Posted on 03/30/2021 2:11:31 AM PDT by knighthawk
CNN political commentator Van Jones said Monday on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time” that if former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin were not found guilty of killing George Floyd, America would be in a “dangerous position as a country.”
Jones said, “Everybody I’m talking to are frustrated, re-triggered, re-traumatized. Seeing that video, seeing the complete contempt for life. You have a generation of African-Americans and their allies — I’m talking this entire young generation—that is watching this to see if America — listen, the system is on trial here. The system is on trial. and I can’t tell you, people have tried to push away from this, move on from this. Today brought it all back home for tens of millions of people. And if this is considered legal conduct from a police officer, if you can do this in broad daylight and not go to jail, it will be perceived as open season, telling police officers from coast to coast you can literally get away with murder in broad daylight. So, this was, I think, today was a brutal day for the people who were able to watch. A lot of people weren’t even able to watch. They said, I just can’t even put myself through it again.”
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So? There are these little things called the facts and the law. If he’s guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, he should be convicted. If he’s not guilty or there is reasonable doubt, he should be acquitted. That’s why we have these things called a trial and a jury of your peers. How a bunch of thugs react does not (or at least should not) matter.
Besides, there are going to be riots regardless of the outcome. That’s a given.
commie says what?
You know, just for that alone and not regarding any merits of anything else, I hope he is acquitted.
Just to mess with Van Jones.
the lynch mob rules cuz the LEFT wants it so.
Trial by media, or trial by celebrity: Neither is fit for justice.
Fentanyl is a heluva drug.
Is that a threat?
Since when does what the media wants force a court case outcome? He doesnt care about rule of law, if the jury decides different than his wishes.
Van. Don’t you have a gonad to play with? STFU.
Chauvin is OUR O.J. Simpson. If BLM has a fit, you must acquit. America doesn’t do lynch mobs anymore.
Sounds like extortion to me.
Chauvin sy’s trial should be a cakewalk for any competent attorney. He cannot get a fair one in this white-hating, biased society.
If Derek Chauvin is acquitted the rioting will make what happened after the Rodney King verdict look like a picnic...
Back then the violence was mostly contained in LA, I still remember those Korean Shop owners shooting back and staked out on roof tops with rifles protecting their businesses..
This time the rioting will be all over the nation with Democrats leading the charge...
“This time the rioting will be all over the nation with Democrats leading the charge...”
BS, everything fizzles at around 4:20, and half heartedly resumes after the fastfood is gluttonously consumed and cartoons have been watched...
news from a felon
Continuing to try winning through intimidation. Race hustlers like Van Jones and Al Sharpton as well love to try and dictate policy and the conversation through either outright bullying or through intimidation. Bring it on Jones, Americans have about had their fill of folks like you.
Van Jones is a Communist, so he can go and say it in North Korea...
There could be serial hung-juries...
You mean Kamala “heels up” Harris won’t be leading the charge to raise money for bail for anyone who gets arrested for rioting, burning and assorted mayhem....
But...but...the poor little lefties are “retraumatized.” How can you be so heartless?
I hope it happens. It would be a fitting bookend to the death of the Republic and a lasting footnote to modern progressivism; the country torn asunder, because the Socialists/Globalists can not abide by the rule of law.
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