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On the recordApril 19, 2021
I am very hopeful and I hope that we are going to get verdict that say guilty, guilty, guilty. And if we don`t, we cannot go away. We got to stay on the street. And we`ve got to get more active. We`ve got to get more confrontational. We`ve got to make sure that they know that we need this.
Said by
Maxine Waters
Democratic · California
Source
msnbc.com

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Maxine Waters expresses her hope for a guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial and calls for continued activism if the verdict is not guilty.

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