Chauvin Murder Trial

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It's three days after the verdict, and the light rail stations are still broadcasting warnings about possible service disruptions due to demonstrations, and most of the businesses that boarded up in anticipation of trouble are still boarded up.  No idea when the third precinct is going to be rebuilt, and we still don't have a post office to replace the one that burned down.  This town has been through the shit this year.  Covid and a year of unending civil unrest.  What a year.

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After Chauvin's conviction for Floyd murder, DOJ weighs charging him for 2017 incident involving Black teen

Late last year, as a team of Minnesota state prosecutors was preparing for the trial that would ultimately convict former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin of murdering George Floyd, they received a series of videos depicting Chauvin's handling of another case three years earlier that by their own description shocked them.

According to ABC News, the videos, from Sept. 4, 2017, allegedly showed Chauvin striking a Black teenager in the head so hard that the boy needed stitches, then allegedly holding the boy down with his knee for nearly 17 minutes, and allegedly ignoring complaints from the boy that he couldn't breathe.

"Those videos show a far more violent and forceful treatment of this child than Chauvin describes in his report" of the incident, one of the state prosecutors, Matthew Frank, wrote in a court filing at the time.

Now, the U.S. Justice Department may do something that state prosecutors never did: charge Chauvin for the 2017 incident.

My rather elderly aunt and uncle are in the area...one of the 'burbs.  I've been a bit concerned for their safety though I would be more so if COVID weren't keeping them close to home.