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Prosecutors seek higher sentence for Chauvin
in Floyd death

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Posted By: NorthernDog, 4/30/2021 8:01:12 PM

MINNEAPOLIS — Prosecutors are asking a judge to give Derek Chauvin a more severe penalty than state guidelines call for when he is sentenced in June for George Floyd's death, arguing in court documents filed Friday that Floyd was particularly vulnerable and that Chauvin abused his authority as a police officer. Defense attorney Eric Nelson is opposing a tougher sentence, saying the state has failed to prove that those aggravating factors, among others, existed when Chauvin arrested Floyd on May 25. Chauvin, who is white, was convicted last week of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for pressing

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Will they riot if the sentence does not suit them? Prosecution wants 40 years but anything over 12 is unlikely.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Highlander 4/30/2021 8:13:19 PM (No. 771987)
This is not justice but political persecution. Are the prosecutors black?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: stablemoney 4/30/2021 8:27:48 PM (No. 772005)
Chauvin should be suing them all for wrongful prosecution and imprisonment.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: FunOne 4/30/2021 8:40:43 PM (No. 772016)
And in our nation's capitol, the black police officer who shot the unarmed white woman veteran is being ignored. Woke justice is in style.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Folsomguy 4/30/2021 8:45:49 PM (No. 772020)
He shouldn't be in there for 12 days much less years. And the lady shot on Jan 6 is ignored. Wrong, wrong, wrong!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Kate318 4/30/2021 9:00:07 PM (No. 772028)
This is now blood sport for the BLM crowd, and they have just given the thumbs down in the gladiator arena.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: msjena 4/30/2021 9:16:44 PM (No. 772031)
Why didn’t they just kill him? I’m sure the mob would have approved.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: BarryNo 4/30/2021 9:25:08 PM (No. 772037)
They want to hit home that they, the Democrats, brought JUSTICE to the Black community. If they could, they'd kill him, officially. Instead, they'll probably hire one of their buddies in the slammer. This has nothing to do with justice. this is raw, evil politics and demonstrations of power.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DVC 4/30/2021 10:29:12 PM (No. 772064)
Persecutors. Officer Chauvin is innocent. This is entirely a travesty.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Quigley 4/30/2021 11:46:00 PM (No. 772102)
Perhaps they could dig up his parents and grand parents and hang them from a lamp post. It might satiate them temporarily.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Miester 5/1/2021 12:15:42 AM (No. 772116)
So we should draw and quarter him, take the parts put them in Shredder put is skull and shredded Parts on a pike in front of the White House. That would show those Democrats real Justice (sarc)
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Reply 11 - Posted by: The Remnants 5/1/2021 5:21:56 AM (No. 772166)
You have to question who is holding the scales of justice nowadays. I suggest they are no longer blind.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Toby Ten Bears 5/1/2021 6:23:37 AM (No. 772176)
Just like they did in the USSR...
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Reply 13 - Posted by: hershey 5/1/2021 8:49:24 AM (No. 772279)
Yep, he was 'particularly vulnerable' because he was all dosed up on drugs...did I hear/read somewhere he had stuffed some up his rear end to better enhance the effect?
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Reply 14 - Posted by: paral04 5/1/2021 8:57:15 AM (No. 772296)
A woman of color, having declared she was going to kill a cop, got into her car and under the influence of alcohol and drugs did just that. She is charged with manslaughter, but Chauvin, in the heat of arresting a crazed man under the influence of drugs is a murderer. Where is the justice here?
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Strike3 5/1/2021 9:20:18 AM (No. 772331)
Better run this by the potential rioters first. Everything done thus far concerning Chauvin has been based on the prospect of more damage to Minneapolis and other blue state tinderboxes. The place is already a charred war zone, might as well finish it off.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: JackBurton 5/1/2021 9:32:20 AM (No. 772352)
Now that they've found out that facts don't matter but threats of rioting do... ....going for the full enchilada.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: ROLFNader 5/1/2021 10:32:58 AM (No. 772398)
I know what let's do! Give him 6 months in the electric chair.
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