Why Derek Chauvin s Guilty Verdict May Be Overturned | Opinion Mark Weaver On 4/21/21 at 10:46 AM EDT
The jury returned the verdict many in the country clamored for: Guilty of murder. Crowds surrounding the courthouse cheered. Reporters, whose pre-trial coverage declared the defendant guilty, barely hid their delight. In the end, the killer was shackled and sent to prison. The court commotion was unlike anything Americans had ever seen. Yet justice wasn t done.
I m not talking about Derek Chauvin s murder trial. The jury spoke in that case and unless a higher court says otherwise, their verdicts stand; those disgruntled about it must remember justice is a process, not a result.
But Katie Wright says she’s grateful for the protesters who have been outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department every night since the shooting.
“I want to say thank you to everyone who’s out there, saying my son’s name, hanging up air fresheners,” she says. “And we appreciate that, and we want that to continue because I don t want my son s name swept under the rug like so many have.
During an interview with 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS, the Wright family was joined by national civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson and California Congresswoman Maxine Waters.
“We must stop the madness of the killing. We’ve become much too violent as a nation,” Jackson said. “No one has the right to kill anybody. Murder is murder. This sin is wrong. We will work with this family until we get some measure of justice.”
Photo: Benjamin Craig Matthews
The case of a rural Mountain Home man charged with making more than 40 threatening calls aimed primarily at one CNN news anchor is being held up due to the length of time it is taking to complete a psychological examination.
The order for the examination was issued Feb. 2.
The telephone calls 41-year-old Benjamin Craig Matthews was alleged to have made were laced with racial slurs and references to the newsman’s dead body being cut up in small pieces or swinging from a tree. There were threats concerning pipe bombs and the employment of other devices that would cause physical injury or death.