Posted on 06/02/2021 4:06:48 PM PDT by RandFan
Prosecutors in Minnesota are seeking a 30-year prison sentence for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd.
Prosecutors wrote in a court filing on Wednesday that the sentence — twice the upper end of the recommended sentencing range — would “properly account for the profound impact” of Chauvin’s actions on Floyd’s family and the community.
“Defendant cruelly murdered Mr. Floyd in public view. His actions traumatized Mr. Floyd’s family—Mr. Floyd’s daughter, his siblings, his cousins, his aunts and uncles, his nephews and nieces. None of them will ever be able to see their beloved ‘Perry’ again,” prosecutors wrote.
In separate filings, an attorney for Chauvin argued that he should get probation, and that his incarceration should be limited to time already served.
Eric Nelson told the court to consider Chauvin’s age, lack of criminal history, cooperation in the investigation, and attitude in court. He further said that Chauvin was unaware that he was committing a crime, and said it was best described as an error in his experience as an officer.
“Mr. Chauvin’s offense is best described as an error made in good faith reliance his own experience as a police officer and the training he had received—not intentional commission of an illegal act,” he wrote.
A jury convicted Chauvin in late April of second- and third-degree murder, as well as second-degree manslaughter for Floyd’s death. He is set to be sentenced on June 25.
Bystander footage of the killing showed Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nine and a half minutes. He died shortly after at the Hennepin County Medical Center.
Recognizing the broader impact of Floyd’s death, which sparked nationwide protests, prosecutors wrote that Chauvin’s actions “shocked the Nation’s conscience.”
“No sentence can undo Mr. Floyd’s death, and no sentence can undo the trauma Defendant’s actions have inflicted,” Prosecutors wrote. “But the sentence the Court imposes must show that no one is above the law, and no one is below it.”
Chauvin will only be sentenced for the most egregious charge against him: second-degree murder. The recommended sentence was 12.5 years, with a range of 10.67 to 15 years.
Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill ruled in mid- May that aggravating factors existed in Floyd’s killing, a ruling that opened the door to a harsher sentence.
Chauvin was indicted by a federal grand jury last month for allegedly violating Floyd’s constitutional rights.
Wait.. what does this have to do with fawning over Rand Paul?
He can do thirty years standing on his head.
If I was a (white) cop...anywhere in the country...I’d announce for all the world to hear that I’ll be refusing to have *any* interaction...of *any* sort...with *any* “person of color”.
Anybody know what Latin for B.S. is?
Latin for ‘Nonsense’ means Ineptias.
It’s a start.
He gonna spit nickels too?
The only problem is: Derek Chauvin DID NOT killed George Floyd. In the trial it came out that even AFTER kneeling on him, Floyd’s blood oxygen saturation level was 98%! He COULD breathe, and talk, and was NOT suffocated. He died of a cardiac arrest induced by a panic attack, in combination with multiple anally-ingested drugs, all while being Covid-19 positive! The “trial” was a TRAVESTY.
Bovem excrementum
Possibly right. I actually studied Latin in junior high school. But I'm 75 years old.
DID NOT kill George Floyd
Prosecutor: “Shoot this rabid dog. Death to the gang who hide their ferocious teeth, their eagle claws, from the people! Down with that vulture Chauvin, from whose mouth a bloody venom drips, putrefying the great ideals of progressivism!... Down with this abject animal! Let’s put an end once and for all to this miserable hybrid of foxes and pigs, this stinking corpse! Let’s exterminate this mad dog of capitalism, who wants to tear to pieces the flower of our progressive nation! Let’s push the bestial hatred he bears our ideals back down his own throat! Death to this mad dog!”
No matter who the cop was that day, the ending for Floyd would have been the same. Floyd killed himself with a drug overdose. Not the police. Period.
“My only reply will be from the mouths of my cannons!”
source: Count Frontenac refused to surrender Quebec to the English in 1690 with that reply.
No, don't announce it. You still want your gov't paycheck. Just F.I.D.O. It will make you safer, and the Al Sharptons of the USA will be happier too.
Except it didn't.
Chauvin is basically a political prisoner. I doubt he lives long in prison.
These dangerous jokers live in a fantasy world.
Same kind of vicious hallucinating clowns who are trying to prosecute President Trump for winning an election.
Spoken like the good little Marxists that the Minnesota persecutors are...
I have no sympathy for Chauvin. He did this to a kid, and his mother had to stop him, and she called the police on her kid.
Dunham, a black ex con, shot Mr Stevens 8 times as he tried to escape Dunham's attempted carjacking.
Mr Stevens was a 77 year old White retiree.
Despite Dunham being arrested with the gun, eye witness testimony, video, physical evidence and A CONFESSION a jury rendered a not guilty verdict on all counts.
No outrage, no "mostly peaceful protests", no national media coverage, no kneeling in congress.
I guess White lives really don't matter.
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