Quote (Santara @ May 14 2021 12:25pm)
Think of it like this: at one point in the encounter, he was informed by the strenuously objecting bystanders that the suspect was unconscious. At that point, if he had removed his knee from his neck and checked for pulse/breathing, I would say his actions to that point were defensible. This was the inflection point of the encounter. But he didn't. He continued to maintain the pressure, showing a supreme indifference to the condition of the suspect, and loses his claim to acting in good faith with his training. Even the police chief said he exceeded his training.
I understand that inflection point. I know you do to. I don’t think most do however, because it’s extremely simple to state that is to what should have happened, i.e. chauvin should have removed his knee(although should we consider that there was a back angle showing his knee was on his shoulder blade and not neck and also has the autopsy not shown there was not damage to his neck). Also seems as though there are contradictory messages because his neck hold was a an authorized restraining technique.
Quote (Thor123422 @ May 14 2021 12:19pm)
He was rotten, he wasn't removed, and then he murdered a guy. If there was significant interferrence that results in a tainted jury he will be granted a mistrial on appeal and a new trial will happen. However, it's important to realize that this was a very quick and unanimous decision. It's unlikely that he will get a different result.
Floyd being a larger person is irrelevant. The jury that decided the case knew the size of Floyd compared to Chauvin, and saw every fact of the case, and so will any second jury if a mistrial is declared.
It wasn’t murder, more so manslaughter. The public pressure is interference. You can’t be a scientist and be objective and says else wise. It’s a joke.
Also the size of Floyd isn’t to me the relevance of difficulty for the court case, but for all the citizenry getting up in arms about this as if they have any sort of moral superiority they could have apprehended Floyd any better. Some 5’3 female or some soy boy will NEVER truly understand the difficulty of an officer restraining a 6’4 250lb man that police were called on. A good piece of evidence for that is when that female officer did accidentally pull the gun instead of the taser.