Former police officer Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) was found guilty of murder in court. African American George Floyd apparently fell victim of police brutality, targeting especially black people.
Derek Chauvin, 45 years old at the time committing the murder, was seeing kneeling on Floyd's neck on May 25th 2020 for a period of about nine minutes. The body cam footage was watched worldwide and sparked an outrage, especially in black communities, soon creating the Black lives matter movement. People were remembered on the 1992 Los Angeles riots - and rightly so.
After found guilty by the judges, Derek Chauvin Derek Chauvin's bail was immediately revoked and he was taken into custody by the authorities. Chauvin was found guilt of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter, and is facing a maximum sentence of 40 years for second-degree murder, 25 years for third-degree murder and 10 years for manslaughter in prison. If convicted on all charged he is locked away for no less than 75 years. The prison guard might as well through away the key.
But what if he actually didn't commit the murder, and Floyd died due to his poor health conditions? A man in good health might have survived that. But Chauvin couldn't know this. He still should do time for at least manslaughter in my opinion. Already for being a dumb moron knowing body cams will film everything, eventually footage will find the way to Youtube and other social media platforms. He was probably in rage and let it all out on George Floyd. That is not an excuse - no one should do this. If one is not fit for the police duty he should stay at home!
Still my question remains: what would have happened if black police officers would have killed a white (homeless) man? Would there be a similar public outrage and media coverage? Somebody creating "White lives matter"? I'm not a racist, but I actually doubt this. May be time will tell. But please let me know in the comments.
And how ever the outcome, it will have something good in store. I suppose police chiefs will remind their officers to get themselves together and stop the police violence. They'll get reminded that their action will be on video and if they do not act adequately they'll face consequences, like Chauvin hopefully does.
I agree to the sentence. Lock every cop up who isn't able to control hiself, thus hurting or killing people who pose not a threat to others. But I also agree anyone dumb enough to point a weapon on a police officer, even a mockup, deserves to be shot.
