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Maria and Julio discuss the verdict of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was found guilty on all charges for the murder of George Floyd. They unpack the ongoing police violence and the collective work needed to protect Black communities and end this state violence. They also give an immigration update and push back against revisionist history narratives. Need some positive news in your inboxes? Subscribe to Reckon\u2019s newsletter, Black Joy, launching today by reporter Starr Dunigan.\xa0 ITT Staff Picks: - Julianne McShane reports for The Lily: \u201cAdvocates, scholars and doctors characterized the adultification bias emerging in the aftermath of Ma\u2019Khia [Bryant]\u2019s death as a form of misogynoir \u2014 a term coined by Black feminist scholar Moya Bailey. It\u2019s a way to describe how \u201canti-Blackness and misogyny combine to malign Black women in our world,\u201d Bailey wrote.\u201d - \u201cThe celebration of the conviction as \u2018accountability\u2019 or \u2018justice\u2019 that will send chills down the spines of police simply doesn\u2019t comport with the law, which protects the police\u2019s right not to think before they act,\u201d Derecka Purnell writes in The Guardian. - \u201cProclaiming the killing of Ma\u2019Khia as justifiable requires erasing the long and inglorious history of police violence against Black people. It normalizes police violence against and criminalization of Black children,\u201d write Amna A. Akbar & Treva B. Lindsey in this article for Truthout. Photo credit: AP Photo/John Minchillo \xa0

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