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

[Zeta Reticulan]

Just in time for looting season

Start buying stock in bricks.

 

[Iceland Heavy]

Not guilty simply isn't going to happen with how the jury was being stacked. I do see either a hung jury or Chauvin getting convicted of third degree murder and that's enough for riots because it wasn't capital crimes against humanity.

 

[Escaped Abortion]

I don't think this will be a case where the evidence will even matter. Since Chauvin was willing to take the plea deal without even going to trial, I could see it becoming an issue of what to convict him of as a means of controlling the subsequent Minneapolis burn.

Let's be real, it will burn even if they get everything they want, but it will be nothing but ashes if they don't. If Chauvin was willing to hang to cool their rage a bit, would any of these people have reason to deny his wish?

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

Let it die, faggot. You have Senator Armstrong as a pfp but don't realize we must use riots to end riots as a whole.

And you have Ryan Gosling as a pfp, but I’m pretty sure you’re not a replicant.

 

[Random Internet Person]

I don't think this will be a case where the evidence will even matter. Since Chauvin was willing to take the plea deal without even going to trial, I could see it becoming an issue of what to convict him of as a means of controlling the subsequent Minneapolis burn.

Let's be real, it will burn even if they get everything they want, but it will be nothing but ashes if they don't. If Chauvin was willing to hang to cool their rage a bit, would any of these people have reason to deny his wish?

Here’s the thing: Chauvin was willing to take the rap for what he did. Someone mentioned in the riot thread that it’s like Casey Anthony in that the prosecution went for blood and the PR win by going for a worse charge that comes with a higher standard....which caused the defendant to walk away. That’s probably why the plea deal was rejected. Prosecution wanted to show Chauvin is directly caused Floyd’s death because he’s a racist piece of shit instead of his actions merely contributing to it.

 

[KiwiFuzz]

I'm going to re-post the video of the 2019 arrest here because I can.

At about 13:58, Floyd is bix nooding and an absolutely based cop says, "I can't understand. What language are you speaking?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7reJpf-23o&t=1s

 

[DiscoRodeo]

Calling it at this pint- second degree unintentional murder will not stick;

manslaughter and 10 years max (with one year basically already being served waiting for the trial), is what he's going to get nailed for.

 

[Extreme Aneurysm]

Calling it at this pint- second degree unintentional murder will not stick;

manslaughter and 10 years max (with one year basically already being served waiting for the trial), is what he's going to get nailed for.

They changed it to third degree murder if I believe correctly. The prosecutor will not die on the manslaughter hill.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

I'm going to re-post the video of the 2019 arrest here because I can.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7reJpf-23o&t=1s

2019 as in, the year before the infamous incident? Floyd had more issues with the cops in the span of time after his 5 year sentence down south but before the 2020 thing? I tuned out on the Floyd news partway into the riots so I've never heard of this.

I can't watch it right now, is it archived somewhere in the riot thread so I can still get at it if the case starting brings enough attention to it to get it memoryholed?

 

[DiscoRodeo]

They changed it to third degree murder if I believe. Prosecution will not die on the manslaughter hill.

Prosecution is seriously this retarded to add back the third degree murder charge?

 

[Extreme Aneurysm]

Prosecution is seriously this retarded to add back the third degree murder charge?

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/11/976008607/chauvin-trial-judge-reinstates-3rd-degree-murder-charge-over-george-floyds-killi

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin will face an additional charge of third-degree murder, Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill ruled on Thursday, after an appeals court ordered Cahill to reconsider his earlier decision to dismiss the charge.

"The court is going to grant the motion to reinstate" the charge, Cahill said as he announced his decision.

The ruling came as a third day of jury selection was set to begin in the trial over the killing of George Floyd. Chauvin was already facing manslaughter and second-degree murder charges when the much-anticipated trial opened this week.

Chauvin's defense team had sought to block the additional murder charge, but the Minnesota Supreme Court denied the request for review, in a decision that was issued Wednesday afternoon.

Last Friday, the Court of Appeals ordered Cahill to reexamine the third-degree charge based on the precedent set by a recent appeals court ruling. The judge had initially found that ruling, in the case of former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor, was not a precedent for the Chauvin case.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Pick your poison. Multiple channels are airing this.

 

[ShortBusDriver]

2019 as in, the year before the infamous incident? Floyd had more issues with the cops in the span of time after his 5 year sentence down south but before the 2020 thing? I tuned out on the Floyd news partway into the riots so I've never heard of this.

I can't watch it right now, is it archived somewhere in the riot thread so I can still get at it if the case starting brings enough attention to it to get it memoryholed?

A really strange connection is that one of Fentanyl Floyd's drug arrests in Texas was by Detective Gerald Goines.

Gerald Goines lied on the warrant and is facing charges over his deadly drug raid back in 2019.

 

[KiwiFuzz]

2019 as in, the year before the infamous incident? Floyd had more issues with the cops in the span of time after his 5 year sentence down south but before the 2020 thing? I tuned out on the Floyd news partway into the riots so I've never heard of this.

I can't watch it right now, is it archived somewhere in the riot thread so I can still get at it if the case starting brings enough attention to it to get it memoryholed?

This was from a year before, yes.

The source of the video is from WCCO - CBS Minnesota and it's been ruled that this is the only element of Floyd's previous arrest history that's going to be allowed in this trial, so it shouldn't be memoryholed, but if someone with l337 skills can archive it, I would be appreciative.

And I only became aware of it a few days ago and I was surprised that it's been available for months.

The second witness is a gas station employee from across the street from Cup Foods.

 

[Null]

My expectations are a surprise acquittal that'll cause riots.

 

[Failed Lurker]

How high is this witness? Looks like she's nodding off.

 

[Monolith]

Spoiler: NULL, BOOYAH

(not related to the admin)

 

[MuuMuu Bunnylips]

Not guilty simply isn't going to happen with how the jury was being stacked. I do see either a hung jury or Chauvin getting convicted of third degree murder and that's enough for riots because it wasn't capital crimes against humanity.

I wasn't aware Chauvin had attacked white people.

My expectations are a surprise acquittal that'll cause riots.

Don't tease everyone.

 

[Near]

All I can say to my NAfriends, is that I hope you're ready to celebrate George Floyd day next year.

 

[The Last Stand]

FINALLY!

I dread of what is about to come after this...

What the hell, at least we get to watch from afar. History of the making.