Obama's 2-cents: Chauvin jury ‘did the right thing’ but ‘justice is about more than single verdict’

Former President Obama said Tuesday that the jury in the Derek Chauvin trial “did the right thing” by finding the former Minneapolis police officer guilty on all counts in the murder of George Floyd, but that much more needs to be done to reduce racial inequity in the US.

“If we’re being honest with ourselves, we know that true justice is about much more than a single verdict in a single trial,” the 44th president said in a statement that was also attributed to former First Lady Michelle Obama.

“True justice requires that we come to terms with the fact that Black Americans are treated differently, every day,” the country’s only black president wrote.

“It requires us to recognize that millions of our friends, family, and fellow citizens live in fear that their next encounter with law enforcement could be their last,” Obama added.

“While today’s verdict may have been a necessary step on the road to progress, it was far from a sufficient once,” the statement read. “We cannot rest.”

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