Derek Chauvin guilty of all charges for George Floyd's murder


People react after the verdict was read in the Derek Chauvin trial on April 20 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. - Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP

MINNEAPOLIS (AFP): Derek Chauvin, a white former Minneapolis police officer, was convicted Tuesday of murdering African-American George Floyd after a racially charged trial that was seen as a pivotal test of police accountability in the United States.

A jury deliberated less than 11 hours before finding the 45-year-old Chauvin guilty of all three charges against him -- second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter.

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