Relief, but a vow to fight on: Arizonans react to Chauvin convictions

The excruciating video of George Floyd’s murder last year led to three guilty verdicts Tuesday against Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes, 46 seconds, galvanizing a global battle against police violence toward Black people. Police reform activists and onlookers waited outside the Hennepin County Courthouse, tense and eager, for Judge Peter Cahill to read the verdict for the first charge against Chauvin, fired days after Floyd’s slow…