Originally Posted by kimilseung

He either gets off, or it damns the whole system.

Originally Posted by Shard

Good Lord, Rev Al Sharpton whipping up the mob to view this not as trial of Chauvin, but as a trial on black equality.

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl

Sharpton is a horrid little man. He always tries to do the same at every opportunity.

Originally Posted by Shard

Better add "Eternal Optimist" to your list of qualifications

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl

No it is not. I was just stating that the cops had tried to get him in the back of the car but he resisted. Sad because had he complied, he most probably would not have died that day.

Originally Posted by kimilseung

Jesus fracking Christ.

Originally Posted by el collado kid

I have been watching YouTube lately and a lot of American police camera action! And maybe understand the way the police behave a little more, I am just glad i have nothing to do with law enforcement!!!

Originally Posted by Jsmth321

The paramedics testified today.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/01/us/ge...y-4/index.html

Floyd was asystole when paramedics began working on him, and his status never changed.

According to this, less than 2% of people in asystole are revived.

Originally Posted by Shard

Saw a bit of that testimony.

One thing I didn't understand on the dashcam footage is why when they were forcing him in the squad car, they did not have the opposite side door closed/locked (the one 'escaped from). He was at one stage in the car.

Originally Posted by Jsmth321

This isn't going to help Chauvin, fellow officers testimony the last couple of days might get him convicted at this rate.

"Kneeling on the neck of someone who is handcuffed and in the prone position is "top-tier, deadly" force and should not be used, the head of the Minneapolis Police Department's homicide division testified Friday at Derek Chauvin's murder trial."

Pleoger testified Thursday that officers are trained to roll people on their side to help with their breathing after they have been restrained in the prone position. He said the officers could have ended their restraint of Floyd after he stopped resisting.https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/chauvi...mony-1.5974400

Originally Posted by Shard

It's certainly looking like murder over manslaughter. Hopefully the defense is not going to claim DC was in some kind of crowd induced trance or something.

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl

The photo of him with his hand in his pocket, looking so arrogant, makes me so angry. Hopefully that will go a long way in convicting him.

Originally Posted by Shard

If that's Exhibit 17, I know what you mean. What a piece of work.

Originally Posted by Leslie

Floyd's past is irrelevant. All that matters is what happened that day. Floyd's behavior, both before the police were called and later when they were trying to arrest him, is relevant to what may have motivated the police to act in a certain way. If Floyd happened to die in the process of resisting arrest (due to heart disease or drug overdose) and police were following best practices, then we probably wouldn't even be having this conversation. For example, when police tase a suspect and that causes the suspect have a heart attack, the police are not accused of murder. That's because the taser is an accepted use of force. We can debate whether tasers should be used but I can't see that it's fair to give a cop a taser and then be shocked when he uses it. The issue is not that Floyd might have done something wrong, we know Floyd did lots of stuff wrong OBVIOUSLY that's why he was most likely headed to prison. The question in front of the jury is did Chauvin do something wrong? Was the method that Chauvin used illegal? If Chauvin did something wrong, and I believe he did, then the same standard should apply to him ... break the law and you go to jail.