On the one hand, George Floyd may have died from an overdose, and I have heard that the kind of restraint Chauvin was using is police policy for people in an agitated state. On the other hand, despite all that, it certainly seems obsessive, and it seems as if Chauvin is trying to “teach him a lesson.” So I can’t say whether Chauvin is guilty, or if so, what he’s guilty of. <\/p>\n
I am pretty certain Chauvin can’t get a fair trial in the present environment. The jury knows that if they do not convict him, there will be riots, and that will certainly influence their deliberations. It seems likely that any decision to convict will have an easy appeal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On the one hand, George Floyd may have died from an overdose, and I have heard that the kind of restraint Chauvin was using is police policy for people in an agitated state. On the other hand, despite all that, it certainly seems obsessive, and it seems as if Chauvin is trying to “teach him … Continue reading “Can Derek Chauvin get a fair trial?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}