said. He became chief on February 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For 29-year-old Leo Mercer, an Oakland-based activist who attended the East Oakland remembrance event, what the past year has taught him is how important care – for others and for himself – is for organizing work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to move with a little more strategy … to think about my own public safety,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He grew up in Oakland but now lives in Hayward because of how high his rent became. But Oakland is still his home and his hope is that anyone, regardless of their color, can live in the city without having to fear for their lives. He also wants to remind people that Black people are not the enemy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I could say anything to the community it would be, ‘look up,” he said. “I don’t want to hurt you. I don’t want to be hurt. 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He became chief on February 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For 29-year-old Leo Mercer, an Oakland-based activist who attended the East Oakland remembrance event, what the past year has taught him is how important care – for others and for himself – is for organizing work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to move with a little more strategy … to think about my own public safety,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He grew up in Oakland but now lives in Hayward because of how high his rent became. But Oakland is still his home and his hope is that anyone, regardless of their color, can live in the city without having to fear for their lives. He also wants to remind people that Black people are not the enemy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I could say anything to the community it would be, ‘look up,” he said. “I don’t want to hurt you. I don’t want to be hurt. It ain’t us doing it to each other.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Photography helped capture the intensity and emotion of protests that erupted after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer one year ago today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those documenting the historic moment was \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/amirazizphotos\">Amir Aziz\u003c/a>, a visual journalist who grew up in East Oakland and is now covering his hometown for \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/\">The Oaklandside\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aziz says his personal experience shapes his craft as a photojournalist, a characteristic particularly evident when documenting local protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a person who’s from Oakland, as a Black man, there’s a lot of overlap with the work that I do and the coverage that I’m seeking out to do,” he said. “It’s about capturing what matters and having access to that story that makes it more authentic than it would be if I didn’t have that access or I wasn’t from this community, or if I didn’t resonate with that story.”[aside postID=news_11821931 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43423_007_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-1020x680.jpg']Aziz says Oakland’s history is intimately tied to social justice movements, so he felt a particularly strong pull to capture last year’s protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was another chance for us to educate ourselves, to come together and to just be present as we all mourn the loss, but also fight for justice,” Aziz said, who at the time was working as a freelancer. “I believe my role helps to document what’s going on and to even say that we have been having the same conversations. And that’s an important element as we continue on this path for social equality for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aziz recently spoke with KQED’s Brian Watt this week, discussing some of his own stand-out images and how the experience covering last year’s uprising affected his approach to visual storytelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Image as Truth\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Black Lives Matter,” “No Justice, No Peace,” “Defund the Police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aziz spent countless hours photographing demonstrators holding signs of these rallying cries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a love I have for signs because in images, they’re really cut and dry, like they’re really clear, the messaging is really clear,” he said. “There’s just so much going on with signs during civil unrest that really make the image, at times, even if the image is just a sign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875125\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/floyd_george_protests_may_31_2020.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11875125\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/floyd_george_protests_may_31_2020.jpg\" alt=\"A protester inside a car holds up a sign calling for racial justice. It reads Oscar's Life Mattered, George's Life Matters, Your Life Matters.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/floyd_george_protests_may_31_2020.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/floyd_george_protests_may_31_2020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/floyd_george_protests_may_31_2020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/floyd_george_protests_may_31_2020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/floyd_george_protests_may_31_2020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/floyd_george_protests_may_31_2020-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Among the signs Aziz saw people holding during a caravan demonstration around Oakland’s Lake Merritt on May 31, 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Following Floyd’s murder on May 25, 2020, thousands of protesters filled the streets for days. Although most demonstrations were peaceful, isolated incidents of violence and vandalism prompted officials in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose to implement curfews and deploy large numbers of police, many in riot gear, often escalating tensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was freelancing, so I was independent. I didn’t have a badge. I didn’t have a lot of gear. I don’t have a helmet or anything like that. So I can look like a protester to police,” Aziz said. “And what I think allowed me to still get so close was there’s this line where it can be blurred — where I am there almost as a demonstrator to actually tell the story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875126\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/freeway_barricade_floyd_george_protests_may_31_2020-e1621970326857.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11875126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/freeway_barricade_floyd_george_protests_may_31_2020-e1621970326857.jpg\" alt=\"Rows of police and protesters. 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And on the police side, you have riot gear, you have helmets, you have batons, you have guns,” Aziz said. “It just shows a stark difference of who the ‘rioters’ are and the ‘peace officers.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Showing up Safely\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Aziz, who has covered protests for years, draws on his hometown’s activist culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An editor asked me this recently, if I ever feel like I’m in danger with my equipment or at protests. You know, honestly, Oakland is so dynamic in how we experience the world. I feel safe anywhere. And it’s odd to say out loud, but places like this are almost in our DNA,” he said. “In the Bay Area, on the weekend, you go out to a protest. 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Although most demonstrations were peaceful, isolated incidents of violence and vandalism prompted officials in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose to implement curfews and deploy large numbers of police, many in riot gear, often escalating tensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was freelancing, so I was independent. I didn’t have a badge. I didn’t have a lot of gear. I don’t have a helmet or anything like that. 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"content": "\u003cp>The jury has found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all the counts he faced over the murder of George Floyd. The trial has been one of the most closely watched cases in recent memory, setting off a national reckoning on police violence and systemic racism even before the trial commenced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chauvin, 45, has been found guilty of unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With only his eyes visible as the rest of his face was hidden behind a surgical mask, Chauvin watched as the verdict was returned. Judge Peter Cahill thanked the jury for their “heavy-duty jury service.” Chauvin was remanded into custody as the jury was dismissed, and Cahill said sentencing is expected in eight weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State sentencing \u003ca href=\"https://mn.gov/msgc-stat/documents/Guidelines/2020/2020StandardSentencingGuidelinesGrid.pdf\">guidelines\u003c/a> recommend 12.5 years in prison for a conviction on unintentional second-degree murder for someone with no criminal history. But prosecutors could seek a sentence up to the maximum of 40 years on that count if Cahill determines there were aggravating factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A deputy handcuffed Chauvin and escorted him to a side room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Philonise Floyd, brother of George Floyd\"]‘I was just praying they would find him guilty. As an African American, we usually never get justice.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, hugged prosecutor Jerry Blackwell, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and others, according to pool reports from a journalist in the courtroom. Ellison and Blackwell shook hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philonise Floyd had been seen praying in the courtroom. Asked by a pool reporter afterward what he had been praying for, he answered: “I was just praying they would find him guilty. As an African American, we usually never get justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no noticeable reaction from the jury, according to a pool reporter. The jurors each remained still and quiet, staring at the judge until they were called upon to announce their judgment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury had been deliberating for about 10 hours over two days, following closing arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floyd’s death on Memorial Day 2020 sparked protests in Minneapolis, across the United States and around the world. It prompted calls for police reform and soul-searching on issues of systemic racial injustice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floyd was a 46-year-old Black man from Houston who had moved to Minnesota just three years earlier. He was a father and brother who idolized his mother, loved making music and had been a star athlete as a young man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floyd died after Chauvin pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds as Floyd lay face down, hands cuffed behind his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Trial\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Judge Cahill presided in the case. Known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/10/975678095/judge-peter-cahill-in-derek-chauvin-trial-hes-known-for-being-fair-decisive\">being fair and decisive\u003c/a>, Cahill made the unusual decision to allow the trial to be broadcast live. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution argued that Floyd died as a direct result of Chauvin’s actions: that due to Chauvin’s weight on Floyd’s neck and back while holding him in the prone position, Floyd died of low oxygen levels that caused a brain injury and arrhythmia, causing his heart to stop. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He did what he did on purpose, and it killed George Floyd,” said prosecutor Steve Schleicher. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Testimony in the case was remarkable in that witnesses for the prosecution included numerous members of the Minneapolis police. Minneapolis Police Department Chief Medaria Arradondo and other members of his department \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/05/984412060/watch-live-derek-chauvin-trial-enters-second-week-of-testimony\">testified\u003c/a> that Chauvin’s lengthy restraint of Floyd was not reasonable and violated the department’s policies on use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is an initial reasonableness in trying to get him under control in the first few seconds,” Arradondo testified, “but once there was no longer any resistance, and clearly when Mr. Floyd was no longer responsive and even motionless, to continue to apply that level of force to a person proned out, handcuffed behind their back — that in no way, shape or form is anything that is by policy, is not part of our training and is certainly not part of our ethics or our values.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/ap_21109604855161-722286e201da0400f8c7c82d899c1b9549f2905c-e1618950002875.jpg\" alt=\"Derek Chauvin without a mask, frowning\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870397\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin listens to his defense attorney make closing arguments on Monday during his trial in the death of George Floyd. \u003ccite>(Court TV via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chauvin’s defense, meanwhile, argued that there were a range of potential factors in Floyd’s death, including what it said was Floyd’s enlarged heart, fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system and possibly carbon monoxide from squad car exhaust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Above all, defense attorney Eric Nelson strove to inject doubt into the state’s case. He framed Chauvin’s actions as those of a “reasonable police officer” doing his job under stressful and chaotic circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The testimony ranged from complex medical and forensic pathology topics to discussion of police training and officers’ use of force. There were moments of deep emotion, including from bystander \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/03/31/983192384/chauvin-trial-witnesses-describe-officers-fatal-detention-of-george-floyd\">Charles McMillian\u003c/a> and the young woman identified in court as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/03/30/982729306/it-wasnt-right-young-woman-who-recorded-chauvin-and-floyd-on-video-tells-court\">Darnella\u003c/a>, who was 17 when she took video of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hennepin County’s medical examiner, Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/09/985722945/live-video-medical-examiner-to-testify-about-george-floyds-death\">Andrew Baker\u003c/a>, testified that Floyd died from cardiopulmonary arrest resulting from “law enforcement subdual, restraint and the neck compression.” He said the manner of death was “homicide,” meaning that someone else was involved in the death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='george-floyd']Compared with the prosecution, the defense’s testimony was brief. Defense attorney Nelson called just six witnesses, including a retired Minneapolis police officer and a retired paramedic who had interacted with Floyd during a 2019 traffic stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense spent the most time questioning Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/14/987134841/watch-live-defense-testimony-resumes-in-derek-chauvins-trial\">David Fowler\u003c/a>, a retired forensic pathologist who testified that Floyd died from a sudden cardiac event and that opioids and methamphetamine in his system and possibly carbon monoxide poisoning played a role. He disputed the Hennepin County medical examiner’s judgment that the manner of Floyd’s death was “homicide” and said that it should have been classified as “undetermined,” given the number of factors in play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the opinion of Baker, the medical examiner, “the law enforcement subdual, restraint and the neck compression was just more than Mr. Floyd could take, by virtue of those heart conditions.” While fentanyl and heart disease may have contributed to Floyd’s death, they were not the direct cause, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/09/985722945/live-video-medical-examiner-to-testify-about-george-floyds-death\">Baker said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other medical and forensic witnesses called by the prosecution agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. George Floyd died from a cardiopulmonary arrest. It was caused by low oxygen levels. And those low oxygen levels were induced by the prone restraint and positional asphyxiation that he was subjected to,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/12/986405385/watch-live-derek-chauvin-trial-testimony-enters-3rd-week\">testified \u003c/a>Dr. Jonathan Rich, a cardiologist. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floyd’s brother, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/12/986508546/watch-george-floyds-brother-testifies-in-derek-chauvin-trial\">Philonise Floyd\u003c/a>, described their Houston childhood and told the court about how Floyd “was a leader in our household.” Floyd’s girlfriend, Courteney Ross, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/01/983407032/watch-live-day-4-of-derek-chauvin-trial-starts-with-floyd-s-girlfriend\">described\u003c/a> her affection for him and their mutual struggle with opioid addiction. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870447\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut.jpg\" alt=\"very emotional woman wearing mask, crying with face upturned\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870447\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman cries as the verdict is announced in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin outside the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The Charges\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unintentional second-degree murder \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/19/988775742/trial-of-derek-chauvin-in-the-death-of-george-floyd-goes-to-the-jury\">is defined\u003c/a> as causing death without intent to do so, while committing or attempting to commit a felony offense. The maximum sentence for second-degree murder is 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third-degree murder is causing death to an individual by “perpetrating an act imminently dangerous to others and evidencing a depraved mind without regard for human life,” but without the intent to cause death. It carries a maximum sentence of 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second-degree manslaughter is causing the death of another by “culpable negligence, creating an unreasonable risk” in which the defendant “consciously takes the risk of causing death or great bodily harm to another individual.” It carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Jury\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The names of the jurors are not known. But we do know that the jury was significantly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/25/980646634/half-of-the-jury-in-the-chauvin-trial-is-non-white-thats-only-part-of-the-story\">less white \u003c/a>than \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/hennepincountyminnesota,minneapoliscityminnesota/PST045219\">Hennepin County\u003c/a> itself. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 12 jurors include four Black people, two people who identify as multiracial and six white people. Two alternates — both of them white women — have been dismissed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury reported each day for duty to the Hennepin County Government Center under \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/12/985803829/jurors-in-chauvin-trial-have-security-escort-are-partially-sequestered\">intense security measures\u003c/a>, using a private entrance to enter the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jurors were given a laptop and monitor to review the extensive video footage and exhibits presented during the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Use your common sense. Believe your eyes. What you saw, you saw,” prosecutor Schleicher told the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the state is “missing any one single element” to meet the burden of proving Chauvin’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt for each of the three counts, “it is a not-guilty verdict,” defense attorney Nelson told them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870457\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Floyd’s brother Terrence Floyd (C) holds up his hands with family lawyer Ben Crump (R) during a press conference following the guilty verdict in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Beyond the Courtroom\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On the Sunday before the last week of testimony, another Black man was killed at the hands of police in Hennepin County. Daunte Wright, 20, was fatally shot by Brooklyn Center officer Kim Potter during a traffic stop. Potter, who says she mistakenly fired her gun instead of a Taser, resigned from the force and has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/14/987228386/officer-who-shot-daunte-wright-arrested-to-be-charged-with-2nd-degree-manslaught\">charged\u003c/a> with second-degree manslaughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major demonstrations have followed Wright’s shooting, with protesters gathering outside the Brooklyn Center police station in suburban Minneapolis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama drew a straight line between the deaths of Floyd and Wright: “The fact that this could happen even as the city of Minneapolis is going through the trial of Derek Chauvin and reliving the heart-wrenching murder of George Floyd indicates not just how important it is to conduct a full and transparent investigation, but also just how badly we need to reimagine policing and public safety in this country,” they said in a statement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Court+Says+Jury+Has+Reached+Verdict+In+Derek+Chauvin%27s+Murder+Trial&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Trial\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Judge Cahill presided in the case. Known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/10/975678095/judge-peter-cahill-in-derek-chauvin-trial-hes-known-for-being-fair-decisive\">being fair and decisive\u003c/a>, Cahill made the unusual decision to allow the trial to be broadcast live. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution argued that Floyd died as a direct result of Chauvin’s actions: that due to Chauvin’s weight on Floyd’s neck and back while holding him in the prone position, Floyd died of low oxygen levels that caused a brain injury and arrhythmia, causing his heart to stop. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He did what he did on purpose, and it killed George Floyd,” said prosecutor Steve Schleicher. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Testimony in the case was remarkable in that witnesses for the prosecution included numerous members of the Minneapolis police. Minneapolis Police Department Chief Medaria Arradondo and other members of his department \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/05/984412060/watch-live-derek-chauvin-trial-enters-second-week-of-testimony\">testified\u003c/a> that Chauvin’s lengthy restraint of Floyd was not reasonable and violated the department’s policies on use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is an initial reasonableness in trying to get him under control in the first few seconds,” Arradondo testified, “but once there was no longer any resistance, and clearly when Mr. Floyd was no longer responsive and even motionless, to continue to apply that level of force to a person proned out, handcuffed behind their back — that in no way, shape or form is anything that is by policy, is not part of our training and is certainly not part of our ethics or our values.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/ap_21109604855161-722286e201da0400f8c7c82d899c1b9549f2905c-e1618950002875.jpg\" alt=\"Derek Chauvin without a mask, frowning\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870397\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin listens to his defense attorney make closing arguments on Monday during his trial in the death of George Floyd. \u003ccite>(Court TV via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chauvin’s defense, meanwhile, argued that there were a range of potential factors in Floyd’s death, including what it said was Floyd’s enlarged heart, fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system and possibly carbon monoxide from squad car exhaust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Above all, defense attorney Eric Nelson strove to inject doubt into the state’s case. He framed Chauvin’s actions as those of a “reasonable police officer” doing his job under stressful and chaotic circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The testimony ranged from complex medical and forensic pathology topics to discussion of police training and officers’ use of force. There were moments of deep emotion, including from bystander \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/03/31/983192384/chauvin-trial-witnesses-describe-officers-fatal-detention-of-george-floyd\">Charles McMillian\u003c/a> and the young woman identified in court as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/03/30/982729306/it-wasnt-right-young-woman-who-recorded-chauvin-and-floyd-on-video-tells-court\">Darnella\u003c/a>, who was 17 when she took video of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hennepin County’s medical examiner, Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/09/985722945/live-video-medical-examiner-to-testify-about-george-floyds-death\">Andrew Baker\u003c/a>, testified that Floyd died from cardiopulmonary arrest resulting from “law enforcement subdual, restraint and the neck compression.” He said the manner of death was “homicide,” meaning that someone else was involved in the death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Compared with the prosecution, the defense’s testimony was brief. Defense attorney Nelson called just six witnesses, including a retired Minneapolis police officer and a retired paramedic who had interacted with Floyd during a 2019 traffic stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense spent the most time questioning Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/14/987134841/watch-live-defense-testimony-resumes-in-derek-chauvins-trial\">David Fowler\u003c/a>, a retired forensic pathologist who testified that Floyd died from a sudden cardiac event and that opioids and methamphetamine in his system and possibly carbon monoxide poisoning played a role. He disputed the Hennepin County medical examiner’s judgment that the manner of Floyd’s death was “homicide” and said that it should have been classified as “undetermined,” given the number of factors in play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the opinion of Baker, the medical examiner, “the law enforcement subdual, restraint and the neck compression was just more than Mr. Floyd could take, by virtue of those heart conditions.” While fentanyl and heart disease may have contributed to Floyd’s death, they were not the direct cause, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/09/985722945/live-video-medical-examiner-to-testify-about-george-floyds-death\">Baker said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other medical and forensic witnesses called by the prosecution agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. George Floyd died from a cardiopulmonary arrest. It was caused by low oxygen levels. And those low oxygen levels were induced by the prone restraint and positional asphyxiation that he was subjected to,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/12/986405385/watch-live-derek-chauvin-trial-testimony-enters-3rd-week\">testified \u003c/a>Dr. Jonathan Rich, a cardiologist. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floyd’s brother, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/12/986508546/watch-george-floyds-brother-testifies-in-derek-chauvin-trial\">Philonise Floyd\u003c/a>, described their Houston childhood and told the court about how Floyd “was a leader in our household.” Floyd’s girlfriend, Courteney Ross, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/01/983407032/watch-live-day-4-of-derek-chauvin-trial-starts-with-floyd-s-girlfriend\">described\u003c/a> her affection for him and their mutual struggle with opioid addiction. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870447\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut.jpg\" alt=\"very emotional woman wearing mask, crying with face upturned\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870447\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48688_GettyImages-1232424784-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman cries as the verdict is announced in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin outside the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The Charges\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unintentional second-degree murder \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/19/988775742/trial-of-derek-chauvin-in-the-death-of-george-floyd-goes-to-the-jury\">is defined\u003c/a> as causing death without intent to do so, while committing or attempting to commit a felony offense. The maximum sentence for second-degree murder is 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third-degree murder is causing death to an individual by “perpetrating an act imminently dangerous to others and evidencing a depraved mind without regard for human life,” but without the intent to cause death. It carries a maximum sentence of 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second-degree manslaughter is causing the death of another by “culpable negligence, creating an unreasonable risk” in which the defendant “consciously takes the risk of causing death or great bodily harm to another individual.” It carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Jury\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The names of the jurors are not known. But we do know that the jury was significantly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/25/980646634/half-of-the-jury-in-the-chauvin-trial-is-non-white-thats-only-part-of-the-story\">less white \u003c/a>than \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/hennepincountyminnesota,minneapoliscityminnesota/PST045219\">Hennepin County\u003c/a> itself. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 12 jurors include four Black people, two people who identify as multiracial and six white people. Two alternates — both of them white women — have been dismissed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury reported each day for duty to the Hennepin County Government Center under \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/12/985803829/jurors-in-chauvin-trial-have-security-escort-are-partially-sequestered\">intense security measures\u003c/a>, using a private entrance to enter the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jurors were given a laptop and monitor to review the extensive video footage and exhibits presented during the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Use your common sense. Believe your eyes. What you saw, you saw,” prosecutor Schleicher told the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the state is “missing any one single element” to meet the burden of proving Chauvin’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt for each of the three counts, “it is a not-guilty verdict,” defense attorney Nelson told them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870457\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48690_GettyImages-1232425268-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Floyd’s brother Terrence Floyd (C) holds up his hands with family lawyer Ben Crump (R) during a press conference following the guilty verdict in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Beyond the Courtroom\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On the Sunday before the last week of testimony, another Black man was killed at the hands of police in Hennepin County. 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"content": "\u003cp>Chanting “say his name” and holding signs that read “abolish the police,” hundreds of demonstrators converged in front of San Francisco’s Mission High School on Thursday evening, demanding a fundamental overhaul of policing in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organized by the activist group Defund SFPD Now, the rally is part of a renewed national focus on police violence, sparked by several recent high-profile police shootings of Black men, and amid the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/15/987599305/watch-live-chauvin-defense-testimony-continues-in-murder-trial\">ongoing high-stakes trial of Derek Chauvin\u003c/a>, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Police will never be held accountable because the system doesn’t want them to be,” said Aditi Joshi of Defund SFPD Now at the demonstration Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1394px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11869757 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-20.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1394\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-20.jpg 1394w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-20-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-20-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-20-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1394px) 100vw, 1394px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial in honor of Roger Allen and people killed by the police fills the steps of Mission High School on April 15, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Outside of Mission High School, demonstrators spoke, chanted and placed flowers on a memorial for 20-year-old Daunte Wright, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/15/987795222/officer-who-killed-daunte-wright-makes-first-court-appearance-in-manslaughter-ca\">shot and killed by a police officer\u003c/a> in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center, and Roger Allen, a 44-year-old San Francisco resident who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/supporters-march-for-sf-man-killed-by-daly-city-police/\">shot and killed by a Daly City police officer\u003c/a> on April 7 after a reported struggle over a fake gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter/status/1382873323739045890?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group then marched to the San Francisco Police Department’s Mission Station on Valencia Street. While gesturing at police officers outside the building, Talika Fletcher, who said she’s Allen’s sister, said “they didn’t do it, but Daly City did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They should not be allowed to carry any guns. If we can’t have none, why should they have some?” Fletcher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869760\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11869760 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-23.jpg 1620w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-23-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-23-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Talika Fletcher, who said she’s Roger Allen’s sister, takes a moment during speaking outside of the Mission Police Station on April 15, 2021, during a rally in her brother’s honor and those killed by the police. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wright was killed during what began as a routine traffic stop for expired vehicle tags, just miles from the courthouse where Chauvin is being tried. The officer involved, a 26-year veteran of the department, claims she mistook her handgun for a Taser, firing it at Wright after he resisted arrest for an outstanding warrant. She is being charged with second-degree manslaughter and faces a maximum of 10 years in prison, which Wright’s family has decried as far too lenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 135 unarmed Black men and women have been shot and killed by police in the last five years, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/25/956177021/fatal-police-shootings-of-unarmed-black-people-reveal-troubling-patterns\">an NPR investigation\u003c/a> in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happened to Daunte Wright and Roger Allen proves that the criminal legal system can never bring us justice,” Joshi, of Defund SFPD Now, said in a statement prior to Thursday’s rally. “They will always kill because the system of policing is NOT broken. It is functioning as intended. The time for waiting is long over. We must defund, disband, and abolish the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter/status/1382873323739045890?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just hours before the start of Thursday’s rally, yet another fatal police incident drew national attention after officials in Chicago released body camera footage of a police officer shooting a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/15/987718420/chicago-releases-video-showing-fatal-police-shooting-of-13-year-old-adam-toledo\">13-year-old boy named Adam Toledo\u003c/a> during a foot chase in that city several weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the summer, protests erupted across the region, the country and much of the world, in response to the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man. A visceral video of his death in late May shows Floyd — who was arrested on suspicion of using a counterfeit $20 bill — handcuffed and pinned to the ground as Chauvin kneels on his neck for more than nine minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident and its aftermath launched what some consider a racial reckoning in the U.S., galvanizing scores of companies and institutions to reexamine their positions on racial equity and justice, and prompting multiple state legislatures — including in California — to adopt modest policing reforms. It also spurred activists in cities across the country to demand major local policing reforms — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823958/defund-the-police-what-it-means-and-how-bay-area-cities-are-responding\">a push to defund\u003c/a> or flat-out abolish police departments, and reallocate much of those budgets to social service and educational agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple cities across the Bay Area, including San Francisco and Oakland, have since proposed or adopted plans to cut their police budgets by large chunks and reinvest those funds in community service agencies that advocates say are far better equipped to handle many of the non-violent incidents that often escalate when police are called in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1209px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11869761\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1209\" height=\"806\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-25.jpg 1209w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-25-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-25-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/Image-from-iOS-25-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1209px) 100vw, 1209px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexis Rodriguez, a sophomore at Summit Shasta High School in Daly City, holds a sign that says ‘A badge is not a license to kill’ during a vigil and rally outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on April 15, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September, San Francisco supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862094/sf-mayor-breed-unveils-plan-for-reinvesting-120-million-from-police-into-black-communities\">approved Mayor London Breed’s proposal\u003c/a>, as part of this year’s budget, to strip $120 million from the city’s law enforcement agencies over two years and redirect those funds to support the city’s largely underserved Black community. Breed — who has for years supported increasing SFPD’s budget — also last summer directed the police department to no longer\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11824152/san-francisco-police-wont-respond-to-non-criminal-calls\"> respond to non-criminal complaints\u003c/a>, revise its accountability and anti-bias practices, and stop using military-grade equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some activists have said that while these actions mark progress, they don’t go far enough, and that only a complete overhaul of law enforcement systems can make any real dent in reversing the ongoing epidemic of police violence against communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Hasmik Geghamyan, defense attorney for three of the defendants, said the DA could drop the charges at any time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11861013\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11861013\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Serra2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1312\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Serra2.jpg 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Serra2-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Serra2-1020x704.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Serra2-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Serra2-1536x1061.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protestor holds a ‘Decolonize Marin’ sign at Mission San Rafael Arcángel on Indigenous People’s Day. \u003ccite>(Peg Hunter via Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The DA’s office has the power to refuse to follow this legacy of white supremacy by dismissing the case. But as of today, this case has not been dismissed and they elected to criminalize activists over a symbol of imprisonment and enslavement of Indigenous people,” said Geghamyan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frugoli’s office did not respond to KQED’s request for comment on the case. The defendants are awaiting a preliminary hearing date for later this year. Felony charges could carry a prison sentence of more than one year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Hasmik Geghamyan, defense attorney for three of the defendants\"]‘The DA’s office has the power to refuse to follow this legacy of white supremacy by dismissing the case.’[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statue was one of many historical monuments in the Bay Area that were removed during racial justice protests last year. During a Juneteenth rally, protesters in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco also \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1274374501925453824\">toppled a statue of Serra\u003c/a> and covered it in red paint. Monuments to former President Ulysses S. Grant and Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to “The Star-Spangled Banner,” were also pulled down that day. But no arrests were made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Catholic Church has doubled down on its support of figures like Serra. San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-17/archbishop-performs-exorcism-at-spot-where-protesters-toppled-serra-statue\">performed a ceremonial exorcism\u003c/a> at both toppled statue sites and \u003ca href=\"https://dig.abclocal.go.com/kgo/PDF/062020-kgo-serra-statue.pdf\">said the protest was “mob rule.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fight to remove statues and monuments honoring Serra and other figures emblematic of colonization has been led in large part by Indigenous advocates across California. Reflective of a wider national movement to re-examine the legacy of such historical figures, the effort gained momentum during last summer’s protests over the killing of George Floyd and other Black people at the hands of police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, San Francisco officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825103/san-francisco-removes-controversial-christopher-columbus-statue-on-telegraph-hill\">removed a Christopher Columbus statue \u003c/a>from the city’s Telegraph Hill. Another statue of Columbus at the state Capitol \u003ca href=\"https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/christopher-columbus-statue-removed-from-california-capitol/103-f435c9d2-3b99-4ed4-88f6-922dc9d2c021\">was removed in July\u003c/a>, after protestors previously tore down a Sacramento monument to Serra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we are taking down statues across this country in order for people to listen to the true history of what has happened in this county, by the bloodied backs of Native and African American people, we need to ask ourselves why these charges are being brought against these women in a court of law,” Gould said in reference to the San Rafael statue toppling. “Let’s look for a different solution. Let us begin these conversations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s start the healing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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