{"id":113686,"date":"2021-04-20T15:32:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T22:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=113686"},"modified":"2021-04-20T15:32:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T22:32:20","slug":"george-floyd-officer-convicted-of-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/04\/20\/george-floyd-officer-convicted-of-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"George Floyd officer convicted of murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy BBC<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Civil rights leader Al Sharpton is calling the verdict a moment of &#8220;sunlight&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Today we can wipe our tears away and fight on for another day,&#8221; he just told a news conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/world-us-canada-56721011\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/world-us-canada-56721011<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t find pleasure in this,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t celebrate a man going to jail. We would rather have George Floyd still here.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leading a group of civil rights leaders in prayer, Sharpton recalled other black victims at the hands of white police officers and noted the funeral of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, fatally shot by police just last week, is just two days away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the verdict was proof that &#8220;if we don&#8217;t give up, we can win some rounds&#8221; and the fight will keep going until major police reform is passed at the federal level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The fight is not over.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy BBC Civil rights leader Al Sharpton is calling the verdict a moment of &#8220;sunlight&#8221;. &#8220;Today we can wipe our tears away and fight on for another day,&#8221; he just told a news conference. https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/world-us-canada-56721011 &#8220;We don&#8217;t find pleasure in this,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t celebrate a man going to jail. We would rather have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}