Yeah. And department policy. Chauvin did nothing wrong.
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I am interested in how well Chauvin and Floyd knew each other before that day.
Would be the difference in the upper 2 charges IMO.
M3 at least from what little I know following via media. Even if Floyd was found with a lethal amount of narcotics in his toxicology report.
I’m watching it a while. It’s on Headline News.
What? Why? Either Floyd was just some random character he killed or they knew each other and Chauvin has a motive. Either way it’s murder.
Right.
I had read they worked at the same bar as bouncers. Interested to learn how much they worked together and knew each other.
I agree it was clearly a murder…no question from what I have read.
No matter the conviction, there will be riots.
That said, IMO he will be convicted of manslaughter.
There in lies the problem. Chauvin will be convicted of what we don’t know.
If the level of conviction does not rise to the expectations of the mob there will be looting…burning…violence…sounds like the city is already expecting that garbage.
Let’s say he was convicted of 1st degree murder and sentenced to death…there’d still be riots and they’d say it’s because he was on the police force to begin with and it proves wacism.
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Already know how this is going to go, Chauvin is going to get off.
The defense is going to spend a great amount of time criminalizing the victim. This is what they do, have done and will continue to do to show who’s boss. WS has had a damn good win/loss record over the course of American history. However, the defense, jurors and the judge better be willing to deal with the consequences when they let him off. People are not going to take this ■■■■ for too much longer.
“…Sweet and docile, meek, humble and kind: Beware the day they(we) change their(our) minds”.
- Langston Hughes
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Sounds threatening in an indirect way.
Why?
Two wrongs make a right now.
Two questions:
- If Floyd were white under the same circumstances would anyone give a rats arse?
- How much was the settlement the Floyd family received?
Asking for a friend.
What Chauvin did was disgusting, stupid, and unnecessary.
Having said that as an American citizen he is Constitutionally guaranteed a presumption of innocence, and the opportunity to offer a defense in front of a jury of his peers.
I hope their decisions are based on the evidence as presented, not on the threat of violence from the same angry mob who’s actions last summer were just as stupid, disgusting and unnecessary doing millions of dollars in damage to the city of Minneapolis and billions of dollars worth of damage along with multiple dead and injured.
Sadly I don’t expect the mob to let the opportunity to burn and loot pass them by.
i hope jurors hear how scumbag perp Floyd was repeatedly crying how he couldnt breathe in the cop car and long before he actually “couldnt breathe”.
which turns out is hard to do when you cant breathe
I (with hope) disagree. That video? I think he’s a goner.
Honestly, you would think, but they don’t want us to trust what we all saw. The defense is going to criminalize Mr. Floyd and say the drugs in his system probably would have killed him anyway. The prosecution will need to be on point in laying out this case. They need to convey to the jurors that Chauvin was fully responsible and probably should have got the man some help instead of showing Mr. Floyd who’s boss by putting a knee on his neck.
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Maybe, maybe not. It’s one of the most egregious actions ever taken by a police officer and it was streamed live. Even if he was white, there would have been outrage. Maybe not to the same extent. But certainly outrage.
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The settlement has nothing to do with the criminal trial.
I agree they’re going to blame the victim, they flat out said they are.
I don’t think he’ll get off with nothing.
You really think Chauvin did nothing wrong? Even with what we all saw on that video?
I was completely disgusted and wanted to throw up. It was shameful what Chauvin did to Floyd. Race doesn’t even matter to me. It was a disgusting act of brutality against a citizen by a representative of the “state.”
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It’s the only defense they have considering what was seen on the video.
I do. Or if he was Asian or Latino.
