People around the community reacting to the verdict of Derek Chauvin on Tuesday, saying a step has been made but there is still more work to do.”I was pleased,” Steffen Gillom, President of the Windham County NAACP, said. “I’m very happy,” Ranch Keane, student at SUNY Plattsburgh added. “I’m relieved.””We got to breathe for a second,” President of the Rutland-Area NAACP Mia Schultz said. “There was justice done for George Floyd and his family,” Paris Brown, Michigan, added. Paris Brown watched the verdict come in at Sweetwaters on Church Street.”The restaurant was going wild, everyone was clapping,” Brown said. “The fact that a restaurant’s actually showing it, the case, I think that right there is a step forward.””There’s still some challenges we still have to fight but at the same time we have made some progress and I think that’s what we should be focusing on right now and celebrating that.”The NAACP of Rutland and Windham responding to the news Tuesday, both agreeing that this is just one step forward. “We still are watching black and brown people murdered at the hands of police,” Schultz said. “Not since the constitution was written have we been seen as human beings and I think today we are witnessing a reckoning.”President of the NAACP’s Windham Chapter Steffen Gillom, a six-foot-tall black man himself, drawing similarities to his own shared experiences with police with what happened to George Floyd. “I know exactly the fear that he felt,” Gillom said. “If I had acted a little differently that would’ve been me.”Gillom having been pulled over five times by the police in the course of a year. Tuesday’s verdict making him feel seen. “Finally someone who looks like me in a body like mine that is seen as so scary is vindicated in a court of law that is meant to oppress us.”
People around the community reacting to the verdict of Derek Chauvin on Tuesday, saying a step has been made but there is still more work to do.
“I was pleased,” Steffen Gillom, President of the Windham County NAACP, said.
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“I’m very happy,” Ranch Keane, student at SUNY Plattsburgh added. “I’m relieved.”
“We got to breathe for a second,” President of the Rutland-Area NAACP Mia Schultz said.
“There was justice done for George Floyd and his family,” Paris Brown, Michigan, added.
Paris Brown watched the verdict come in at Sweetwaters on Church Street.
“The restaurant was going wild, everyone was clapping,” Brown said. “The fact that a restaurant’s actually showing it, the case, I think that right there is a step forward.”
“There’s still some challenges we still have to fight but at the same time we have made some progress and I think that’s what we should be focusing on right now and celebrating that.”
The NAACP of Rutland and Windham responding to the news Tuesday, both agreeing that this is just one step forward.
“We still are watching black and brown people murdered at the hands of police,” Schultz said. “Not since the constitution was written have we been seen as human beings and I think today we are witnessing a reckoning.”
President of the NAACP’s Windham Chapter Steffen Gillom, a six-foot-tall black man himself, drawing similarities to his own shared experiences with police with what happened to George Floyd.
“I know exactly the fear that he felt,” Gillom said. “If I had acted a little differently that would’ve been me.”
Gillom having been pulled over five times by the police in the course of a year. Tuesday’s verdict making him feel seen.
“Finally someone who looks like me in a body like mine that is seen as so scary is vindicated in a court of law that is meant to oppress us.”
