Chauvin trial

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Verdict is in.

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Maxine Waters incites riots: https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/maxine-waters-incites-riots-on-minneapolis-streets-and-torches-rule-of-law/

"When asked what she thinks protesters should do, Waters explicitly told them to “get more active”:

"We’ve got to stay on the street. We get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean busines"

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Second degree murder is a hard no, they never came close to convincing anyone of that trumped up charge.

609.195 MURDER IN THE THIRD DEGREE.
(a) Whoever, without intent to effect the death of any person, causes the death of another by perpetrating an act eminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved mind, without regard for human life, is guilty of murder in the third degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 25 years.

The above relates to acts like shooting into a crowd, driving a car onto a crowded sidewalk.
This is the depraved heart crime where you didn't intend to kill anyone specifically but knew your actions would likely kill someone.
And you were right and you did in fact kill someone.
This charge doesn't even fit the case and its a mystery why the judge let it back in to the list of charges.

609.205 Manslaughter in the Second Degree
A person who causes the death of another by any of the following means is guilty of manslaughter in the second degree :
(1) by the person's culpable negligence whereby the person creates an unreasonable risk, and consciously takes chances of causing death or great bodily harm to another; or

You have to prove cupable negligence (I think the prosecution gets over this hurdle) but creating an unreasonable risk and consciously takes chances of causing death (I think the prosecution has failed this hurdle). I don't think the prosecution has proved the case that a man without being high on fentanyl, having a 90% blockage in his coronary artery would have died in the same circumstances or that Chauvin should have known what he was doing would cause death or great bodily harm and he consciously decided to take those actions knowing death to be a likely outcome.

My prediction is hung jury & city burning to the groud.
So be it, if you live in a Democrat City that wants to Defund the Police, I say let it burn.
The Left wants mob rule, let the mob rule Minneapolis and see how that works for them.

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Riots shortly after.

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The Mile High city’s worst ever riot happened after NFL team Broncos won their first Super Bowl in January 1998, when over 10,000 fans went on a rampage. Drunken fans overturned cars, looted and vandalised buildings in the city. Damages ran into millions of dollars. A year later after another victory 1,000 Broncos fans rioted in a smaller scale disturbance.

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There's some good articles about rioting.