(04-20-2021, 11:41 PM)MisterSpock Wrote: Well, I actually disagree with you alot on this one.
I disagree that he intentionally killed him, but that's actually not my issue with your post.
I find that if you were on the jury and thought he was guilty, but voted non guilty because of what OTHERS did(granted it was bad).
That's just as bad as being on the jury, thinking he was not guilty and voting guilty because you are scared of future riots.
Neither of those uphold the standard of a fair justice system.
Nor does allowing riots to rule the land.
BUT - what they have guaranteed with this decision is that there will be more riots, and deadlier ones. Now, with the message they've delivered, the Left knows that anytime they want something, all they have to do is burn a couple cities down, and they will magically get their wishes as society capitulates.
All that BS about how "there was no evidence of choking" is a smoke screen. Floyd wasn't killed by choking, he was killed by having the blood flow to his brain cut off for twice as long as it takes to kill a man. His windpipe was never involved, his carotid artery was. Anyone with hand to hand training should recognize that in the video, and anyone with training knows how long to hold, and how long it takes to kill. Once they are unconscious, you can let up as there is no longer a need to keep the pressure on since they are out - unless your intention is to kill them.
I would let Chauvin walk because his debt has already been paid, manyfold times over, by society itself over the past year. He would never again work in law Enforcement anyhow, because I would guess that by now every police chief in the nation saw what he did, and knows what he did, and would not care to work in the same department as Chauvin. No department would ever hire him again. In all honesty, he'd probably be hard pressed to get a job flipping burgers... but now, instead of the punishment of trying to make a living where none is to be had for him, he gets a free ride on the taxpayer dime. Three hots and a cot, all day every day.
Either kill him or set him loose.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’