Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes last May, was convicted of second-degree murder in his politically explosive trial.

Americans took to the streets to celebrate after the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd.

The racial reckoning following Floyd’s death revealed the challenges facing the nation and, hopefully, a way through them.

"It doesn't make up for all the lives lost to police violence," one South Minneapolis resident said. "But it's a start."

MINNEAPOLIS — Outside the Cup Foods convenience store where George Floyd was killed last May, a woman nearly collapsed in tears upon hearing the guilty verdicts against Derek Chauvin, the police officer who killed Mr. Floyd. “We matter,” she said,...

"I just cried so hard," the now-18-year-old wrote in a Facebook post after the trial concluded.