George Floyd

Moments after former officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder in George Floyd’s death, copies of the original Minneapolis police statement began recirculating on social media.

Derek Chauvin is already locked away in Minnesota’s only maximum-security prison, but it will be two months before he is sentenced for murder in George Floyd’s death.

A George Floyd mural in Houston was defaced with a racial slur overnight Thursday, a little more than a day after the former police officer who kneeled on his neck was found guilty of murder in Minnesota.

An alternate juror at the trial of Derek Chauvin said she agreed with the jury’s decision to convict him in George Floyd’s death

The brother of George Floyd has thanked the Las Vegas Raiders for their support after owner Mark Davis issued a statement on Twitter that drew backlash following the conviction of a police officer who killed Floyd.

As he welcomed the guilty verdicts Tuesday against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, President Joe Biden pressed Congress to advance the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, named for the Black man Chauvin killed while kneeling on his neck. The bill, approved by the Democratic-led House in March, has yet to receive a vote in the Senate, where 10 Republicans...

In the moments after a Minneapolis jury found former police office Derek Chauvin guilty of murder in the death of George Floyd, emotions were palpable in the city and across the nation. NBCLX storyteller Mackenzie Behm revisits the moments after the verdict.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday that the Justice Department is opening a sweeping investigation into whether the Minneapolis Police Department engages in a “pattern or practice of unconstitutional or unlawful policing.” The announcement comes a day after former officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder and manslaughter in George Floyd’s death last May. Tracie Strahan reports.

The announcement comes one day after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted by a jury of the murder of George Floyd.

Former New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton discusses why the guilty verdict against Derek Chauvin will be a “seminal moment” in American policing.

Former NAACP President and CEO Cornell Brooks explains how policing could fundamentally change after a jury found Derek Chauvin guilty.

Hundreds of people gathered at the scene of George Floyd’s death to hear the verdict in the trial of the former police officer charged in his death

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all counts for the killing of George Floyd last summer, in which the cop kneeled on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes during an arrest. NBC New York’s Ray Villeda, Myles Miller and Checkey Beckford report.

A sense of relief is palpable across the United States after a jury found white former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter in killing George Floyd

It was a sadly powerful moment in American history. A Minnesota panel of six white and six Black or multi-racial jurors told us Tuesday that the life of a Black man, George Floyd, mattered. And more importantly, they told us his manner of death mattered, even coming under the knee of a white police officer.

The three weeks of the Derek Chauvin trial featured dozens of witnesses and hundreds of pages of evidence. But within all that information, there were a few key moments that ultimately turned the jury to a guilty verdict. NBCLX storyteller Jalyn Henderson breaks them down with the help of NBC News legal analyst Danny Cevallos.

What was different about the Chauvin trial wasn’t the verdict, though it felt rare after other cops had been let off the hook for using force on people of color. It was the millions of people who used the case as a rallying cry to call for real change. But it’s just one case. Aya Gruber, professor of law at...

A jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all three charges stemming from the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man.