Thread for Derek Chauvin trial watchers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:t’s easy to sit at your desk behind your computer and judge. Floyd was a huge muscular guy high on drugs and combative. People pass out all the time while high. They don’t usually die. While the cop should have checked on Floyd he is not substantially responsible for his death. Meth + COVID + a heart condition + long term drug use killed Floyd. That it happened during an arrest is incidental. Cops have to deal with violent combative drug users constantly.

All these factors just happened to come together to cause his death at the one time when Chauvin kneeled on his neck for 9 and a half minutes? Please.

I think PP should volunteer to be completely sober and have a full grown, average-weight adult man kneel on their neck while restrained for 9 minutes and 29 seconds. If you don't die or pass out, then you are right and you win!

[Anonymous]

I’m bothered by the snide remarks by the defense attorney complaining that “it’s been a long week for me”,like “someone would say, hey copper ,you’ll never take me alive, right?” Just seems so smug

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let’s see what happens. If the police officer gets charged with murder in this case there will be very few officers willing to either choose to respond to calls or choose this as a career.

I already know a few young men (high school/college age) who were considering a career in law enforcement, but have changed their mind over the last year. This case, the one in the Wendy's drive thru in Georgia, Jacob Blake...

Too bad you guys are suckers. The Wendys drive thru guy took an officers taser and pointed it at the officer. And Jacob Blake had a knife, you tool. You have no idea what is really going on in law enforcement because all you do is watch cherry picked videos on MSNBC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let’s see what happens. If the police officer gets charged with murder in this case there will be very few officers willing to either choose to respond to calls or choose this as a career.

I already know a few young men (high school/college age) who were considering a career in law enforcement, but have changed their mind over the last year. This case, the one in the Wendy's drive thru in Georgia, Jacob Blake...

Too bad you guys are suckers. The Wendys drive thru guy took an officers taser and pointed it at the officer. And Jacob Blake had a knife, you tool. You have no idea what is really going on in law enforcement because all you do is watch cherry picked videos on MSNBC.

No, hon. You’re way off base. The Black guy shot dead at Wendy’s was asleep. Jacob Blake panicked (with good reason, if you ask me as White woman. Look how people defend officers shooting Black people) and ran. He had a knife in his car, not in his hand. Breonna Taylor was also shot in her bed and if you tell me that was deserved because her boyfriend pulled a guy, I will call you a fool - stand your ground, right?

The list goes on and on and on and on and on and on. You are literally insane if you do not think that the police target Black people.

[Anonymous]

It’s still not murder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Floyd, right at the very beginning of the body cam video was very combative stating that he was claustrophobic and requested to sit in the front of the patrol car. He went on to say he wasn’t a bad guy and couldn’t breathe and his wrists hurt. He was fighting the cops the entire time. At the end if the body cam video where Floyd was exiting the patrol car onto the ground I heard someone say “heart attack” unsure whose words they were.

He also begged the officer to stay with him, do not leave him. That's not combative. That's extreme anxiety and those dumb asses could not asses the difference. What happened to calling a van. Nothing prevented them from calling a van. Minneapolis had vans at the time. With the cage in the police cruiser, Floyd's knees were in his chest. Ridiculous

News flash - Getting picked up by the cops is not a pleasure cruise around town. Maybe they should have asked him his preference re vehicle. Mercedes van, Sir? What shall we call you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Floyd, right at the very beginning of the body cam video was very combative stating that he was claustrophobic and requested to sit in the front of the patrol car. He went on to say he wasn’t a bad guy and couldn’t breathe and his wrists hurt. He was fighting the cops the entire time. At the end if the body cam video where Floyd was exiting the patrol car onto the ground I heard someone say “heart attack” unsure whose words they were.

He also begged the officer to stay with him, do not leave him. That's not combative. That's extreme anxiety and those dumb asses could not asses the difference. What happened to calling a van. Nothing prevented them from calling a van. Minneapolis had vans at the time. With the cage in the police cruiser, Floyd's knees were in his chest. Ridiculous

News flash - Getting picked up by the cops is not a pleasure cruise around town. Maybe they should have asked him his preference re vehicle. Mercedes van, Sir? What shall we call you?

If was for that white dude that killed the black church goers. They asked him if he wanted Burger King or McD’s. For whatever reason, he choose Burger King.

[Anonymous]

So damn guilty it makes me sick. I cannot believe you idiots defending this POS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So damn guilty it makes me sick. I cannot believe you idiots defending this POS

It also makes me sick and I wonder where are all the Black-Live-Matters folks sign-in-the-yard people that don't cry out at this trial, all quiet? It's stinks to heaven how unfair and preventable this death has been.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Floyd, right at the very beginning of the body cam video was very combative stating that he was claustrophobic and requested to sit in the front of the patrol car. He went on to say he wasn’t a bad guy and couldn’t breathe and his wrists hurt. He was fighting the cops the entire time. At the end if the body cam video where Floyd was exiting the patrol car onto the ground I heard someone say “heart attack” unsure whose words they were.

He also begged the officer to stay with him, do not leave him. That's not combative. That's extreme anxiety and those dumb asses could not asses the difference. What happened to calling a van. Nothing prevented them from calling a van. Minneapolis had vans at the time. With the cage in the police cruiser, Floyd's knees were in his chest. Ridiculous

News flash - Getting picked up by the cops is not a pleasure cruise around town. Maybe they should have asked him his preference re vehicle. Mercedes van, Sir? What shall we call you?

I think some of you forget that cops aren't judges and juries. They don't get to treat people like criminals especially for a he said/she said instance and more importantly without a warrant. A warrant means a judge found enough evidence to sign his or her name for the arrest related to a specific crime. Cops working their sections/neighborhoods should not be interacting with citizens in the same manner as a warrant or as those behind bars. Did they go to the store to confirm a counterfeit bill? Did they request to review the footage because I can tell you that cops in the area know repeat offenders and can identify someone. If someone accuses your kid of giving counterfeit money and they freak out because they have anxiety or ADD or whatever else your special snowflake has documented for their extra time for the SAT - would you want Chauvin as the responding officer?

[Anonymous]

Curious whether those of you that defend Chauvin feel that cops are ever in the wrong in these contested cases. If so, please give an example of an incident where a cop or cops used excessive force and you feel that an individual died needlessly.

[Anonymous]

I’m a Trumper, anti-BLM, pro-police and want more prisons and people in prisons. I think Blake shooting was justified, the Atlanta shooting was justified. The Floyd case, however, based on what I’ve seen, I would vote to convict. 9 minutes plus is just way too long for him to have his knee on his neck like that and not to check on him. I feel bad for Chauvin, his life is basically over. I don’t know what happened to him, why he acted so callous/recklessly or callous/intentionally after a certain point. It also is unfortunate that people will see this situation as proof that cops are out to kill blacks when all of the evidence is to the contrary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a Trumper, anti-BLM, pro-police and want more prisons and people in prisons. I think Blake shooting was justified, the Atlanta shooting was justified. The Floyd case, however, based on what I’ve seen, I would vote to convict. 9 minutes plus is just way too long for him to have his knee on his neck like that and not to check on him. I feel bad for Chauvin, his life is basically over. I don’t know what happened to him, why he acted so callous/recklessly or callous/intentionally after a certain point. It also is unfortunate that people will see this situation as proof that cops are out to kill blacks when all of the evidence is to the contrary.

Seems like they sure wanted to kill Breonna, or more accurately, her boyfriend.

I don’t know why anyone would feel bad for Chauvin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Curious whether those of you that defend Chauvin feel that cops are ever in the wrong in these contested cases. If so, please give an example of an incident where a cop or cops used excessive force and you feel that an individual died needlessly.

I'm not sure I'd "defend" Chauvin, there's just enough other factors that I wouldn't put Chauvin away for it.

I would definitely lock up the cop who shot through the cop car door at the woman after she reported a rape.

I would also definitely lock up the cop who shot the family in Costco when the autistic man apparently bumped him.

I would also definitely lock up the female cop who shot the guy in his apartment after she decided it was her apartment because she was distracted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious whether those of you that defend Chauvin feel that cops are ever in the wrong in these contested cases. If so, please give an example of an incident where a cop or cops used excessive force and you feel that an individual died needlessly.

I'm not sure I'd "defend" Chauvin, there's just enough other factors that I wouldn't put Chauvin away for it.

I would definitely lock up the cop who shot through the cop car door at the woman after she reported a rape.

I would also definitely lock up the cop who shot the family in Costco when the autistic man apparently bumped him.

I would also definitely lock up the female cop who shot the guy in his apartment after she decided it was her apartment because she was distracted.

^ However, I would not have locked up the cops who shot Breonna because her boyfriend was using her as body armor in the dark and shooting at the cops from behind her, and the cops announced that it was them at the door (despite what you hear on CNN). That's a case of play stupid games, win stupid prizes.