US police brutality item

[Rev. Rye]

Just an interesting thing to note, Chris Hansen has a YouTube page and he’s currently streaming a couple nights a week. Last night, he did a stream on this incident, and among the interviewees is Chris Swanson, sheriff of Gennessee County, and he does not mince words about The question of Chauvin’s guilt, particularly Starting at 22:25:


Self-defense is a valid concept, but whatever the fuck happened between the two meeting and the moment Chauvin pushed Floyd’s neck to the ground, nothing could possibly justify an 8 minute, 46 second strangling, especially since Floyd lost consciousness two thirds of the way through and was already handcuffed before the knee went on his neck. There is no context that could make this a reasonable claim of self defense. It’s about an open or shut case as that episode of Better Call Saul where the prosecutor needs only to show the footage of the teens breaking into the mortuary and screwing a severed head and he wins without saying a word. Ironically, he might have had a bit more of a leg to stand on if he just shot him!