The jury took only 10 hours to deliberate. They asked no questions of the court. They ultimately found police officer Derek Michael Chauvin guilty of unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for killing George Floyd on May 25, 2020.
The verdicts were not surprising. After all, despite Chauvin’s lawyers’ attempts to convince the jury and world that our eyes lied to us, we all witnessed Chauvin rest his knee on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes as the poor man cried out that he couldn’t breathe, begged for his life and called for his dead mother.
Understandably, civil rights luminaries, Black people and their allies celebrated the result of Chauvin’s trial all over the country because they’ve seen so many police officers kill Black people and walk away unscathed. Chauvin being cuffed and marched out of the courtroom was righteous, but let us not overreact.
Source: Minnesota Department of Corrections / Minnesota Department of Corrections
While MAGA country is out busy having a complete meltdown over the guilty verdicts, the rest of American civilization is celebrating the fact that justice has finally (partially) been served and Derek Chauvin is finding out that life comes at you fast. After spending the last few months as the defendant in the case of the State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin, the heartless officer who turned his knee into a deadly weapon is now officially a convicted murderer and has a spiffy new mugshot to prove it.
TMZ is reporting that after he was led out of court in handcuffs and taken to Minnesota Correctional Faciltiy-Oak Park Heights, Chauvin took his latest identification picture for the state.
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Michael Wilson thrusts a fist in air and is hugged by Mileesha Smith at George Floyd Square in the moment that the verdict of former police officer Derek Chauvin was announced and was watched on phones in the streets next to the spot where George Floyd died.
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Parts of Minneapolis resembled a fortress this week. Many of the city s businesses, its courthouse and multiple police precincts were boarded or surrounded by barbed wire. Many other American cities, including Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., continued to hope for peace in the coming days, but have also taken deliberate steps to prepare for the worse. National Guard troops were on call throughout the nation in the event that Floyd’s killer had been decla
Corpus Christi attorney, NAACP president react to Chauvin verdict
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas â It took more than 10 hours of deliberation for the jury to reach a guilty verdict. Derek Michael Chauvin, 45, was charged with second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
âI think itâs going to provide relief to a great number of people,â said Matt Manning, a partner at Webb, Cason & Manning, P.C. and former prosecutor with the Nueces County District Attorneyâs Office. âI think itâs going to provide relief to people around the world as well because there are people around the world who watched with bated breath to see how America was going to handle this inflection point in its history.â