London Williams, left, and a friend watch the verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murder in the death of George Floyd, at Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington D.C.
In response to the conviction on all three counts of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who killed George Floyd, Greenpeace USA Chief Program Officer Lindsey Allen said:
The conviction of Derek Chauvin is a rare occurrence in a system that seldom holds those enforcing state-sanctioned violence accountable. While this is a milestone, there is so much more work to be done to dismantle white supremacy and overhaul the systems that allow for racist police and vigilante violence against Black and Brown people in the first place.