So you still believe Chauvin had his knee on his neck?
Or are you referencing the original footage that had a misleading angle?
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So you still believe Chauvin had his knee on his neck?
Or are you referencing the original footage that had a misleading angle?
nsacpi
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With proper male sponsorship I don’t see why not.
Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
57 is cool with slavery, as long as it happens north of Richmond.
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Letting perfect become the enemy of good.
This will continue to happen across the nation.
As I said yesterday. There will be portions of the country that value policing and understand difficult circumstances they are under. Those areas will be safe places for people to live while the areas that are hostile towards police will not.
Then the proper direction for the country will be clear.
Letting perfect become the enemy of good.
This will continue to happen across the nation.
As I said yesterday. There will be portions of the country that value policing and understand difficult circumstances they are under. Those areas will be safe places for people to live while the areas that are hostile towards police will not.
Then the proper direction for the country will be clear.
Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
Agreed. If it wasn't for politics it never would have been charged, it clearly doesn't fit.
nsacpi
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I really don't understand why the DoJ vetoed the plea deal (on third degree) reached last summer. It wouldn't have stopped them from continuing with their civil rights case. I don't even understand how the DoJ has any say in decisions made by state/local prosecutors about a case involving state law.
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nsacpi
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things that might have been brought up if Chauvin had taken the stand
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/...action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
Mr. Skinaway said he remembers seeing the officer on top of Mr. Peet, but also something not mentioned in Mr. Chauvin’s account in the arrest report. Mr. Skinaway said the officer put Mr. Peet’s head, facedown, in a rain puddle. Other officers were present as well, he said.
“He said, ‘I can’t breathe — can I just put my head up?’” Mr. Skinaway said. “And they just held his face in the water, and I couldn’t see a purpose for that.”
Mr. Skinaway said he was about seven feet away as he watched Mr. Peet struggle for air, bubbles surfacing as he tried to breathe. He estimated that the officer kept Mr. Peet in the puddle for two to three minutes. Whenever Mr. Peet managed to turn his head for air, Mr. Skinaway said, the officer grabbed him by his long hair and put his head back in the water.
When he spoke by phone with a reporter, Mr. Skinaway said he did not know the officer’s name or that there was a connection with the Floyd case, but the details he described match those noted in the police report and prosecutors’ account.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/...action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
Mr. Skinaway said he remembers seeing the officer on top of Mr. Peet, but also something not mentioned in Mr. Chauvin’s account in the arrest report. Mr. Skinaway said the officer put Mr. Peet’s head, facedown, in a rain puddle. Other officers were present as well, he said.
“He said, ‘I can’t breathe — can I just put my head up?’” Mr. Skinaway said. “And they just held his face in the water, and I couldn’t see a purpose for that.”
Mr. Skinaway said he was about seven feet away as he watched Mr. Peet struggle for air, bubbles surfacing as he tried to breathe. He estimated that the officer kept Mr. Peet in the puddle for two to three minutes. Whenever Mr. Peet managed to turn his head for air, Mr. Skinaway said, the officer grabbed him by his long hair and put his head back in the water.
When he spoke by phone with a reporter, Mr. Skinaway said he did not know the officer’s name or that there was a connection with the Floyd case, but the details he described match those noted in the police report and prosecutors’ account.
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Deester11
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That's all he does. The downtrodden sarcastic white man shtick works for him.
Tapate50
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Not shocked at the verdict and honestly expected it. There could have been doubt but had he ever stood up for a second or checked on him this would have been avoided.
The margin isn’t that slim.
But this was probably the verdict the voracious mob needed to cool down some. Let’s hope that happens. Let’s hope police take as much care as they possibly can in every situation.
The margin isn’t that slim.
But this was probably the verdict the voracious mob needed to cool down some. Let’s hope that happens. Let’s hope police take as much care as they possibly can in every situation.
acesfull86
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https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/31298644/las-vegas-raiders-face-backlash-breathe-tweet-following-derek-chauvin-conviction
HENDERSON, Nev. -- Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis, reacting to widespread criticism of a tweet sent from the team's Twitter account after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd, told ESPN on Tuesday night that the post was his idea, and he does not plan to delete it.
The tweet, sent late Tuesday afternoon, read: "I CAN BREATHE 4-20-21." Floyd told officers, "I can't breathe," more than 20 times before he was killed when Chauvin pressed his knee into the back of Floyd's neck for about nine minutes last May.
Davis told ESPN that he "meant no disrespect" to Floyd's family with the tweet, and that he "took the lead" from Floyd's brother, Philonise, who said following the verdict, "Today, we are able to breathe again."
"I felt that was a powerful statement," Davis said. "Today was a day where I can breathe, and we can all breathe again because justice was served. But we have a lot of work to do still on social justice and police brutality."
HENDERSON, Nev. -- Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis, reacting to widespread criticism of a tweet sent from the team's Twitter account after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd, told ESPN on Tuesday night that the post was his idea, and he does not plan to delete it.
The tweet, sent late Tuesday afternoon, read: "I CAN BREATHE 4-20-21." Floyd told officers, "I can't breathe," more than 20 times before he was killed when Chauvin pressed his knee into the back of Floyd's neck for about nine minutes last May.
Davis told ESPN that he "meant no disrespect" to Floyd's family with the tweet, and that he "took the lead" from Floyd's brother, Philonise, who said following the verdict, "Today, we are able to breathe again."
"I felt that was a powerful statement," Davis said. "Today was a day where I can breathe, and we can all breathe again because justice was served. But we have a lot of work to do still on social justice and police brutality."
nsacpi
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That's what makes thethe so special. The extravagance of his racism and love of very poorly chosen one. Some may be slightly embarrassed by such things. But not thethe. He is out and proud. And in some weird way I respect that.
acesfull86
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People who support raising the minimum wage, fight school choice, and vote for a president with Biden’s record on race issues (and his continued stance on drugs) have no moral standing to call others racist. Just my $0.02.
How about the people that think black people are incapable of getting ID and better yet are too dumb to be able to get information on how to obtain one (encheff special)?
striker42
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That might still be inadmissible depending on Chauvin testified about on the stand. There are a lot of limitations when trying to bring of a defendant's prior bad acts, especially when the purpose of bringing them up is to show the defendant acted now in conformity with the prior acts. The legal belief is that a defendant is being put on trial for a specific act, not everything bad they've ever done in their life.
sturg33
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Fact.
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Fact