Did she not watch the defense’s closing argument? The attorney showed 16+ minutes of Floyd violently resisting arrest—kicking, thrashing, yelling, refusing to be seated in the police car. Four cops couldn’t subdue him. They fought with him that long while he yelled and kicked them almost knocking one of them to the ground. Another cop supposedly had his camera knocked off his body and lost his badge in the struggle.
This guy was big with bulging muscles. The cops finally got him on the ground and subdued him there. His mouth was bleeding in the police car. They saw that and called for the EMTs immediately. The EMTs took forever to show up. Meantime, Chauvin had his knee on Floyd’s upper back to keep him pinned down so he couldn’t resist.
I think if I’d been on that jury I would have acquitted him of all charges. He was dealing with a guy who had consumed drugs, including amphetamines, which may have given him that violent strength he exhibited in the video. His behavior was weird, unpredictable. He refused to comply with police orders. What’s a cop to think?
“I think if I’d been on that jury I would have acquitted him of all charges.”
Isn’t there a thing called jury intimidation? I bet there was huge pressure.
That said glad the scheduled riots have been postponed...
“What’s a cop to think?”
And what are they to do? I did not watch the whole trial, but I believe I followed it pretty closely and watched clips of some of the testimony. I agree with everything you said. There is now no doubt; this country is being run by the mob and criminals. It’s really a shame.
“I think if I’d been on that jury I would have acquitted him of all charges. He was dealing with a guy who had consumed drugs, including amphetamines, which may have given him that violent strength he exhibited in the video. His behavior was weird, unpredictable. He refused to comply with police orders. What’s a cop to think?”
Not to mention the guy had a bad heart and had taken a fatal dose of fentanyl. He was crying he couldn’t breathe before they put him on the ground. OJ redux.
I believed he was going to be found guilty as soon as the medical examiners testified. His cause of death, officially by the ME, was Homicide. Despite all the other evidence, being found not guilty of homicide, when the death certificate formally stated his cause of death was homicide, was near impossible.