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

[John Dule]

Is this still going to be televised? If so, I am having OJ flashbacks.

[John Dule]

I'm really scared of the outcome of this trial.  The media and activists have already convicted Chauvin, anything less than life in prison will result in widespread rioting.  A full out not guilty verdict would be disastrous.  I guess on the bright side, it would show a large number of regular Americans how unhinged the left is, especially if this gets better media coverage with less going on.  Republican supermajority in 2022?

Your side literally beat a police officer to death in attempt to steal an election and you are calling the left unhinged? And be quiet about a Republican super majority, because it's not going to happen. The GOP will be lucky if it isn't pushed further into irrelevancy for supporting a terrorist attack on the Capitol.

There are more than two sides to politics in this country.

[John Dule]

I'm really scared of the outcome of this trial.  The media and activists have already convicted Chauvin, anything less than life in prison will result in widespread rioting.  A full out not guilty verdict would be disastrous.  I guess on the bright side, it would show a large number of regular Americans how unhinged the left is, especially if this gets better media coverage with less going on.  Republican supermajority in 2022?

Your side literally beat a police officer to death in attempt to steal an election and you are calling the left unhinged? And be quiet about a Republican super majority, because it's not going to happen. The GOP will be lucky if it isn't pushed further into irrelevancy for supporting a terrorist attack on the Capitol.

There are more than two sides to politics in this country.

One side has the backing of half of Congress and it's not the far left.

Stop disingenuously moving the goalposts. You said he was "on the same side" as the capitol rioters. Reaching that conclusion based on his comment requires either making wild assumptions or just deliberately misreading what he wrote.

[John Dule]

By the way which idiot let this trial be televised?

Television cameras should be banned in all courtrooms, and the names of defendants should be kept anonymous until the trial has concluded.

[John Dule]

I think hung jury is the most likely outcome, but he is so unbelievably guilty.

No way would the judge accept a hung jury after this short amount of time.

[John Dule]

By the way, for information's sake.
Minnesota has a 5% Black CVAP population and the jury was picked from all around Minnesota.
The jury of 12 has 4 black jurors and a few mixed race.
The odds of there being 4 or more black jurors is 0.2% assuming pure random selection from Minnesota citizens of voting age.

It is truly a damning indictment of our society that CNN and other news organizations have put so much effort into publicizing and analyzing the racial makeup of this jury-- the implication being, of course, that people will be sympathetic to people who look like them. If a multiracial democracy is to work, we have got to stop making those kinds of assumptions.

[John Dule]

Why did so many people seem to think he'd actually get off? This jury was taken from one of the bluest places in the country; this isn't like past trials like this, they had video evidence. Unsurprising.

[John Dule]

Why did so many people seem to think he'd actually get off? This jury was taken from one of the bluest places in the country; this isn't like past trials like this, they had video evidence. Unsurprising.

The comparison to Travyon Martin a few pages ago was ridiculous. No one can claim they know what actually happened there. Here he's on video suffocating a guy.

There's probably a generational divide here too. Atlas Olds are more likely to remember miscarriages of justice like OJ and Rodney King.

[John Dule]

He's gonna spend a decade imprisoned eating that bad dog food that they give you for meals, it's not deli food

But, he is alive and Floyd isn't which is unfair

Do you speak from personal experience?

[John Dule]

Why are editorial cartoonists always so far up their own asses?

[John Dule]

Violent looters are not "peaceful protesters," and nobody cares about what Christians think of this subject.