Former NAACP President and CEO Cornell Brooks said police will begin to change fundamentally after a jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of all three charges of black murder George Floyd, unarmed.
“The blue wall is collapsing. In other words, we have police chiefs, we have the rank and base of the police in this country just saying, ‘this is too much.’ What we need, however, is for the police and not only do police officers notice that the wall cracks, but they have to knock down the wall, ”Brooks said.
Minneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo testified on the 6th of Chauvin’s murder trial. During this period, Arradondo said Chauvin violated the policy when he nailed Floyd’s neck under his knee for more than nine minutes.
Brooks told host Shepard Smith that Arradondo’s testimony is an example of crossing the “blue wall” and a move that should be followed by police forces across the country.
“They have to cross that wall to the community and show moral solidarity with people who simply say,‘ We want them to treat us like human beings, we want them to consider us fellow citizens, not the object of your clubs, and your tasers, your bullets and your brutality, ”Brooks said.
Judge Peter Cahill announced Tuesday that the jury found Chauvin guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree murder. Cahill said the sentencing will take place in eight weeks.