REVEALED: AG Bill Barr rejected plea deal for Derek Chauvin to plead guilty to third-degree murder days after George Floyd died because he feared protesters would say it was too lenient

UK Daily Mail ^ | February 11 2021 | MEGAN SHEETS

[knighthawk]

US Attorney General William Barr rejected a plea deal for Derek Chauvin days after the Minneapolis cop was accused of killing George Floyd, a new report claims.

Three law enforcement officials with knowledge of the deal told the New York Times that Chauvin had agreed to plead guilty to third-degree murder three days after video of him kneeling on Floyd's neck during an arrest on May 25 went viral, sparking fevered protests in the city and around the US.

Under the deal, Chauvin would avoid civil rights charges and serve no more than 10 years in prison, the Times sources said.

[FreedomPoster]

Why would Bill Barr have been involved, as opposed to a state prosecutor?

The case is clearly in a state court.

https://www.mncourts.gov/media/StateofMinnesotavDerekChauvin

I call BS.

[AnxiouslyWaiting]

We are living under mob rule. And with the highest officials in the land cowering in the corner; not wanting to offend the tender sensibilities of the mob abandon the law in favor of mob rule, we are finished.
It’s what happens when those sworn to uphold the law abdicate their responsibility. He should be immediately disbarred.

[Alberta's Child]

He could be involved if there was a conversation about Federal civil rights charges.

If I was in his place I’d reject that plea deal, too. Chauvin never should have been charged in the first place, and should be exonerated on all counts.

[piasa]

NY Times the paper of record that denied the mass murder by Stalin... and was more recently run by a Mexican billionaire? Add to that anonymous sources unethically leaking dirt to it... perhaps so the gossip can be scrubbed a little more as it passes from one newspaper after another.
Smells kind of funky.

[pepsionice]

Once they lay out the training program and standards for the city/state police...this case lacks any strength, and the four cops went by what was the standard accepted practice.

The other two passengers in the SUV? They will be drilled over their association, and why they were in the vehicle.

I think the prosecution’s case will be pretty much marginalized by the 7th day.

[Alberta's Child]

The current or prior state AG should be a witness in this case — to testify about why they approved a training standard for the police that could result in the death of an arrested person.

I’m hoping for an even more comical end to the case ... where the charges are dismissed after the medical examiner admits under cross-examination that his office included George Floyd among the “COVID deaths” reported to the CDC.

[FreedomPoster]

I’ve read the autopsy. No life-threatening injuries. III.B in particular: “No injuries of anterior muscles of neck or laryngeal structures”

https://www.scribd.com/document/464269559/George-Floyd-Autopsy-FULL-REPORT#from_embed

Drug overdose and related complications.

[pepsionice]

Well, yeah...that Covid-test deal will be an hour in length and make the prosecution case more comical. It really begs the question...if he had Covid, then did the two folks in the vehicle with him, and the four police who were around him...ever get tested for Covid?

[joshua c]

Barr’s involvement must have been not to prosecute civil rights charges

[joshua c]

Two things:

1. The knee on the neck was a dept approved restraint
2. Floyd was foaming at the mouth, a sign of pulmonary edema, his lungs were filling with fluid. This is a result of opioid overdose.

This should go to trial

[Altura Ct.]

The whole G Floyd thing is complete BS and another example of how the left controls the narrative.

[Soul of the South]

“This should go to trial”

When I was in my 20’s I sat on a jury and was able to witness the spectacle of a trial first hand plus deliberate with a jury of my “peers.”

My key takeaway was there is no justice in a courtroom. The absence of any ability to reason in most of my fellow jurors was appalling. They were 100% emotionally driven and the lawyers played to emotions, not facts. The judge sat like a fat toad and seemed bored to death. I decided there was no way I would ever want to trust my fate to a jury.

In a trial of someone like Chauvin the jury will be specially selected to achieve a desired result. No way it will include 12 intelligent, objective and reasoned people. Plus you can bet if anyone holds out for acquittal, thereby hanging the jury, that juror’s name will be in every mainstream media report within hours. The holdout juror will go through a sudden and permanent life changing experience.

[HIDEK6]

How is the US Attorney General involved in a murder case?

[Pirate Ragnar]

“Chauvin never should have been charged in the first place, and should be exonerated on all counts.”

Thankyou for cutting to the chase.

[Alberta's Child]

My last jury service was in a civil court (personal injury) case. I was surprised at how intelligent and objective the jurors were. For some reason that still baffles me, the plaintiff’s attorney left most of the professionals on the jury and instead used her peremptory challenges to remove Spanish-speaking jurors (the two key witnesses testified through a translator).

We took less than 30 minutes to agree (unanimously) that this case was little more than a fraud. To this day I never understood how it ever went to trial. The insurance carrier for the defendant probably spent three years trying to settle it out of court.