GUILTY MN - George Floyd, 46, died, Minneapolis, 25 May 2020 #18 - Chauvin Closing & Deliberations #1

[tlcya]

Blackwell highlighting the image of Chauvin with the smirk (MOO/description) kneeling on GF as the crowd screams he is unresponsive, get off him, he is dying.

 

[Bravo]

Oops my apologies It was mace Chauvin pointed to the crowd. Not a stun gun.

 

[Algo214]

"There are two sides to this story, the W and the G in wrong"

I love that guy.

 

[ilovewings]

Blackwell is absolutely correct: Chauvin had all the power!!!

 

[tlcya]

explaining how onlookers were torn between wanting to intervene and save GF and wanting to show respect for the badge Chauvin wore.

 

[JerseyGirl]

JB on the bystanders: “they all came together focused on the one thing, which was, they saw that a human being, they did not know, who was suffering, and they wanted to try to intervene to stop the suffering.

https://twitter.com/anavilastra/status/1384243376732524546?s=21

JB: They felt torn between their love for the sanctity of life itself, had them wanting to intervene to try to save Mr. Floyd’s life. On the other hand, they're respect for authority that the badge represents for the city, for the state. They were torn between.

 

[Katerz]

I love that he’s defending the crowd.

 

[Weki]

Judge sustained Nelson’s objection to Blackwell’s use of “stories”???? This is what I mean.....what the heck???

 

[Katerz]

What did the judge say about stories?

 

[tlcya]

I notice Chauvin's mask is back on. Probably best so that the jury doesn't see his facial expressions as Blackwell rebuts

 

[Katerz]

Judge sustained Nelson’s objection to Blackwell’s use of “stories”???? This is what I mean.....what the heck???

Yeah.. when he overruled the first objection about it!

 

[Tom_Servo]

He's not being specific enough when using the term "stories". Insinuating the entire defense closing argument is a "story". Judge made the right call IMHO.

 

[mickey2942]

You've been given what I call stories. Once you analyze them against the facts and evidence you have heard you will see what I mean.

for instance: He just happened to die in the same time and at the same place but is unrelated to what Chauvin was doing.

Chauvin was just the world's "unluckiest guy" to restrain GF, who was about to die of...

Not.

 

[MTW2011]

"Incidental" does not mean "rare" it is.

Their own witness explained that it is called an "incidental finding" because it is a finding that is found when you go in looking for something else, like getting a CT scan for one issue, like maybe a hernia, and coming back with a finding a broken bone.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Nelson objected again to the use of the word “stories.”

JB: You've also heard about the paramedics taking too long...and your common sense will tell you that the mere fact that the paramedics took longer than Mr. Chauvin may have thought is certainly not a reason to either use excessive force, or to abuse…

https://twitter.com/anavilastra/status/1384244598789185536?s=21

JB: But even more to the point about carbon monoxide that you just can't lose sight of, whose car was it, ladies and gentlemen.

 

[tara83]

He's not being specific enough when using the term "stories". Insinuating the entire defense closing argument is a "story". Judge made the right call IMHO.

He didn't use any actual facts in his closing.....

 

[ilovewings]

Blackwell just stated the 98% oxygen level was due to supplemental oxygen. Of course it was.

 

[missy1974]

chewing gum again

 

[Deleted member 39678]

He using the 98% O2 level to explain the lack of carbon monoxide.

Maybe it was that high because GF's airway was never blocked. I wonder if the jury will see this conflict in the States case. JMO

 

[JerseyGirl]

JB: ...if you pass away from a fentanyl overdose, you cannot be awakened, you are in a coma.
If people are shaking you it is to no avail.

https://twitter.com/anavilastra/status/1384245135207124999?s=21

JB: But here's the deal about the pills, if we're really going to give this an honest assessment of the evidence. Why do we talk about pills that are not in his system. We know what's in his bloodstream…