There’s a lot to say, and there’s a little to say, and each will be said by folks far more qualified than me and folks equally qualified to me (which is to say, not especially qualified) and probably folks less qualified than me (though again, I am not particularly qualified). But at a basic, immediate level, it is good that nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds of kneeling on a man’s neck, much of which many of us saw on last summer’s video, was deemed murder by our legal system. It was murder. It is murder. There is so much context in which that murder happened—centuries of context, institutions of context—that should be unwound, acknowledged, made right. But at least it has now been deemed murder. That is good.
Good.
