He displayed a still image from a bystander’s cellphone video of Chauvin, who is white, with his knee on the neck of Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man in handcuffs, saying it showed Chauvin “grinding and crushing him until the very breath — no, ladies and gentlemen — the very life was squeezed out of him.”
Philonise Floyd, a brother of George Floyd, said before the service began that he had faith that Chauvin would be convicted.Article contentProsecutors played the most widely seen bystander video to jurors on Monday. Chauvin, dressed in a gray suit, a blue face mask and a blue shirt and tie, took pages of notes on a yellow legal pad as the dying moans of Floyd and the yelling of horrified onlookers filled the courtroom.
The courtroom in a tower in downtown Minneapolis was ringed with concrete barriers, barbed wire and soldiers from the state’s National Guard. For blocks around, businesses are closed and windows boarded up, fearing a repeat of the arson and other property damage that occurred after Floyd’s death. The jury, including three alternates, is made up of six white women, three white men, three Black men, one Black woman and two multiracial women, according to court records.
Hahaha, all the tweets in 'support of' are hidden, all the tweets 'condemning of' are not. I'm very interested to see the censorship play out after the verdict is given.
NO KIDDING
Such unreasonable force during his autopsy they found no damage or bruising to his neck
He died doing what he loved -Meth and fentanyl !
Here’s an incomplete list of other reasons Black people were murdered by police.
Lock him up