Combining two separate stories due to the overriding theme of recognizing the impact of bigotry: A Pittsburgh jury found Robert Bowers, the shooter who killed eleven people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018, guilty of the deadliest act of anti-Semitic violence in US history, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. He could be sentenced to death for his crimes.
And the Department of Justice issued one of the most obvious opinions possible: an underlying culture of racism and discrimination against Blacks, Native Americans and other minorities in the Minneapolis Police Department led to the murder of George Floyd by department officers in 2020, ABC News reports.
“As I told George Floyd’s family this morning, his death has had an irrevocable impact on the Minneapolis Community, and our country and on the world. His loss is still felt deeply by those who loved and knew him and by many who did not. George Floyd should be alive today,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said Friday in a statement from Minneapolis, demonstrating that the Justice Department is not only pursuing Trump’s malfeasance, despite the obsessive claims of subservient Republicans.