He Defended Chauvin and Wouldn’t Call Floyd’s Death a Homicide. Now His Record Is Under Investigation.
ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.The record of Dr. David Fowler, the former chief medical examiner of Maryland who drew widespread condemnation over his defense of Derek Chauvin, during which Fowler controversially declined to rule…
The Power of the Myths Many White People Believe About Policing—and America
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This week in Minneapolis, white police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on three counts for the murder last May of George Floyd. Repeatedly, the jury saw the recording of the 19-year…
The “Machine That Eats Up Black Farmland”
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Once, Valee Taylor and Renee Stewart’s family was among the largest Black landowners in North Carolina’s Orange County, a rectangle of farm country running north from Chapel Hill. In the 1930s,…
Young Black Residents Are Bearing the Brunt of Michigan’s Recent COVID-19 Surge
Certified medical assistant Vernest Lacy administers a second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Theodore Heggler, of Benton Harbor, Michigan. Don Campbell/The Herald-Palladium/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Michigan is in the midst of a…
“One Guilty Verdict Doesn’t Satisfy That Appetite for Actual Change”: Why Derek Chauvin’s Trial Is Not the End of the Fight
Protesters demonstrate outside the Hennepin County Government Center on March 9, 2021 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ImageSpace/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Late Tuesday afternoon, the jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin delivered its verdict: guilty on…
Derek Chauvin Was Just Found Guilty on All Three Counts for Murdering George Floyd
Rodney Floyd leads family members including Philonise and Keeta Floyd to the Hennepin County Government Center.Mark Vancleave/TNS/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.After just 10 hours of deliberation, the jury in the Derek Chauvin trial found…