Derek Chauvin trial megathread (SENTENCED TO 22.5 YEARS IN PRISON)

[CookieDamage]

Tobin's testimony was devastating for the defense.

[CookieDamage]

I have edited the poll due to the verdict being announced soon. Unfortunately due to forum stuff, I can't control how many votes you guys can cast, so you guys can only cast 1.

Huh, really?

[CookieDamage]

If there's one racist juror who's not guilty on all of them this country will be torn apart

[CookieDamage]

"If you can talk, you can breathe" will become the white conservative's "Hands up, don't shoot!"; and I already see this lining up perfectly with the riots and backlash from a likely hung jury/not guilty.

We've been slowly descending toward chaos since 2016, why do any of you think this will work out well this time?

1. Just in 2019, Amber Guyger was found guilty and sentenced 10 years in a case that was maybe even less clear-cut than this one. In TEXAS. So clearly cops can be found guilty in particularly egregious cases, and especially given how many cops testified against Chauvin, it’s not looking good for him.

2. You cited the racial make-up of the jury, assuming all whites even in a place like Minneapolis are racist I guess, yet 4 of the jurors are black. You really think they will all vote NOT guilty? Of course not. Mistrial is absolutely Chauvin’s best possible outcome. Otherwise the defense wouldn’t have bothered to already motion for a mistrial over Maxine Waters’s dumb comments; THEY think it’s likely he’ll be convicted!

3. The defense’s arguments were crap. They claimed it wasn’t excessive use of force; countless cops said otherwise. They claimed Chauvin didn’t even kill him; both autopsies concluded it was a homicide and the testimony of that doctor pretty decisively proved he was asphyxiated. No other expert testimony was remotely as convincing.

Yeah there's NO way he's found not guilty on any charge. Best for him is a mistrial on the more serious charges and guilty/mistrial on manslaughter. The black jurors are 99.99% going with guilty for the 2nd and 3rd degree murder unless the jurors are Stacey Dash, David Clarke, Vernon Jones, and Candace Owens.

[CookieDamage]

Verdict at 4:30 EST!! With a verdict this soon I bet he's guilty of 2nd degree murder

[CookieDamage]

There's no way all the jurors have voted this quick to acquit on 2nd degree. I bet he's guilty of all 3.

[CookieDamage]

There’s no good way for this to end, either way half the country is gonna be furious and honestly as a resident of a diverse city I am terrified

Murderers being found guilty is good actually, especially when they are in positions of power. Terrible take.

[CookieDamage]

My best bet is most of the jury went back ready to convict for murder, there were a couple stragglers who said there was reasonable doubt of some sort or another, and they landed on manslaughter as a compromise.

They wouldn't compromise this fast.

[CookieDamage]

What are they waiting for?

[CookieDamage]

YES

[CookieDamage]

A Wikipedia article title has been updated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_George_Floyd

What was it previously? Death of George Floyd?

Killing of George Floyd

it's been murder of george floyd for some time

[CookieDamage]

Disappointing. Not the lightest sentence possible but 30 years would have been more appropriate