AUSTIN The 2020 murder of unarmed George Floyd by a former Minneapolis police officer renewed calls for criminal justice reform, with people across the.
Spare Jordan
It’s been a rough and difficult year for Cardinals’ MIKE LB Jordan Hicks.
In 2019, at the behest of ILB coach Billy Davis who coached Jordan Hicks in Philly when Hicks was a rookie, the Cardinals signed the former Eagle to (per Sportrac.com): a 4 year,
$34,000,000 contract with the Arizona Cardinals, including a
$12,000,000 signing bonus,
$20,000,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of
$8,500,000.
2015 PHI 446 snaps PFF grade: 80.9
2016 PHI 971 snaps PFF grade: 88.4
2017 PHI 268 snaps PFF grade: 64.3
2018 PHI 705 snaps PFF grade: 75.1
The Cardinals gambled on Jordan Hicks being able to stay healthy and highly effective in stopping the run and defending the pass. The staying healthy part of the gamble has paid off, as Hicks has started all 32 games during his two year tenure. However, the playing highly effective playing part of the gamble has not come to the kind of fruition that Hicks, Billy Davis and the Arizona Cardinals had hoped.
Updated: 6:42 PM CDT April 20, 2021
DALLAS A jury Tuesday found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter in the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd.
In the past few years, North Texas prosecutors have convicted police officers of murder. But in each case, questions and complaints arrived with each officer s eventual prison sentence. I think the notion now is police officers don t get carte blanche to do whatever they want to do, said career prosecutor Mike Snipes, who led the prosecution of former Balch Springs police officer Roy Oliver in 2018. Oliver was convicted of murder in the 2017 shooting death of 15-year-old Jordan Edwards, shot in the head in the passenger seat of a vehicle as it sped away from a party. Oliver is now serving time in a TDCJ facility in Rosharon, Texas. Snipes had sought a sentence of 60 years.
MINNEAPOLIS
Philonise Floyd wrapped his arm around Gwen Carr’s shoulder, staring into the throng of television cameras outside the Hennepin County Government Center.
Before the news conference on a recent afternoon, the two bound by the grief of losing a loved one at the hands of police had only met a few times.
Carr, whose son, Eric Garner, was killed by a police officer’s chokehold in New York in 2014, traveled here in the days after George Floyd, Philonise’s older brother, died last May under the knee of a police officer.
They cried together and prayed together. And now, they were together, again, publicly calling for justice.