WILPF US Statement on the Conviction of Derek Chauvin
Even with this conviction, #GeorgeFloyd is still dead.
The conviction on all three counts of murder may provide some “Painful earned justice,” yet what is done is irreversible.
Although we may hope this conviction leads to even more accountability, the fact remains that before this trial completed, another black life was killed in Minneapolis, #RIPDaunteWright.
In the United States, all people of color are regularly profiled, disrespected, inhumanly treated, beaten and murdered with impunity. Since the inception of this country, the pandemic of institutionalized racist violence has infected police departments in each community, with accountability being far too rare.
WILPF US calls on its members to support the movement to #DefundThePolice — shifting funds to peaceful human-services, affirming that #BlackLivesMatter.
“All Lives” will never matter until “Black Lives Matter.”
#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
Darien De Lu
President
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section
