Progressive Pessimist
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« on: April 20, 2021, 06:32:05 PM » |
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I was honestly speechless when I saw the verdict, for good reasons, for once. I really thought the jury would have bought into the drug use and carbon monoxide bulls*** by the defense combined with police almost always getting the benefit of the doubt to lead to Chauvin's acquittal on at least one charge. I truly underestimated this jury.
Of course, needless to say, as positive and major of a development as this is on the side of police accountability, this country still has a very long way to go. At the minimum, maybe we'll have some sort of precedent now.
It's some much needed good news after a truly upsetting week in American history (Minnesota's in particular-right down to Mondale passing away). It still sucks that it had to take something like this to get an unequivocal sentencing of a police officer. Meanwhile, the officer who shot Jacob Blake is back at his job, still serving a community whose trust he betrayed. So I can only be so optimistic, as per usual.
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