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  How can you be convicted of two different degrees of murder and also manslaughter?  How many murder cases can you think of that tacks on manslaughter at the same time?   Politicians, media and the mob outside the court house decided the verdict. Why anyone would want to be a police officer is beyond me.   To begin with, the police already kill more white people than black people, but that’s normal since America is (not for long) a majority white country; the problem that never gets add...

The verdict of a 13th juror on Chauvin — and the trial We must strive to respect the rule of law, even though our politicians dont.  By D.J. Tice, D.J. Tice April 20, 2021 — 10:22am Text size Copy shortlink: "Our civilization," wrote G.K. Chesterton, has "very justly decided that determining guilt or innocence is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men … . When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system dis...

By DJ 33 1/3 Apr 20, 2021 100 people joined in protest organized by Miami-Dade Antifa, Youth Liberation Front and other groups in response to the recent police killings of Adam Toledo, Daunte Wright and others. The people marched in a protest to demand police reform and accountability. South Floridians descended on the Torch of Friendship on Biscayne Blvd, banging pots and pans and holding up signs with messages like “Black Lives Matter,” “RIP [George] Floyd” and “Abolish the Police....

Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin (center) is taken into custody as his attorney, Eric Nelson looks on, after the verdicts were read at Chauvins trial for the 2020 death of George Floyd on Tuesday at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Updated April 20, 2021 at 5:32 PM ET The jury has found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all the counts he faced over the death of George Floyd. The trial has been one of the most closely watched cases in re...

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is placed in handcuffs, watched by Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill, after a jury found him guilty on all counts in his trial for second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in this courtroom sketch. Photo by Jane Rosenberg / Reuters Article content MINNEAPOLIS — A jury on Tuesday convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin of murder and manslaug...

The verdict is to be read later on Tuesday afternoon local time. Mr Floyd died last May after Chauvin, a white officer, pinned his knee on the 46-year-old black man’s neck for about nine-and-a-half minutes in a case that triggered worldwide protests, violence and a furious re-examination of racism and policing in the US. The jury deliberated over parts of two days in a city on edge against another outbreak of unrest. President Joe Biden offered his thoughts (Evan Vucci/AP) The jury, made up o...

Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter in Floyd’s death By AMY FORLITI, STEPHEN GROVES and TAMMY WEBBER, Associated Press Published: April 20, 2021, 3:15pm Share: 10 Photos A video screen is seen as the jury afirms a guilty verdict at the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 death of George Floyd, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Minneapolis, Minn. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) Photo Gallery MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minneapolis Officer Derek C...

Brooklyn Center Mayor: Biden Admin ‘Actively Engaged’ In Helping His Community Amid Chauvin Trial Demonstrators march during a protest after the opening arguments in the murder trial of former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin on March 29, 2021 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images) April 20, 2021 8:13 a.m. Brooklyn Center, Minnesota Mayor Mike Elliot said on Monday evening that officials i...

Special Report panel analyzes how Democrats remarks could affect Derek Chauvin trial The jurors who sat quietly off-camera through three weeks of draining testimony in Derek Chauvins murder trial in George Floyds death moved into the spotlight Tuesday, still out of sight but now in control of verdicts awaited by a skittish city. The jury of six White people and six people who are Black or multiracial was set for its first full day of deliberations. The jury, anonymous by order of the judge...

“No, no, I don’t think [Rep. Maxine Waters] should apologize,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says about Waters’ call for protesters to “get more confrontational” if former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is acquitted of killing George Floyd. Pictured: Pelosi speaks during a weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol April 15, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended the call by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., for protesters ...