Posted on 04/08/2021 7:20:34 AM PDT by Red Badger
For anyone thinking the Derek Chauvin trial for George Floyd’s death was an open and shut formality on the way to a guaranteed conviction… you’re going to want to sit down for this one.
The prosecution’s case just hit a pretty significant snag.
No, we don’t mean the evidence indicating Chauvin’s weight being between Floyd’s shoulders rather than across his neck, or the phrase ‘if you can talk, you can breathe’ that has come up in testimony.
We mean a change in the official understanding of words exchanged between the police and Floyd during their encounter… an answer that, as the defense would argue, could have completely changed Chauvin’s understanding of the risk factors at play in their interaction.
Senior Special Agent James Reyerson was shown a clip from Minneapolis Police body-camera footage of Floyd saying something while handcuffed and in a prone position on the ground. “Did it appear that Mr. Floyd said, ‘I ate too many drugs?” defense attorney Eric Nelson asked Reyerson. “Yes, it did,” Reyerson said. After a short break, the prosecution played for Reyerson a longer clip of the video that provided the lead up to that comment. “Having heard it in context, are you able to tell what Mr. Floyd is saying there?” prosecutor Matthew Frank asked. “Yes, I believe Mr. Floyd was saying, ‘I ain’t do no drugs,” Reyerson replied. The testimony came on the eighth day of Chauvin’s criminal trial as several investigators and forensic scientists testified about what they found at the crime scene, including Floyd’s blood stains and a few white pills containing fentanyl and methamphetamine. — CNN
Isn’t this exactly the reason we have courts and criminal trials in which the burden of proof is on the state to prove the guilt of the accused, rather than the other way around?
Someone should explain that principle to clowns like these…
If you live in one of these places, keep your head on a swivel. Things could break bad pretty quickly:
If that scenario does play out, remember who decided that the politics — and not the evidence — should determine the innocence or guilt of an American citizen.
From the beginning, we at ClashDaily have been careful to try and walk that line. Did the video look really damning in the beginning? Oh hell yeah. But there is a difference between dying while in police custody, and dying as the direct result of police action.
That difference is under consideration before a judge and jury who are hearing the details.
Is it a perfect system? Nope.
But it’s the best we’ve got, and a damn sight better than the alternatives.
SENTENCE FIRST! TRIAL SECOND!.........................
when they come back with Not Guilty verdicts tomorrow, the Party is On!!
How many Democrat Elected Officials will excuse the Mayhem that is sure to follow?
Will Any Democrat leader try to Stop it??
Should Americans even give a damn if Blacks want to Burn down their Own Cities??
Tomorrow? Defense hasn’t even started their case. These were all prosecution witnesses!
In a sane world it would be open season on rioters and looters; no daily or possession limit.
I keep repeating this: This is Zimmerman redux. Except the outcry is going to be MUCH worse. You need to be carrying in your car if you go near any urban area after this verdict.
This is what is interesting. Just like the Zimmerman case, even before the defense began, there was not enough evidence to find him guilty.
I see a hung jury.
Are we going to have a society with the rule of law or the rule by the Media?
We have been ruled by the Media for most of the last 55 years.
I can see the end of retail stores in black neighborhoods.
If they want to buy anything, it will be online, with armed trucks arriving at an empty lot, you show ID, you get your boxes, and the trucks leave before nightfall.
And the Defense should move to dismiss all charges, they did NOT make their case, not even close. Let’s get this party started
George Floyd, another victim of a violent inner city run by corrupt democrat politicians.
We need to stop "Paying Progressive Dane-Geld":
It is always a temptation to an entitled population
To call upon a neighbour and to say: —
“We rioted last night—we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.”
And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ‘em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!
It is always a temptation, with Orwellian dictation,
To puff and look important and to say: —
“You are oppressed. White men caused this mess.
We will pay you public cash to go away.”
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
It is wrong to put temptation to a youthful population,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: —
“We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!”
We have been paying Dane-Geld to progressive ideologists and cultural Marxists for more than 50 years. The cost has been in the trillions. The damage done to our society, moral and Constitutional norms, is incalculable. It must be stopped, before our nation is lost. We are very close to losing the nation.
they complain about food deserts. they will have desert deserts.
I guess plywood/osb prices won’t be coming back down anytime soon. High demand in the cities.
With apologies to Rudyard Kipling, Author of the original poem.
More and more, Chauvin seems to be the 21st century version of the young Communist falsely accused of setting the Reichstag on fire in the 1930’s in Germany, or the embodiment of Capt. Dreyfus, the French Jewish Officer, who was sent to Devil’s Island after being falsely accused and convicted of treason. Chauvin must be sacrificed on the altar of Progressivism for his two cardinal sins - being White and being a police officer. If he is not, then everything will burn; that is the clear threat coming from those who are champions of the “marginalized.” In order to protect them, the Left must destroy more of their meager possessions and businesses. How we, as a country, got here and what we must do about it remains an open question.
If they vote to acquit, it might literally!
Invest in plate glass....................
> I see a hung jury. <
Either that or they will agree on not murder, but manslaughter. If I had to bet today, I’d bet on a manslaughter conviction.
My heart broke for the small businesses and people of Minneapolis last summer. Then we had an election, and they re-elected all the failed “leaders” that did such a bang-up job watching their city burn for “justice”. You get what you vote for, so I won’t feel nearly as bad this time. When media and politicians can’t honestly portray the facts written into a law (Georgia), when it’s all there in plain English, there is no hope that they will honestly portray the facts of an acquittal.
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