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The judge presiding over the murder trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin said disrespectful statements made by Rep. Maxine Waters Saturday may give the defense grounds to appeal and overturn the trial. Attorneys for the prosecution and the defense delivered closing arguments on Monday.
Waters, D-Calif., joined protests in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota on April 17, where she told the press we are looking for a guilty verdict in Chauvin s trial. If nothing (happens), then we know . we ve got to not only stay in the streets, that we ve got to fight for justice. That I am very hopeful, and I hope that we re going to get a verdict that is a guilty, guilty, guilty. And if we don t, we cannot go away, Waters said, according to video by WCCO-TV.
WASHINGTON The Biden administration is privately weighing how to handle the upcoming verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, including considering whether U.S. President Joe Biden should address the nation and dispatching specially trained community facilitators from the Justice Department, aides and officials told The Associated Press. Closing arguments began Monday in Chauvin s trial with a prosecutor telling jurors that the officer had to know he was squeezing the life out of George Floyd as he cried over and over that he couldn t breathe and finally fell silent. Chauvin faces murder and manslaughter charges.
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