Posted on 04/20/2021 4:14:13 PM PDT by Coronal
Fox News host Jeanine Pirro agreed with a Minnesota jury's guilty verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and predicted the convictions would hold against an appeal.
Pirro, a former district attorney and an ally of former President Donald Trump who often praises law enforcement, said the decision to convict Chauvin of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd was "supported by the facts."
"I've tried many murder cases, and I've sat as a judge on murder cases. It is rare that you even get a picture of the victim in a murder case ... but here, we had a living, breathing person that the jury was able to relate to. ... This was an emotional as well as an intellectual decision," she said on Tuesday. "And when I say that, make no mistake: The facts are solid on this verdict. This verdict will be upheld on appeal."
Pirro applauded the convictions as proof that "the American justice system works."
"For all those people that want to burn down streets, just let the court do its job," she added.
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She likes her celebrity
I’m still trying to figure out how those three charges are legal at all..
It should have been 1 of the 3.
There’s two of us lodi
This forum just can’t handle it
Not sure why....
And maybe it will. But this is NO WAY a fair trial. The judge should be impeached.
And the mob is just beginning.
Pirro was brought on Fox because she could blather fairly well, and older dudes would think she was hot. Period.
I feel bad for all the folks that bought into her BS. I could see thru it the first time I saw her on Fox.
How to Keep Your Job At Fox,
By Jeanine Pirro
#4. Forget it Monkeyshine: It’s Minneapolis/Minnesota.
Used to be that most states had 1st degree Homicide - Premeditation and Malice
* 2nd degree Homicide - Malice
* 3rd Degree Homicide - Could be either unintentional or by Negligence (any in some places, possibly by Intentional Negligence, etc).
1. He was not going to get a fair trial. Too much publicity and court of public opinion in the city where it happened.
2. The autopsy did not support the charges. You say to believe in the science. That's what an autopsy is. The toxicology alone showed Floyd basically killed himself swallowing all the drugs that were in his system.
3. The prosecution witnesses said he was following trained procedures holding down someone resisting. They were the best thing for the defense.
4. Jury intimidation. All the rhetoric like what Mad Maxine said, and threats to the jurors if they didn't make the 'right' verdict.
So obviously you are fine with the mob gaining their pound of flesh. We have trade a person that was willing to risk his life for society for a lower form of life that spent his time on earth satisfying his selfish needs.
It was those selfish needs that ultimately caused his death. The cop was called there because of a crime. He was attempting to take into custody a large drugged out man that insisted on fighting.
His breathing problem may or may not be true, but I am sure the officer had heard that excuse many times before. He was breathing well enough to express himself many times before he was put on the ground. Which by the way he requested.
This verdict will have emboldened the “Mob” so expect more. We can expect every city in the country to experience more crime, assaults and cries of brutality over any arrest. The cops will, understandably, stop enforcing the law anywhere it might jeopardize their position. Eventually the laws will not be followed and society will suffer.
But the dregs of society will in the end succeed and America as we have seen it will no longer exist.
We are witnessing the demise of America. And, the worst part of this is “WE” caused it by not doing our duty to protect what this country was created to do.
I tend to agree with her.
The argument that he “didn’t kneel on his neck” does not remove the fact that this man held someone down, they passed out, he continued to kneel on them... his heart stopped and he still kneeled on him.... in fact he only stopped kneeling on him because the EMT’s told him to so they could check his neck for a pulse...
I guess the only legal question from the Murder 2 charge is, were his actions felonious assault.. and on that he may have a case that it wasn’t... I don’t know. If it was, and the person died, which they clearly did, thats murder 2 under MN law.
The argument this guy would have died even if the cop did nothing, just isn’t going to hold water.
There is little doubt that this man didn’t get a fair trial, how can he if the interloper in cheap is out there saying he prays that the jury gives the “right” verdict... let alone the maxine waters and others threatening violence if they don’t get the verdict they desire.
This will play out on appeal for years, I am sure.
However, if someone asks me today, even after this is long out of the spotlight and years of appeals down the road, will this man be found not guilty??
LIke I said if what he did was NOT felonious assault the the murder 2 charge is incorrect... however it his actions were indeed legally felonious assault, then the murder 2 will not be overturned.
They got to Pirro. She knuckled under.
That certainly came to mind shortly after yesterday's announcement.
The cop was guilty as sin and twice as dirty...
The cop was guilty as sin and twice as dirty... Too bad the DOJ is corrupt as hell and believes it’s still 1964 - they’re stepping in to make things worse... less just, and sickening.
No, one bad cop does NOT imply a pattern. Shame on the DOJ and other thugs in the Biden Administration.
A pox on all their houses.
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