As it happened: Derek Chauvin trial: George Floyd officer convicted of murder - BBC News
A US jury found Derek Chauvin guilty of all charges in the death of a black man who died during his arrest.
It was a tense day at the White House. It began with Joe Biden saying he was praying for the “right verdict” in the Derek Chauvin trial, and his press secretary spending much of her subsequent news conference deflecting questions about whether that was a reckless statement.

It ended with the president and Vice-President Kamala Harris marking what they said was a just resolution to the case.

Their statements were delivered in the Cross Hall of the White House - the same location Barack Obama chose to announce the killing of Osama bin Laden.

The message was clear, that this was another historic day; another victory for justice. Biden warned, however, that the verdict was just a “step forward”, and “not enough”.

Both he and Harris specifically pointed to a history of systemic racism in the US, which Biden called a “stain on our nation’s soul".

To overcome that history, he said, requires lawmakers to act and for the American people to continue to work.

It shouldn’t take a “murder in the full light of day”, captured on video and stretched over nine minutes, as Biden said, to get the nation’s attention anymore.