What’s the difference between 2nd degree murder and 3rd degree?
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BREAKING: Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is increasing charges against Derek Chauvin to 2nd degree murder in George Floyd’s case and also charging the other 3 officers, @amyklobuchar confirms. #GeorgeFloyd
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06/04/2020 00:00 ||
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What’s the difference between 2nd degree murder and 3rd degree?
Fahrenheit vs Kelvin.
Not a lawyer, but near as I can tell, in Minnesota 1st degree murder is premeditated, 2nd degree is you did it on a whim, and 3rd degree is felony murder - someone died while you were busy being felonious.
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But if the overreach blow up in his face, Ellison will just throw an assistant or two under the bus.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
06/04/2020 6:35 Comments ||
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He's got a problem. Overcharge and the guy might be acquitted because you can't show what makes this murder one or two. Charge low to make sure you get a guilty verdict and you're going easy on Chauvin and the others.
The other problem is, according to NBC, this knee resraint has been taught by MPD. Used 200 times in the last five years and this is the first fatality.
What if the defense is...I was doing what I was told and trained to do and nobody else has been sanctioned over it. How was I supposed to know the drugs and heart issues would kill him? Never happened before? None of my trainers told me.
MPD looks really bad as do all the layers of government way back to the last republican mayor.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey ||
06/04/2020 7:29 Comments ||
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I think moving Chauvin twice in one day to different lockups was an effort to "make the problem go away." Watch for more of the same going forward.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
06/04/2020 7:40 Comments ||
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yep. you can only act according to your training and the information you have at that time.
it will be thrown out, and hell the cops may even be due back wages.
at that time, here's hoping all the businesses will proactively defend themselves from the inevitable riots
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 ||
06/04/2020 7:43 Comments ||
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Wait a minute. Isn't Palantir supposed to have cataloged all these rioters by now? Shouldn't they be maced coming out of their holes the day the innocent verdict is announced? Just askin...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
06/04/2020 8:12 Comments ||
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Think Chauvin's guards in the Minnesota jails will do a better job of keeping their prisoner alive than Epstein's guards in New York? You never know. He might have some interesting things to say.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
06/04/2020 12:47 Comments ||
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BTW, whatever happened to Epstein's guards?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
06/04/2020 12:49 Comments ||
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#13
Slap on the wrist and they retire in comfort with the proceeds from their GoFundMe page?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
06/04/2020 12:51 Comments ||
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But then, if Chauvin dies in jail, who would riot for him?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
06/04/2020 12:54 Comments ||
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The knee restraint isn't supposed to be held for minutes on end. Chauvin and the other officers weren't following policy, and were at the least derelict in not keeping someone in their custody safe.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
06/04/2020 15:33 Comments ||
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Gotta keep your prisoners alive so we can hear what they have to say. It might be interesting.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
06/04/2020 15:48 Comments ||
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The press and the elected official in MN have made it impossible for Chauvin to get a fair trial anywhere in MN.
This will probably be requested by Chauvin's attorney in the next month or so.
Hard to see how this would be fairly denied.
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06/04/2020 19:50 Comments ||
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[NationalPulse] James Miller — a Defense Department advisor who resigned over President Trump’s walk through Lafayette Square to St. John’s Church — is a Barack Obama That’s just how white folks will do you.... and Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is... -era political appointee who has donated to Obama’s 2008 and Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'... ’s 2020 presidential campaigns, as well as a host of Democratic congressional candidates.
Media stories make Miller out to be a Pentagon staffer, when in fact he is an external advisor and a holdover from previous administrations at that.
Miller announced his resignation in a sanctimonious Washington Post op-ed entitled "A letter to Defense Secretary Mark Esper," insisting Defense Secretary Mark Esper "violated" his oath to "support and defend the Constitution" by participating in President Trump’s removal of protestors from the park adjacent to the White House so he could visit St. John’s Episcopal Church, recently set ablaze by rioters.
Rosenstein denies having ever proposed wearing a wire in the White House or invoking the 25th Amendment, both of which are described in a memo by Andrew McCabe. But he also says he can't recall an instance where McCabe has lied.
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Precisely. Nothing-Nada-Zilch will happen. It gives Fox News & The Gateway Pundit something to discuss, though. Oh, and Blood & Guts Trey Gowdy, too.
#3
I think the riots have less to do with shoring up the failed forever quarantine and more to do with providing a smokescreen as the russia conspiracy cones to a head.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
06/04/2020 6:52 Comments ||
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I gotta hand it to these Democr@ps. Russiagate is their story and they are sticking to it. And then Susan Rice comes out and says the riots are backed by Russia. Putin might be chuckling a bit at how f'ed up we are, but this Rice broad...what planet is she from?
Former Obama administration national security adviser Susan Rice suggested in an interview (CNN) Sunday that the Russians could be behind the violent nationwide demonstrations following the in-custody death of George Floyd.
I did not believe it until i saw the interview. And now I want to react.
Dear Suzan Rice,
Some time ago your party colleagues made a fatal mistake when they decided to blame absolutely everything that was not to their liking on Russia. Hillary Clinton and the Obama team convinced themselves and tried to convince the world that the domestic problems in the United States were created and encouraged by an external force: Russia.
You are repeating this mistake today together with a CNN reporter, using dirty methods of information manipulation, such as fake news and absolutely no facts to prove your allegation. Your interview with CNN is a perfect example of barefaced propaganda.
I would like to remind you that the social media, which you believe are being used by Russian agents to fuel protests in American cities, were registered in the United States, belong to Americans and are regulated by American laws.
Are you trying to play the Russia card again? You have been playing too long; please, come back to reality. Go out and face your people, look them in the eye and try telling them that they are being controlled by the Russians through YouTube and Facebook. And I will sit back and watch “American exceptionalism” in action.
Not Yours,
Maria Zakharova, Russian MFA’s spokeswoman
[APNEWS] Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told lawmakers Wednesday that he would not have approved an FBI surveillance application for a former Trump campaign aide during the Russia investigation had he known at the time about the problems that have since been revealed. But he did approve it then, the consequential results including political sliming of innocent men, personal bankruptcies of victims, and inflaming political passions to the detriment of the nation as a whole. Prince Johnson is really sorry he videotaped Samuel Doe being tortured and castrated. He's a preacher now, and reformed. Samuel Doe, on the other hand, remains deader than Tut, and his agonies can't be undone.
Rosenstein’s comments amounted to a striking concession that law enforcement officials made mistakes as they scrutinized ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Motive is key. If you do things on purpose they're not "mistakes." If they had been mistakes nothing would have happened after a short initial investigation. But even as he acknowledged the legitimacy of anger from Trump and his allies, he defended his appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller to lead the probe and affirmed his support for the conclusion that Russia interfered but did not criminally conspire with associates of the Trump campaign. If Russian "interference" was confined to phony Facebook accounts and a bunch of bots, what was the need for a special prosecutor targeting the Trump administration? Why was Mueller given carte blanche?
“I do not consider the investigation to be corrupt, That's a rose colored view. It was corrupt on its face, and now the facts are out to back up that statement.
but I understand the president’s frustration given the outcome that there was no evidence” of a conspiracy between the campaign and Russia, Rosenstein said. Golly. I'll bet Trump also recognizes the frustrations of Adam Schiff, San Fran Nan, and Jerry Nadler.
His appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee was for the first in a series of oversight hearings scrutinizing the FBI’s Russia investigation and the law enforcement officials involved. With subpoena authority expected to be granted this week, the hearing served as the opening salvo of the GOP’s election-year congressional investigation into what they say are damaging findings about the Russia probe from an inspector general review. What went around is what's coming around, y'say? The president’s allies have taken fresh aim at the Russia investigation over the last year, pointing to newly declassified information to allege that Trump and his associates were unfairly pursued. They have also claimed vindication from the Justice Department’s decision to dismiss the case against ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn and at times advanced unsupported theories against Obama administration officials. Umm... Three words there: "January Fifth Meeting."
“We’re going to look backward so we can move forward,” committee chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in explaining the purpose for the hearings. “If you don’t like Trump, fine, but this is not about Trump or not liking Trump. This is about moving forward as a nation.” Damage is done. Time to sift through the wreckage.
Graham also questioned whether Mueller should have been appointed at all. Rosenstein said he believed there was a sufficient basis for the investigation when he appointed Mueller in May 2017, but when Graham asked if he would agree that by that August, there was “no there there,” Rosenstein said yes. May 2017 was five months into the administration. If I recall correctly, the calls for impeachment started coming a month before Trump was inaugurated.
Democrats lamented the hearing’s politically charged and retrospective nature, saying Republicans were attempting to refocus attention away from more urgent problems, including unrest in cities set off by the death of George Floyd and the coronavirus pandemic. "Let's just Move On®. It's all in the past. We were all so much younger then!" “This hearing wastes this committee’s time in a blatant effort to support the president’s conspiracy theories and to help the president’s reelection,” said Democratic Sen. Mazie 'We Democrats know so much that we tend to alienate voters' Hirono of Hawaii. Good to hear from the Sage of Honolulu. I don't recall her wanting to concentrate on problems of the moment during the patently biased witch hunts, the targeted events of which were coincidentally in the past when the fishing expedition began.
The hearing delved into detail in two areas that Trump allies have recently seized on to challenge the conduct of law enforcement. Law enforcement has no place in politix, regardless of anyone's personal opinions. Law enforcement's job is to umm... enforce the laws.
Rosenstein was pressed repeatedly about his decision to sign off on the fourth and final application for a warrant to eavesdrop on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page on suspicion that he was a Russian agent. That's Carter Page, the sometime FBI asset...
Page has denied wrongdoing and was never charged with a crime, and a Justice Department inspector general report identified significant errors and omissions in each of the applications submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Just little details that an assistant attorney general couldn't be expected to catch.
The watchdog said the FBI relied in part for its applications on a dossier of information compiled by a former British spy whose research was funded by Democrats and the Hillary Clinton campaign. The FBI used the dossier even though agents were aware of the possibility that it could have been colored by Russian disinformation and omitted information that called into question allegations they were making in the application. Nobody thought the idea of Trump hiring hookers to pee on the bed Obama had slept in was umm... out of line? Unlikely?
Asked by Graham if he would have signed the warrant application knowing what he knows now, Rosenstein replied, “No, I would not.”
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Page has denied wrongdoing and was never charged with a crime.
Yes, he was an FBI victim right? He was being exploited. As a frequent FBI source, high ranking USN Academy grad and former intelligence officer, he was totally clueless as to what was actually taking place.
#10
disingenuous dĭs″ĭn-jĕn′yoo͞-əs adj. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating. adj. Pretending to be unaware or unsophisticated; faux-naïf. adj. Unaware or uninformed; naive.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
06/04/2020 12:41 Comments ||
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[APNEWS] Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told lawmakers Wednesday that he would not have approved an FBI surveillance application for a former Trump campaign aide during the Russia investigation had he known at the time about the problems that have since been revealed.
But even as he acknowledged the legitimacy of anger from Trump and his allies, he defended his appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller to lead the probe and affirmed his support for the conclusion that Russia interfered but did not criminally conspire with associates of the Trump campaign.
The president’s allies have taken fresh aim at the Russia investigation over the last year, pointing to newly declassified information to allege that Trump and his associates were unfairly pursued. They have also claimed vindication from the Justice Department’s decision to dismiss the case against ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn and at times advanced unsupported theories against Obama administration officials.
“This hearing wastes this committee’s time in a blatant effort to support the president’s conspiracy theories and to help the president’s reelection,” said Democratic Sen. Mazie 'We Democrats know so much that we tend to alienate voters' Hirono of Hawaii.
