Posted on 04/21/2021 5:28:53 PM PDT by Rummyfan
To watch the hours of celebratory fist-pumping from government officials and black activists after the guilty verdicts against police officer Derek Chauvin this week, you'd think Minnesota had just won the NCAA tournament.
One man is dead and another will be spending up to 40 years in prison. How about Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison show a little dignity, with something like: "We had the trial; we've got a verdict; I'm not taking any questions"?
Nope! We got a one-hour spirit rally for the championship team. The key was teamwork. Our guys practiced every night -- staying even after the gym had closed! We couldn't have done it without the fans.
There wasn't this much triumphalism when Ted Bundy was convicted! He murdered 30 women, escaped from jail twice, and killed again before finally being brought to trial. We didn't have hours of gloating after they got the Green River Killer, and it took 20 years to catch him.
CARTOONS | AF BRANCO VIEW CARTOON Maybe we've gotten less decorous in the past few decades. But how about celebrating the conviction of a gangbanger who killed an 8-year-old girl in a drive-by? Would the media be as giddy about that?
Not likely. Wild celebrations are in order only for the railroading of a cop.
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Occasionally this washed up b**** gets it right. Which is exactly what she’s going for. It’s a trap f*** her
Frankly I am sick of everybody commenting on this.
This should have been a local story, that’s it! But our media cherry picks from thousands of potential stories that have much more impact on our lives to further their agenda.
They’re safe. And quite a bit richer, I’d bet.
No the white ones! They will still be taking a risk just being out.
No good whites in BLM’S world -— no matter how much they do/did BLM’S bidding.
IOW, whites will now be judge by the color of their skin.
Wearing BLM clothes might make a difference.
Don’t care for her and disagree a lot with her but she nailed this one and succinctly imho.
The State’s own use-of-force expert also said Chauvin would have been in the right to hog tie Floyd, behind the back, considered more use-of-force by the expert and the Minn police force’s own guidelines.
Would Floyd have died like that?
We don’t know, hence reasonable doubt for murder. Manslaughter I can see or even the single lesser murder charge but that wasn’t going to placate the mob so the jury came back with two counts of murder plus one manslaughter of one man of one other man conviction.
1+1+1=1
Killed him three times he did.
Common Core math
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Or they made the decision they thought best based on the instructions given.
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More like the Coulter writing of old. Sarcastic and to the point.
When Ann’s right...
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She is correct. You resist, bring out the stun gun. Keep resisting, another shot of the stun gun. Hit em again, hit em again, harder, harder. The police need stun guns with 30 round clips. No more Mr. nice guys.
We used to use stock prods on livestock. Almost all of the hogs moved along after being buzzed. We had one boar, who turned around ready to eat up the stock prod. We just kept him in the cage and used food to get him into the truck. For people in that situation you would have to shoot them.
On the plus side, EVERYONE has a legitimate reason to get out a jury - "Your honor, in light of unfettered threats against jurors by sitting politicians, I fear for my safety and will vote however necessary to protect myself from the mob, regardless if the defendant is innocent or guilty." The prosecutor will remove you from any jury for fear of a mistrial.
I think he lost because he was unlikable. Juries notice that nonsense. The hand in pocket and smirk probably didn’t help.
All this over 20 bucks. I still can’t believe that.
Is rare these days.
`unlikeable’
He’s a cop, not a politician.
`hand in his pocket’
His hand was on his thigh.
`smirk’
He wasn’t smirking. He was angry, trying to do his job but surrounded by a hostile crowd heckling and taking pictures.
This verdict was a travesty, a miscarriage of justice.
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