18 complaints in 19 years, and a murder charge: The Disturbing Career of Derek Chauvin

[IM2]

When Gorge Floyd was murdered far too many people started running to look for criminality in Floyds past. The Idxxx Candice Owens penned a piece of trash with a lie about George Floyd hoding a gun on a pregnant woman to rob her. Our resident black right winger in his quest to end racial division *cough* immediately co signed her stupidity. At least one other right wing member here has commented about Floyd's criminality. Yet in nearly 1 full year since Floyd was murdered not once  has anyone bought up the troubling record of Derick Chauvin.

18 complaints in 19 years, and a murder charge: What we know about ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin

1. Both George Floyd and Derek Chauvin lived in Minnesota’s Twin Cities and even worked at the same nightclub before Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck during an arrest on May 25, killing him. But their lives were worlds apart.
2. Chauvin lived in a predominantly white St. Paul suburb and racked up 18 complaints over his 19-year career as a police officer, 16 of which were closed without discipline.
3. Chauvin had a reputation for being overly aggressive and combative, according to the nightclub owner who employed him as a security guard.
4. One woman who filed a complaint against him in 2007 said Chauvin and another officer pulled her out of her car with no explanation.

Derek Chauvin was a 19-year veteran of the Minneapolis Police Department who left behind a trail of misconduct complaints and a reputation for aggression, according to police records and those who knew him.

Chauvin worked for nearly 2 decades as both a cop and a security guard, and he racked up a long list of complaints

Chauvin’s record as a police officer in Minneapolis was littered with allegations of misconduct and excessive force. Eighteen complaints were filed against him over his 19-year career, according to CNN and Insider’s Haven Orecchio-Egresitz.

Only two of those complaints were closed with discipline. Though details of one remain unclear, a Minneapolis woman, Melissa Borton, told the Los Angeles Times she filed one of the complaints in August 2007 that ended with a formal letter of reprimand against Chauvin.

Borton said Chauvin and another officer pulled her over as she was returning home from the grocery store with her infant. The officers approached her car, reached inside “without a word,” unlocked her door, pulled her out, and put her in the back of a police cruiser, she said.

She told the newspaper that Chauvin and the other officer released her roughly 15 minutes later without an explanation.

Chauvin had a reputation for combative exchanges, but he also had a few accolades over his 19-year career

Chauvin’s combative reputation wasn’t limited to his policing career. Maya Santamaria, the former owner of El Nuevo Rodeo, the Latin nightclub where Chauvin worked, told BuzzFeed News that Chauvin “was nice, but he would overreact and lash out quickly.”

Santamaria said she noticed that Chauvin’s demeanour would change during special events for Black communities. She added that she had reprimanded him before when he used pepper spray on patrons.

“His face, attitude, posture would change when we did urban nights,” she said.

18 complaints in 19 years, and a murder charge: What we know about ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin

Both George Floyd and Derek Chauvin lived in Minnesota’s Twin Cities and even worked at the same nightclub before Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck during an arrest on May 25, killing him. But their lives were worlds apart. Chauvin lived in a predominantly white St. Paul suburb and racked up […]

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[airplanemechanic]

That's less than 1 complaint a year (complaints can be filed with zero evidence of wrongdoing) and the fact that he was only disciplined on two of those is pretty damn good.

Sounds like a stand-up guy to me. Thanks for the info.

 

[Oddball]

George Floyd died from an OD.

 

[Sunni Man]

When Gorge Floyd was murdered

Nope, he wasn't murdered. ....

 

[Pete7469]

One less piece of shit thug, Chauvin may have fucked up not rolling the piece of shit over on his side, but it was going to die anyway after swallowing a bag of dope. Floyd finally accomplished making the only contribution he was going to make to the earth when he bececame fertilizer.

That's pretty much the same thing we can ever hope for from the OP as well.

 

[edthecynic]

George Floyd died from an OD.

Of excessive force.

 

[edthecynic]

after swallowing a bag of dope.

thoroughly exposed as the defense lawyer's LIE when the medical examiner testified under oath there were NO drugs in his stomach. But you worthless lying scum POS just had to spew the LIE in a public forum.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

George Floyd died from an OD.

Overdose of Dumbassedness

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

The ONLY people that complain about the police not doing their jobs, are the criminals trying to hide something.

The officers past is not in question, and should not be allowed into evidence. The question that should be answered is, did the officer apprehend a multiple convicted criminal, doped up on drugs, attempting to pass off fake money (a federal felony), trying to evade arrest, in the quickest, easiest, and most logical way possible, to keep the public safe and out of harms way while doing his job?

Yes. He did. And judge that isn't corrupt or paid off by the Democrats would find that the only correct cause of action, is to let him go.

 

[The Irish Ram]

He would be alive today if we would have just done what they asked.

 

[SavannahMann]

I asked this question before. Perhaps someone here can help me understand. When the cops kill someone we hear about their “criminal career” extensively. We hear how they deserved it because they were lifetime criminals.

Yet. The history of the cop is never examined. Let’s take Chauvin. It isn’t his fault that he committed murder. It is the fault of his superiors.

We knew Chauvin had a long history of excessive force. We had 18 complaints about it. What did the superiors do? They swept it under the rug. They covered it up. They pencil whipped some additional training. They never took the complaints seriously.

The behavior was tacitly endorsed. It was winked at. The baddies needed to get tuned up. I can understand the sense of betrayal. How unfair it is in the eyes of Chauvin. Because nobody ever took his behavior seriously before Floyd.

Then suddenly everything changed. All the rules and policies that were winked at before were taken seriously. As gospel if you will. For an entire career they essentially told Chauvin that it was OK. Then suddenly it wasn’t.

This is the result of the Blue Wall of Silence. Covering up and minimizing bad behavior in the cops until something came up too large to get swept under the rug.

Chauvin is guilty. But he was guilty before. He was always tacitly encouraged to continue doing it. It stems from disdain of and resentment towards the people making policy.

Chauvin is blaming his conviction on politics and all that. He should be blaming his superiors who never took his behavior seriously. Floyd might still be dead. But nobody would be convicted of it.