Both sides to make closing arguments in Derek Chauvin murder trial

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Jurors will hear closing arguments on Monday before they begin deliberating on whether the way former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin knelt on the neck of a dying George Floyd in last year's arrest was murder.

Prosecutors have told the jury they are weighing the guilt of only one man, but their verdict will nonetheless be widely seen as a reckoning in the way the United States polices Black people.

The Hennepin County chief medical examiner ruled Floyd's death a homicide at the hands of the police. National news networks carried live broadcasts of much of the testimony after the first of more than 40 witnesses took the stand three weeks ago, though the coverage was sometimes interrupted by fresh episodes of police violence caught on camera.

Chauvin has pleaded not guilty to second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree"depraved mind" murder and second-degree manslaughter.

 

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