EditorialDemonstrators celebrate the guilty verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, at a memorial created for Floyd in Minneapolis, on April 20, 2021. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialDemonstrators celebrate the guilty verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, at a memorial created for Floyd in Minneapolis, on April 20, 2021. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialPeople gather in George Floyd Square to celebrate the guilty verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, in Minneapolis, April 20, 2021. (Joshua Rashaad McFadden/The New York Times)
EditorialDemonstrators march through downtown Minneapolis near the Hennepin County Government Center on June 25, 2021, after Derek Chauvin’s sentencing. (Aaron Nesheim/The New York Times)
EditorialA demonstrator holds up a sign while protesting outside the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis on Monday, April 19, 2021, where former police officer Derek Chauvin was on trial for the murder of George Floyd while in police custody last year. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialA combination of photographs provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office show, from left, former Minneapolis police officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao, who are charged in the death of George Floyd in 2020.(Hennepin County Sheriff's Office via The New York Times)
EditorialDemonstrators march through downtown Minneapolis on Monday, April 19, 2021, as the jury begins deliberations in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer charged with the killing of George Floyd while in police custody last year. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialDemonstrators march through downtown Minneapolis on Monday, April 19, 2021, as the jury begins deliberations in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer charged with the killing of George Floyd while in police custody last year. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialMichael Carothers and his girlfriend, Krystal Eisenbraun, react after a jury convicts Derek Chauvin, a former police officer, in the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on April 20, 2021. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialLeon Lyons, 60, celebrates the guilty verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis on Tuesday April 20, 2021. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialA replica of the Chauvin Trading Post, the first fur-trading center in Canada, in Tadoussac, Quebec, Sept. 19, 2021. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
EditorialMembers of the Congressional Black Caucus walk down the steps of the Capitol in Washington after the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial was announced, April 20, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times)
EditorialActivists gather at Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis on Friday, June 25, 2021, where former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is scheduled to be sentenced later in the day, for the murder of George Floyd, a Black man in police custody last year on May 25, 2020. (Aaron Nesheim/The New York Times)
EditorialGeorge Floyd Square in Minneapolis on Friday morning, June 25, 2021, the day that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is scheduled to be sentenced for the murder of George Floyd, a Black man in police custody last year on May 25, 2020. (Aaron Nesheim/The New York Times)
EditorialA protester holds a Black Lives Matter flag following the guilty verdict in the trial of former Police Officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis on April 20, 2021. (Amr Alfiky/The New York Times)
EditorialMayor Bill de Blasio of New York, center right, joins the Rev. Al Sharpton, center left, and others in Harlem on Tuesday, May 25, 2021, to mark the anniversary of George Floyd’s death by kneeling in silence for 9 minutes and 29 seconds — the time that Derek Chauvin held his knee on Floyd’s neck — and calling on Congress to enact a major police reform bill. (Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times)
EditorialPeople protest the death of George Floyd, a Black man, who was killed by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, in Minneapolis, June 2, 2020. (Alyssa Schukar/The New York Times)
EditorialHundreds of protesters march during a rally sparked by the death of George Floyd on the first day of police officer Derek Chauvin’s trial, in Minneapolis, March 29, 2021. (Joshua Rashaad McFadden/The New York Times)
EditorialProtesters gather to celebrate the guilty verdict in the trial of former Police Officer Derek Chauvin at the site where George Floyd died while in police custody in Minneapolis on April 20, 2021. (Joshua Rashaad McFadden/The New York Times)
EditorialA demonstration at Times Square in New York after the guilty verdict for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in his trial for the murder of George Floyd, April 23, 2021. (Simbarashe Cha/The New York Times)
EditorialPeople march across the Manhattan bridge in New York, April 20, 2021, after a jury in Minneapolis decided to convict former police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. (Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times)
EditorialMinneapolis North coach Charles Adams, second from left, takes a knee with his team before a game in St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 9, 2020. (Tim Gruber/The New York Times)
EditorialLisa Christensen, an alternate juror in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, visits the makeshift memorial to George Floyd, known as George Floyd Square, in Minneapolis, April 23, 2021. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialLisa Christensen, who was an alternate juror in the Derek Chauvin trial, visits George Floyd Square in Minneapolis on Friday, April 23, 2021. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialPeople gather at the intersection where George Floyd was killed after the verdict in the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was announced in Minneapolis, April 20, 2021. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)