Morning Distribution for Thursday, June 4, 2020

A [FiveThirtyEight]( email [Morning Distribution]( Thursday, June 4, 2020 Your daily briefing from FiveThirtyEight --------------------------------------------------------------- The Morning Story [US-POLITICS-RACISM-JUSTICE]( [Why It’s Still So Rare For Police Officers To Face Legal Consequences For Misconduct]( By [Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux]( [Nathaniel Rakich]( and [Likhitha Butchireddygari]( On Friday, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was [arrested and charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter]( after he was caught on video pressing his knee on George Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes, even though Floyd told him repeatedly he couldn’t breathe. And now [Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison]( is adding a second-degree murder charge, in addition to charging the three officers who were on the scene when Floyd was killed. The fact that Chauvin was charged at all was significant. The elevation of the charges — and the fact that the other three officers are also being charged — is even more so. That’s because it’s still quite rare for police officers to be prosecuted. A review of the data we have on police prosecutions shows that it’s uncommon for police officers to face any kind of legal consequences — let alone be convicted — for committing fatal violence against civilians. The data we have on police misconduct is, admittedly, far from perfect. There is no national system for reporting police misconduct, and state agencies are often reluctant to release any details about investigations into police wrongdoing. [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- The Latest Data How popular is Donald Trump? [How popular is Donald Trump?]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Weekly Listen [Play]( [How Sports Are Reacting To The Police Killings]( [FiveThirtyEight] [View in browser]( [ABC News]( [Unsubscribe]( Our mailing address: FiveThirtyEight, 47 West 66th Street, New York, NY 10023.