NYers Celebrate Chauvin Verdict, March For George Floyd

New York City NY

21 April, 2021

9:47 AM

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NEW YORK CITY — Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. New Yorkers breathed easily after jurors hundreds of miles away rendered that verdict against Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis cop who murdered George Floyd. Moments after Chauvin was found guilty on all counts, celebrations unfolded in a spring day in New York City. At Barclays Center — where raucous, thousands-strong protests occurred nightly last spring — a relatively subdued demonstration began Tuesday. When it began there were almost as many reporters as demonstrators, but the group gathered enough strength to march and close down a lane of Flatbush Avenue. "Whose streets? Our streets," they chanted. Other demonstrations peacefully unfolded in Times Square, across the Manhattan Bridge and elsewhere in New York City.