Chauvin’s Guilty Verdict Is Bittersweet

Systemic racism persists in policing, and we cannot become complacent

Allison Wiltz
ZORA
Published in
5 min readApr 23, 2021

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Photo: Caitlin Ochs/Reuters

W hile we cannot call this verdict justice, accountability seems to have come to Minneapolis. This moment feels bittersweet. Of course, it’s good to know that other people agree that George Floyd’s life mattered. Yet America’s policing problem runs much deeper than one case.

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Allison Wiltz
ZORA
Writer for

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