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Ex-cop Chauvin gets 22 1/2 years in prison for George Floyd's death

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By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI

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Wow, the statements by Derek Chauvin's mother, and Derek himself, were quite something to behold.

Seeing video of George Floyd's daughter talk about her father, and hearing George's brothers speak about the pain they still suffer, was heartbreaking.

And then surprisingly, Derek's mother made a statement. What was striking about her entire statement, was that not once did she mention George Floyd or George's family, nor one word offering sympathy and sorrow for what her son did to George. Instead, the mother rambled endlessly about what a great human being Derek was and how many people wrote to him in support after the murder. It was all about her. Then later Derek himself spoke. It was one of the most insincere things I have ever witnessed. He halfway turns to Floyd's family and offered his condolences. Condolences? Derek made it sound as if he accidentally ran George over with his patrol car, not brutally strangle him to death. Not only that but then he made some pointless statement about additional evidence to be brought forth later.

22.5 years is not enough for this lunatic, but I have some measure of comfort that finally, in America, a police officer is held accountable for his evil deeds. So many police officers in America have literally gotten away with murder, and continue to do so, hiding behind the badge.

RIP George Floyd Jr.

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Justice...

No sympathy for a coward with a gun and a badge.

He got off lightly with a 22 year stretch. Good luck with the other brothers in gaol. Other privileged white blue meanies take note, as the times they are a changing.....

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Seems to be an unprecedented number of hyperlinks(?) within this article to give basis and background to the writers’ story? - The media clearly wants people to understand the “why’s” for the ruling and sentencing.

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I remember when certain posters were predicting his inevitable acquittal.....

Goodbye Derek. We won’t miss you.

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Justice would have been George Floyd never having been killed.

Exactly!!!

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The Police in America has become militarized due to Father Bush and Baby Bush. 9/11 and the Patriot Act enabled this to happen. The Militaristic Police became arrogant.

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Here is one person who committed a crime.

Support the police!

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If any repentance had been shown, this case would have been less traumatic for everyone, but at least some relief and comfort, if not closure, can be had from the fact that Black Americans are now a smidgen safer with one less White American sociopath taken out of blue and the public space.

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He deserves without a doubt to be in prison, but he’s one bad cop taken off the streets, but the guy will probably appeal the conviction which is his right and thinking the guy will serve the full 22 years is highly unlikely and given the circumstances of the political forces and outsiders surrounding this case. He does have a good chance of getting this case retried down the road.

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Derek made it sound as if he accidentally ran George over with his patrol car, not brutally strangle him to death. 

Chauvin wasn’t convicted of first degree murder. The crime was bad enough you don’t need to exaggerate.

Black = life sentance.

White = probably 10 years with good behavior in an open prison.

OJ is black - he walked free. This case had nothing to do with race. Not even the prosecutor’s make the case that Chauvin was a racist. They could not. This narrative is a fraud.

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That is the problem here, now the msm are throwing in the race component, typical. Calling the man a racist doesn’t go well with most sensible and rational people, as the man’s wife is Asian, Chauvin is a lot of things for sure without a doubt, but labeling him a racist is a weak statement to try and pin on this man. The mainstream media needs to walk that back because it’s the wrong narrative to go on.

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Good riddance. There is hope yet for police accountability in America.

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He does have a good chance of getting this case retried down the road.

Another prediction? Another future win?

You predicted he wouldn’t see prison time.

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Another prediction?

Yes, as he does have the right constitutionally, he would be foolish not to.

You predicted he wouldn’t see prison time.

No, I said, he would not get a life sentence. Again, I doubt the guy will serve the full 22, now 10 years or less…possible.

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This was a POLITICAL trial offering up a sacrifice when, in fact, there should be hundreds of American police sharing that docket with Chauvin. But he is the sacrifice, guilty of not recognizing media when it's aimed at him. Would he be there if not for the video? No. He wouldn't. Because what he did violated NO police policy nor was different from common practice every day of our Gang of Blue. And there is no doubt that the collective American police have developed a 'gang mentality' which prevents even the conscientious from stopping brutality. 'Us versus them' is the mentality. And it's getting worse, not better. Chauvin is not an example, a lesson in murder to his peers, but just a warning to be more careful when cameras are around. If America were the country we claim to be, we'd have been having many more of these trials, one a week there for a time. There is one small thing an American can do. If you see a car with a taillight out, a brake light out, and the driver is not White, try to let them know about the flaw. It might save their life...

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The police were first militarized in the 80's as a result of the war on drugs, Los Angeles police were the first, the Bush thing is true but it was later..

That's real history, folks! And the rest of the post is a refreshing reminder of the ugly reality of policing in America. The LAPD of the 80s were truly a ghastly outfit, fearsome to behold in their militarized gear like they had goose-stepped out of Orwell's 1984.

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The police were first militarized in the 80's as a result of the war on drugs, Los Angeles police were the first, the Bush thing is true but it was later..

LA was a hellhole in the 80’s with the gang culture out of control, the militarized(if you want to call it that) were the only thing that kept the city from completely falling into total anarchy.

Only one????, there are thousands of bad cops who kill unarmed and innocent people,

And there are even more thugs out there that will do anything or break any law to get their way and take what they want or hurt anyone they want.

it is not just a few bad apples, it is at least half of the the bulk.

That is absolutely not true, the majority of the police are law-abiding, but now cops are leaving the jobs, police walking off the job is up 45% and for the left that scream and demonize the police, who’s going to tackle crime? The left in their emotional and over-reactionary outbursts in many cities have ramped up their attacks on law enforcement and defunding the police, crime is through the roof, people are bailing on these blue states and the only people that can have a piece of mind going forward are the ones that can hire private security and purchasing a firearm and sales on that are at an all time high.

Loooool !!! ok......

So we should support the criminals?

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He ain't gonna survive even 1 year in prison. Unless they isolate him from other prisoners.

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Wow, lots of deflection here. Plenty of posters want to talk about anything other than the fact that Derek was tried and found guilty of murder and is going to prison for a long time.

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It may not be entirely fanciful to imagine that if Trump makes it back to the White House in 2024, Chauvin can expect a presidential pardon. And possibly even an appointment to an ambassadorship to an African country. /s

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Defense attorney Eric Nelson asked that Chauvin be let off on probation, saying the former officer's “brain is littered with what-ifs” from that day: “What if I just did not agree to go in that day? What if things had gone differently? What if I never responded to that call? What if? What if? What if?”

What if you hadn't suffocated a guy to death who was on the ground, in handcuffs, and surrounded by armed police officers?

Hopefully this statement was taken out of context, because simply changing the location of a bad cop isn't solving the problem of the bad cop.

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Unbelievably low sentence for this evil, white supremacist scum. He should have got minimum 70 years. I would be understanding if the community reacts angrily to this travesty and goes after this scums colleagues on the streets.

Say his name for justice - George Floyd!

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Wow, lots of deflection here. Plenty of posters want to talk about anything other than the fact that Derek was tried and found guilty of murder and is going to prison for a long time.

People have a right to be angry, not talking about the verdict, but the subsequent "protests" that killed well over 20 people and caused billions of dollars in damage to cities across the U.S. Most of those people killed or businesses burned and looted had any relationship to these 2 men. I feel worst for someone like David Dorn who was helping a friend protect his shop but was murdered in cold blood by 2 robbers. He was a family man and he had a life too.

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It may not be entirely fanciful to imagine that if Trump makes it back to the White House in 2024

August mate. He's being reinstated in August.

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The guy is definitely scum, a racist. No one knows and no one can prove that. Anyone that says that regardless of where they politically stand is doing it based on anger and emotion and not of facts, he deserves the sentence he was handed, but we as a society need to always be careful before labeling someone with accusatory titles without any tangible evidence.

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From a purely legal perspective this trial was deeply flawed. The case will be appealed and likely overturned by a higher court.

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Flawed people, flawed policing, flawed politics, and a deeply flawed justice system.

What can one expect?

“While the United States represents about 4.4 percent of the world's population, it houses around 22 percent of the world's prisoners”

I suppose some are bound to end up being Ex-cops

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we as a society need to always be careful before labeling someone with accusatory titles without any tangible evidence.

And we have courts and due process. The rest is simply entertainment on TV. The court has labeled Chauvin a murderer and Rush Limbaugh or Hannity can't do anything about it.

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