Keith Ellison
The Public Record
I would not call today’s verdict justice however, because justice implies true restoration, but it is accountability which is the first step towards justice. We need true justice. That’s not one case. That is a social transformation that…
We presented the best case that we could. And the jury heard us and we`re grateful for that.
I would not call today`s verdict justice, however, because justice implies true restoration. But it is accountability, which is the first step towards justice.
And now the cause of justice is in your hands. And when I say your hands, I mean the hands of the people of the United States.
The momentum and the emotion and the feeling and the sense of possibility that people may feel because of this verdict should be channeled into a national policing reform bill that`s pending before the Senate right now, the George Floyd…
The people who stopped and raised their voices on May 25th, 2021, old, young, men and women, black and white, a man from the neighborhood just walking to get a drink, a child going to buy a snack with her cousin, an off duty firefighter on…
We need to get one more conviction, and they were calling about the killing of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center.
They stopped and raised their voices, and they even challenged authority because they saw his humanity. They stopped and they raise their voices because they knew that what they were seeing was wrong.
We want to make sure we have every charge possible presented to the jury to make sure that Derek Chauvin is held criminally liable for killing George Floyd, just like they do in our community, Joy.
There needs to be a real search into people who are motivated by extremist ideology, because I think that, if you -- if the United States military or any other law enforcement agency has to function, it has to know that everybody`s…





