Verdict is in...Chauvin case

[mags]

Waiting for them to read it....

[mags]

GUILTY Counts 1,2 ,3

[jlt19]

Thank goodness

[mags]

It's about fucking time!

[mags]

Bail revoked!

Crying tears of relief

[cinnamoncox0]

I never thought I’d see this! Incredible. It only took the jury ten hours, I thought it would drag.

[blondemoment123]

Thank goodness!!

[bugandbibs]

May George Floyd Rest In Peace and may his memory be a blessing. A small justice for his family.

[circa1978]

This verdict isn't about how I feel as a white women but after the immediate relief, I'm angry that it took a video of a man literally being killed in front of us to get here. To feel that relief at something that was so obvious makes me immediately grieve for the people who didn't get that justice and who won't get it in the future.

[maudefindlay]

But now 8 weeks until sentencing. That feels so long.

[mags]

Apr 20, 2021 16:39:14 GMT -5 circa1978 said:

This verdict isn't about how I feel as a white women but after the immediate relief, I'm angry that it took a video of a man literally being killed in front of us to get here. To feel that relief at something that was so obvious happened makes me immediately grieve for the people who didn't get that justice and who won't get it in the future.

Exactly

I can only have a tiny bit of hope in my heart that this may in some ways start to change things. 

[mags]

Apr 20, 2021 16:42:59 GMT -5 maudefindlay said:

But now 8 weeks until sentencing. That feels so long.

At least he will be sitting a cell!

[spindle92]

Apr 20, 2021 16:42:59 GMT -5 maudefindlay said:

But now 8 weeks until sentencing. That feels so long.

I know he will not be in with the regular population but I really do not think he is going to be alive that back.

He is a cop with a huge target on his back.

[maudefindlay]

Apr 20, 2021 16:46:14 GMT -5 spindle92 said:

Apr 20, 2021 16:42:59 GMT -5 maudefindlay said:

But now 8 weeks until sentencing. That feels so long.

I know he will not be in with the regular population but I really do not think he is going to be alive that back.

He is a cop with a huge target on his back.

Plus even in protection sometimes guards work with inmates to make things happen.

[mags]

Apr 20, 2021 16:46:14 GMT -5 spindle92 said:

Apr 20, 2021 16:42:59 GMT -5 maudefindlay said:

But now 8 weeks until sentencing. That feels so long.

I know he will not be in with the regular population but I really do not think he is going to be alive that back.

He is a cop with a huge target on his back.

No, he will definitely not be in regular population, but ....

[thedutchgirl]

Apr 20, 2021 16:49:56 GMT -5 maudefindlay said:

Apr 20, 2021 16:46:14 GMT -5 spindle92 said:

I know he will not be in with the regular population but I really do not think he is going to be alive that back.

He is a cop with a huge target on his back.

Plus even in protection sometimes guards work with inmates to make things happen.

Guards don’t hurt former law enforcement, they help them.

They will exchange Chauvin with a prisoner from another state or federal prison after sentencing. (I’m a lawyer in Minneapolis who clerked for a judge here and toured state prisons while clerking.)

Noor—the black former officer convicted here a couple years ago of shooting Justine Damond—is outside of MN too.

[gummybear]

I am HAUNTED by the thought of how many innocent people were killed and the murder covered up bc of dirty police before we had cell phone videos.

I have always joked that I thank God every day that cell phone cameras didn’t exist in my teens and early 20s when I rode the hot mess express on the regular. It hit me today that it’s kind of tone deaf to say that. So my dumbass self wasn’t captured but neither was the brutal injustice that has plagued generations.

It’s the kind of thought that makes you dizzy.

[spindle92]

Apr 20, 2021 17:11:13 GMT -5 thedutchgirl said:

Apr 20, 2021 16:49:56 GMT -5 maudefindlay said:

Plus even in protection sometimes guards work with inmates to make things happen.

Guards don’t hurt former law enforcement, they help them.

They will exchange Chauvin with a prisoner from another state or federal prison after sentencing. (I’m a lawyer in Minneapolis who clerked for a judge here and toured state prisons while clerking.)

Noor—the black former officer convicted here a couple years ago of shooting Justine Damond—is outside of MN too.

But the fact that soo many police officers testified against him, which normally doesn't happen, makes me wonder.

[underwaterrhymes]

We still have so far to go, but his face when the verdict is announced brings me tremendous satisfaction.

GUILTY, you smug, murderous, racist motherfucker.

[Queen Dick, Hibernating Bear]

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16 year old Ma’Khia Bryant was murdered by cops today in Columbus Ohio. She called the police to protect her from some girls fighting near her house.

So, another day. Again.


www.10tv.com/mobile/article/news/local/16-year-old-girl-shot-and-killed-by-police-officer-in-southeast-columbus/530-c77bb47e-97d1-47b5-8ed8-099c105a0f20

[NewOrleans]

Apr 20, 2021 18:04:54 GMT -5 gummybear said:

I am HAUNTED by the thought of how many innocent people were killed and the murder covered up bc of dirty police before we had cell phone videos.

I 

The grotesque thing is people used to turn lynching photos into postcards so documenting their murders is nothing new but they are just supposed to agree to keep it on the DL instead of broadcasting it now.  🤮

[cuadrado]

I keep going back to the original police report/statement that lied about what happened - and about how so many people knew in that moment and right afterwards that what happened was wrong, but they lied in the statement anyway. It's like you know that this happens all the time, but having everything there in black and white (the video, the police dept statement on paper, the recordings of the 911 calls) is truly disturbing.