jimnyc
04-19-2021, 12:17 PM
So today is the closing arguments as I said and then it goes to the jury. Chaos is coming.
Verdict predictions and thoughts?
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Minneapolis braces for unrest as Derek Chauvin trial enters final phase
MINNEAPOLIS —Night after night, tear gas has hung like a cloud over the Sterling Square Apartments, just across the street from the Brooklyn Center Police Department, seeping through the walls and air vents like an invisible predator.
The two-story apartment complex has been Ground Zero for demonstrations over last week’s fatal shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright by a Brooklyn Center police officer. Residents have looked outside their windows as protesters clash with law enforcement officers who have used the chemical irritant as well as stun grenades and other nonlethal munitions to control the demonstrators.
The aggressive tactics have injured dozens of protesters and journalists and sent dangerous fumes and projectiles into the adjacent apartments, leaving residents sick and fearful for their safety in what many describe as a “war zone.” The tenants, many of them low-income and Black, have reported rashes and nose bleeds and say they are unable to sleep because of the fumes and noise.
[Derek Chauvin’s defense rests after he declines to testify in his murder trial in the death of George Floyd]
“We have been sneezing and coughing every day, because it comes through the walls and then it stays in the walls,” said Iranesha Anderson, 29, who has four children, two of whom have asthma. “You can’t even air out your apartment, because the [expletive] still keeps coming in.”
Rest - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/minneapolis-braces-for-unrest-as-derek-chauvin-trial-enters-final-phase/ar-BB1fMTTt?ocid=uxbndlbing
The Memo: Tense nation readies for Chauvin verdict
The nation is bracing for a verdict in Derek Chauvin’s trial over the death of George Floyd, as racial tensions are roiled by two other shocking police killings.
Closing arguments in Chauvin’s trial are expected Monday, after which the jury will begin its deliberations. Chauvin, now 45, was a Minneapolis police officer when he was filmed kneeling on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes during a May arrest. Floyd was declared dead at a nearby hospital.
Floyd’s death, and the shocking video of the events leading up to it, caused national and global outrage. Now there are fears of unrest if Chauvin is acquitted — an outcome that Black Americans, in particular, would see as evidence of a system egregiously biased against them.
The Chauvin verdict is set to play out against the backdrop of the deaths of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minn., just 11 miles from the site of Floyd’s death; and of Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old, in Chicago.
Rest - https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/548786-the-memo-tense-nation-readies-for-chauvin-verdict
Verdict predictions and thoughts?
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Minneapolis braces for unrest as Derek Chauvin trial enters final phase
MINNEAPOLIS —Night after night, tear gas has hung like a cloud over the Sterling Square Apartments, just across the street from the Brooklyn Center Police Department, seeping through the walls and air vents like an invisible predator.
The two-story apartment complex has been Ground Zero for demonstrations over last week’s fatal shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright by a Brooklyn Center police officer. Residents have looked outside their windows as protesters clash with law enforcement officers who have used the chemical irritant as well as stun grenades and other nonlethal munitions to control the demonstrators.
The aggressive tactics have injured dozens of protesters and journalists and sent dangerous fumes and projectiles into the adjacent apartments, leaving residents sick and fearful for their safety in what many describe as a “war zone.” The tenants, many of them low-income and Black, have reported rashes and nose bleeds and say they are unable to sleep because of the fumes and noise.
[Derek Chauvin’s defense rests after he declines to testify in his murder trial in the death of George Floyd]
“We have been sneezing and coughing every day, because it comes through the walls and then it stays in the walls,” said Iranesha Anderson, 29, who has four children, two of whom have asthma. “You can’t even air out your apartment, because the [expletive] still keeps coming in.”
Rest - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/minneapolis-braces-for-unrest-as-derek-chauvin-trial-enters-final-phase/ar-BB1fMTTt?ocid=uxbndlbing
The Memo: Tense nation readies for Chauvin verdict
The nation is bracing for a verdict in Derek Chauvin’s trial over the death of George Floyd, as racial tensions are roiled by two other shocking police killings.
Closing arguments in Chauvin’s trial are expected Monday, after which the jury will begin its deliberations. Chauvin, now 45, was a Minneapolis police officer when he was filmed kneeling on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes during a May arrest. Floyd was declared dead at a nearby hospital.
Floyd’s death, and the shocking video of the events leading up to it, caused national and global outrage. Now there are fears of unrest if Chauvin is acquitted — an outcome that Black Americans, in particular, would see as evidence of a system egregiously biased against them.
The Chauvin verdict is set to play out against the backdrop of the deaths of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minn., just 11 miles from the site of Floyd’s death; and of Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old, in Chicago.
Rest - https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/548786-the-memo-tense-nation-readies-for-chauvin-verdict