Posted on 06/03/2020 12:53:58 PM PDT by Morgana
CNN)The former Minneapolis Police officer who pressed his knee into George Floyd's neck was charged with second-degree murder and the three other officers on scene during his killing were charged with aiding and abetting, according to court documents. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison's official announcement of the charges is expected to come Wednesday afternoon, more than a week after Floyd was killed while in police custody in Minneapolis. The killing has sparked nationwide protests that call for the end to police violence against black citizens. Derek Chauvin, who had his knee pressed into Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes, had previously been charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The new second-degree murder charge says that he killed Floyd "without intent to effect the death of any person, while committing or attempting to commit a felony offense ... namely assault in the third degree," according to an amended complaint. Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Keung, who helped restrain Floyd, and Tou Thao, who stood near the others, were not initially charged. Lane, 37, Kueng, 26, and Thao, 34, are now charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.
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Just don’t overcharge, especially on that upgrade to 2nd degree murder. you’re going to have to convince a 12-person jury of guilt.
The mob won’t be satisfied until the trial is skipped and we go straight to the punishment phase.
Three Defendants.
One Deal.
Well, there goes there careers. When are they going to beat their children and assault their wives?
This is the muzzlime racist AG Keith Ellison trying for overkill, just to show his hatred for the cops and for other races. He has about as much business being AG as a snake has for guarding rabbit hutches.
I wouldn’t want to be any of these guys. Prison will be the end of them.
Guess everything is all good now? No more ‘protests’. Right?
The prosecution needs the other cops to testify against Chauvin.
The other three officers being charged is so wrong the officer with his knee on the neck was the SENIOR officer what the hell were the other officers supposed to do against the SENIOR officer?? There won’t be many folks signing up to be a police officer any time soon!!
No offense to the asshole who wouldn’t take his knee off the perp, but the upshot of this is that police in your community will NOT detain perps of color. Read Marx and Engels: No response, no policing, no law, no order: Just how commies like it to foment anarchy, misery, and revolution.
With the fricking AG appointing himself the head prosecutor NO WAY will he take a plea deal Ellingtonton is a bigger race hustler than Sharpton he wants his name plastered EVERYWHERE!!
Mark the date and bookmark this thread...
I’m calling it now...
Keith Ellison’s intent is to get the cops acquitted, just to provoke more riots.
You heard it here first.
Just turned into a witch hunt.
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Do you think there is anyone in America who won’t convict these cops?”””””””””””””””””””””””””””””
Me. Certainly not with the evidence shown so far.
I’ll give it more thought in the months to come as the investigations continue and facts emerge.
Also while I am driving through the burned remains of Minneapolistan and wonder why this ghetto trash pretends to be so outraged when Saint George dies but they don’t care about all the white people they kill.
“what the hell were the other officers supposed to do against the SENIOR officer??”
Tell him to stop it, that’s what. No one is obligated to follow orders they reasonably believe to be illegal. That was covered quite thoroughly in my training for the USMC way back in the day.
We were taught that following an illegal order made us just as guilty as whoever gave that illegal order.
“I was just following orders“ hasn’t cut it since Nuremberg.
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