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Turning point? Policing, justice and the George Floyd murder trial

FRANCE24, 22 Apr 2021
Guilty on all three counts. It took but ten hours for the jury to make Derek Chauvin's the state of Minnesota's first-ever white policeman convicted of murder. We ask if the outrage sparked by last May's killing of George Floyd marks a turning point for the United States and a criminal justice system that's violent, harsh - and where many of the country's 18-thousand law enforcement bodies wield outsized power.

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