Over a year ago, a police officer killed George Floyd.
Just over a month ago, that killing was found to be a murder, as a matter of law.
That fact alone is a rarity in American policing. And that fact alone does not comprise a systemic change—meaning, in the most fundamental sense, the kind of change that might prevent future killings.
In reporting on thes…
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