NBC News legal analyst Paul Butler discusses the opening statements from the prosecution and the defense in the Derek Chauvin trial. Aired on 03/29/2021.
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Butler: Chauvin Prosecution Goal To Show This Is 'Not About The National Reckoning On Race' | MSNBC
Chauvin’s in big trouble day one!
Defense: “This is not about a national reckoning on race.”
America: “Cool. We’ll just focus on the part where Chauvin choked Floyd to death.”
Defense: ” 😳 Can we start over?”
@jmjdje may I steal that comment
Funny the autopsy stated nothing about bruising to the neck or trachea.
He died of an overdose and bad heart.
@Ja Loux Are you a doctor? I am. Block off the flow of blood to the carotid artery or from the jugular vein and that’s fatal in 6-7 minutes. Sound familiar?
@Claressa Lucas
But all the fentanyl in his system wasn’t 👌
@jmjdje 😂
Just don’t allow them to use a narrative to try and convince us we did not see what we all saw. Record all police interactions, do not allow lies to go unchallenged. Actions have consequences, justice for all.
Just sickening.
@Fizzgig jones⬅️ Nazis gonna Nazi.
I see someone had my comment deleted. You liberals truly are losers.
There is absolutely no excuse or reason for a trained officer, knowing the dangers of this Move, and people begging to let him up or even just take his knees off his and back, to continue doing this for almost 10 minutes, NO EXCUSE WHATSOEVER! HE WAS HANDCUFFED AND SURROUNDED BY 4 ARMED POLICE OFFICERS. HE WAS NO Threat. Doesn’t matter what he did throughout his life or what drugs he took, or what disease he had, he was breathing when he went down and after a very dangerous 10 minutes, he didn’t get up alive! They knew each other and had issues.
Floyd is not on trial here!
No he is not. He was executed live by the police and didn’t have the chance for a judge and trial like Chauvin.
That’s odd because I think he’d still be alive it he hadn’t used drugs.
@Miguel are you a generic WS or in the AB?
@Miguel reject religion free your mind ps stop
At 1:06 who took out a can of mace to use against a first responder?
I thought that was Derek Chauvin, the main murderer.
It was Chauvin, the main murderer. One of the witnesses on the pavement was an off-duty first responder, who was telling him who she was and to stop. When she moved forward, he unholstered his mace.
We’re all one race, the real racists will try to convince you otherwise.
And the real racists are who?
@Helen Short Democrats
The Defense…is defenseless.
An Eye for an EYE, see if he likes it! Maybe they will think twice next time before murdering another human being!
Who was murdered?? Resisting arrest has consequences
MURDER IS MURDER regardless of race
We watched a murder.
Floyd’s past is irrelevant.
Floyd was a career felon
Not a racist set up by the police…..There maybe other problems as the trial progress’s but the police responded to a crime from a shop owner….
Reality. 80 thousand died of Fentanyl DRUGS OHIO 2020 !!!
And they executed a man on the street.
Chauvin, with his hands in his pocket, indicated he’d determined the outcome of Mr Floyd’s fate. What was in his mind, as people pleaded , is between him and the devil.
Floyd was a career felon
@Randy Couch did that give cops the right to execute him?
@Julie Gaffney yep
@Randy Couch go back to the rock you crawled out of. “BLM” is not a terrorist group, but racists, white supremacists. Oath takers are.
Floyd family Take that money and get your own Justice
Without question the most horrific incident of police brutality I’ve ever seen. You’d think that this depraved act will bring change to policing in this country. If the unimaginable tragedy at Sandy Hook did nothing to change the gun laws in America, I don’t know what this murder will do to change the way police enforce our laws…we are a violent and inhumane nation in many respects.
Maybe it wasn’t about race. Maybe that’s how the cop would treat all suspects. Will we ever really know? Why isn’t this just about unchecked police brutality period? When this happens to white men it doesn’t receive the same attention, so who is racist?
When does it happen to white men 😏
They murdered Mr. Floyd 1 cop holding his legs, 1 cop with his knees on his back and 1 cop with his knee on his neck.
They made sure that he was dead before the ambulance arrived.
80 thousand died of Fentanyl DRUGS OHIO 2020 !! Your life can’t be saved !!!
Derek Chauvin will be convicted they will never let him out of prison its un safe to have murdering cops walking around on the streets
This was a modern day lynching. An execution with no charges, no trial.