Call For Action: The Guilty Verdicts in Derek Chauvin’s Trial Were Just the Beginning

“This was a moment that affirms the humanity of Black people,” Professor Margaret Burnham, director of Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) tells Northeastern News. “The verdict restores a kind of moral balance and it also is going to inform the conversations that we are now engaged in nationally around policing: What kind of policing do we want in our country? How can we create a system where Black people are not both over-policed and under-protected, as is true of the current system?”