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Derek Chauvin found guilty of murder in the death of George Floyd
Yahoo News ^ | April 20, 2021 | Crystal Hill

Posted on 04/20/2021 3:18:39 PM PDT by 4Runner

Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of all counts against himin the killing of George Floyd, nearly one year after kneeling on Floyd’s neck in an incident that sparked global protests against police brutality.

After less than 24 hours of deliberations, the jury returned guilty verdicts against Chauvin, finding him guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of Floyd on May 25, 2020.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: chauvinguilty; chauvintrial; didyousearch
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To: Hulka

I really wish one of these legal talking heads would answer this question.

I don’t know anything about civilian criminal law, but I was a Marine Corps officer long enough to pick up more than a passing amount of knowledge on courts-martial. In the military, the jury is instructed to consider the lesser-included charges only after reaching a verdict on the more serious charge.

This verdict is bizarre, to me at least.


101 posted on 04/20/2021 4:11:52 PM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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To: Graybeard58

102 posted on 04/20/2021 4:12:16 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: reg45
We imported the secret ballot from Australia. Now we have imported our court system from Australia too.

(Yes, I know that there are kangaroos in New Guinea too.)

103 posted on 04/20/2021 4:12:16 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: lightman
Things haven't changed very much since 33 A.D.

Two thumbs-up.

104 posted on 04/20/2021 4:12:26 PM PDT by ex91B10 (I'm a 20th century man but I don't want to be here not)
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To: ready2brd

Yeah. Should haven’t started with Chauvin on Floyd’s neck. Good riddance.
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You is on the wrong forum.


105 posted on 04/20/2021 4:13:31 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (The China virus doesn't scare me, Venezuelaism does.)
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To: Revel

Isn’t that what THEY want. No more cops. My guess is THEY are hoping for mass retirements and resignations.


106 posted on 04/20/2021 4:13:47 PM PDT by xkaydet65 ( )
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To: pfflier
All cops nationwide should consider resigning. It’s a thankless job. No one has their back.

Make this ONLY in black communities & around leftist media outlets.

107 posted on 04/20/2021 4:16:54 PM PDT by Digger
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To: 4Runner

If I were a police officer just now, I would not feel secure in following department policy or ever laying a hand on anyone in the course of my duties. If someone should have a bad heart, and be so emotionally upset by contact with the police that he would have a heart attack, the officer would then be deemed to have been a substantial cause of the death.

I would begin tomorrow by seeking other employment. Why would anyone assume the risk when the governmental units which employ you do not support and back you 100%.

Defund the police? How about, we quit...use your social workers for those matters you still feel are crimes.


108 posted on 04/20/2021 4:17:21 PM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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To: Cboldt

To be expected. The justice system is broken.

All the way to the USSC.


109 posted on 04/20/2021 4:18:58 PM PDT by CVS-20
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To: TwelveOfTwenty
It has been longer than a decade. In 2020 the Left and Democrat Party called their bluff when they stole the 2020 election openly and blatantly and triple dog dared them to do something about it. They were as silent as whores in Church. Later the FBI went after the Oath Keepers organization. And currently a number of them are cooling their heels in the Washington D.C. jail getting the crap beaten out of them every day.
110 posted on 04/20/2021 4:19:25 PM PDT by sport
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To: 4Runner

Honestly I don’t know much what to think about his actual guilt.

(I do ask how one can be CONVICTED with several parallel crimes, really only degree of difference. It seems like simultaneous double-/triple-jeapardy.)

My biggest concern is the MOBS and BLM and Anti-fa ruling everything. They’re a little sick in how much they “celebrate” this, waiting outside like a spider ready to strike. And then they’ll realize this doesn’t do much for THEM, and doesn’t for all those thousands of poor innocent black thugs killed every year by police because they’re black. They’ll be back to rioting just because.


111 posted on 04/20/2021 4:22:40 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: dfwgator

Sure does— and is why every policeman come in contact with regardless, but mostly white— Thank them for keeping the PUBLIC ORDER and the Laws, and tell them have family in LE work. Thank them.

BTW your Roland Friesler comment may have gone over some heads here— The second I read it the sound of Friesler’s disgusting tirade and “outrage” at the testimony of Count Schwerin von Schwanenfeld, of the many murders he witnessed of Polish Christians and Jews in West Prussia, and that a memorial Cross will be erected in memory of the 1400 he witnessed. Don’t know if it was ever done. Friesler the weasel evil “judge” (who was at Wannsee Conference) died from an Allied bomb that blew him to pieces in Berlin.
History rhyming (as Twain said) is what our legal system is exhibiting under these monster Socialists/Marxists.

A word came to me, in german and the phrase after— Friesler screaming “Morder?!!” “You filthy lump....” The translation here is very well done (much better than the narration of Laurence Olivier on “World at War”. Count Schwerin was a very brave and true Prussian who hated the Socialists for the very scum they were... and the destruction of Germany by them.

If there ever was a scum lifetime useless twit of a self-serving gangster Socialist it is JoeBama and his crew. He is no Nationalist, and a very stupid opportunist his whole life, and marries... his babysitter he was doing before his wife took the kids and left and then crashed the car.

Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_aluekfYmo


112 posted on 04/20/2021 4:22:48 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: 4Runner

Jury Cowards

Evidence Doesn’t Matter


113 posted on 04/20/2021 4:22:50 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: John S Mosby

The person who portrayed Freisler in “Sophie Scholl - The Final Days” really nailed him.


114 posted on 04/20/2021 4:24:03 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: 4Runner

Freakin’ disgusting.


115 posted on 04/20/2021 4:24:21 PM PDT by stevio
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To: ScubaDiver

That sounds more logical to me.

What happened here makes me think “double jeopardy” - simultaneously.


116 posted on 04/20/2021 4:25:04 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I will agree there are no saints here. Should Chauvin had gotten off scott-free, I don’t know.

I do know the quality of cops has been drastically declining since the 70s, since Liberal politicians decided that Police Departments had to be less “neanderthal” (meaning, there’s too many white guys)


117 posted on 04/20/2021 4:26:18 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Ennis85

...cough... some of us out here have grown quite tired of seeing people attempt to play both sides of the fence... The whole thing was not a travesty... the Travesty started when a person of color resisted arrest.


118 posted on 04/20/2021 4:26:40 PM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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To: 4Runner

Now let’s have some

Justice for Justine....


119 posted on 04/20/2021 4:28:25 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: tbw2
This sets a dangerous precedence. Find someone guilty or we’ll riot.

Which, of course, is a corollary of elect who we want or we'll riot.

120 posted on 04/20/2021 4:28:27 PM PDT by KevinB (''... and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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