On Monday, the United States Supreme Court declined a plea from Derek Chauvin, an ex-police officer from Minnesota who was previously held culpable for George Floyd's death in 2020.

The jury reached a verdict Tuesday at the murder trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, the Black man who was pinned to the pavement with a knee on his neck in a case that set off a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S.