Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton each responded to Tuesday’s ruling in the Derek Chauvin murder trial.
The former president said the jury made the right decision to convict Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, on murder charges of killing George Floyd in the city in May last year.
“His tragic death and the testimony at the trial painfully made it clear that we need to do much better in recruiting, training and enforcing law enforcement vis-à-vis the communities they serve,” Clinton wrote in a statement on Twitter. “The failure to do so continues to plague America, as we have seen in recent days.”
Clinton added that the “color of a person’s skin” is too often a determining factor in how they are treated in “almost every aspect of American life.”
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“While the verdict will not bring George Floyd back, it could prevent our senseless deaths and hasten the day we are all treated equally in matters, life, liberty, dignity, respect and opportunity,” he wrote. ‘
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He said it could be Floyd’s ‘lasting legacy’.
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, said Floyd’s family and community finally received ‘accountability’ for his murder in her own statement on Twitter.
“Always and forever, black life matters,” she wrote.
The Minneapolis jury found Chauvin, 45, guilty on all three counts of second-degree manslaughter, third-degree murder and second-degree murder.
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Floyd passed away on May 25, 2020, after Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes during an arrest.