It was something plain as day….
A police officer with his knee on a handcuffed suspect neck….
Recorded for nine minutes….
By the time the suspect George Floyd arrived at the hospital he was dead….
The officer was Derek Chauvin ….
He was White…
Floyd was Black…
A criminal act by a cop would go national as a prime example of ‘Black Lives Matter’….
Yesterday….
A year after the incident….
Americans and World watched holding their breaths for a jury’s verdict in the case….
Around the country law enforcement official ‘s also waited in the ready if a verdict would result in anger and violence ….
That would NOT be the case….
Former cop Chauvin would be found guilty of three criminal counts of violence that caused a death..
The case was an open and shut one for most people….
The officer’s action where uncalled for…
A prone handcuffed person choked to death by the full pressure of a body thru its knee…
But the case moved form just that to a view of race…
Of Black men being handled by White cops ….
The fact is white cop’s deal with black’s hundreds of times each day around American everyday…
The overwhelming number of those interactions come and go…
But situations were cops handle themselves unprofessionally and even sometimes criminally are increasingly coming under scrutiny…
There was collective sign of relief yesterday that ‘justice’ was done in the case ….It will not bring George Floyd back…Not even the civil case settlement …
But one would hope the those in law enforcement try to do their best to handle themselves professionally and bring their suspects to justice safely….Bad cops need to be found and dealt with….
Black and All Lives DO Matter….
Chauvin’s conviction, in a rare case without modern precedent, was called historic by Floyd’s family and legal team, who said it symbolized that justice is attainable for all Americans.
“Let’s pause for a moment to proclaim this historical moment, not just for the legacy of George Floyd, but for the legacy of America, the legacy of trying to make America for all Americans so that George Floyd’s victory and America’s quest for equal justice under the law will be intertwined,” civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represents the Floyd family, said at a news conference after the verdict was announced. “This is a victory for those who champion humanity over inhumanity, those who champion justice over injustice, those who champion morals over immorality.”….
…
After the verdict was read, Chauvin, who had been free on bail, was immediately handcuffed and taken into custody. He faces up to 40 years in prison when he is sentenced in about eight weeks.
The jury of 12 people — six White, four Black and two multiracial — agreed with prosecutors who argued that Chauvin betrayed the badge and his training when he pressed a knee into Floyd’s neck and back for nine minutes and 29 seconds during an arrest in Minneapolis on May 25…
…
For many, the trial was about more than Chauvin’s guilt or innocence. It was a barometer of the racial change in a country where Floyd’s death sparked what many have described as a new civil rights movement. Some viewed the Chauvin trial, the highest-profile police brutality case since the 1991 beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, as a referendum on what justice means in a country where so many police officers have been acquitted or have gone uncharged in the deaths of countless Black Americans and other people of color.
“Painfully earned justice has arrived for George Floyd’s family and the community here in Minneapolis, but today’s verdict goes far beyond this city and has significant implications for the country and even the world,” Crump said in a statement. “Justice for Black America is justice for all of America.”…
Update…
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday announced a sweeping Justice Department probe into the practices and culture of the Minneapolis Police Department, elevating the federal government’s role a day after former officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty in the murder of George Floyd.
During remarks at Justice Department headquarters, Garland said the civil investigation would determine whether “Minneapolis police engaged in a pattern or practice of unconstitutional or unlawful policing.”…
image…Black Lives Matter activist Allison Lane, left, and Dee Ahmed embrace at Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington on Tuesday after hearing the Chauvin trial verdict. (Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post)
Fox News host Tucker Carlson explains why he’s asshole…
After a jury convicted former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin of murder and manslaughter on Tuesday in the death of George Floyd, Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested they weren’t swayed by the testimony of more than three dozen witnesses or visceral video of Floyd pleading, “I can’t breathe.”
Instead, Carlson argued, the jurors were intimidated into the guilty verdict by the months of racial justice protests that followed Floyd’s death.
“The jurors in the Derek Chauvin trial came to a unanimous and unequivocal verdict this afternoon: ‘Please don’t hurt us,’” Carlson said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
Carlson added, “Everyone understood perfectly well the consequences of an acquittal in this case. After nearly a year of burning and looting and murder by BLM, that was never in doubt.”….
More…
Oh, Greene is right behind Carlson…
Greene Says Calm Proves BLM Is a Terrorist Group
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tweeted that the lack of riots in the streets of Washington, D.C. on Tuesday night after Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd was somehow evidence that Black Lives Matter “is the strongest terrorist threat in our country.”
Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson claimed that last summer’s protests “intimidated” the Chauvin jury into guilty verdict, according to the Washington Post.
Represents the views of a large portion of the Republican Party.
Four former Minneapolis police officers were indicted on charges of violating the civil rights of George Floyd, a Black man whose killing last year led to months of demonstrations against police violence, the Justice Department announced on Friday….
More…
Floyd cop Chauvin gets 22 1/2 years jail sentence….
Expresses remorse….
That will not bring the man back….