Chauvin’s Murder of Floyd Was a Crime Against Humanity

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Article

Publication Date

4-21-2021

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Washington Monthly

Keywords

race, segregation, apartheid, policing, George Floyd, Derek Chauvin

Abstract

After noting Chauvin's convictions, Oh argues that "[t]he crime that the jury should have been able to consider and deliberate upon, however, is one that they had no jurisdiction to enforce—a crime against humanity, specifically, the crime of apartheid."

Ultimately, recognizing Floyd's murder as a crime against humanity is "about clearly connecting racist policing and the persistence of racial segregation, so that we can transform policing rather than merely seeking individual accountability for individual police officers like Chauvin."

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