Posted on 06/26/2021 8:44:28 AM PDT by rktman
CNN contributor Van Jones reacted with emotion Friday on “Newsroom” to the 22-and-a-half year sentence of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.
Discussing how with good behavior, Chauvin is likely to serve closer to 15 years, Senior legal analyst Elie Honig said, “Justice is imperfect. This is a serious sentence. Derek Chauvin will be in prison for 15 years. He’s 45 now until he’s 60. That said, I think this is light. I think the judge should’ve sentenced him more. Minnesota guidelines say you can double the 15 years if there is one aggravator. This judge found four aggravators and didn’t really come super close to doubling it.”
Jones said, “Very disappointing, very disappointing 15 years, I know people doing 15 years for victimless crimes of drug possession. Very disappointing the level of any one of those aggravators. What this man did, it should’ve been the maximum of the maximum. This is disappointing. I don’t think it’s going to cause outrage. But it’s a punch in the gut. This guy’s life is worth more than 15 years. It was. What that officer did is worth more than 15 years. Law enforcement across the country should look at something like this and say, look, you can’t do this type of stuff. You’re never going to come back home. It’s disappointing.”
When Honig pointed out there were two federal indictments still pending against Chauvin, Jones said, “The feds can come in and do more, and they should do more because this is not justice.”
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Hear hear
THAT would be justice!
Surprised we didn’t wake up to stories of cities having been burned overnight but Jones is trying to help make sure they do tonight.
Yep.
They should have just left Floyd in his own car to die of overdose.
+1
They don’t care how long the sentence is . . . after all, they hope to have an assisted-suicide as soon as possible.
Somali cop shot an actually innocent white woman and only got 12 years of I’m not mistaken. I’d doubt the life of a violent junkie career criminal was worth twice the time of her’s.
That’s assuming Floyd didn’t die of a drug overdose which is fairly unlikely.
Van Jones is such a victim.
St. George of Fentanyl was going to die from the amount of fentanyl he had ingested even if the cops never showed up.
Read the defenses testimony in court. Chauvin did absolutely nothing wrong, and did everything by the book. Thr defense lawyer proved that over and over and over in court, and he also proved that floyd was dying of a drug overdose even before the cops got there, and he also proved that the cops did not have a k ee on his neck at any point as falsely claimed by the prosecution.
They had video cam to back that up,
But none of the facts mattered. The jury was afraid of blm and a Tifa coming after them if they didn’t t give a ‘guilty on all counts’ verdict
The defense did a fantastic job proving that Chauvin was innocent. You have to read the defense to understand this. The media didn’t bring any of those facts out because they wanted their revenue ge on white society and to appease the violent black community in blm.
Oh, I pretty much guarantee that he’ll be dead within a year, two at the outside.
There isn’t a convict on the inside who doesn’t know he’s a former cop, and “he’s the one who killed George”.
Even if they kept him in solitary for the entire sentence, I’m not sure even that would work.
Nothing short of him being hanged, drawn and quartered in public, with his family forced to change their last name will be enough.
Noor, a black man, shot a unarmed woman in cold blood after she called police to report a crime. he got 12 years.
“Nothing short of him being hanged, drawn and quartered in public, with his family forced to change their last name will be enough.”
At least they stopped short of the Brazen Bull.
He got a stiffer sentence than most thugs get. Of course I’ve always said we don’t have tough enough sentences.
He'd actually like Chauvin to be murdered by Commies with a bullet to the back of the neck.
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