"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
As I read the story, the charges were added. That doesn't mean the previous charges were dropped. Unless the MN rules of Crim. Procedural are super weird, both options are presented to the jury.
Not at all atypical for a defendant to be charged with a range of versions of the same crime.
One thing I still cant get over is Chauvin's demeanor the whole time he was kneeling on Floyd's neck. I have no idea how it will affect a jury. But its chilling watching his body language.
Typically when you're charged with a crime, the jury has the option of finding you guilty of a lesser included offense instead. So you can be charged with murder and be found guilty of the lesser included offense of manslaughter. I've not looked into how it is in Minnesota or if the different degrees of murder are lesser included offenses of the degrees above them.
Shame the data doesn't suppprt the idea blacks are being murdered in waves by cops.
Its not surprisjng that people refuse to analyze the data.
Natural Immunity Croc
I think we've gone over this, but let's do it again.
Blacks are not getting disproportionately gunned down by cops (although shockingly the data are somewhat incomplete when it comes to killings by cops).
But in their interactions with cops, various studies that take care to control for other variables show they are more likely to be cuffed, more likely to be tased, more likely to be thrown to the ground, more likely to be slammed against a wall, more likely to have a gun pointed at them, more likely to have a baton used against them, and less likely to be addressed in a respectful manner.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Is that normalized to the type of interactions with the officer? Are you telling me that on a rate basis that whites and blacks have the same type of interactions?
Are we working with homogenous populations to make the claim that they are 'more likely'?
Are these adjustments as good as other adjustments that we have seen recently by experts?
Natural Immunity Croc
Natural Immunity Croc
I put up a link to various studies a while back. Feel free to peruse.
My favorite one is about how cops speak less respectfully to blacks than to whites. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2017.
Here is a link describing how the study was done.
https://phys.org/news/2017-06-police...residents.html
Last edited by nsacpi; 06-03-2020 at 09:35 PM.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
I mean it's a wrong opinion to have. It's not like Kaepernick was turning his back on the flag. He was taking a knee, something that isn't particularly disrespectful in any way.
https://www.ourmilitary.com/take-a-k...itary-meaning/
I wish more people were knowledgeable. Sadly people don't want to hear it. It's the world we live in I guess. But Brees is allowed to have his wrong opinion and everyone is allowed to tell him about it.
Stockholm, more densely populated than NYC - sturg
Runnin (06-03-2020)
Is this the point where someone tells me I dont know what its like to feel hatred from others? That I should just stop talking and accept the 'truth' we all know?
Natural Immunity Croc