The BLM movement is still ongoing
Erm...this is pretty naive. Just like Trump's presidency, this entire ordeal goes far deeper than the shown symptoms.
Millions of Americans voted for an open racist last election (and perhaps unlike 2016, it's not like they can pretend ignorance). Millions watch fox news openly dividing the country in
native the right kind of Americans and the scum of the earth. And millions don't see anything wrong in how the police acts in general.
So one guy is sentenced guilty...nearly a full year after the fact. A fact that was filmed and available to see worldwide mere days after (here's
my own blog from back then). And that shouldn't be "viewed from all angles", shouldn't be "excused" or "seen in context". There shouldn't have been all sorts of bullshit(1)...but there was.
So of course Black Lives Matter is still ongoing. It's not like Chauvin singlehandedly created the statistic that black people were far more likely to get killed by police brutality than white people. Floyd was just the spark in the power keg. Police isn't defunded(2), the targeted people don't feel safer and it's not like the police brutality incidents suddenly stopped.
(1): some months afterward, some jackass accused me of forming my opinion by "soundbites" from "biased" media because I clearly hadn't seen the full video because "it wasn't available until months later". I didn't bother pointing out that blog link...that included the link to the full filming of the event on which I based my "opinion"...was already widely publicly available long before he claimed it was.
(2): another one of those pointless discussions: it's not so much about taking away their rights or money, but redistributing them so that armed police forces with no training but weapons training aren't called in on every occasion. But it's not like that message gets through to those millions of republican deplorables.