The guilty verdicts in the trial of convicted officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis were greeted with cheers by many and by a sense of righteous relief by people who have been pleading for decades that attention be brought to police brutalization of Black people. But any celebrating should be short-lived, says long-time community activist Larry Hamm.
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