The Trial of Derek Chauvin - Judgement(?) Day(?) has arrived!

Outcome?

  • Guilty of Murder

    Votes: 75 7.6%

  • Not Guilty of Murder (2nd/3rd), Guilty of Manslaughter

    Votes: 397 40.0%

  • Full Acquittal

    Votes: 221 22.3%

  • Mistrial

    Votes: 299 30.1%
  • Total voters
    992
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AnOminous said:
Yes. They can issue subpoenas, and the court can enforce the subpoenas by finding a witness who refuses to testify in contempt, and either fine them (sometimes on a daily basis) or hold them in jail until they comply.

The party forcing an unwilling witness to testify might not end up happy with the results, though. There are techniques for dealing with this, though. If the court grants a request to declare the witness a hostile witness, the party calling the witness can then ask leading questions (questions that suggest the answer and invite only a yes or no response) and issue impeachment evidence and questioning to discredit the witness.

Given any other choice, you'd usually rather get evidence from a witness who is willing to be there.
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Yeah I'll defer to your expertise here, but I don't see what would stop a subpoenaed witness from saying "I don't know" in response to any question. I guess technically it would be perjury if they did know whatever the answer was, but that's completely unfalsifiable.
 
formershroomeryuser said:
ignore medical attention like they did and the fentanyl consuming perpetrator was so violent and did not inform the cops he was high then its all good.
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they had already called the medics. he was screaming about breathing issues well before they even touched him and could reasonably infer that it was a ploy to make a break.
 
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Flip: Draw 2 said:
* It is Transgender Day of Disability
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Wait, what?

March 31, 2021, 11:37 AM EDT
By Jo Yurcaba
President Joe Biden on Wednesday issued the first presidential proclamation recognizing Transgender Day of Visibility.
The day is dedicated to celebrating transgender people and bringing awareness to the discrimination and violence they face everyday.

In his proclamation, Biden said Trans Day of Visibility recognizes the generations of activism by transgender and nonbinary people.
“Their trailblazing work has given countless transgender individuals the bravery to live openly and authentically,” Biden wrote. “This hard-fought progress is also shaping an increasingly accepting world in which peers at school, teammates and coaches on the playing field, colleagues at work, and allies in every corner of society are standing in support and solidarity with the transgender community.”
Despite progress for lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer Americans, such as marriage equality, Biden said trans people “still face systemic barriers to freedom and equality,” such as higher rates of violence, harassment and discrimination.
Nearly 1 in 3 trans people have experienced homelessness, Biden wrote, and they also face discrimination in employment, housing, health care and public accommodations.
“The crisis of violence against transgender women, especially transgender women of color, is a stain on our Nation’s conscience,” Biden said. Forty-four transgender people were killed in the United States last year, a record; 23 of them were Black trans women.

Biden said his administration has already started implementing new policies to protect trans people, such as the executive order he issued on the first day of his presidency to expand discrimination protections for LGBTQ people under federal laws such as the Affordable Housing Act.
He also mentioned “the first openly transgender American to be confirmed by the United States Senate” — Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary for health — and “patriotic transgender service members, who are once again able to proudly and openly serve their country” — a reference to his executive order undoing former President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military.

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But he also called on Congress to pass the Equality Act, a sweeping bill that would grant LGBTQ people protections from discrimination in employment, housing, education, credit, jury service and more.
“To more fully protect the civil rights of transgender Americans, we must pass the Equality Act and provide long overdue Federal civil rights protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity,” Biden wrote. “It will serve as a lasting legacy to the bravery and fortitude of the LGBTQ+ movement.”
From 2012 to 2014, the Obama administration recognized Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day each November dedicated to memorializing trans people who were killed.
Trump did not recognize either Trans Day of Remembrance or Visibility, and for three of his four years as president, he also did not recognize or proclaim June LGBTQ Pride Month as Obama did throughout the eight years of his presidency.
In June 2019, Trump recognized Pride Month for the first time in a series of tweets, writing, “My Administration has launched a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality and invite all nations to join us in this effort!”
Critics noted at the time that Trump had recently rolled back nondiscrimination protections in health care for trans people, and opposed passage of the Equality Act.
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Ooh.
 
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Elbe said:
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This is the tactic they're going for.

Performative weeping is in vogue. From politicians to TV presenters, if anyone attempts to bring facts to the table just start 'crying your truth'.
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"I can't breathe!.... My Knee Hurt!.... My stomach hurt!... Everything hurt!... [easily moves neck and repositions head] AAAAAAAAH...I'm done."
 
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Hüftpriester said:
Q: How far did you go in school?
A: Third Grade
Q: and what city do you live in?
A: Hennepin County
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Without any context, that's kind of impressive. Not just how they got that wrong but also how they got that right.

Like, yeah, a county isn't a city. But I don't think I normally know what county I'm in. As a third grader I probably knew what county I lived in, but only because it was on every barcode at the public library. I was never taught it because that information isn't used to identify where lost children live or to write a letter. As an adult I still don't know where one county ends and the next begins, if I met one of you on the street I wouldn't be able to say.

I wonder what that person went through to make them able to identify the county accurately instead of just going "??? I don't know what city I live in"
 
The OG niggas are always the based ones. They hate the young thugs just as much as any racist white, and are victimized just as hard by their own people. Hell, one old man I'd talk to on the bus was poor but always dressed well, and would often ask me if I wanted lunch with him at the local fast food joint. Sweetest old man you'd ever want to meet, a highlight for the usually shitty bus ride. Once I bought him a pack of cigarettes and two thugs got off the bus with us and followed us into the store, then started begging off him and me after purchase. I told them off, and we left the store. The next time I saw him, he told me they ended up jumping him. I felt terrible that I wasn't there to help him so I can definitely imagine what this poor old man must've felt. And how disappointed he must be in Floyd for turning out that way and ruining everything he worked for to get along/get ahead.
 
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formershroomeryuser said:
Yeah like a bunch of racist meth smoking trailer trash

"Wow you have clearly never associated with ghetto blacks before you dont know shit about real life they will rape you and attack the cops"

Damn sometimes I forget you can access the internet at any age, 16, 15, 14, 13.

Unbelievable what a shithole this forum is.

Do I get a prize if Chauvin is guilty?

What percentage thinks he will walk slap on the wrist free to go?

If you believe that then even retarded is ashamed to be compared to you. Which it already should be.

No Ive uh......

This shit could not be more racist. Do they not use the firewall at the public library anymore or wherever you are?

No they do. No idea how you got online. Does your mom come back from work soon? Hooters is hard work and there are few left so be nice when she comes back because she forget her phone at home is taking it out of your hands.
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this is very classist given that you’re trying to play some moral superiority card.
 
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PK Shitstorm said:
They keep trying to make him say that he thinks he was dying and that the police where actively killing him, yet he refuses, and says exclusively what he saw and how he saw it, what a fucking based man
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I was going into this thinking there’d be a fair manslaughter conviction.. but this man is making me realize he was prob ODing the entire time. Especially with the foam at the mouth comment. Wild
 
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"Looks like he is on something."

DC

Edit: excited delirium like a motherfucka
 
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