What’s next for the three
other former Minneapolis cops
charged in George Floyd’s death
Pioneer Press [St Paul MN],
by
Katrina Pross
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
5/2/2021 1:59:38 PM
While former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been found guilty, the other three officers at the scene when George Floyd died in police custody on May 25 face a trial this summer. The other former officers — J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao — are set to go to trial on Aug. 23, and it will be televised. The three are charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. Legal experts say Chauvin’s conviction on charges of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter increases the likelihood that the other three
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Pearson365 5/2/2021 2:44:44 PM (No. 773461)
FTA: According to Minnesota law, “a person is criminally liable for a crime committed by another if the person intentionally aids, advises, hires, counsels, or conspires with or otherwise procures the other to commit the crime.”
Neither Officer Chauvin nor these 3 officers conspired to commit a crime when they tried to arrest Floyd. The 4 were enforcing the law in attempting to first place Floyd in the police car and then hold him on the ground after he claimed he couldn’t breathe in the squad car. Floyd was restrained on the ground until the ambulance the police called for finally arrived. The State is portraying the 4 as if they intentionally sought to kill Floyd rather than restrain this very large, very strong and very Fentyal riddled man. Sentencing these 4 men to 12.5 years or more in prison for trying to perform a duty they swore an oath to uphold is cruel. But sadly, not unusual in our upside down society.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 5/2/2021 2:49:14 PM (No. 773463)
More unfair, hideous, lynch mob persecution, no doubt.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mean Gene 5/2/2021 2:53:32 PM (No. 773466)
One of the men who had a knee on George Floyd also served as a prosecution witness against Officer Chauvin!
What happens to him?
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Railroad/Kangaroo Court... That's what's next. This is the new Amerika.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
columba 5/2/2021 3:07:40 PM (No. 773478)
It is not reasonable to conclude that all four officers would condone killing another person.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Boliver 5/2/2021 3:31:21 PM (No. 773488)
If the fine residents of MN don't convict all three of them the Obama administration will have them arrested on federal charges 'on the courthouse steps' like they had arranged for Chauvin.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mathman 5/2/2021 3:43:18 PM (No. 773491)
The three former police will serve long jail terms. The Mob has decided. Members of the jury will soon learn that they will have their homes burned and their lives ruined if they fail to convict on all counts.
You see, we have replaced our Republican government with the Mob. And the Mob needs blood. Lots of blood. Regular infusions of blood. The drug intoxication of George Floyd is irrelevant. His passing counterfeit money is irrelevant. What matters is that he was black and died in police custody. He would have died anyway, but that also does not matter.
We know what happened in France when the Mob took over. Thousands went to the guillotine. That is what happens in anarchy.
And Chauvin will eventually be sentenced to life without parole. It will be determined that he is a vicious racist. That has already been decided. Or maybe they will just take him out and hang him. It is hard to tell.
The Mob will eventually kill all the police.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
snapper451 5/2/2021 3:51:36 PM (No. 773494)
Regardless, Merrick Garland and company are probably already planning a political stunt to arrest them on Federal hate crime accusations (despite the fact that there was no hate crime). This DOJ is even more filthy and corrupt than Obama's. Thank heaven we never got Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court! (thanks Cocaine Mitch). In fact, once we get the Senate back in 2022, we should state that under no circumstances could he be approved if an opening, not promised to a minority.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 5/2/2021 4:03:14 PM (No. 773496)
Total B.S.. Try and find a good cop when this fiasco is over. The only ones left will be the older guys hanging on until their pensions kick in and their motto will be the same as Schultz on Hogans Heroes- "I seee noothiinnggg.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/2/2021 4:15:26 PM (No. 773499)
Well #7, if they do convict these three police officers for just being at the scene when Floyd died, the mob is not going to have any police to murder, as only a complete moron would join or remain on that police department, knowing that out of the tens of thousands of calls that the police department receives, one could be handed to him or her as a routine job, could then go bad, when he or she is up against a perpetrator who is noncompliant or who physically resists arrest, thus crashing his or her police career, with him or her then spending many years in prison. Let’s see how long the new Minneapolis street patrol social workers make out when confronted by a heavyweight and juiced up violent offender under extreme stress.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
lakerman1 5/2/2021 4:50:26 PM (No. 773509)
The prosecution argued that it was Chauvin's knee that killed the drug addicted felon
Therefore, the two rookies who were holding the drug addicted felon's legs and arms had nothing to do with his death. Acquit them.
And the Park Police officer was a bystander, ordered to watch the crowd.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
coyote 5/2/2021 4:55:23 PM (No. 773511)
Chauvin was not guilty of murder, manslaughter maybe, but we all know what happened.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/2/2021 4:59:06 PM (No. 773512)
The quoted material in this article - from Chauvin and Lane, especially - is not what was in the probable cause statement of facts that was part of the Chauvin trial. Lib license by another media source. They do try to shape the narrative.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Harlowe 5/2/2021 5:19:02 PM (No. 773519)
#3,#11~ For the record, Officer Derek Chauvin’s knee was not on George Floyd’s neck, it was behind George Floyd’s shoulder and neck.
https://www.usasupreme.com/just-in-chauvins-attorney-showed-police-bodycam-side-by-side-with-the-facebook-video-the-knee-appears-to-be-on-floyds-shoulder-blade/
JUST IN – Chauvin’s Attorney Showed Police Bodycam Side-By-Side With The Facebook Video – The Knee Appears To Be On Floyd’s Shoulder Blade
April 5, 2021 - Bruce Hoenshell
Moments after George Floyd was taken
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 5/2/2021 6:07:46 PM (No. 773546)
If they are out on bail, time to find a nice country without an extradition treaty and get there.
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The charges should be thrown out. Their only crime is apprehending someone who was too stoned to drive, possessed drugs, and passed counterfeit money.