Guilty On Alll Counts! (Update)
Chauvin has been found guilty on all counts.
Sentencing in 8 weeks.
A nation waiting to exhale breathes a sigh of relief and experiences a brief moment of elation.
Has anything changed?
Chauvin has been found guilty on all counts.
Sentencing in 8 weeks.
A nation waiting to exhale breathes a sigh of relief and experiences a brief moment of elation.
Has anything changed?
04/20/2021 @ 6:15 pm
If you’re asking if the world is better, more just, safer? Yes. No. Maybe. We’ll see. i think how could the jury have brought in any less a verdict. But then i think, sure, they sure could have.
I believe something good has happened. The world has shifted a little. Here, there, world sized little movements, tiny shifts – make of that what you will
04/21/2021 @ 7:28 am
Has anything changed? I don’t know how much has changed but to answer your question:
You know why Chauvin was indicted and convicted?
Because he choked a guy to death in Minnesota instead of in Staten Island.
04/21/2021 @ 7:30 am
The question now is if the Eric Garner case would go differently in the aftermath of this conviction.
04/21/2021 @ 7:32 am
And no, I’m not holding Minnesota up as a model here. Just as a point of change in this particular case.
04/21/2021 @ 10:01 am
This is the first conviction of a police officer for causing the death of a black person in the history of the state of Minnesota.
04/21/2021 @ 11:28 am
It’s the first time a police officer has been charged since Keith Ellison has been attorney general. I think he gets some credit.
04/21/2021 @ 1:22 pm
This fucking case drives me to sad frustrated disgusted tears.
Low hanging fruit.
Sorry but w all that incredible brave heartfelt prosecution witness testimony, umpteen videos showing chauvin crazily staring down a teenaged girl while – with hands in pockets casually rocking back and forth on George Floyd’s neck and among others, an EMS woman shouting out to all of them to check the mans vitals.
I ask how could they NOT have convicted this murderer? when i know sanctioned institutional murderers walk every day, pull their paychecks to kill and suppress and suck the hope from another day. This and the fact that 70 million people voted for a racist imbecile – yes it makes me nuts, depressed, hopeless deeply concerned maybe America for all its fits and starts is jerking itself past any hope.
This case in particular seems to drive it all deeply home. I want to believe. I need to believe but i swear if Canada wasn’t so cold, we’d move. I feel like this isnt America anymore. maybe it never was. Jesus H.
I should be relieved and grateful and i am, particularly for Mr Floyd’s family. But what about all the others?
04/21/2021 @ 1:49 pm
I want to add i wasnt happy yesterday so much as relieved the verdict went as it did. I saw murder and mayhem unleashed on decent people feeling righteous outrage at another systematic betrayal. People were going to die. This isnt the end. I hope this is the beginnings of hope restored. We have a strong national leader but these politics are very local and always dependent on what the market will tolerate.
04/21/2021 @ 7:58 am
Your point reminds me of something I thought years ago. I remember seeing the Rodney King video when it came in to Detective Headquarters downtown. I was downtown testifying on a case that day and went across the street to see my girlfriend who worked at Detective Headquarters. I watched it as a few detectives watched it and we discussed what we just saw. My first thought was, they were going to prison. My next thought was, if King had been shot, this would not have become an issue.
While a shooting is potentially more deadly, the beating appears more brutal. The same is true for the choking. Also, choking, whether the arm around neck variety, or the knee on neck variety, takes longer to accomplish, and is harder to do. A gunshot can happen with the flick of a fingertip. If anything has changed, the less deadly, more labor intensive process may be used less, and the more mechanical, more deadly procedure may remain, or become more common. Anyone assuming it is not complex would be fooling themselves.
04/21/2021 @ 10:00 am
I hope the next step is to deescalate the aggressive militarization of police. Police outfitted and armed to make war on communities they’re supposed to be serving and protecting, communities that actually
fund this madness has created serial invasions and occupations. Excessive force is facilitated.
Unfortunately all persons of color, young people, demonstrators and citizens foolish enough to challenge or break the law either accidentally or with purpose and of course the poor quickly become the enemy of the state.
We’re always at risk of becoming the designated enemy.
04/21/2021 @ 10:03 am
Amen!
04/21/2021 @ 6:53 pm
As relieved as I am by this, let’s keep in mind that, as George Floyd’s brother points out, without Darnella Frazier this would most likely have been just another killing. This is progress, but we’ll know we’ve really seen progress when we see one of these without a Darnella Frazier.