Posted on 06/05/2020 3:44:20 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, a firebrand liberal, placated activists when he announced he was escalating charges against the Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd's neck and was pressing charges against the other officers who didn't intervene.
But by upping the stakes in what are likely to be high-profile, emotional trials, Ellison may have also set the stage for more disappointment, frustration, and rage, with local and national political ramifications.
Minnesota offers President Trump and presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden the opportunity to pick up 10 Electoral College votes as they jostle for 270 this fall. Biden, the former vice president, had a 5 percentage point lead in a May Star Tribune poll after Trump lost Minnesota to Hillary Clinton in 2016 by a point-and-a-half and Vice President Mike Pence visited the state during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Trump campaign has long talked about expanding the 2020 playing field to include Minnesota. If the president won the state, it would relieve pressure to come out on top in other battlegrounds, such as neighboring Wisconsin. Or, potentially Arizona, long a red state but whose 11 electoral votes are now up for grabs, according to recent polling.
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No trial/jury tampering here. SMH.
Could this be the plan to lose the case and burn down the country? What could be done by the end of October?
Unless “disappointment, frustration, and rage” is the goal.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
That’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
The AG will lose this case...on purpose. Think of the riots.
You would have to be an absolute idiot to insure anything in Twin Cities for the next few years...
I suspect that the actual resulting convictions will be used an excuse for more unrest. And imagine if the defendants are acquitted or plead guilty to lesser charges.
This is what Ellison wants! And he is not going to be the lead prosecutor, only the lead rabble rouser!
I would suspect that the plan is to overcharge in order to get a “not guilty” verdict, thus causing more rioting. More rioting is the desired outcome. Minneapolis will become Newark, NJ.
Then he will say the system is broken and the system needs to be gone.
He has a point. Hillary Clinton is still free.
That is seriously understating this guy's "death to America" mindset.
Ellison may have also set the stage for more disappointment, frustration, and rage, with local and national political ramifications.
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Isn’t that what Ellison plans? Beyond a reasonable doubt will be the deciding point.
Once the jury hears what else he had in his system, and if true, that they knew each other. Who knows what effect the witness who heard the victim’s statement about not killing him will have.
“It’s not inconceivable that Ellison is going to lose on some of these charges,” Jacobs said. “A trial that looks highly political and has outcomes that the protesters did not expect and certainly would be upset by could play into Trump’s hands.”
As a counterpoint, legal experts suggest the trials may take up to a year, long after the general election is scheduled to be held. Others compare Floyd’s death to that of Freddie Gray.
Is there anything left to burn?
No way Ellison pleads these cases to some lesser charge and then be the goat. And no way these defendants plead blind. Ellison will only recommend the maximum. A jury can’t give more than the max either. So...roll the dice. Plus Ellison wants the show trial. I think the plan was up the charges to ones they cannot prove. Let a jury convict on a lesser charge then get a second round of riots. If the trial on the main guy is set for late October...you can bet that’s the plan. And yes...I’m a former prosecutor and also later a death penalty defense lawyer. Do HR work now. Had enough of death.
That’s the goal.
That’s why Ellison changed them. He wants Chauvin to be exonerated so that the BLM people have an excuse to riot again.
They WILL fail, and the tinderbox is a casket of black powder that will explode.
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