Rep. John Lovick saw no justice in Chauvin's verdict alone, but hopes for a path in lawmakers' work.
John Lovick — a former Washington State Patrol trooper, former Snohomish County Sheriff and a Black man who picked cotton for 2 cents a pound as a child growing up in Louisiana in the 1950s and ’60s — admits that he cried when he heard Tuesday’s verdict that found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty in the murder of George Floyd.
“I broke down and I cried. I tried to contain myself, and I couldn’t,” Rep. Lovick, D-Mill Creek, said by phone on Friday as the state Legislature worked to complete its session by Sunday.
Lovick cried, he said, as much because he is a former law enforcement officer as he is a Black American. Lovick cried, as he recounted for The Herald last June, as he had the first time he saw the excruciating video of Chauvin pressing his weight with his knee against the neck of a handcuffed Floyd, suffocating a man who had been arrested for trying to pass a bogus $20 bill.
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Despite relief over the verdict, Lovick doesn’t believe justice has been served in one verdict in one case of unlawful, unjustified and inhumane use of force by an officer who represented “the worst of the worst” among police.
https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/editorial-seeking-justice-after-the-murder-of-george-floyd/
