CBS host Scott Pelley pressed Mr. Ellison, asking why he did not charge Chauvin with a hate crime under Minnesota law.
“Could have,” Mr. Ellison responded. “But we only charge those crimes that we had evidence that we could put in front of a jury to prove. If we’d had a witness that told us that Derek Chauvin made a racial reference, we might have charged him with a hate crime. But I would have needed a witness to say that on the stand. We didn’t have it. So we didn’t do it.”
Mr. Pelley pressed further: “The whole world sees this as a White officer killing a Black man because he is Black. And you’re telling me that there’s no evidence to support that?”
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Derek Chauvin found guilty on all counts in murder of George Floyd
April 20, 2021 4:07 PM Brandon Arbuckle
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MINNEAPOLIS Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin has been found guilty on all counts in the murder of George Floyd.
The verdict was made in Hennepin County Court on Tuesday after about 10 hours of deliberations, following three weeks of testimony and deliberation from the jury.
A total of 38 witnesses were called to testify, including medical specialists and use-of-force experts.
The defense had seven of its own witnesses, though Chauvin invoked the Fifth Amendment and chose not to testify himself. Legal analysts say testifying would have opened Chauvin up to having to answer difficult questions from the prosecution, including what was going through his mind during every moment of the nine minutes and 29 seconds he was kneeling on George Floyd’s neck.