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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It’s as good a time as any...
That my thinking..
So they will do a show trial all the way up to election day in Nov..probably screw it up to get hime off just before the election
Really the evidence is on tape..
In the charge him right he would likely cop a plea.. so he will be overchargef so he does not... the left was to draw this out as long as thy can
Ellison is the dumbest AG in the country.
What’s happening in Minneapolis (and Minnesota as well) is actually much worse than racism.
lol@ “the killer”....
I am going to rumor monger. Floyd and Chauvin worked in the same place. Chauvin had practiced with Floyd the same procedure only longer and Floyd had a safe word for Chauvin. Floyd was so high he did not recognize Chauvin and could not remember the safe word. (This is fun.) Kieth is f#cked!
I’m guessing the defense will do everything he can to stall until after the election, so the Ellison and the press would then have less interest.
It will be a long time before the trials start.
It took eight months of investigation before they charged the somali cop with murdering the white woman.
The trials will take place next year.
ONCE in the last sixty years did the Republicans get Minnesota's electoral votes.
ONCE.
I’m sure they will try...but I would suspect the judge is a wacko lib too and it will be up to the judge. I expect a rocket-docket on this one.
Reagan came within 4,000 votes of carrying Minnesota in 1984—against a Minnesotan.
Jeanine Pirro will explain tomorrow why she thinks the charge against Chauvin should be for first degree murder.
The trial will never happen before the election. I don’t care what date they give. Trials always get extensions for one thing or another.
Hope you’re correct. The Broward school shooter still hasnt his trial.
Wow. That’s crazy.
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