| Derek Chauvin is convicted in the death of George Floyd; Idriss Déby, president of Chad, is killed by rebels. Tonight's Sentences was written by Greg Svirnovskiy. | | | | | | | Derek Chauvin is found guilty of murdering George Floyd | | | | | Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Share this story | | - Former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, second-degree manslaughter and third degree murder by a Minneapolis jury Tuesday for the May 2020 killing of George Floyd. [CNN / Aaron Cooper]
- Chauvin's actions, which included planting his knee on Floyd's neck for over nine minutes as a crowd gathered and begged him to stop, touched off a historic movement in advocacy of Black lives and police reform. It hasn't really stopped. [CNN / Aaron Cooper]
- The jury took just 10 hours to come to a rare decision to convict: The law favors police; just seven officers have been convicted of murder for police shootings since 2005. And the public tends to trust police officers, too. [Vox / Sean Collins and Fabiola Cineas]
- Chauvin faces up to 40 years in prison now that he is convicted, though it is likely he will receive a lesser sentence. [New York Times / Tim Arango, Shaila Dewan, John Eligon and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs]
- But racism in policing cannot be explained away by pointing to a few bad apples, as testimony against Chauvin by his former fellow officers might suggest. [Vox / Fabiola Cineas]
- President Joe Biden indicated earlier Tuesday that he hoped the jury would vote to convict Chauvin. His remarks came after Judge Peter Cahill cautioned lawmakers from speaking on the trial, referring in particular to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), who had called on protestors to "get more confrontational' in the event of an acquittal. [CNN / Kevin Liptak, Kate Sullivan and Betsy Klein]
- The most important words of the day, however, came from Judge Cahill, who read the three guilty verdicts as crowds of young people and demonstrators chanted outside in jubilation and relief. [Washington Post / Timothy Bella, Abigail Hauslohner and Keith McMillan]
| | | Chad's president is killed by rebels after reelection | | - Idriss Déby, the 68-year-old field marshall who led Chad as president for 30 years and this week won a sixth consecutive election term, was killed on Monday after what the state military called "clashes with rebels on the front lines." [BBC]
- Rebels had been after Déby's overthrow since 2016. The country will now be led by a transitional military council for 18 months before holding elections for a new leadership and parliament. A 14-day period of mourning was announced, along with an overnight curfew and the immediate closure of borders. [CBS News / Ibtissen Guenfoud]
- Déby's death may make waves across the Central African region. For decades, the president had been regarded as a key bulwark to Boko Haram advances, along with Cameroon and Nigeria. Experts worry the disintegration of Chadian pressure on Boko Haram will embolden the militant group and increase its access to weapons and arms. [CNN / By Niamh Kennedy, Stephanie Busari, Tim Lister, and Stephanie Halasz]
- J. Peter Pham, a special envoy under former President Donald Trump, told the Washington Post that Déby's death will also have implications on the way Western states conduct counterterrorism efforts in the region. France in particular has stationed thousands of troops in the capital, N'Djamena. [Washington Post / Max Bearak]
- "Whatever else one might say about Déby," Pham told the Post, "he had made himself an indispensable link. ... If his death results in a vacuum, these militants will undoubtedly exploit it." [Washington Post / Max Bearak]
| | | | | | | Most Americans appreciated the pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine administration pause, according to an Axios/Ipsos poll, and there's not much evidence yet that it perpetuated vaccine hesitancy. | | | [Axios / Margaret Talev] - Russia is holding military exercises that will take up roughly 27 percent of the Black Sea through October, a move that threatens to crush the Ukrainian economy. It's a campaign condemned by the U.S. State Department as a blatant attempt to "destabilize Ukraine" and to effectively wrestle control of the Black Sea. [Axios / Jonathan Swan and Zachary Basu]
- China will roll out the world's first official state-backed digital currency. At least 60 countries have been exploring such a possibility. Domestic economists don't have to contend with any new American currency forms just yet. The US hasn't begun to field that economic question. [Axios / Bethany Allen-Ibrahimian]
- Walter Mondale, once a liberal leader in Washington, died on Monday at age 93. He served as Jimmy Carter's vice president and was the Democratic nominee in the 1984 presidential election. [Rolling Stone / John Blistein]
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