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Jussie's team only wants one juror for a mistrial so he can basically claim vindication because that's what he wants. his story is unbelievable. the only person who believes the story of jussie smollett is his family and himself. it is a false narrative. dana, more importantly, he has made a mockery of the civil rights laws. those laws were there to protect people who were true victims. jussie smollett is not a true victim. >> dana: one of the entities that did believe him initially was the media. let's look back at how they initially covered it. >> i don't like that it is being put out in the...

Potter is white. the man killed is black. he had a warrant for his arrest. he did appear to resist arrest in this case. it doesn't justify any sort of shooting here. potter thought she was reaching for her taser, instead her gun. there is body cam footage here complete with audio so you can hear her shock that she used her gun instead of her taser. less ambiguity is a good thing. this as minneapolis tensions are still high given the george floyd case, black lives matter activist was already arrested recently or charged with attempting to intimidate the judge. jury is mostly white which if pott...

Asterisk. we need to be clear on that. i don't believe a police officer who is carrying out his job within the manner which he was trained to do so should be open to a lawsuit. if he's chasing an armed person who is discharging a weapon and that police officer discharges his weapon and an innocent person is struck by that, that weapon, we should not have that officer open to a lawsuit. but when you look at the case of a floyd case where clearly the officer went beyond his scope of responsibility, that officer should be open to a lawsuit. and so i don't believe we should be suing officers who a...

Xinhua | Updated: 2021-05-05 09:08 Share CLOSE Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin listens as a jury finds him guilty of all charges in his trial for second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd with his defense attorney Eric Nelson in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US April 20, 2021 in a still image from video. [Photo/Agencies] WASHINGTON -- Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering black man George Floyd, filed a request Tuesday asking for a new trial...

LI MIN/CHINA DAILY The United States, in general, and Minneapolis, in particular, held its collective breath earlier this week－while the jury in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin deliberated－fearing that an acquittal would again set US cities alight because "justice has been denied" many times in the country before. The jury, however, found Chauvin guilty on all three charges in the murder of George Floyd: second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Chauvin will likely spend the rest of his life in prison, but since racism is rampant and police bruta...