What bothered me was not the "confrontation" (which I did understand in the civil rights sense, that protest is confrontation) but rather the opinion on a specific verdict before all the facts are heard and all the legal procedures of a trial are done. That IS disrespectful to the law. Mind you, I cannot imagine any exculpatory nugget emerging after what I and millions of other people saw in the video, but there is still the principle of letting the process play out before questioning it. And much of the case, and which of the three charges is the best fit, pertains to the defendant's state of mind, and that is not quite clear from the video. All the jurors (1/3 of them African American) have to grapple with this matter of mental state, setting aside bias as much as humanly possible. So we wait.
A hung jury would be the equivalent of an acquittal. There need only be one as there was in the Michael Slager case.
We’re told to have faith in the law... where is the evidence we should?
No Larry, a hung jury is not the equivalent of an acqutital. And you know it. An acquittal means the legal question of guilt or innocence is settled and the defendant is not subject to double jeopardy and facing the charges again. A mistrial due to a hung jury is not an acquittal.
Should we lynch Chauvin before or after the verdict is read?
Whats your alternative to the law and our legal system?
And I feel that Chauvin is guilty of murder, but if the state can't prove its case to an impartial jury and there is an acquittal, I would be disappointed, but if there is a hung jury/mistrial I would hope the state retries Chauvin.
YMMV
Lynch Chauvin? Really?
I think you’ve missed the point on how the aggrieved would feel if the jury hangs. This was not a legal statement. It’s realization that we can be murdered with impunity by the police we fund with our tax dollars. Consider the defense was basically Floyd was responsible for his own death.
If the jury acquits or hangs it will be a monstrous statement on our society.
You’ll be disappointed.
I’ll feel the same way I felt after the Simi Valley trial.
Sure the state would retry Chauvin but in the meantime we must have faith in a system that has not earned our trust in over two hundred years?
My alternative? Tear it down and transform the mission from containing and controlling black bodies to protecting and serving everyone.
Revoke qualified immunity and make individual police accountable for their actions.
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