Posted on 04/03/2021 2:57:53 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
For some it's too much to watch. Others just can't turn away.
The televised trial of Derek Chauvin, the former white police officer charged in the death of George Floyd, has provoked strong emotions among many Black men and women — all tinged with an underlying dread that it could yield yet another devastating disappointment.
For many, it has brought back memories of the disturbing video of Floyd's last moments as he gasped for breath with Chauvin's knee on his neck. The video galvanized protests in cities across the U.S. and the world, as the words "Black Lives Matter" took hold.
"I had to mute the TV," said Lisa Harris, 51, of Redford Township, just west of Detroit. "Hearing Mr. Floyd continue to say he can't breathe and call for his mother — it was a lot. It's been a lot to watch."
Steven Thompson remembers closely watching the 2013 trial of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida and feeling blindsided. Zimmerman, who identifies as Hispanic, was acquitted on all counts in the unarmed Black teen's death, including second-degree murder.
"I didn't expect that outcome," Thompson, 35, said. "But I'm a lot less ignorant now."
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Just about everyone. Most media people are either uninformed or dishonest.
The author seems to be reveling in the perceived weakness. It’s offensive.
A reply for Rodney, “Can’t we all just learn to swim”?
That was a finding by an “independent” source that the family hired after the county medical examiner issued the overdose report.
Chauvin has been convicted beyond a reasonable doubt by the local media.
They came to that conclusion about a week before the jury selection process began.
Can you provide a link for the official ME report?
I’m sure that the fires and the looting will begin before the jury finishes deliberating.
They’re wrong. Chauvin was right.
I hope they’re driven to violence. It’s the best outcome for everyone else.
Trump’s mistake was that he did not insure this inevitable outcome before the election. Usually, he took no guff and told people the way things actually were. This was universally enough to push insane weenies like these people over the edge.
Trevon Martin, Michael Brown, George Floyd, Breanna Taylor. None of them were murdered.
And Martin and Brown died for the same reason: they attacked men who had guns.
“I have a sense this may be a lie.”
100% certain, if he looked at the evidence in the Zimmerman case can came to any conclusion other than what the jury did.
feds shot Bonnie Parker 75 times and never had any proof she did anything...
Exactly! Another fact that is leaving me emotionally taxed is there is no discussion of the Gangsta life Floyd chose to live.
Not saying Floyd deserved to die at all much less in the manor in which it happened. But it seems no upstanding clean cut African Americans can zero in on the fact that Floyd made a conscious decision to live the Thug life.
Is famously stated by Rodney King himself
Can’t we all just get along?
According to the power mad progressives, it was all worth it to get rid of President Donald Trump.
Trayvon? Pathetic.
They still believe that lie. That and the one about the “Gentle Giant.”
Ah, more subjective journalism.
“For some it’s too much to watch...”
Some = three drunks at the corner bar.
“Others just can’t turn away.”
Others = three drunks sleeping in the gutter outside the bar.
“provoked strong emotions among many Black men and women”
among many = three doped-out affirmative action “perfessors” who don’t belong any where near a college.
“For many, it has brought back memories...”
For many = speaking for my pet dog, cat and gerbil.
“The video galvanized protests...”
galvanized protests = only in Portland. In places like Chicago, the Mexicans kicked weenie BLM asses.
I guess the “friend” being outed by the girlfriend as selling the drugs that killed Floyd isn’t something the folks mentioned in the article didn’t care to hear about.
He’s a lot more indoctrinated.
To be more precise they want their “Just-Us”.
It also appears that the “friend”, who has already stated that if he were to asked to testify, would be taking the 5th,was the one that supplied Floyd with the funny money.
I’m just thankful that my sister is forced to work from home due to the pandemic and not downtown. If not for that, I would have told her to retire.
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