U.N. rights chief welcomes verdict in George Floyd murder case

United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday welcomed the murder conviction in the George Floyd case, saying that "any other result would have been a travesty of justice".

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on Tuesday of murdering Floyd in May 2020, a milestone in the fraught racial history of the United States and a rebuke of law enforcement's treatment of Black Americans.

"As we have painfully witnessed in recent days and weeks, reforms to policing departments across the U.S. continue to be insufficient to stop people of African descent from being killed," Bachelet said in a statement.