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As the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin went to the jury in the death of George Floyd, a parallel case was resubmitted to an American public that has been in contentious deliberations for the 30 years since Los Angeles police officers brutally beat Rodney King.
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Rekha Basu: At Derek Chauvin trial closing arguments, race is present, even if unmentioned Rekha Basu, Des Moines Register
Steve Schleicher never mentioned race.
The attorney prosecuting former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for killing George Floyd by cutting off his breath never called it a race-based assault. Not once in his summation did Schleicher, a special assistant Minnesota attorney general, point out that Floyd was a Black man, and Chauvin a white police officer. He made no reference to the multiple other recent deaths of Black men and boys at the hands or guns of white officers. He sidestepped the sheer mathematical probability that even a minor arrest related to a broken taillight, a joint found in a car or a counterfeit $20 bill would more likely result in death when the subjects are Black.
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MINNEAPOLIS Attorneys for the prosecution and defense in the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, charged in George Floyd s death, were presenting their closing arguments Monday, summarizing their respective evidence and witness testimony and trying to focus jurors on the most important elements.
Prosecutor Steve Schleicher said Chauvin chose pride over policing last Memorial Day, calling Chauvin s knee on Floyd’s neck unnecessary, gratuitous and disproportionate.