The Derek Chauvin trial {Mod Edit: Guilty on all charges}
Well, the police chief made some remarks that made it pretty much impossible for the cops involved to claim they followed what they were trained to do. From everything I've seen and heard so far, I'd be surprised if the jury took very long to hand down a verdict.
I had read that even before George Floyd plenty of people in Minneapolis would dispute that the police had "the core value of treating everyone with "dignity and respect."
But it's good that the chief gave this testimony. It looking more and more that a guilty verdict is certain
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Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo on Monday thoroughly rejected
Derek Chauvin's actions during the arrest of George Floyd last May as contrary to department policy.
"Once Mr. Floyd had stopped resisting, and certainly once he was in distress and trying to verbalize that, that should have stopped," Arradondo testified during Chauvin's criminal trial.
"There is an initial reasonableness in trying to get him under control in the first few seconds," Arradondo said. "But once there was no longer any resistance and clearly when Mr. Floyd was no longer responsive and even motionless, to continue to apply that level of force to a person proned out, handcuffed behind their back -- that in no way shape or form is anything that is by policy. It is not part of our training, and it is certainly not part of our ethics or our values."
In particular, the chief said Chauvin's kneeling on Floyd's neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds is not a trained tactic and was a violation of the policies around de-escalation, objectively reasonable use of force and requirement to render aid.
"That action is not de-escalation, and when we talk about the framework of our sanctity of life and when we talk about the principles and values we have, that action goes contrary to what we're talking about," he said................
George Floyd: Police chief says Derek Chauvin's actions were 'in no way, shape or form' proper policy (msn.com)