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The jury has reached a verdict...

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/verdict-reached-in-george-floyd-trial-derek-chauvin-accused-of-murder/news-story/24230b400d403612352e643a5cf34d4a


I will say I do not envy those jurors. They will be forever the topic of conversation regardless of the decision they come to.

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I was so nervous it would be not guilty. The riots if that had happened would be insane.


Cautiously happy though that he was found guilty. Expecting a swift appeal from his lawyers though.

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MIL just said to me that they had to find him guilty or there'd be violence. I said well they had to find him guilty because there's actual video footage of him doing it 🤷

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MIL just said to me that they had to find him guilty or there'd be violence. I said well they had to find him guilty because there's actual video footage of him doing it 🤷

 

I saw a similar comment on FB this morning! The comment is correct & they'd be hard strapped to find a completely unbiased jury, but at the end of the day the evidence spoke for itself & if he was found not guilty you would expect another riot & it would be understandable!

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This guy was clearly guilty from the beginning. Nothing Floyd did, either before the arrest or after, warranted such excessive force. They could have just sat him on a corner in cuffs and waited for a bigger transportation vehicle to put him in.

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MIL just said to me that they had to find him guilty or there'd be violence. I said well they had to find him guilty because there's actual video footage of him doing it 🤷

 

I saw a similar comment on FB this morning! The comment is correct & they'd be hard strapped to find a completely unbiased jury, but at the end of the day the evidence spoke for itself & if he was found not guilty you would expect another riot & it would be understandable!

 

Yep while she was correct, it kind of makes it sound like that's the reason for the guilty verdict, those damned protesters 🙄

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This guy was clearly guilty from the beginning. Nothing Floyd did, either before the arrest or after, warranted such excessive force. They could have just sat him on a corner in cuffs and waited for a bigger transportation vehicle to put him in.

 

And that’s probably what they’d have done had he been white.

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A man was killed in broad daylight, in front of witnesses and on camera. They had to have a 4 week trial to call it murder, and then everyone is 'relieved' that the perpetrator is found guilty.


Race relations still have a LONG way to go in the USA.

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Race relations have a long way to go here too.


Over 470 indigenous deaths in custody since the Royal Commission in 1991 and they barely even make news, let alone raise protests.

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5 people killed in custody in 6 weeks here and not even an hour after the Chauvin verdict another one in Ohio over there. A fifteen year old girl who had called them for help because she'd armed herself with a knife to protect herself. bleargh. Not. Even. One. Day.

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Can someone who is more legally minded than me explain how you can be found guilty of 3rd degree murder, 2nd degree murder and manslaughter? I thought it was one or the other.

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