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2021-03-31 -War on Police-

[LegalInsurrection] Today saw the Chauvin court wrap up the testimony of martial arts and security "expert" Douglas Williams, a bystander witness to Floyd’s in-custody death. It also saw the state proceed through four women I’ll refer to as the "minor witnesses," because they were bystander witnesses who under 18 years of age at the time of the incident. Finally, the state brought the firefighter bystander witness to the stand, with court recessing partway through the defense cross-examination of her.

The most interesting event of the day was certainly during the testimony of the firefighter, when Judge Cahill cleared the jury from the room and scolded her for being argumentative with the defense during cross, before sending her to bed with no dinner and telling her to come back to the courtroom for further cross at 9:30am tomorrow (kidding about the bed and dinner part).
Chauvin's lawyer seems to be missing opportunities

Posted by Mercutio 2021-03-31 07:35|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 I thought he was already found guilty and the trial was just a formality?

Posted by Glenmore 2021-03-31 11:13|| 2021-03-31 11:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Ben Shapiro posted the full 37 minute video from the police bodycam here. I know some of you loathe Facebook and won’t open the link, but I have no idea how to extract it for you — sorry. I haven’t watched it because such things upset me, but a friend with martial arts training observed, “Floyd’s drugged state created irrational reactions, but his movements —by former training— were trained. That’s how he kept escaping from lighter holds.”

I would be interested in the observations from the many and variously trained people here.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-03-31 13:49|| 2021-03-31 13:49|| Front Page Top

#3 1. It was not a "choke," let alone a "blood choke" per the idiot faux-expert meathead the prosecution trotted out on Day 1

2. You can't strangle someone by applying pressure to the back of the neck. Floyd's arteries and windpipe were not constructed

3 At 140 lbs, Chauvin didn't weigh nearly enough to crush Floyd's chest cavity and lungs. Even if he had weighed 250 lbs, nine minutes in that position wouldn't have crushed the much bigger Floyd.

Maybe 500 lbs + 30 minutes. But not 140 lbs + 9 minutes

Posted by Uluque Sheang3710 2021-03-31 18:40|| 2021-03-31 18:40|| Front Page Top

#4 My Judo instructor would have laughed if I had called that pin a choke.

Then he would have choked me so I would remember the difference.

Female firefighter breaking chain of command and SOP by being argumentative with one of the lawyers. I'm suddenly curious what her MO is. Maybe I already know.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-03-31 19:23|| 2021-03-31 19:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Here's what the ME, Dr Andrew Baker, found (see his autopsy report, the real one, not the hired gun's hack job ... the report that Keith Ellison and the prosecutors suppressed for nearly 3 months before quietly slipping it into the official record at the end of August last year):

“No life-threatening injuries identified —

“A. No facial, oral mucosal, or conjunctival petechiae

“B. No injuries of anterior muscles of neck or laryngeal structures

“C. No scalp soft tissue, skull, or brain injuries

“D. No chest wall soft tissue injuries, rib fractures (other than a single rib fracture from CPR), vertebral column injuries, or visceral injuries

“E. Incision and subcutaneous dissection of posterior and lateral neck, shoulders, back, flanks, and buttocks negative for occult trauma”

Posted by Sheba Squank7170 2021-03-31 19:26|| 2021-03-31 19:26|| Front Page Top

#6 From the Toxicology Report - which indicates the real cause of Floyd's death:
Compound
Caffeine - Positive
Cotinine - Positive
Methamphetamine 19 ng/ml
Fentanyl 11 ng/ml
Norfentanyl 5.6 ng/ml
Cannabinoids - Presump. Pos[itive]
Amphetamines - Presump. Pos[itive]
Fentanyl / Metabolite - Presum[ed] Pos[itive]
Morphine - Free 86 ng/ml

Posted by Ho Chi Unaiter1184 2021-03-31 19:37|| 2021-03-31 19:37|| Front Page Top

#7 4 cops arrested before autopsy is performed because of video evidence.... but we still do not even know who shot Ashli Babbitt.

Posted by Airandee 2021-03-31 19:58|| 2021-03-31 19:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Chauvin is obviously innocent.
Everyone agrees that he is certain to be convicted, that his life will be destroyed, and that any suggestion to the contrary will be met with mob violence.

Why do we Americans accept this outrageous state of affairs?

We have invaded entire nations, in part with the goal of ensuring more just and democratic outcomes than what is unfolding here at home in front of our eyes.

Have we given up on our country?

When will these outrages stop?

Posted by Spanky the Imposter5346 2021-03-31 21:37|| 2021-03-31 21:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Expert coverage and daily summaries by a defense attorney who focuses on self-defense, Andrew Branca, is here at the excellent conservative website Legal Insurrection

Posted by Slurong Lumplump7978 2021-03-31 21:58|| 2021-03-31 21:58|| Front Page Top

#10 Great Dragon Hath Murthered St. George!
Outweighed, yet it crusheth his gorge.
Rogue blameth town's torching
On rumours of scorching
Smith spreadeth to tavern from forge.

Posted by Ebberetle Chavilet9598 2021-03-31 22:10|| 2021-03-31 22:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Reeve skeptical of finding impartial hangman!

Posted by Ebberetle Chavilet9598 2021-03-31 22:16|| 2021-03-31 22:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Judging by the way cities burn when an NBA team wins I suspect we will see burning buildings and broken glass no matter what the verdict so they might as well give justice it's due and not railroad him.

Posted by ruprecht 2021-03-31 22:27|| 2021-03-31 22:27|| Front Page Top

#13

picture says it all

Posted by Otto Spoiler8642 2021-03-31 22:46|| 2021-03-31 22:46|| Front Page Top

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