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Feds weighing how to respond after verdict in Derek Chauvin trial
AP / Updated: Apr 20, 2021, 18:16 IST
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Press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that the White House has had a range of conversations about preparations for the upcoming verdict. AP Photo
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 President Joe Biden should address the nation and dispatching specially trained community facilitators from the Justice Department, aides and officials told The Associated Press.
Walz issued an executive order on Monday declaring the emergency for several counties amid the potential for unrest sparked by the Chauvin verdict and ongoing protests sparked by the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center last week.
The governor’s order notes that while many demonstrations have been peaceful, “some individuals have engaged in unlawful and dangerous activity, including looting and damaging public and private property.”
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“Local and state resources have been reallocated to assist in the unrest in Brooklyn Center and nearby communities,” Walz’s order reads. “This reallocation has drawn resources away from the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, and nearby communities, where there is a threat of civil unrest.”
André Wharton has been a member of The Wharton Law Firm in Memphis for seventeen years and practices in the area of criminal defense and civil rights law.
A little over 30 years ago, America witnessed the disturbing video of Rodney King being beaten by Los Angeles police officers after a police chase and ultimate arrest for driving under the influence and evading arrest. Those officers were tried in state court. Three were acquitted and one case ended in a hung jury.
Two years later, the officers were later indicted and tried in federal court and only two were convicted. They were sentenced to thirty months in prison.
Biden Is Praying For The Right Verdict In Derek Chauvin Trial
The president said the evidence was overwhelming. The trial s aftermath will be a test for his administration.
Jonathan Lemire and Michael Balsamo
WASHINGTON (AP) President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he is “praying the verdict is the right verdict” in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin and that he believed the case, which has gone to the jury and put the nation on edge, to be “overwhelming.”
Biden, ahead of a meeting with lawmakers in the Oval Office, told reporters that he was only weighing in on the trial into the death of George Floyd, who died with Chauvin’s knee on his neck, because the jury in the case had been sequestered. He confirmed that he called Floyd’s family on Monday to offer prayers and said he “can only imagine the pressure and anxiety they’re feeling.”