• aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Not knowing what blue lives matter means should be an automatic disqualification from being on a jury like this, even by liberal/conservative standards, right? It's an important fact in a police brutality case.

    Also this trial was rigged from the start. Hope the whole country burns when they let him walk.

    • luigi [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      If she supports Blue Lives Matter (it doesn't tell us either way), then her statement that she thought it meant "all lives matter, except black lives" is even worse. It would also flatly contradict her assertion that she believes "all lives matter". Surely they wouldn't be that blatant, but it wouldn't be the first time someone has said "all lives matter" without actually meaning it to try to deflect a charge of racism.

  • SerLava [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    What the fuck, isnt this the same trial that was like, avoiding black lives matter people?

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Tbh, if I wanted to get on that jury, I'd say the same thing. Turns out they kinda like racists, so pretend to be racist then nullify if it's a human and hang the jury if it's a pig.

      • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Kind of a good point, you pretty much have to be a chud to be accepted on a jury of "peers." I'd be terrified of being judged by twelve random dipshits from the city I live in, let alone the city I'm from. They're only supposed to take people that are like, legal theory blank slates, so to speak; but, of course, in Amerikka :amerikkka:, a human being who has so little awareness that two lawyers call them neutral is going to be extremely well-trained at dehumanizing their fellow citizens.

          • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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            3 years ago

            I wonder if it's possible to be so publicly based for an entire trial that they just sort of let you go for reason of insanity. Like just communist shitposting, loudly, at every single party in the court room, including: your lawyers, the prosecutors, the judge, the jury, the sketch artist, your mom, those dudes that walked into the wrong room while looking to register to vote because the state makes them do that in person at the county courthouse as a form of folk voter repression and now it's too awkward for them to leave in the middle of your rant about posadism: y'know, everyone.

            • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              Ranting about communism being good probably makes them more likely to convict you

            • meme_monster [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              Posting about an ongoing trial as a juror would be illegal. Contempt of court or something. You'd get kicked and they'd use an alternate.

            • acealeam [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              im sure non communists have tried that as well. it probably doesn't work

      • Memes [any]
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        3 years ago

        hang the jury if it’s a pig.

        I propose we simply hang the pig instead.

  • Ryan_Holman [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This is what I thought/feared would happen. You get a jury that is disproportionately made up of "well I think all lives matter" or "those protests were too violent for my tastes" people.

    The process for finding neutral jurors also means that you have to find people who will (theoretically) have no strong opinions on Black Lives Matter, the police and the murder. Not to mention, it takes just one chud to cause a hung jury.

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      This is what I thought/feared would happen. You get a jury that is disproportionately made up of “well I think all lives matter” or “those protests were too violent for my tastes” people.

      That's like half of the people in the US, how is the jury not gonna be made up of them?

      • Ryan_Holman [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Oh, I fully expected you would have some of them on the jury. Any defense lawyer worth their salt would see to that, but you would also think the prosecutor would be able to get more people on their side in the jury.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      We all did. It's like watching a car crash in super slow motion, you know what's going to happen but can do nothing to stop it.

  • XKEYSCORE [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    imo this ends in a mistrial. the jury pool was already tainted from bias before this.

  • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I've been watching a lot of the jury selection (I'm not a lawyer or someone with any legal training). I don't think I'm quite as blackpilled as folks who have just followed the twitter (obv the parts that go big on twitter are the most shocking parts), but man...I'd be surprised if the murder charges stuck. I think the manslaughter charge will stick and he gets a couple years behind bars, but that's not gonna be enough to stop Minneapolis from burning (nor should it be).

      • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah. The only reason I don't think Chauvin walks is because the prosecution isn't gonna outwardly throw the case like the chud in charge of the Breonna Taylor one did. Keith Ellison's office is running the prosecution here so like...they actually want to convict him I just don't think they can get 12 jurors to actually cook some ham.

        • vccx [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          Cops argue that they had the right to choke George Floyd to death because they found "chewed up pills" around his body afterward (nobody chews on pills).

          • Futterbinger [he/him, they/them]
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            3 years ago

            They also claimed the drugs were meth and fentanyl. Which to my knowledge meth doesn't come in pills, and fentanyl is mixed with opioids not meth. Also a meth pill would taste like spicy cat piss.