Posted on 06/03/2020 12:53:58 PM PDT by Morgana
CNN)The former Minneapolis Police officer who pressed his knee into George Floyd's neck was charged with second-degree murder and the three other officers on scene during his killing were charged with aiding and abetting, according to court documents. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison's official announcement of the charges is expected to come Wednesday afternoon, more than a week after Floyd was killed while in police custody in Minneapolis. The killing has sparked nationwide protests that call for the end to police violence against black citizens. Derek Chauvin, who had his knee pressed into Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes, had previously been charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The new second-degree murder charge says that he killed Floyd "without intent to effect the death of any person, while committing or attempting to commit a felony offense ... namely assault in the third degree," according to an amended complaint. Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Keung, who helped restrain Floyd, and Tou Thao, who stood near the others, were not initially charged. Lane, 37, Kueng, 26, and Thao, 34, are now charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.
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Yep, and one of the good things that could come from this terrible thing is people might start intervening and cops might start thinking twice-—it’s not like Floyd was the first person to be unjustifiably killed by police.
I don’t buy that the other officers are not responsible because Chauvin was senior. If they know they that someone subdued, in custody, is in medical distress, they have a duty to act.
Speak up, say, this man is not breathing, I am checking his pulse, he does not have a pulse, get off him, we need to start CPR.
I think the Asian officer who was the “cover” officer......who’s job was to face away from arrest and keep bystanders from entering the arrest zone....that officers will not be convicted.
Agitators play for the long game too. As much chaos as they can sew...
Benjamin Crump put the hammer down today, “demanding” the other three be charged before Floyd’s memorial tomorrow. So Ellison obeyed and who wouldn’t considering the country has been under siege for days. We all know if they had not been charged as demanded, our streets would be right back to day one. This will become an issue in the trials.
They want them acquitted of the higher charges so they can get more riots.
Which begs the question, how fair will their trial be?
If they wanted more riots, they would not have arrested the other three today. The cities would have burned all over again tonight.
Well their plan may be that but this trial will take months - past election day. And everything they do is about elections day.
They want those riots closer to the election.
When will Minneapolis chief of police Medaria Arradondo going to be arrested? Or even fired?
Oh wait. He’s black.
Race Cards Rule.
“Yep, and one of the good things that could come from this terrible thing is people might start intervening and cops might start thinking twice..”
I had a conversation with a friend of mine who is a CCL instructor here in Illinois. I asked if, hypothetically of course, a CCL carrier had used lethal force against that cop if it would have been legally justified.
He said that, hypothetically, it would be. It wouldn’t be smart but it would be legally justified.
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Most of the minority looters that were arrested in our county had bail ranging from 10K to 50K. A typical shoplifting charge is no more than a couple grand at most.
since their police manual instructs them that the knee on the neck is the way to restrain someone on drugs,
See post 17
Floyd was fighting getting into the police vehicle. He was in somewhat but not entirely. Finally was pulled to the pavement and held for the medical group to get there to subdue him with meds.
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