Posted on 04/20/2021 7:29:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Vice President Kamala Harris said that while the jury in former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s trial may have found him guilty of murdering George Floyd, their verdict is not enough to “heal the pain that existed for generations.”
“Let’s say there is a guilty verdict on the highest charge, it will not take away the pain of the Floyd family. It will not take away the pain of the communities, all communities, regardless of their color or geographic location, that felt sadness and anger in what they witnessed in that video,” Harris told CNN on Tuesday shortly before Chauvin was convicted on all charges.
While Harris signaled that the “consequence and accountability” for Chauvin is a step in the right direction, she continued to spout off why judicial justice won’t remedy the “pain” caused by years of what she has previously called rogue policing.
“This verdict is but a piece of it and it will not heal the pain that existed for generations, that has existed for generations among people who have experienced and first-hand witnessed what now a broader public is seeing because of smartphones and the ubiquity of our ability to videotape in real-time what is happening in front of our faces. And that is the reality of it,” Harris continued.
Others echoed Harris’s words after the jury’s verdict was announced on Tuesday afternoon. The vice president’s sister Maya Harris claimed that a “just verdict is not the same as justice.”
Let’s be clear: A just verdict is not the same as justice.
— Maya Harris (@mayaharris_) April 20, 2021
Activist groups were also quick to note that while they were happy with the guilty on all charges verdict, “the conviction of Derek Chauvin doesn’t absolve policing as a whole.”
Our hearts are with the family of #GeorgeFloyd and the millions who have acted in defense of Black lives over the past 11 months. A moment of relief is here for many as the trial is over, yet the conviction of Derek Chauvin doesn’t absolve policing as a whole. #DefundThePolice
pic.twitter.com/JthTdkVTDV— Movement 4 Black Lives (@Mvmnt4BlkLives) April 20, 2021
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison qualified his words in a press conference shortly after Chauvin was taken away in handcuffs.
“I would not call today’s verdict justice, however, because justice implies restoration. But it is accountability,” he said.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison: "I would not call today's verdict justice, however—because justice implies restoration. But it is accountability." https://t.co/6nN46Fosol pic.twitter.com/u2EHNl6qbN
— ABC News (@ABC) April 20, 2021
This should end well. /s
Oh, it’s never enough.
Like I said before: The only justice the mob wants is for Chauvin to be dropped in the middle of them so they can slowly murder him.
Then, they want ALL our stuff.
A lot could be healed by taking away Kommunist Harris.
Sowing the seeds for more violence and bloodshed. They really want to hurt us. Hate is never satiated.
>> their verdict is not enough to “heal the pain that existed for generations.”
That’s not how trials and convictions go. If you bring into the courtroom bigotries and prejudices influenced by other offenders in other cases, you have no place on the impartial jury.
“We must kill and eat Chauvin’s heart,” added Harris,
“Then, they want ALL our stuff.”
My grandpa always said, “They don’t want like what you got. They want what you got.”
She needs to be impeached. She is inciting violence.
This woman is in for big trouble.
Why has The Federalist published this rubbish, and why is it now trashing up FR?
I wonder if she will be happy when she ushers in the Age of Bronson.
Lot more dead thugs are going to be waiting for garbage services to pick up their rotting bodies. Male and female dead thugs. Of all races.
Because thats what law abiding people will do to protect their familes and communities.
They’re going all out with their pre-prepared ‘statements’, on full bore push, to destroy this great nation, now.
We need to keep all of these Day of Chauvinizing statements, by these leftist shills, on one thread, for reference.
Already stated decades ago.
You cannot placate the left. They do not want to be placated. Anything offered wil never be enough because that isnt what they want.
So why bother at all.
Hey where did you get that nascar garage door pull? /s
What is it the left says, dog whistle?
Keep kicking moron...
Kamala’s inner Evita is showing again.
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