In distant downtowns, windows are being boarded up. Police officers are being ordered to cancel holidays. And the world awaits a jury’s verdict.

All over a trial in Minneapolis.

What happens in Minnesota doesn’t necessarily stay there, as the world discovered last year following the killing of George Floyd.

In a case that became the global epicentre of a conversation extending far beyond one city, one victim and one police officer, a jury has now retired to consider its verdict in the