The protests that started last year in the wake of George Floyd’s murder have continued and even picked up in recent weeks in the wake of Chauvin trial, verdicts, and recent murder of Daunte Wright. While last year’s protests created the conditions that led to the “speedy” arrest of police officers involved in Floyd’s death and pushed the Minneapolis City Council to embrace the abolitionist language of defunding the police, activists refuse to accept that solutions rest primarily in the criminal legal system. Nearly one year after these protests began, how have these movements as well as the debates about police reform and abolition changed and evolved? What are the new (and continuing) critical movements and political issues that we should be focusing on in the coming months?

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