Is the Chauvin verdict a sign of change, or the policing system saving itself?

1. BMore Proud of these two!!

2. Saving itself, bending the knee to riders. Bending the knee to left his politics. Children died I believe from a drug overdose. He was a walking Dead Man with the amount of drugs he had in his system.

3. The video is what killed Chauvin.

4. Why hasn't the president made a comment about police brutatlity?

5. Bet he gets less time for 'murder' than Eric Brandt got for 'words'. (ps The judges that threatened Eric during sentencing should get 12 years for their 'words' too!!!!!!)

6. Policing will change when people start defending themselves and not using police services. All this talk of ending Qualified Immunity, police insurance is not effective. Things will change when you stop blaming others and take your life in your own hands.

7. Police system trying to save itself.

8. Let's hope Chauvin wasn't a sacrifice to maintain the system as is.

9. @The Real News Network : I'm surprised that the description for the video doesn't that Chauvin was/is also charged for second-degree murder given that Taya mentions this in the video. With that said, this is good news and it's about time that this can happen in the USA. I wonder if the COVID-19 pandemic causing stress, …, might have influenced the jury to arrive at these charges against Chauvin. I also wonder how Chauvin will be able to serve out his sentences, whether the three will be consecutive, or if they'll be at the same time, in which case Chauvin wouldn't serve out the sentences for more than 40 years. That, alone, is very long, but serving the three sentences out consecuvively, for a total of (10+25+40) 75 years, if he doesn't eventually become eligible for parole, say. Lastly, I wonder how the violent cops in the US will now act, whether they'll continue with their criminal ways, or if they'll begin to change for the best interests of the society.

10. So this doctor wants us to understand that Floyd died from carbon monoxide from the patrol car, while he was pinned down by Chauvin, near his patrol exhaust.
    In a plain and simple he is telling us:
    Hey he died from carbon monoxide because he wanted to breathe it in, he didn't die because Chauvin had his knee on Floyd's kneck.

11. Nothing will change.Chauvin is a sacrificial lamb. Until politicians abolish police unions and qualified immunity nothing will change.

12. While I applaud the outcome of the Chauvin case, it's also exposed at least a few people to an aspect of the legal system that is frequently used against lower level offenders to pressure them to plead guilty and accept plea deals, and that is charging them not only with as many charges as possible, but every single one up the ladder of escalating charges for the exact same action. This causes them to plead guilty because if they choose to defend themselves they can and often will be found guilty of every level of crime and forced to serve the jail time and pay the fees for each of them. In essence, they're being found guilty multiple times for the same crime. So, while I hope that someone like Chauvin gets the maximum sentence, this is an extremely problematic aspect of the criminal justice punishment system that is used routinely in lower level matters as well.

13. One murdered Black Man, one guilty cop, and one trial will not change the corrupt system that created the omnipotent police-goon organizations. The advent of the ubiquitous micro camera, internet, and social media merely exposed a few of the many hideous criminals and psychos disguised in Blue whom the corrupt system had shielded from the public eye in the past. But the modern technology has yet to illuminate for public view the corrupt relationship between the government officials such as the DA, judges, police chief, and politicians and the wealthy and powerful police labor unions and police associations. This corrupt government gives deference to criminal police in the absence of overwhelming culpable evidence. Here, the police union and police fraternity had spent several million dollars hiring the best criminal defense team that money can buy. Without the availability of several incriminating video recordings made by citizens as would be in the past, Chauvin’s multi-million dollar defense team would have prevailed. The prosecution would have little incentive to go to trial given the political pressure from the police labor unions— he would either decline filing an indictment, plea deal to lesser charge, or dismissed the case.

14. I AM EASILY ONE OF YOUR BIGGEST FANS TAYA…!

15. The police system "attempting", to save itself!

16. Been around over 50 years, lived in most parts of the country. If any one thinks this is going to create a wave of change, your crazy. We will see some band aids here and there, but until the system of law enforcement vs first respondents is completely rethought, we can not have change. It's not defund the police, it's rethink and replace.

17. Explain to me why the taxpayers paid for a multi million dollar defense for a murderous cop. Doesn't seem like anything has changed

18. Unfortunately thanks to members of government he has an appeal for not getting a fair trial by telling people to riot if they didn’t get a guilty verdict. If that’s not protecting the system I’m not sure what if any is

19. Your reports are always informative and to the point. Thank you and keep it up.

20. This poor man is being used as a scapegoat and his incarceration will change nothing. Blacks will continue to be persecuted by system because that's how it's meant to be 🤷🏼‍♂️

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