April 20, 2021 - Rest in peace George Floyd. Hennepin County Government Center, 300 South 6th St, Minneapolis, MN 55487.

If you were there in the courthouse when the verdict was read, then you would have heard echoes of the chants from the protests that sprang up all over the country at the end of last May. Guilty means a reckoning, and also a step forward ––– a break in the chain. Momentum means the impetus gained by a moving object. Impetus means a driving force, an impulse. An impulse means an urge to act –––– one that arrives out of nowhere. Yet the impulse for justice and equality is one with a source that’s easy to trace: humanity –––– what it means to be a person; and life ––– what it feels like to have a soul.