Posted on 05/24/2025 6:23:17 PM PDT by Morgana
The judge who oversaw the trial of Derek Chauvin has given an explosive interview as he spoke out for the first time in four years.
Peter Cahill was in charge of proceedings in 2021, when jurors spent three weeks listening to testimony about the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Floyd, an unarmed black man, had been suspected of using a counterfeit $20 bill in the lead up to the fatal run-in with Chauvin and three other officers.
Restraining Floyd, Chauvin knelt on his neck and back for what officials later deemed was over 9 minutes, fatally asphyxiating him in the process.
He dropped a number of bombshells during the wide-ranging sit down, including confessing he has a pro-police 'bias' but was still sickened by the case.
He also admitted he was desperate not to be given the job, saying he swore at his boss when the legal grenade landed on his desk.
Meanwhile Cahill opened up about a letter slipped to him by Lance Ito - the judge in the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder case - and revealed it read: 'Peace and wisdom.'
Floyd's death rocked the world and gave rise to a huge shift in the culture wars towards readdressing how black people are treated.
Chauvin's trial was also one of the most watched of all time, and has been heavily attacked from both sides since he was sentenced.
Cahill admitted he felt the pressure from the media and political figures during the case, and opened up about how heavily it has impacted his life.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Poor baby.
It begins with a pantload of lies, so no thanks ...
Yeah that's tough ... it affected other people's lives as well.
“confessing he has a pro-police ‘bias’”
So the DM thinks a pro-criminal bias is better? Just look at the legal and policing system in the UK for their blatant biases.
...gave rise to a HUGE anti-police shift, defunding police departments all over the country, "reimagining policing" -- all of which led to a HUGE explosion of inner city crime, mostly black-on-black. And we are still suffering it today.
yup. he wasn’t on his neck and a man who can’t breath won’t be able to tell you he can’t breath.
dm leads with lies regularly these days.
"Specifically, the group of former officers say they believe Blackwell perjured herself when she testified in court that the restraint method Chauvin used to subdue George Floyd in May 2020 was not a part of MPD officer training."
"...many say the knee-on-neck restraint Chauvin employed was trained under the maximal-restraint technique (MRT), a restraint the MPD taught and allowed until 2023."
Neither a pro-police bias nor a pro-criminal bias is good.
A judge should have a pro-truth bias.
Fekkin Daily Mail "reporter". Lies on lies.
The entire case hinges on the public acceptance of this falsehood.
This next Wednesday marks the 10th anniversary of the death of a great ape, Harambe.
Killed by negligent black parents RIP Harambe We hardly knew ye
His knee was on his shoulder and back as per the Minneapolis training manual. The manual was not allowed into the proceedings as evidence. The police chief lied in saying they didn't teach that type of restraint.
The coroner’s autopsy did not show asphyxiation as the cause of death.
Floyd had enough fentanyl in his system to kill a horse. That’s why he couldn’t breath. That wasn’t allowed to be told to the jurors.
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NOT asphyxiatid IIRC. If you can shout “I caint breeve!”, you can ‘breeve’.
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