My lawyer said, if you are arguing law, talk to the judge.
If you are arguing emotion, get a jury.
I can't emphasize how much what Chauvin's lawyers are doing is backfiring on them.
They barely spoke in the case. It's mostly the prosecution right now. Facts are what Chauvin did was standard police procedure. Watch episodes of the former police series COPS and you'll see police officers use the same maneuver all over the country.
When the defense gets to call witnesses, I hope they call in the doctor that performed the autopsy to go into detail about what he found, including the toxicology report of the criminal having three times the fatal dose of fentanyl in his system, combined with meth, a bad heart, and a clogged artery at 70%. Furthermore if a person cannot breathe, they cannot speak either. Try it yourself. Hold your breath and try to pronounce words. It's impossible. I also hope they bring in instructors from police academies to testify they teach officers to do exactly what Chauvin did, and police do this thousands of times a year with no fatalities.
Again, when we fix racism and poverty, then I'll start giving a fuck about some business that got looted.
Racism will always be here, like the blacks who are attacking Asians these past few months. Poverty is not something society needs to fix, it's something the individuals need to fix. In most cases, poverty is a choice.
He could have not made things worse by shooting at peaceful protestors...
He could have actually pushed for police reform through Congress. that would have done a lot to help.
It wouldn't have done anything except federalize local police. It's up to those cities to do their own reform, which apparently those Democrat cities haven't done for years. When did any of Trump's people shoot at rioters?
Except an employee created the product, not the capitalist.
Consumer demand created the job, not the capitalist.
For instance, we could take all the capitalists out tomorrow, shoot them, toss them into a big ditch and have factories run by worker's committees, and they'd probably be just as productive.
Yes, that's what's called Socialism and Communism which I understand is your desire. However in a free country, the worker merely works. The worker has no resources to buy all the equipment needed to produce the product, the enclosure itself, the utilities to run the company, pay the taxes, the maintenance, the employee insurances. That's what the capitalist does. That's why it's his product and not the workers.
The only way for employees to run a business is if they do shoot the capitalist and steal everything he or she invested. After all, the employees could ban together anytime they want to build their own factory and compete against their employer. So why don't they? It's because they don't have the capital and knowledge to run a business.
Go out to a field somewhere and dig a hole. Spend 8 hours a day digging holes, and after a week, you made 0 dollars. Now if some capitalist comes along and sees you digging those holes, gets a contract with somebody that needs holes dug, now he can pay you to dig those holes. You couldn't do that yourself.
So what? Why would the city council have cared if the mayor got voted out? They settled because they didn't want to go into court against a lawyer who would have actually asked questions like, "Why did you hire a cop who was fired from his last job for mental instability?"
Cleveland didn't have a leg to stand on in a civil suit, and they knew it.
The case would be thrown out of court by the complainant making a false statement that the officer was fired for mental instability. No professional ever made that evaluation, some other cop did. His opinion holds no more value than yours or mine.
The city of Cleveland has been run by Communists for the last couple of decades. They all had to worry about being thrown out given the fact blacks are the majority of the city. The case was heard by a grand jury. They had no reason to indict the officer because he broke no law, and as many times as I've asked you, you can't give me any law he broke either. He confronted a reported armed suspect, the suspect pulled a realistic gun on him, and he shot in self defense. No law broken.
If I'm walking down the street armed, and somebody coming the other way pulls out a realistic gun and I shoot him dead, I won't even get a ticket yet alone be arrested. Our law reads that I am legally allowed to use deadly force if I believe that I was in jeopardy of serious bodily harm or death. When somebody pulls out an exact copy of a real gun, I had every reason to believe what I believed, even if it turns out to be a fake.
