Submitted by Pachamama

As the jury takes the murder case against Derek Chauvin for taking the life of George Floyd it has been disclosed that the kraken Chauvin was a highly-trained martial artist.

It’s amazing how both the prosecution and the defense attorneys, as officers of the court, seemed to have conspired to avoid letting the jury, and the public, know about the existence of this highly important factoid, the murder weapon. Such information should have been at the heart of a first degree murder charge, against Chauvin. But it never once came up!

Neither was the jury nor the public told that Derek Chauvin had as many as nineteen (19) complaints against him, in his police file. Yet the American injustice system is held up as a ‘paragon of virtue’, fit for wall to wall coverage on all networks.

These are the central problems with modern judicial systems. These are the structures which insist that the protection of official corruption itself is paramount.

How else can an injustice system maintain itself if it starts to convict police officers as the main protectors of that same wicked system if it starts putting on trial policemen for first degree murder like should have been the case in the death of George Floyd?

The lodge, that is a law courts, demands that both prosecutors and defense attorneys pledge allegiance to the court and not to the client or the people, with regard to public prosecutors.

Both sides managed to speak endlessly about 9 minutes and 29 seconds and other mundane issues but this central piece of information was never once told to the jury.

This occurs in a case where we were treated to any number of police officers paraded by the State of Wisconsin, including the Police Commissioner himself.

And as if to speak in code, or under the direction of unknown third parties, every prosecution or police witness made inert statements about the restraint (martial arts hold) which Chauvin used on George Floyd.

The commissioner himself said words to the effect that Chauvin’s restraint technique was not part of police training, so did several other policemen/women. The obvious question should have been, then where did it come from? But we were not to know this, certainly not the jury.

As a martial artist Chauvin ought to have known or certainly would have known that the restraint technique applied to George Floyd’s neck was certain to kill him. This qualifies as intent. This was a central requirement for first degree murder charges. Are these the workings of a Black man called Keith Ellison, the state attorney general?

Indeed, it is well known that as a martial artist one’s being is considered a deadly weapon. Either as policemen or martial artist or both the chokehold represents murder in the first degree with intentionality and as such should not escape the death penalty, if found guilty.

Given these circumstances, we are now to ask a number of wider questions. Those questions are pregnant with meanings and fall within the inalterable decay of the American judicial system and empire itself.

We need to ask, why was there such an unusual haste to pay-off the family of George Floyd with about 27 million pieces of silver just a few days before the trial started?

Was this smoking gun evidence, just coming to light, part of the financial settlement or blood money as negotiated by the family lawyers?

Was it agreed beforehand that this show trial, we’ve witnessed for the last three weeks, should be no more than that?

What were the roles of the ambulance-chasing family attorneys like Benjamin Crump, family members, people such as Al Sharpton – the sidekick of Crump, media prostitutes on the networks, public officials and others in covering up the magnitude of this modern day lynching of the late George Floyd?

When all the systems around us are so corrupted or corruptible the patina of justice only serves to galvanize and propagandize global opinion around an unjust trial for the blood of a sacrificial lamb led to the slaughter in the maw of empire.

235 responses to “THE CHAUVIN TRIAL – IS THE FIX IN?”


  1. What the jury has to decide if a heathy man without covid,, without a 90% artery blockage, without an enlarged heart, not having a possible lethal dose of fentanyl and some meth would have died being pinned to the ground . Thats the case


  2. lawson since you are a heathy man without covid, without a 90% artery blockage, without an enlarged heart, not having a possible lethal dose of fentanyl and some meth in your system, let us try the same hold on you next time you are here to see whether you die. I know just the guy, a black belt in karate, weighing about 220 pounds, mid-twenties who would be happy to run the experiment on you.

    Let me know if you are willing.


  3. did you even watch the trial


  4. Chauvin will probably now claim he has just been diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum and is poor at reading people’s facial expressions and judging social situations.. when Floyd was saying he can’t breathe and calling out to his dead mama’s spirit and he still felt threatened for his life as black people are a danger. Blue lives matter is the white man’s meme and Republican trope.


  5. In my martial arts training we were told NOT to keep that hold for more than 10 seconds as it stops blood and oxygen flow to the brain. that was in the 70’s when I was a spritely youngster.


  6. “A Minneapolis jury reached a verdict Tuesday in the murder trial of accused George Floyd killer and fired police officer Derek Chauvin.

    The five men and seven women, who were sequestered after closing arguments Monday afternoon, are expected to announce their decision between 4:30 and 5 p.m., Eastern time, in the heavily fortified Hennepin County Government Center. The highly anticipated verdict comes as authorities prepare for possible civil unrest in the city and across the country.”


  7. There is no way that twelve jurors, including 4 blacks, having watched that video and heard that evidence and knowing how disastrous an aquittal would be for their country would deliberate for such a short time to light the fuse that blows up their city.

    Miss Marple predicts a GUILTY VERDICT ON AT LEAST ONE COUNT AND POSSIBLY MORE THAN ONE!

    Begin the countdown!


  8. Not civil unrest….248 shopping days till christmas


  9. Lawson..ya can try to twist and turn it but according to the prosecutor, it was what we saw, a cold-blooded public execution…end of, he was not acting in the capacity of a police officer but that of a murderer.


  10. Five more minutes remains before this piece of shit is found guilty. And he will be!


  11. Dirty Lying Lawson! MOST of the protesters do not loot!


  12. Lawson may not know it but he proves our case so nicely for us. He is exhibit no.1.

    He is the typical racist. Not the one who kills but the enabler. The killers are in the minority these days.


  13. Biden suggests the evidence in Chauvin trial is ‘overwhelming’: ‘I’m praying that the verdict is the right verdict’
    Source: CNN


  14. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris says verdict in Chauvin trial ‘will not heal the pain that existed for generations’
    Source: CNN


  15. Bam!


  16. GUILTY!


  17. Stupid man threw away his life for a snuff!


  18. @Lawson April 20, 2021 4:07 PM “did you even watch the trial.”

    No, I did not.

    But the jury did.


  19. David
    Not so fast.
    We have to see what the judge will do.
    Remember, Chauvin opted for the judge, not the jury, to sentence him.

    Of course, first degree murder should have been charged.



  20. So sorry he did not get a first degree murder charge to FRY HIS ASS…he had absolutely no reason to murder that dude outside of personal vendetta.

    “Ex-Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin was found guilty of all charges Tuesday in the killing of George Floyd after about 10 hours of jury deliberations — and nearly a year since the caught-on-tape police encounter sparked a wave of protests across the nation.

    The seven women and five men confirmed their verdict on each charge — second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter — as the fired police officer watched from the defense table just feet away.

    “GUILTY! Painfully earned justice has finally arrived for George Floyd’s family,” civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represents Floyd’s family, said in a statement shared on social media.

    “Justice for Black America is justice for all America,” he said. “This case is a turning point in American history for accountability of law enforcement and sends a clear message we hope is heard clearly in every city and every state.”
    Chauvin, 45, was escorted from the courtroom immediately after the verdict as Judge Peter Cahill revoked his bail.

    The second-degree murder charges carries a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison, but it’s Cahill who will decide the length of the sentence after a pre-sentencing investigation. Third-degree murder carries up to 25 years behind bars and the manslaughter charge has a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

    The jury, whose faces were not shown on camera during the live-streamed trial, will remain anonymous until Cahill decides it’s safe to release their names to the public. Half of the panel is white, four of them are Black and two identify as multiracial. The youngest are in their 20s and the oldest is in her 60s.

    Jury deliberations began Monday after three weeks of testimony from more than 40 witnesses, including Floyd’s former girlfriend, one of his brothers, multiple medical and law enforcement experts as well as officers, paramedics and bystanders who were on the scene the day Floyd died.

    The 46-year-old father of five was pronounced dead shortly after three cops held him face-down on the pavement, with Chauvin’s knee pinned against his neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds. His death, captured in a harrowing bystander video that was shared around the world, has become a symbol of the Black Lives Matter movement and the need for police reform in America.

    In his closing arguments, prosecutor Steve Schleicher said the case against Chauvin was not about policing — but about murder.

    “This is not an anti-police prosecution, it’s a pro-police prosecution,” he told the jury.

    “The defendant is not on trial for being a police officer. He’s on trial for what he did,” Schleicher said as he reminded the panel about the former and current police officers who testified that Chauvin’s use of force was disproportionate, unreasonable and unlawful. One of those witnesses was the city’s top cop, Police Chief Medaria Arradondo.

    This undated handout photo provided by Christopher Harris shows George Floyd. The mayor of Minneapolis called Wednesday, May 27, 2020, for criminal charges to be filed against officer Derek Chauvin, who is seen on video kneeling against the neck of handcuffed Floyd, who complained that he could not breathe and died in police custody.
    This undated handout photo provided by Christopher Harris shows George Floyd. The mayor of Minneapolis called Wednesday, May 27, 2020, for criminal charges to be filed against officer Derek Chauvin, who is seen on video kneeling against the neck of handcuffed Floyd, who complained that he could not breathe and died in police custody. (Christopher Harris via AP)
    The state also urged the jury to believe what that what they saw in the viral bystander video was as repulsive as it looked and that Chauvin “had to know” Floyd was dying right under his knees.

    “You can believe your eyes, ladies and gentlemen. It was what you thought it was. It was what you saw. It was homicide,” special prosecutor Jerry Blackwell said during the prosecution’s rebuttal Monday.

    Chauvin’s defense, meanwhile, insisted that the 19-year veteran of the Minneapolis police force followed his agency’s policy and years of training when he restrained Floyd on Memorial Day last year. Defense attorney Eric Nelson said during closing arguments that Chauvin did what any reasonable officer would have done if faced with a resisting suspect, a hostile “crowd” of bystanders and a “dynamic” situation.

    He also said that the prosecution’s characterization of the police encounter was not accurate because it ignores the nearly 17 minutes before Floyd was held in a prone position.

    (Jim Mone/AP)
    “The state has really focused on the nine minutes and 29 seconds,” Nelson told the jury. “It’s not the proper analysis because it ignores the previous 16 minutes and 59 seconds. It completely disregards it.”

    Floyd’s cause of death was another key focus of the trial, with prosecutors arguing he died from positional asphyxia, or low oxygen levels, while the defense said Floyd died from sudden cardiac arrhythmia combined with illegal drug use and other underlying health conditions.

    This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.”


  21. @Pacha

    1st degree is hard to prove and would have left the door open for a hung jury.

    The judge has sentencing guidelines he has to follow.


  22. Exactly, David. Pacha is letting emotion get the better of him.

    Did not the judge revoke his bail?

    Oh dear! Where is John Knox? Wrong again! And GP too!

    People really need to stop twisting themselves into pretzel logic!

    Just let reason prevail!


  23. Guilty verdict will be appealed and in all likelihood overturned.


  24. Donna

    No. The good should never be the enemy of the great. ( Sic)

    We certainly prefer this outcome than the reverse.


  25. Exactly, David! Pacha needs to calm down and think logically.

    Where is TheO’s rabbit? Sick twisted soul full of pretzel logic!

    Wrong again and again and again! Ad nauseum.

    And my friend the doctor who is always behind him.

    They need to stop!


  26. Neither emotion nor illogic is our thinking ever based. Thank you!
    Donna

  27. Critical Analyzer Avatar
    Critical Analyzer

    Can somebody explain how he can be found guilty on all three counts of killing for three different reasons (second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter) instead of guilty on the most severe of the three.

    How can somebody be guilty of both manslaughter and murder when their mere definition conflicts.


  28. The same way many of the over two million currently in jail have been. Murder, manslaughter………….guilty is guilty.


  29. David

    Needs not be either or. All the charges supported by evidence could have been charged and sent to the jury. It is for the jury to determine if the bar or which bars have been met.


  30. Filed


  31. I watched the trial. The prosecution proved its case overwhelmingly. The defence was embarassing.

    Their expert opined that even carbon monoxide from the exhaust could have killed George Floyd. Prosecution brought the records. Carbon monoxide level was normal. This paid witness who only testifies for the police just threw unsubstantiated stuff out there hoping to muddy the waters. It was obvious they were merely aiming to give one pro police juror an excuse to hold out and hang the jury. They were not expecting an acquittal.

    Nobody was expecting an acquittal. Everybody, including myself, believed there was the possibility of a hung jury.

    Not even the Faux News legal analyst believes this verdict will be overturned. He too thinks that the evidence for conviction was overwhelming.

    Only opening he sees is that the jury came back with the verdict so quickly leaving the impression that they did not review all the evidence. This notion can be dispelled by their notes, once they have them.

    Really though, the truth is that the defence was short, weak and in some aspects ridiculous.. Embarassingly so!

    I could tell you their whole case. They did not land one punch!

    This verdict shall stand just as the election results did.

    Again your sick fantasies will remain unfulfilled.

    Wrong again!


  32. We should remember that the US has no tradition of convicting policemen in the death of Black people.

    It may yet prove to be a culture hard to die. Only time will tell.


  33. PachamamaApril 20, 2021 7:25 PM

    We should remember that the US has no tradition of convicting policemen in the death of Black people.

    It may yet prove to be a culture hard to die. Only time will tell

    Xxxxccccc
    Same shirt here
    Any violent interaction between police and citizens in Barbados sits in the dock for years till all the fury dies down
    Lol to hear Barbadian calling forUSA police to be locked up but no so at home
    Glad this rogue cop was found gulty
    Hope some of the same guts the jury handed out to the policeman would rub off on Barbados justice system who always quick to.protect their own


  34. What tatamae !

    Where’s the honne?


  35. Angela Cox

    We agree!


  36. Recently there was a video on one of the local newspapers and there was a lady telling her story with the bds police who had called her and requested of her to come to the station
    On arrival she saw her son laying on the floor dead
    She ask the police on duty what happened to her son the answer they said they didn’t know except that when they arrested him and brought him to the station he died
    Now that is the same shite
    The USA on the other hand launches an investigation
    While Barbados sweeps their own internal investigation under the rug
    That poor mother lost her son and the bds justice systems couldn’t give a rats boxie


  37. On arrival she saw her son laying on the floor dead
    She ask the police on duty what happened to her son the answer they said they didn’t know except that when they arrested him and brought him to the station he died
    Now that is the same shite
    The USA on the other hand launches an investigation
    While Barbados sweeps their own internal investigation under the rug
    That poor mother lost her son and the bds justice systems couldn’t give a rats boxie

    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    TOO MANY JACKASSES WANT TO PRETEND THE 2 x 3 ISLAND IS NOT A CESSPOOL.

    OKAY FOR LOCAL BLACK POLICE TO RAPE, KILL ETC DOING THE SAME SHIT TO THEIR OWN BLACK BRETHREN.

    THEY MUST BE A SPECIAL TYPE OF WATER BEING DRANK ON THE ISLAND.


  38. Convicted Cop rapist ‘helpful and caring’

    The police constable found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl will be sentenced on April 30 by Justice Christopher Birch.
    Jason Andre Callender was found guilty on October 8, 2020, by a nine-member jury of the rape and serious indecency of the teen between June 1 and October 7, 2010.

    Appearing in a virtual sitting of the No. 5A Supreme Court, a probation officer today read a pre-sentencing report in respect of the 38-year-old, of 6th Avenue, Durant’s Village, St James.

    The officer, Louie Linton said family members described Callender as a helpful and caring individual who was non-violent and not abusive. He said Callender’s parents were shocked at the guilty verdict because they thought their son and the victim were in a relationship. The father recalled how Callender and the girl would have lunch at his residence on occasions.

    Additionally, Callender’s partner said the two of them lived together and were in a relationship for two years. During that period, she said he was a pleasant, caring individual who displayed no abusive sexual tendencies toward her. Callender’s partner and the victim were sisters.
    It was revealed that Callender joined the Royal Barbados Police Force in 2003 but is presently on suspension with half pay since 2011 as a result of the matter before the court.

    He was awarded a commendation for good work in 2005 but in 2009 disciplinary charges were brought against him for neglect of duty and declaring a falsehood.

    Over a period of six years, while he was on suspension, Callender was employed as a sales representative and was described as an excellent employee. The father of two has no previous convictions.

    The court heard that while Callender accepts the decision of the jury he maintains that he did not rape or perform serious indecency on the girl. According to him, it was consensual.

    The 16-year old victim said she was devastated, embarrassed and left with low self-esteem by the situation. She said Callender took her virginity leaving her bleeding for an entire week and it impacted negatively on her academic performance.

    The girl, who is now in her 20s, is said to have also spent time in the psychiatric wards of two hospitals.

    In the victim impact statement, she also stated that she never consented to have a sexual relationship with Callender and he took advantage of a vulnerable situation.

    She believes that he is in the right location and should be there for a long time and also hopes he receives psychiatric help.Callender was assessed as being at low risk of re-offending.

    Crown Counsel Danielle Mottley submitted that, given the nature and seriousness of these offences, a custodial sentence would be justified in the matter.

    Considering the penalties for the offences, she suggested a starting point of 18 years for the rape offence and eight years for the serious indecency offence, with the necessary downward adjustments.

    Outlining the aggravating factors she spoke of the abuse of a position of trust where Callender was the complainant’s caretaker.

    “This was an ongoing campaign of rape against a young [girl] in circumstances where she had nowhere else to go but to live with the now-convicted man,” she submitted. She also spoke of additional factors where the girl was subjected to rape over a period of time and no condom was used, exposing her to sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancy. Also mentioned was the degree of planning, the trauma caused, academic hindrance and psychiatric impact.

    The mitigating factors in respect of Callender were his “clean”, favourable presentencing report and the assessment that he was at low risk of reoffending.

    Counsel Samuel Legay said: “The court must look at what is fair, just and consistent as each case comes with varying circumstances. But the court’s duty is to allow those circumstances to be as consistent as possible to previous decisions given.”

    Not denying that the offences were serious, Legay asked the court to consider that the matter was before the court since 2010. He asked the court to consider what happened in those years.

    “We are dealing with our own specific matrix in Barbados… It was ten years before a man was alleged to have committed these offences, [the matter was] dismissed on two occasions in the lower court. I suggest to the court that there is other information or circumstances that we must consider,” Legay submitted.

    He added: “Where there is an absence over a long period of time combined with evidence of good character, then the court may treat the combination of these as mitigating factors in favour of the offender.”

    No previous convictions, Legay said, spoke volumes, as well as, the fact that Callender was tasked with protecting the ordinary Barbadian as a valuable member of the RBPF. He asked the court to also note his client’s clean record, young age and attitude in the matter.

    Referencing Barbadian cases, he suggested a sentence of five years “going upward but not going past ten years” for the rape conviction. For the serious indecency conviction, he suggested two to five years.

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/04/17/convicted-cop-rapist-helpful-and-caring/


  39. Was this Bajan cop not brought to trial and convicted of the rape?

    We await the results of the investigation into the young man’s death. Something seems amiss! Now it has come to light, we must keep on it! Cops do have a bad habit of closing ranks.

    Two different situations, of course because only one was in the line of duty. Some of our cops are awful too. This we know very well.

    Barbados is just a tiny corrupt rock in a big corrupt world.

    When are we going to realise that the whole world is a cesspool?


  40. Judge keeps ex-cop’s 20-year sentence for killing Black man
    COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A judge upheld a 20-year prison sentence on Monday for former police officer Michael Slager in the killing of Walter Scott, an unarmed Black man who ran from a traffic stop in South Carolina, rejecting Slager’s claims his lawyer did a poor job.

    Slager had appealed his sentence, saying his lawyer never told him about a plea offer from prosecutors that could have cut years off his eventual prison term for shooting Scott five times in the back.

    But federal Judge Richard Gergel wrote in his ruling Monday that he believed Slager’s lawyer Andy Savage, who said in 2017 court papers that he told his client about every plea offer. Slager testified during a hearing last week he didn’t know about the initial deal from prosecutors.

    Slager’s 20-year sentence was one of the longest in recent memory for a police officer for an on-duty killing.

    Slager pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights charge for shooting Scott in the back five times on April 4, 2015. Slager had pulled over the 50-year-old Black motorist for a broken brake light when their confrontation was captured on a bystander’s cellphone video that later spread worldwide on social media.

    In the encounter, the two could be seen tumbling to the ground after Slager hit Scott with a Taser. Authorities said their investigation found Scott got back up and was shot from a distance of about 15 feet (5 meters) as he ran from the officer.

    The shooting itself was captured on video, something Slager didn’t know when he initially told investigators that Scott had charged at him after stealing his Taser.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-keeps-ex-cops-20-212306676.html


  41. LawsonApril 20, 2021 3:51 PM What the jury has to decide if a heathy man without covid,, without a 90% artery blockage, without an enlarged heart, not having a possible lethal dose of fentanyl and some meth would have died being pinned to the ground . Thats the case.

    Wrong. In criminal law, a basic tenet is that the protagonist ”must take the victim as they find them”.

    Be careful expounding on principles about which you have no clue.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggshell_skull#:~:text=In%20criminal%20law%2C%20the%20general%20maxim%20is%20that,of%20a%20blood%20transfusion%20constituted%20an%20intervening%20act.


  42. Donna..here is what knowledgeable Africans are doing, while knowing that the world was MADE TOXIC BY MAN’S greedy obsessive affair with capitalism and everything that is dirty and evil……but they are working on cleaning up their corner, and are making strides although Africa is VAST and much larger than the rest of the world combined, but they started the process, one step at a time, one day at a time and it’s very impressive…small islands should be a cake walk, with the right people starting the process, gotta start somewhere to end the worldwide viciousness and road to total disaster for YOUR CORNER of the world.

    and a cop who does not know what STATUTORY RAPE just as most like to pretend they don’t know in Barbados and blame underage victims should serve prison time…police should KNOW THE LAW….they only know when others who look like them are breaking it and are quick to arrest…..cause they cannot arrest anyone else unless told to by corrupt government ministers.


  43. @David et al,

    I agree with Pacha on this. While I understand your proposed reason for the lesser charges, is that really adhering to the principle of justice, or adhering to a politically convenient approach designed to defuse an explosive situation?

    For sure, a hung jury, derived from a first degree charge, would result in riots. Would such really be difficult to prove? Yes, we do know that the US justice system is one of haggling between prosecutor and defendant.

    But does that address justice in a nationally relevant case?

    As Pacha noted, the existence of martial arts training (I knew nothing of this until he wrote it), if proven to a level of substance, is certainly evidence of a skill level equal to a weapon. His point on intent also stands.

    However, I anticipate that the collective will take this verdict as a win and a step, if only a step, in the right direction. Policy changes, properly applied, must follow.

    On an aside, the sentence will be interesting, particularly as, for a crime substantially lesser, actually completely different ballpark, so much that I feel hard put to mention them in the same note, but also feel compelled to bring the comparison into discussion, as to what constitutes justice, the prosecutors are seeking a penalty of ten years, in a recent case of (my interpretation) money laundering.

    Goose and gander much? How long is the yardstick?

    How goes that, Sirs and Ladies?


  44. @Crusoe

    An ideological perspective but a pragmatic approach is a good first step.


  45. I did not expect it to last 24 hours before they committed another outrageous killing, just as was predictived yesterday morning.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/CN6XKZsH8hC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link


  46. Pacha, this one was actually predicted.

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