FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, April 20, 2021
**PRESS RELEASE**
AFT PENNSYLVANIA STATEMENT ON ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD
Plymouth Meeting, PA, April 20, 2021—On behalf of its 36,000 members and 61 locals, AFT Pennsylvania President Arthur G. Steinberg on Tuesday released the following statement on the guilty verdict handed down on former police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd:
“George Floyd should be alive today. Today’s guilty verdicts in the murder of George Floyd provide a glimmer of hope that our criminal justice system can work, it can hold those