RE: Chauvin Murder Trial
April 26, 2021 at 4:41 pm
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2021 at 5:24 pm by Bucky Ball.)
(April 26, 2021 at 3:39 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote:(April 26, 2021 at 9:01 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: You think that because you don't understand the charges, no matter how many times they've been explained and reexplained to you. If twenty other things contributed to floyds death, chauvins knee was still one of them - and that's enough for a murder charge. There's no reasonable doubt that chauvins knee was among the things that contributed to the mans death.
Charged with and convicted for extreme recklessness in the process of committing an assault which led to a mans death. AKA, exactly what you, I, and everyone else saw him do for a good ten minutes..... on video.
It's not factual that the knee contributed to the death. We can't be 100 percent sure. Floyd said many times that he couldn't breathe before he was taken to the ground. He said he was dying or going to die before he was taken to the ground. We don't know if he swallowed drugs right before this, and if he did, his friends already said that he was passing out before and they couldn't wake him, so if you add more drugs on top of that if he swallowed any more, then the drugs are going to be affecting him even more. There's a chance his body just gave out from the drugs and his health conditions. Now, you might say there's only a 1 in a million chance of that or 1 in 10 million or 1 in 100 million chance. If we say that maybe there was a 1 in 500 chance of that happening, or 1 in 1000 chance, then that can be argued as reasonable doubt. I don't know if the doubt was reasonable, so I probably would have tried to convince my fellow jurors to settle for manslaughter.
The officers were clearly taught that if you can talk, you can breathe just fine, because they kept saying that to George as he was complaining about not being able to breathe. Better training is obviously needed. When Floyd was being held down, he was kicking. The one lady almost got pepper sprayed by Chauvin because she was beyond irresponsible and walked right up to them, distracting the officers and only making the situation worse. That one witness told Chauvin he was a fighter and trained in MMA, and technically his hands and feet can be counted as registered weapons, so they were somewhat concerned about him. The officers were too distracted by the witnesses and that shouldn't have been the case. Chauvin should have let the other officers focus on the crowd, and focused on what he was doing. He f'd up there. I don't know how much pressure was being put on him after he passed out or why they didn't do cpr, but I don't see murder. I see manslaughter. What's done is done though. The trial is over and the verdict was what it was. I'm not going to go on beating a dead horse. A 12 year sentence to be reduced with good behaviour doesn't sound that unfair.
The last few minutes Floyd was down, he was not moving. You clearly have never watched the video.
He was not kicking the entire time he was held down. He was DEAD and still being held down.
No one cares what you see. The jury saw murder. You are no expert.
Chauvin KNEW he had acted improperly as he LIED about what he had done to his supervisor.
There is nowhere, anywhere, that "reasonable doubt" is quantified as you have done it, (dishonestly ... totally made up).
Oh, and then there's this :
2020 Minnesota Statutes
Murder
609.195 MURDER IN THE THIRD DEGREE.
(a) Whoever, without intent to effect the death of any person, causes the death of another by perpetrating an act eminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved mind, without regard for human life, is guilty of murder in the third degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 25 years.
(b) Whoever, without intent to cause death, proximately causes the death of a human being by, directly or indirectly, unlawfully selling, giving away, bartering, delivering, exchanging, distributing, or administering a controlled substance classified in Schedule I or II, is guilty of murder in the third degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 25 years or to payment of a fine of not more than $40,000, or both.
So much for your ill-informed opinion.
Quote:We don't know if he swallowed drugs right before this, and if he did, his friends already said that he was passing out before and they couldn't wake him, so if you add more drugs on top of that if he swallowed any more, then the drugs are going to be affecting him even more. There's a chance his body just gave out from the drugs and his health conditions. Now, you might say there's only a 1 in a million chance of that or 1 in 10 million or 1 in 100 million chance. If we say that maybe there was a 1 in 500 chance of that happening, or 1 in 1000 chance, then that can be argued as reasonable doubt.
Your unfounded speculations for which there was no evidence introduced, are not reasonable doubt.
You should take a class in the law some day. Obviously you know nothing about how the law or evidence works.
If what you don't know constitutes reasonable doubt, no one would ever get convicted of anything.
We don't know if aliens shot laser weapons at Floyd.
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