GUILTY MN - George Floyd, 46, killed in police custody, Minneapolis, 25 May 2020 #20

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Tuesday, April 20th:
*Trial continues-VERDICT REACHED! (Day 2) (Day 16 of trial) (@ 9am CT) - MN – George Perry Floyd, Jr. (46) (May 25, 2020, Minneapolis, arrested for forgery & killed in police custody) - *Derek Michael Chauvin (44/now 45) police officer who held his knee on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes & 46 seconds (Note: on 10/14/20 this has been changed to 9 minutes & 29 seconds) (& non responsive for 2 minutes & 53 seconds before officer took his knee off his neck; from 8:19pm to 8:28pm his knee was on Floyd’s neck; has been fired (5/26/20) & arrested & charged (5/29/20) with 3rd degree murder & 2nd degree manslaughter. Charges changed (6/3/20) to 2nd degree murder-unintentional-while committing a felony, 3rd degree murder-perpetrating eminently dangerous act (3rd degree charge was dismissed on 10/22/20 & reinstated on 3/11/21) & evincing depraved mind & 2nd degree manslaughter-culpable negligence creating unreasonable risk. $500K bond, reset (6/8/20) @ $1.25M & $1M with conditions. Posted non-cash $1M bond (10/7/20) & has been released from jail.
Trial began on 3/8/21 with jury selection. Jury selection ran through March 23, 2021. Trial with opening statements & the commencement of the State’s case began on March 29, 2021. Experts anticipate the trial could last 2-4 weeks. Jurors: 12 & 2 alternates (9 women & 5 men). Jurors will be sequestered during deliberations. None of the other officers will be testifying at Chauvin’s trial. The State rested their case on 4/13/21 & had 38 witnesses. Defense started their case on 4/13/21 & rested their case on 4/15/21 & 7 witnesses.
Closing arguments will begin Monday, 4/19/21. The jury will be sequestered then.
Judge Cahill said the jury will begin their deliberations at 9am & go as late until 7:30pm CT. 4/19/21: Jury started deliberations @ 4pm to 8pm (for ~4 hours). 4/20/21: Jury started deliberations @ 8am to ~1:45pm (for ~ 5 hours & 45 mins). Total deliberations: 9 hours & 45 mins. – Verdict: Guilty of all charges.

Bond conditions & court info 12/19/20 thru 3/23/21 & jury selection (3/9 thru 3/23) & Day 1 to 14 of Trial & closing arguments (3/29 to 4/19/21) reference post #3 here:
GUILTY - MN - George Floyd, 46, died in custody, Minneapolis, 25 May 2020 #19 - Chauvin Jury Deliberations #2

4/20/21 Tuesday, Trial Day 16/Day 2 of deliberations: Jurors began deliberating today at 8am CT to 1:45pm.
Verdict:
Derek Chauvin Guilty of All Charges on April 20, 2021.
Count 1-- Guilty of unintentional murder. Penalty: Up to 40 years in prison
Count 2-- Guilty of 3rd degree murder. Penalty: Up to 25 years in prison
Count 3-- Guilty of 2nd degree manslaughter. Penalty: Up to 10 years in prison

Chauvin is remanded to custody, bail revoked & will be held Oak Park Heights jail. PSI due in 4 weeks (~5/18/21), briefing in 6 weeks (~ 6/1/21) & sentencing in 8 weeks (~ 6/15/21).
*Charged (722/20) with 6 counts of aiding & abetting taxes-false or fraudulent returns-filed with commissioner & 3 counts of aiding & abetting taxes-failure to file return, report, document. Omnibus hearing on 6/30/21.
 
Darnella and all who were on the sidewalk that day are definitely heroes in this story. I worry about the weight on their shoulders (the guilt of not doing more even though they could not) and the affect of seeing Mr. Floyd die in front of their eyes. They are victims of this criminal, former officer. I hope they have access to mental health services if they want because they bear a heavy burden. It is so clear to me that but for their sacrifice of their innocence that Mr. Floyd's death would not have ever been prosecuted.
 
According to MSNBC (Stephanie Ruhle), MPD is being investigated for pattern and practices by the DOJ. VP of City Council added that the department is under investigation by state of MN as well.

Good to see that there is a systematic review that is state and federal based.
 
This gives a good understanding of what DC’s sentence might look like.

ETA-
DC will not serve consecutive sentences. He will be sentenced on the most serious of the counts. The most serious count he was found guilty of is Second-degree unintentional murder which has a sentence of up to 40 years.

I keep seeing media reports which are 180 of what I think. I guess we shall wait to see as some media outlets are saying they can be combined, which I believe is incorrect. I agree with your ETA even though some MSM here believe differently. MOO
 
Yes, there absolutely would not even have been a trial without her video. Darnella is owed a huge debt for her courage and tenacity that day. If Darnella has any aspirations beyond high school, I hope some of the luminaries who praised her in the WaPo story you linked will use their influence to make it happen...

A few months ago, Frazier found herself accepting an award from PEN America, the free-speech advocacy organization. Filmmaker Spike Lee presented it to her in a virtual ceremony noting that the award was given to recognize courage. Luminaries including Rita Dove and Meryl Streep offered kind words to the young woman from hundreds of miles away. Law professor Anita Hill — famous for accusing a soon-to-be Supreme Court justice of sexual harassment nearly 30 years ago — spoke to Darnella Frazier, too.

“Your quick thinking and bravery under immense pressure has made the world safer and more just,” Hill said. Like the others, Hill added: “Thank you.”

Again, Frazier was quiet but centered when she spoke: “I never would imagine out of my whole 17 years of living that this will be me,” she said. “It’s just a lot to take in, but I couldn’t say thank you enough.”
BBM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...261cc6-a1e2-11eb-a774-7b47ceb36ee8_story.html

I hope everyone can get through the WaPo paywall to read this important article about Darnella as well as one about another young girl caught up in history that I’ve described below.

Juxtposed on the same page as this story about Darnella is the story of the young girl in the iconic 1970 photograph, screaming next to a student murdered by police during an anti-war demonstration at Kent State. Mary Anne Vecchio, was a 14 year old runaway from Florida when one photograph changed her life. She said it ruined her life, and the photographer, a student at the time, had always felt guilty about it. When they finally met years later (and they hugged and cried together), the power of the photo became clear to him...

John [the photographer] had an epiphany about the power of his photo. “It was because she was 14, because of her youth, that she ran to help, that she ran to do something. There were other people, 18, 19, 20 years old, who didn’t get close to the body. She did because she was a kid. She was a kid reacting to the horror in front of her. Had she not been 14, the picture wouldn’t have had the impact it did.”
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Last May, however, when she watched the video of George Floyd’s death, she was so shaken, it was as if the electronic scrim of her TV had dissolved. She jumped off her couch and yelled at the crowd in the video, “Why is no one helping him?” She sobs as she describes that moment to me. “Doesn’t anyone see what’s going on?”

“Mary Ann,” I say. “It seems to me that you’re still that girl in the photo, you’re still that girl saying, ‘Doesn’t anyone see what’s happening here?’”

She stops crying abruptly. “But it’s been 50 years,” she says. “Why can’t I move on?”

What would it take to move on? I ask.

“Maybe if I do some good for the planet,” she says. She tells me that she does small, secret acts of charity every weekend, when she goes “undercover” to the Walmart parking lot near her home and leaves canned foods, staples and her homegrown avocados in an empty shopping cart for someone to discover. “I feel like I need to do something good,” she says, crying again.

<Personal note: By this time I’m crying too as I read this to my husband. We remember this photo well, having marched against the war ourselves on our college campus.>

You’ve already done something profoundly good, I tell her. “In that moment when you knelt over Jeffrey Miller’s body,” I say, “you expressed the grief and horror that so many people were feeling. You helped end the Vietnam War.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/maga...en-being-national-symbol/?itid=mr_lifestyle_1

Both Darnella and Mary Anne, kids “reacting to the horror in front of” them and expressing in action their compassion for a suffering fellow human, will be remembered in history for the parts they played in ending the Vietnam War and (hopefully) ending police brutality toward African Americans (and other victims). Acts of courageous compassion can have far-reaching results.
JMO


Posting the photo described in above post and at link. Roll and scroll if you do not want to witness.

Many many many here have done witness to horrific crimes. It pains our hearts, and breaks our souls. Yet we continue to give witness and support for victims at Websleuths.

The world has joined us for this one to give witness. If they only knew the evil some here follow and give witness to. MOO

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Darnella and all who were on the sidewalk that day are definitely heroes in this story. I worry about the weight on their shoulders (the guilt of not doing more even though they could not) and the affect of seeing Mr. Floyd die in front of their eyes. They are victims of this criminal, former officer. I hope they have access to mental health services if they want because they bear a heavy burden. It is so clear to me that but for their sacrifice of their innocence that Mr. Floyd's death would not have ever been prosecuted.

May the verdict help to be a catharsis for all who were there that day.
 
Yes, there absolutely would not even have been a trial without her video. Darnella is owed a huge debt for her courage and tenacity that day. If Darnella has any aspirations beyond high school, I hope some of the luminaries who praised her in the WaPo story you linked will use their influence to make it happen...

A few months ago, Frazier found herself accepting an award from PEN America, the free-speech advocacy organization. Filmmaker Spike Lee presented it to her in a virtual ceremony noting that the award was given to recognize courage. Luminaries including Rita Dove and Meryl Streep offered kind words to the young woman from hundreds of miles away. Law professor Anita Hill — famous for accusing a soon-to-be Supreme Court justice of sexual harassment nearly 30 years ago — spoke to Darnella Frazier, too.

“Your quick thinking and bravery under immense pressure has made the world safer and more just,” Hill said. Like the others, Hill added: “Thank you.”

Again, Frazier was quiet but centered when she spoke: “I never would imagine out of my whole 17 years of living that this will be me,” she said. “It’s just a lot to take in, but I couldn’t say thank you enough.”
BBM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...261cc6-a1e2-11eb-a774-7b47ceb36ee8_story.html

I hope everyone can get through the WaPo paywall to read this important article about Darnella as well as one about another young girl caught up in history that I’ve described below.

Juxtposed on the same page as this story about Darnella is the story of the young girl in the iconic 1970 photograph, screaming next to a student murdered by police during an anti-war demonstration at Kent State. Mary Anne Vecchio, was a 14 year old runaway from Florida when one photograph changed her life. She said it ruined her life, and the photographer, a student at the time, had always felt guilty about it. When they finally met years later (and they hugged and cried together), the power of the photo became clear to him...

John [the photographer] had an epiphany about the power of his photo. “It was because she was 14, because of her youth, that she ran to help, that she ran to do something. There were other people, 18, 19, 20 years old, who didn’t get close to the body. She did because she was a kid. She was a kid reacting to the horror in front of her. Had she not been 14, the picture wouldn’t have had the impact it did.”
<snip>
Last May, however, when she watched the video of George Floyd’s death, she was so shaken, it was as if the electronic scrim of her TV had dissolved. She jumped off her couch and yelled at the crowd in the video, “Why is no one helping him?” She sobs as she describes that moment to me. “Doesn’t anyone see what’s going on?”

“Mary Ann,” I say. “It seems to me that you’re still that girl in the photo, you’re still that girl saying, ‘Doesn’t anyone see what’s happening here?’”

She stops crying abruptly. “But it’s been 50 years,” she says. “Why can’t I move on?”

What would it take to move on? I ask.

“Maybe if I do some good for the planet,” she says. She tells me that she does small, secret acts of charity every weekend, when she goes “undercover” to the Walmart parking lot near her home and leaves canned foods, staples and her homegrown avocados in an empty shopping cart for someone to discover. “I feel like I need to do something good,” she says, crying again.

<Personal note: By this time I’m crying too as I read this to my husband. We remember this photo well, having marched against the war ourselves on our college campus.>

You’ve already done something profoundly good, I tell her. “In that moment when you knelt over Jeffrey Miller’s body,” I say, “you expressed the grief and horror that so many people were feeling. You helped end the Vietnam War.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/maga...en-being-national-symbol/?itid=mr_lifestyle_1

Both Darnella and Mary Anne, kids “reacting to the horror in front of” them and expressing in action their compassion for a suffering fellow human, will be remembered in history for the parts they played in ending the Vietnam War and (hopefully) ending police brutality toward African Americans (and other victims). Acts of courageous compassion can have far-reaching results.
JMO

Young women with unusual amounts of courage -----I hope Darnella goes on to use those gifts she has- I expect she will be successful in her life- I am sure the Floyd family will be eternally grateful to her--- She had the presence of mind to record what she witnessed. God bless her.
 

Many many many here have done witness to horrific crimes. It pains our hearts, and breaks our souls. Yet we continue to give witness and support for victims at Websleuths.

The world has joined us for this one to give witness. If they only knew the evil some here follow and give witness to. MOO
 
Tangentially related but: "
AG Merrick Garland:

"I know that justice is sometimes slow, sometimes elusive and sometimes never comes."
He's announcing his civil probe into whether the Minneapolis Police Department engages in a pattern or practice of unconstitutional or unlawful policing.,
Reported by Law & Crime Network reporter --https://twitter.com/klasfeldreports/status/1384872192744300544?s=21
 
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has led calls for ‘real change’ following the conviction.

Mr Khan tagged his Twitter post “#BlackLivesMatter” and said his “thoughts are with George Floyd’s loves” after Derek Chauvin, 45, was found guilty.

“I welcome the verdict but by itself this won’t heal the pain of their loss, which reverberated around the world. The guilty verdict must be the beginning of real change – not the end,” the mayor added.

Sadiq Khan leads calls for ‘real change’ after George Floyd’s killer convicted

His words were echoed by British F1 driver Lewis Hamilton who tweeted the verdict was “monumental” and marked “a new dawn”.

“Today’s outcome is a sombre victory for George and his family, but it shows that our efforts to promote justice are not in vain,” Mr Hamilton wrote. “Black voices have been heard and action is happening. When we stand together, we can make a difference.”

Shadow justice secretary David Lammy, who was praised last month for his handling of a caller to his radio show who said the MP could not describe himself as English due to his Guyanese heritage, repeated the Black Lives Matter hashtag.

“No judgement can ever make up for murder, but it means everything that justice has been served tonight for George Floyd,” the Labour MP for Tottenham posted on Twitter.

“Let this send a clear message both in the USA and across the world: #BlackLivesMatter.”

Fellow Labour MP Abena Oppong-Asare quoted Mr Floyd’s daughter Gianna as saying “Daddy changed the world”, with the politician tweeting: “It’s on us to make sure she’s right.”
 
'No sympathy' for Chauvin, say those who had run-ins before Floyd

Hernandez said he never heard anything from the Minneapolis police after submitting a complaint about Chauvin, who he said "choked him out" during an encounter in a Minneapolis night club in 2015.

According to Chauvin's police report, Hernandez failed to follow orders and resisted arrest when Chauvin, who was working as an off-duty security guard, tried to escort him out of a night club. Chauvin's report said this prompted him to apply "pressure toward his Lingual Artery" to subdue Hernandez.
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Skinaway still remembers what he deemed the indifference on Chauvin's face that night as he pressed Sir Rilee Peet's head into a puddle deep enough that he, like Floyd, struggled to breathe.

Skinaway says he was speaking with the officers about the recovery of a stolen car when Peet approached and did not comply with requests to back away. A police report about the incident states that a struggle ensued and Chauvin maced Peet, applied a neck restraint and pinned him to the ground so he could be handcuffed.

Skinaway says Chauvin grabbed Peet by the back of his hair and pressed his face into a rain puddle. That began a cycle where Peet would gasp for air and say "I can't breathe, man" before Chauvin would force his head down again.

"He basically did the same thing to that Native kid," Skinaway said. "I think the incident would have gone longer possibly if the ambulance didn't show up."
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According to a police report, Bostic was refusing to leave a store and threatening to spit on its owner. As the situation escalated, Chauvin wrote in the report that he "closed distance with" Bostic and "secured his neck/head area with my hands."

Bostic, who is currently in prison on an unrelated burglary conviction, said he struggled to breathe after the encounter and was taken to the hospital due to an asthma attack.


 
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@KenDilanianNBC

Justice Department officials say Attorney General Merrick Garland will announce that DOJ is launching a pattern-and-practice investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department, per
@PeteWilliamsNBC

Justice Department to probe whether Minneapolis police have 'pattern and practice' of misconduct
Yes that is being announced now and it is the right thing to do...there is a "pattern" and Minneapolis is a good force to probe...we are clearly not the only city with this issue but good that they are not stopping with this verdict. Tomorrow funeral for Dante Wright and the crowds are demanding upgrading charges there...I think most media are staying right here!
 
Yes that is being announced now and it is the right thing to do...there is a "pattern" and Minneapolis is a good force to probe...we are clearly not the only city with this issue but good that they are not stopping with this verdict. Tomorrow funeral for Dante Wright and the crowds are demanding upgrading charges there...I think most media are staying right here!

Good morning turaj! I hope you are feeling a bit relieved today ;)

I have been looking to see if any jurors have talked yet... can't find anything! I did see a tweet from Cathy and another reporter from law and crime asking if any want to talk to get in touch... I'm sure other media outlets have done the same.
 
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