Many eyes and ears and minds and hearts were set on Minneapolis, Monday, March 8. Jury selection should have started for the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. He is being charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter of George Floyd. (An aside: I recently listened to Dalia Landau’s TED talk about meeting Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian man who once lived in the house that her parents bought from the state of Israel. Dalai grew up, since infancy, in the same house in which Bashir … (read more)