Posted on 03/11/2021 6:47:01 PM PST by marshmallow
MINNEAPOLIS (CNS) — Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis prayed March 6 for peace and justice in the upcoming trial of a white former city police officer in death of George Floyd, an African American, while in police custody.
He gathered with over 100 other faith leaders in a downtown Minneapolis plaza.
“Loving God, you are the source of all that is good in our lives,” Archbishop Hebda said in the gathering’s opening prayer. “And so, we come to you with grateful hearts, grateful for the gifts that you’ve bestowed upon those that are gathered here. Grateful for the plans that you have for our cities. Grateful for the way in which you are going to bless us beyond anything that we can imagine.
“We come to you today as a people who thirst for justice, but we hunger as well for peace.”
Jury selection was to begin March 8 in the murder trial of the former officer, Derek Chauvin, but legal complications delayed it, as the issue of an additional murder charge for Chauvin was pending.
He has pleaded not guilty to two charges — second-degree unintentional murder and second-degree manslaughter. A third charge of third-degree murder was dismissed in October, but an appeals court ruled the trial judge should reconsider a motion to reinstate it.
With security fencing as a backdrop at the North Plaza of the Hennepin County Government Center, where Chauvin’s trial will be held, and with a sign that read “Pray for MN” behind the podium and loudspeakers, the gathering of faith leaders was organized under tension felt across the Twin Cities.
Floyd’s May 25 arrest, part of which was captured on video by a bystander and shared with social media, sparked protests and riots across the Twin Cities and around the............
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After all the video I’ve seen I hope he gets acquitted.
And maybe a reprimand for continuing to kneel when everybody was screaming at him. They didn’t have handcuffs??
Don’t understand why they didn’t move it to a different city
One potential juror today said he visited the GF memorial site and called it “holy ground”
The defense had to use one of their strikes to keep him off
He was cuffed.
Praying for peace ... how about: please don’t permit these idiots to run amuck again, burning down our town, and looting it too.
3rd degree murder is back in.
“We come to you today as a people who thirst for justice,”
BULL EXCEREMENT!!! They want vengeance They don’t want a trial. They don’t want a jury. They don’t want a day in court. They want him hanged and I’m surprised they haven’t lynched Chauvin already.
The justice will be when all those officers are acquitted. George Floyd killed George Floyd!!
But not for the TRUTH? Nor God’s Justice?
EPIC: CATHOLIC PRIEST DROPS TRUTH BOMB ON JOE BIDEN 3-9-21 CHARLIE KIRK
WOW. 27 MINUTES OF EMOTIONAL & SPIRITUAL DYNAMITE!
Please share. Though he didn’t project WHERE we’re headed as a nation, we are on already well down that steep road. Have tissue handy.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/AAtfVBuPqMHF/
THEY HAVING TROUBLE SEATING A JURY. FEAR OF BLM REPRISALS.
THE POWER MAD MARXIST LEFT & THEIR MEDIA LAP DOGS HAVE WEAPONIZED GEORGE FLOYD’S TRAGIC DRUG OVERDOSE DEATH TO FINISH OFF AMERICA. DARE WE LET THAT HAPPEN?
TUCKER CARLSON EXPLAINS IN ANOTHER EXCELLENT SHOW!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/kxRaR8SbYQsW/
The LEO’s sre innocent and I have prayed for that outcome, they never should have been charged.
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