Derek Chauvin's guilty verdict is not the end of the fight

View in browser   April 21, 2021 A jury may have found Derek Chauvin guilty of murder, but as many have pointed out, the fight for justice is far from over. On this week's episode of the Mother Jones Podcast, reporter Nathalie Baptiste takes us through her initial reactions following yesterday's outcome, the trauma of watching police killings unfold on video, and what's next for police reform. "A lot of people are eager to hold this guilty verdict up as this big symbol of change," Baptiste says. "But on the flip side, think of how many people have been killed by police, and we don't even know their names." Highly recommend you tune in. —Inae Oh Advertisement   Derek Chauvin Found Guilty on All Three Counts for Murdering George Floyd It took only 10 hours of deliberation. BY NATHALIE BAPTISTE   Soccer's richest clubs tried to create a world where they could never lose BY TIM MURPHY Police reforms don't work when cops ignore them BY LAURA THOMPSON "A great deception": Oil giants ripped for greenwashing BY DAMIAN CARRINGTON Nancy Pelosi thanks George Floyd for "sacrificing" himself by being killed by the police BY ABIGAIL WEINBERG Advertisement   "One Guilty Verdict Doesn't Satisfy That Appetite for Actual Change": Why Derek Chauvin's Trial Is Not the End of the Fight A new Mother Jones Podcast episode looks at this historic moment in police accountability—and what happens next. MOLLY SCHWARTZ   Support from readers allows Mother Jones to do journalism that doesn't just follow the pack. Donate SOME GOOD NEWS, FOR ONCE After Chauvin’s Murder Conviction, Let Us Know How You're Processing the Moment Yesterday’s murder conviction marks an extremely rare moment of accountability in a pandemic of killings by police too often unrecorded, unacknowledged, unpunished. It's a moment of cautious exhalation, relief, and some celebration. It’s also a reminder of how much work there is to do. Let us know how you're processing it. Is there a recharge for you? Is it a clear inflection point or an isolated respite from violence so entrenched and expected that the verdict feels overshadowed by the untold number of charges never brought? Let us know in the form here. One recharge, if you're looking for it, is a reminder from history: "Tyranny hates memory," as the essayist Tom Christensen wrote in his book River of Ink: Literature, History, Art, a mapping of civilizations. He's writing not about policing in the United States but about the role of memory in resisting tyranny that thrives on the obliteration of memory. And he’s connecting the dots between memorials to books and memorials to bodies, between democracy and organizing, each attacked with impunity by the powerful parties of state, god, police, or all three throughout history. Tyranny hates memory, he writes, because oppression flourishes when it can crush its first disinfectant, which is witnessing. But memory, witnessing, documenting—each is preservable. Each is a recharge. Let us know how you’re feeling after the verdict of Derek Chauvin. —Daniel King Did you enjoy this newsletter? Help us out by forwarding it to a friend or sharing it on Facebook and Twitter. Donate Subscribe This message was sent to franchmaverickk.secretwords123@blogger.com. To change the messages you receive from us, you can edit your email preferences or unsubscribe from all mailings. For advertising opportunities see our online media kit. Were you forwarded this email? Sign up for Mother Jones' newsletters today. www.MotherJones.com PO Box 8539, Big Sandy, TX 75755