Crowds react with joy and wariness to Floyd verdict

People cheer after a guilty verdict was announced at the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd (Morry Gash/AP)

Black Americans from Missouri to Florida to Minnesota cheered, marched, hugged, waved signs and sang jubilantly in the streets after former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty over the death of George Floyd.

But they also tempered those celebrations with the knowledge Chauvin’s conviction was just a first, tiny step on the long road to address centuries of racist policing in a nation founded on slavery.