Derek Chauvin

[lankeela]

How can they possibly find him anything other than guilty of murder? Having listened to the summing up, even if you put aside the problems it would cause on the streets if he was found not guilty, the evidence was so compelling that he must surely be found guilty.

[Ellipsis]

> It hasn't paid for Floyd or Chauvin

You are (as Lord Melchett said of Sir Thomas More) very perceptive, Mamya ...

[andy-hughes]

fcc - // No but it has paid well for his family ewho will be whistling all the way to the bank,this verdict has opened the door for all the ne'er-do-wells
to shout I Can't breathe every time they get arrested. //

I doubt his family while be 'whistling' ever again - but to be clear, this verdict has nothing at all to do with the financial settlement the family received.

That was greed by the city, in anticipation - correctly as it turned out - of a guilty verdict and bankruptingly large civil suit being won in civil court.

To say that the verdict led to the payment is to place facts in the wrong order - settlement first, verdict second is how it is, not as you are suggesting.

[fcc]

You make it sound like they were a close loving family.

[sanmac]

I would imagine, fcc, that they are very close now and loving that money.

[Mamyalynne]

Looking at it in a different way fcc, you made it sound like you knew the family well and what their reactions would be.

You should have taken it up with Minneapolis City Council when they voted unanimously to make that award back in March.

[Peter Pedant]

// all the ne'er-do-wells to shout "I Can't breathe" every time they get arrested. //
crazy stuff - someone has to be kneeling on the neck for that to carry - - - any weight at all

and you certainly cant breathe hold to your death

[fcc]

Mamy,his loving caring family did not make such a good job of keeping
their brother out of trouble and off drugs.

[Mamyalynne]

That's a different issue to the one you raised and the one I replied to.

[anneasquith]

Pure waffle , it matters not one bit about George floyd family. He is dead at the hands( actually knee) of DC.

[fcc]

You would just love someone like for a neighbour then?

[bednobs]

i think i'd rather not live next to a criminal, but in a choice between a druggie and a murderer i'd probably choose the druggie

[anneasquith]

I’d not want the likes of chauvin as a neighbour. He kills people .

[andy-hughes]

fcc - //
Mamy,his loving caring family did not make such a good job of keeping
their brother out of trouble and off drugs. //

A man has been murdered by a police officer.

Why does how his family may or may not have behaved vex you so much?

You seem determined to paint them as the villains of this dreadful scenario, when the actual villain is convicted and awaiting sentence.

[davebro]

Two views - career criminal v accidental murderer. I know my choice.

[Mamyalynne]

fcc

//You would just love someone like for a neighbour then?//

Is that you racing to an assumption about me?

[naomi24]

A politically fortuitous decision.

[THECORBYLOON]

NAOMI, did you watch the entire trial?

[naomi24]

No. Why?

[anneasquith]

Naomi, you have not let me down with your post. Although I’m sure that you have more to say on the subject. Which I don’t have to read . :-) bye .

[naomi24]

Always happy to help, anneasquith. Bye.