Chauvin juror may have lied during jury selection
Evidence has already emerged that at least one juror from the now infamous Chauvin trial appears to have lied during jury selection about extent of knowledge and views on the case and participation in a rally that protested the treatment of Floyd.
What's worse is that the juror is now going on TV to basically brag about being biased, stating that deliberation should have taken "no more than 20 minutes." The juror told Good Morning America that most of the less than 4 hours that was spent was the other jurors apparently badgering one juror who had questions about the jury instructions.
Obviously these jurors had no intention of listening to the evidence in the case or analyzing the arguments of the defense. They had their minds made up before the trial started and now we have proof of this from at least one juror. This case should never have been tried in the Minneapolis area. It was a farce from the beginning.
https://m.startribune.com/chauvin-juror-…
What's worse is that the juror is now going on TV to basically brag about being biased, stating that deliberation should have taken "no more than 20 minutes." The juror told Good Morning America that most of the less than 4 hours that was spent was the other jurors apparently badgering one juror who had questions about the jury instructions.
Obviously these jurors had no intention of listening to the evidence in the case or analyzing the arguments of the defense. They had their minds made up before the trial started and now we have proof of this from at least one juror. This case should never have been tried in the Minneapolis area. It was a farce from the beginning.
https://m.startribune.com/chauvin-juror-…
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I still don't get how this was the racist event that started the chain of events that happened last year. Yes its a white cop and black guy, but they had history working together and it was known they didn't get along. Chauvin deserves the punishment but it wasn't racist, and while the truly racist events that should have been examples were just overlooked. The 3 white guys that killed that black guy for running got a day or 2 on CNN the other week that they finally were facing charges a year later. How does the system identify which racist events matter or change the facts to make them racist to fit a narrative, doesn't make sense to me
Unless they hold this trial in the deep Brazilian Amazon, people are going to have opinions about it.
Also, didn't the judge lament openly that Congresswoman Waters practically guaranteed an overturn of the verdict?
I ask these questions having not followed closely, so if you inform me how I am incorrect, I simply thank you for that.
And where were the cries of "racism" when a black man stomped to death a white police officer - zilch.
That's the point - that everything bad that happens in the black community or to black people is racism - and when black people are the culprits then it's "because of the system".
This is going to have to play out like most things - things will turn to really bad, people will be crying for law and order and the anti-cop people will go away.
This will be ironic given the “defund the police” nonsense - they’ll have to offer cops a lot more money to get quality applicants interested again.
Chauvin’s police chief testified that Chauvin’s actions were not proper police procedure and were not in line with training.
The medical examiner testified that Chauvin’s restraint was the cause of Floyd’s death.
The prosecution experts testified that Chauvin’s restraint was the cause of Floyd’s death
FFS, even Floyd’s own paid expert witnesses did not testify that Floyd died of a drug overdose or something other than being killed by Chauvin.
Chauvin was convicted in mere hours by a jury of his peers.
But go ahead, everyone can play Matlock because a juror said going to an MLK march was not a George Floyd or BLM march. Maybe he gets a new trial but he sure as fuck killed him. He’s not a good cop. Good cops want bad cops to go to jail when they murder someone.
A mistrial is the right thing to do to protect the rule of law in this situation so that it doesn't set a precedent for future cases of jurors lying during the selection process. Ultimately he will be convicted again, not because the case is rigged as some have claimed, but because the video evidence is so overwhelming.
George Floyd was a scumbag that belonged in jail for his actions that day and doesn't deserve to be memorialized as a hero. He may well have died later that day from his own stupidity with regards to the large quantity of drugs that he took. However, those things did not give the cop the right to kill him by kneeling on neck for nearly 10 minutes including several minutes after he had stopped breathing.
So you don’t wanna conflate things by not comparing Floyd’s case to any other instances but yet you make the incorrect and racist blanket statement “… Yes, this is a racist country and people need to acknowledge that and deal with it. It's deep rooted an systemic …” – yeah – no “conflating” there – no conflating of an individual situation w/ an entire country (IDK if there’s a word beyond irony but if there is that’s what applies to your statement).
But if you want to just stick to Floyd, there is enough there to show how one-sided your thinking is, and how we currently have a double-standard on steroids.
As has been mentioned, there was never an accusation of racism b/c there is nothing to substantiate that (and why the prosecution never went there) – additionally there were two other black people in Floyd’s company including one who was reportedly his drug-dealer/supplier – if this was “racially motivated” they would have gone after his two companions also.
This isn’t any more “racially motivated” than Michael Brown being killed b/c he was black instead of b/c he was a thug whom thought he could push anyone around and found out at some point you run into someone you can’t push around – yet the Brown case “was such an obvious case of racism” that it went all the way to the presidency w/ Obama seeking AG Eric Holder on the cop after he was found not guilty – i.e. it’s not “conflating”; it’s showing that just b/c there is an interaction b/w a cop and a black person that ends bad it’s not automatic racism.
The prosecution in no way brought up charges related to racism; yet you state that is exactly what it was and make a blanket statement of the entire country being racist - and then you complain about "conflating" - you're an entitled BMW (Bitch Moan and Whine) that only wants to see things one way and solely thru a racial-lens.