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After news broke that a jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all three charges in his trial for the murder of George Floyd, viral claims began to circulate that the family of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy lynched by a white mob in 1955, was with the Floyd family for the reading of the verdict. All of these claims cite CNN as their source: It is unclear if this statement is true. Reports by the Wall Street Journal, issued from the hotel in which the Floyd family and legal team were based, did not mention this fact. No Till relatives appeared with the Floyd family at the press conference held at that hotel after the verdict was read. What is demonstrably true, however, is that Till's cousin Deborah Watts and Floyd's brother Philonise have met, bonded over shared trauma, and provided support to each other. A day earlier, CNN aired an interview between the two of them, and this could be what inspired the above reports, as described by CNN: Because we have no evidence that Watts and Floyd were present together during the actual reading of the verdict, the claim is Unproven.
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