David Chauvin Trial "Cliff Notes" .....

The Trial of the Century ? Former Officer David Chauvin 
faces judgement on the murder of
George Floyd .

Here we GO! the long awaited Trial of former officer David Chauvin has begun . NOW am going say a few rather shocking things here . First of all ... what officer David Chauvin did by putting his knee on the neck of George Floyd was wrong period , BUT maybe the "knee" was on his shoulder ?. Secondly , am sorry for the those people who want to make George Floyd as some kind of "martyr", but he did use a counterfeit bill . Was it planted on him ? Did he know ? NOW look at the consequences for doing that He could be in prison for up to 20 years in . NOW as the evidence now shows that how a simple matter of judgement both on George Floyd and Officer David Chauvin part created a situation that could have been avoidable or a different outcome . (1)>>The arrest of George Floyd was no random act of pulling a man over  which led to police brutality . BUT the TESTIMONY of Christopher Martin a store clerk who happens to be black himself , he was the clerk that reported that Floyd passed a counterfeit 20 $ bill to his manager which led for the police to be called up. Like a surreal world we live in . WE have Camera   footage that was from at all angles , besides the police body cameras , there was the store cameras, the street cameras . Yes , ITS LIKE BIG BROTHER WAS WATCHING .  MOST noteworthy  was the  17 year old girl who happened to have filmed Chauvin's knee on Floyd's  neck at the moment exact coincidence  moment   that Floyd screamed   "I can't breathe "  a  segment that went viral world wide and led massive riots in the streets of the American nation last year . NOW we are looking at things that were not exactly known last year . Besides her film,  now we have recordings of the store camera on [ we have to remember too how video documentation can be used in evidence in a court room these images can also "change" a outcome of a trial ] 

Newly released video show George Floyd buying
cigarettes at the Cup Foods Grocery store.
What started it ? Passing a counterfeit 20 Bill.
His refusal to walk back to the store when approached 
by clerks , which led to the police being called .
WE live in  a amazing world where Big Brother 
is watching us , lots of cameras footage 
may have changed the official narrative .

We should examine how things are now 

being  played out. We have Floyd interacting with the clerks . The footage was played as Christopher Martin, 19, a clerk at Cup Foods, testified about discovering  (2)>>the fake $20 bill that he said Mr. Floyd used to buy cigarettes inside the store. It was a clerk’s call to 911 over the bill that brought several police officers to the area, where they handcuffed Mr. Floyd and pinned him to the ground outside, and where Derek Chauvin, who is now on trial for murder in Mr. Floyd’s death, was recorded kneeling on Mr. Floyd’s neck.In the surveillance footage, prior to the police being called, Mr. Floyd can be seen laughing with employees and shoppers as he moves around the store, at one point holding a banana and at another point pulling out what appears to be some cash. “When you were communicating with him, what was his demeanor like?” Minnesota Assistant Attorney General Matthew Frank asked during direct examination. “When I asked him if he played baseball, he went on to respond,” Martin answered. “But it kind of took him a little long to get to what he was trying to say. (3)>>"So, it appeared that he was high.” The footage, which does not have audio, then shows the moment Floyd hands over the phony bill after exchanging words with the clerk. The Clerk noted the strange bill  as he testified,  “When I saw the bill, I noticed that it had a blue pigment to it, kind of like a $100 bill would have,” Martin said. “So, I found that odd,” the worker said. “I assumed it was fake.” The Cup Foods footage shows Martin confronting Floyd in the background before Floyd leaves the store and walks out onto Chicago Avenue. From that point most of mainstream media did not know that before the police were called . The Store clerks were told by their manager to go after Floyd, they walked across the street from the store to the SUV that Floyd was in the front seat , it also appears that Floyd refused to return to the store .Remember at the Christopher Martin testimony that going after Floyd to get him to return to the store to talk to the manager was part of a store policy . The fact the  (3.1)>>Floyd refused to return to the store was the vary cause that led for the police to investigate . Last his crime is a separate issue from the one Police officers crime— WE should stop conflating the two. one wrong doesn't make Floyd’s crime right. If what he did if he did was wrong  and deserved to be arrested. What happens after that is a separate issue that only involved one COP. This has a lot of implications for the whole George Floyd incident as well as for former  officer David Chauvin's trial . 

Chauvin's Defense 

(4)>>Was the Police out of line ?Where did things go wrong? He was visibly annoyed while being taken out of the vehicle, which who wouldn’t be? Then was sat/stood on the wall under the camera. There’s no audio, not that that matters with the outcome... Read on another thread it was Bc of counterfeit 20’s?? What the hell would normal protocol be for that type of situation? Floyd was resisting the police , the footage shows , this part is puzzling . The prosecution seems to be epicly falling to pieces. From the initial release of the video, that's what the hold looked like to me. When the autopsy and rest of the encounter came out, that sealed it. Moments after George Floyd was taken away in an ambulance last May, former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin was confronted by a witness who took issue with  (5)>>Chauvin’s allegedly kneeling on Floyd’s neck.“That’s one person’s opinion,” Chauvin responded as he got into his squad car. “We had to control this guy because he’s a sizable guy. It looks like he’s probably on something.”Jurors in the murder trial of former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin have heard testimony from 11 witnesses so far who have recounted the death of George Floyd over the last three days. Chauvin is facing multiple charges in connection to the May 25 death of Floyd, a Black man who died in police custody, including second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The former officer was caught on camera with his knee allegedly pinned against Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes as Floyd cried out he could not breathe. Police ChiefArradondo agrees with Chauvin’s attorney that Chauvin’s knee appears to be on Floyd’s neck in the bystander video, but appears to be on his shoulder blade in the body-cam video.  Thought it was pretty interesting that they stated that there wasn’t even bruising on the neck of Floyd when he died. Not even on the muscle when they performed the autopsy. They ruled it as cardiopulmonary arrest. This was also released a while ago too. If the lack of bruising is true, then this can not be argued with. There wasn’t enough force laid down on his neck to kill the man. I am not biased on this btw, I’m just looking at the evidence provided. Without adequate bruising, I do not believe that he was murdered. It seems to have been a combination of uppers mixed with a panic attack, leading over into cardiopulmonary arrest. Apparently dude had some medical issues as well associated with his heart.Needless to say the rest of the US won’t agree with this, and if he walks, well then gear up for round two of the bullshit.  During Chauvin’s  let’s say the state does not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Chauvin killed Floyd by the knee on neck. Chauvin’s defense team successfully convince the jury that Floyd died from drugs and that Chauvin acted reasonably. Let’s say Chauvin testifies and says he believed Floyd was on PCP and thought he would go through the superhuman strength stage, so he wanted to have Floyd controlled. An acquittal is very likely because the medical examiner admitted Floyd had lethal levels of fentanyl and the defense’s medical experts drive the point that pulmonary edema of the lungs proves Chauvin’s innocence. What are the consequences of an acquittal? Will a angry Mob burn down cities nation wide ? This is all unfortunately very possible.I think there would, obviously, be protests and even riots. I don't think we'd see anything at the level of what we saw summer of 2020. That was a perfect storm of a number of factors. Right now it's too cold and people don't have as much anger running their veins, societally.

NOTES AND COMMENTS: 

 (1)>>The arrest of George Floyd was no random act of pulling a man over  which led to police brutality .  The series of evens that led to the death of George Floyd are vary bizarre . LAST year we only saw only one camera footage , that of the 17 year old girl Darnella Frazier filming Chauvin and the "knee" .Her 10-minute video shows Floyd clinging to life and repeatedly saying, “I can’t breathe,”   But we have now seen a lot of camera angles trying to piece together the unfortunate circumstance of Floyd. Like I was said , had Floyd returned to the store with the clerks , the police would have never been called. [ emphasis]  This whole incident was recorded even by onlookers standing out side the store . The surreal nature of it was no random act in my own words. The theories it was a set up to start the riots that followed are not baseless , but we have to look at the boiling point trigger with American culture the last few years were we have had people purposely filming police officers using brutality against young black men . There is no escape out of that . Police brutality has been a subject in the news for a decade . Floyd became the patsy for social uprising .  (2)>>the fake $20 bill.  Was George Floyd Set UP?  The Counterfeit 20 bill is a long story . Only from the clerks testimony we know . The store clerk who accepted a $20 bill from George Floyd shortly before Floyd died in a confrontation with police says he immediately suspected the bill was counterfeit — and he says he offered to pay for Floyd's cigarettes himself."I thought that George didn't really know that it was a fake bill," Christopher Martin testified Wednesday about taking the $20 bill. "So I thought I'd be doing him a favor."But he later had second thoughts, Martin told the jury in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who is facing murder charges over Floyd's killing.Martin eventually told his manager about the situation, and after Floyd refused to return to the Cup Foods store to talk to the manager, the police were called. The encounter that then transpired ended when Floyd died in police custody, on the street outside the store. Remember was  just for some cigarettes, come on that is just dumb this is going against one of your amendments, the eighth one to be exact! The Store Clerk shouldn't even had to call the police in the first place for something like this that was a bad choice on the store clerks part but since the police did come here they should have done two things: One of them or all of them should have at least had a one-on-one conversation with George Floyd that giving out a fake twenty dollar bill to a cashier to pay for some cigarettes is not a good idea because according to the United States law you can go to jail for . (3)>>"So, it appeared that he was high.” This is part of the difficulty of the Chauvin defense strategy to prove that Floyd was under the influence of drugs prior to his scuffle with the police . While the blunt force used by Chauvin could have accelerated certain medical issues with Floyd , but fentanyl question in system . A day earlier, jurors heard testimony that cast the level of methamphetamine and fentanyl found in Floyd's system after he died as relatively low.Notes in a witness contact form from an interview with Dr. Andrew Baker, the Hennepin County medical examiner, show that he found the level of Fentanyl in Floyd’s system was “higher than a chronic pain patient,” but adds, “I’m not saying this killed him.” The notes also mention “a relatively low level of methamphetamine.”Another issue is how most of the mainstream media is downplaying the drug issue , putting a racist label on the drug question.  The defense’s attempt to paint Mr. Floyd as a crazed drug addict relies on retrograde myths about the impact of drugs on our bodies and minds. The store clerk said that Floyd "appeared high".  (3.1)>>Floyd refused to return to the store . It's unclear how the situation escalated but one video shows police dragging Floyd out of his vehicle and sitting him down on the sidewalk. Police claimed he resisted but he doesn't appear to do so in the surveillance footage from a nearby store. According to owner, Mike Abumayyaleh, Floyd had tried to use a counterfeit $20 bill but was turned away by an employee. He is said to have come back a second time, using the fake bill,👉👀 NBC News reports.     After Floyd paid and left, a clerk passed the bill he used through a machine that identified it as fake. Another teenage employee confronted Floyd outside the store. According to Malik, Floyd refused to return the items he had purchased and cursed them out—“basically trying to be extra on them,” as Malik put it. As the other teenager returned to the store, Malik said the employee told him to call 911. So Malik did. “He [Floyd] is sitting on his car cause he’s awfully drunk. He’s not in control of himself,” Malik told the 911 operator.  (4)>>Was the Police out of line ?Where did things go wrong?  I just don't understand why George Floyd refused to walk back to the store with the clerks to talk to the manager .  First I think if Floyd had done that he would have still been alive . Second, why did Floyd stick around for nearly  30 minutes longer . If George Floyd has INTENTIONALLY passed a counterfeit bill and knew what he did, why would he stick around until the police show up? Does it make sense that he would do that? You'd think after knowingly passing out a fake bill that anyone would stick around . This is why the whole thing is so out of wack . Why the police were called in the first place . The police body cameras used by Officer Chauvin deferentially showed a number of things . It showed that the officers approached Floyd in the drivers seat having both hands on the steering wheel of the SUV pleading with the officers " don't shoot me" , he was crying . BUT the officer cam show the police officer holding a gun to Floyd dropping "F Bombs" at Floyd . Is this standard procedure ? Regarding when a counterfeit bill is used ? Sending multiple squad cars just to investigate a rather "minor" crime is heavy for standards. But the law is the law am assuming .  States also can punish people who use counterfeit currency. A person suspected of passing fake money may be charged with one or more crimes, including forgery, fraud, or other theft-related offenses.  The alleged counterfeit $20 bill used by George Floyd wasn't inspected or collected before his fatal arrest in Minneapolis, according to one of the first officers at the scene.Former police officer Thomas Lane said in newly-released audio that he didn't obtain the bill before, during or after the incident that led to Mr Floyd's death on 25 May.In response to questioning by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Mr Lane said that he didn't look at the alleged $20 forgery being held by the Cup Foods worker identifying Mr Floyd."We were more concerned with a least attaining that person on suspicion of passing a counterfeit bill and then figuring out the validity of the bill," Mr Lane can be heard in the audio recording. (5)>>Chauvin’s allegedly kneeling on Floyd’s neck. When Officer Thomas Lane confronted Floyd in his SUV, drew his gun and demanded with a few expletives that he show his hands, a panicky-sounding Floyd said: “I’m sorry, I’m sorry” and “I got shot before.” Seemingly crying, he begged repeatedly, “Please don't shoot me, man.”Then, when told to get into the squad car, Floyd repeatedly yelled, “I’m not that kind a guy!” and “I'm claustrophobic!” As officers shoved his upper body and then his legs into the car, he writhed and screamed, “Please! Please! … I can’t breathe!"Officers were clearly exasperated as Floyd braced himself against the squad car and arched his body while they tried to get him inside. At one point, he threw his upper body out of the car, and officers tried to push him back in.Officers eventually pulled him out and brought him to the ground. Floyd thanked officers as they took him out of the squad car.Once Floyd was on the ground — with Chauvin’s knee on his neck, another officer’s knee on his back and a third man holding his legs — the officers talked calmly about whether he might be on drugs.