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Re: If Chauvin's defence is that George Floyd died because of drug use and existing conditions

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Yes, that is his defense.

Also his attorney was trying to say because of the rowdy crowd, Chauvin couldn't attend to George. OMG...

Also because of his question to this witness he opened the door for the prosecutor to follow up & garner her powerful response.

The teenage bystander who recorded a viral video of George Floyd's death broke down in tears on the witness stand Tuesday, saying she regrets not doing more to possibly save his life.

In an emotional moment on the second day of testimony, Darnella Frazier could barely articulate her sorrow about watching Floyd as Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in his death, knelt on his neck.

"It's been nights, I stayed up apologizing and apologizing to George Floyd for not doing more and not physically interacting and not saving his life," a tearful Frazier told jurors in response to questions from prosecutor Jerry Blackwell.

"But it's like, it's not what I should have done," Frazier added. "It's what he (Chauvin) should have done."

Frazier said every time she views the video of the fatal interaction, she thinks of all of her male relatives and Black male friends who could have been in the same situation as Floyd.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tearful-witness-regrets-not-doing-more-possibly-save-george-floyd-n1262489?cid=eml_nbn_20210330&%243p=e_sailthru&_branch_match_id=613431375891389243&utm_medium=Email%20Sailthru


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If Chauvin's defence is that George Floyd died because of drug use and existing conditions
By: Cactus Flower
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Tue, 30 Mar 21 8:42 PM
Msg. 41515 of 54959

he's going to lose for sure.

He had his foot on the guy's neck and at just that moment, he died for an unrelated reason?

No juror is going to buy that. It's such a poor defence.

He'll be much better off admitting he misjudged the situation, thought he was acting in the way he was trained to but now realises he got it wrong, saying the death was unintended and not done with malicious intent, apologising to the family and throwing himself on the mercy of the court.

Some of the jurors might believe that sort of explanation and make him guilty only of manslaughter.

But there's no way, seeing that video, they will buy the notion that he didn't kill the guy by standing on his neck. And they will hate Chauvin for thinking they are dumb enough to believe him.


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