It's Thursday, April 22nd. I'm Achilles Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Resneck and this is what the day where we are wishing a happy

Earth Day to those who celebrate. Yeah, you don't have to celebrate the Earth, but we recommend you do.

Today I'm actually gonna celebrate Saturn.

I think that that's really not right.

On today's show, the latest is all about what's next.

The guilty verdicts for Derek Chauvin do not mean that America is closer to making the country safer for people who are black, brown, trans, undocumented, whatever identity that makes them who they are.

But it did mean that this one police officer will face punishment for his crimes.

And the news cause a wave of political tremors though. For example, Attorney General

Merrick Rylent announced yesterday that the federal government will look into Chauvin's former employer, the Minneapolis Police Department.

Today I am announcing that the Justice Department has opened a civil investigation to determine whether the Minneapolis Police Department engages in a pattern or practice of unconstitutional or unlawful policing.

Yeah, and it's possible that out of that investigation, the Minneapolis Police Department could settle with the feds or enter into what is known as a quote unquote consent decree that forces the department to make strong changes in its use of forced policies.

And that is on top of the DOJ's current investigation into whether Chauvin violated George Floyd civil rights.

But for people just trying to exist in their own neighborhoods, there's still a lot of mourning and sadness.

Today is the funeral for Dante Wright, the 20 year old black man who was killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center.

Then over in Columbus, Ohio details are still coming out about what happened on Tuesday in the police killing of 16 year old Maccaya Bryant just minutes before the show in verdict was announced.

Bryant's mother said that her daughter was the one who called 911 for help and yesterday police released the body cam footage of the events as they unfolded.

In a reaction hundreds of people staged a sit-in at the Ohio State University, so we'll continue to follow that story.

Yeah, it is painfully obvious the issue of police brutality is bigger than the conviction of one officer for murder.

So to talk about the show in trial in the context of the greater effort to make police accountable or rethink the role of police in society altogether, we have with us, Jamiles Lertey.

He's a staff writer at the Marshall project and has been reporting about policing for years and following the trial since day one.

Jamiles, welcome back to the show.

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