Some charges dropped in case of Derek Chauvin of MPLS

 The infamous Derek Chauvin has been released from custody earlier this month is back in the news today. I shared a tweet of this news. Here's what happened from the Minneapolis Star Tribune:

A judge on Thursday dashed the hopes of four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the killing of George Floyd.

Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill dropped a lower-level murder charge against the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee into George Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, but kept a higher-level murder count against him. Cahill also ruled that there was enough evidence for jurors to decide whether three other former officers should be convicted of aiding and abetting charges.

The judge dismissed a third-degree murder count against Derek Chauvin but ruled that he will remain charged with one count each of second-degree unintentional murder and second-degree manslaughter.

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A judge on Thursday dashed the hopes of four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the killing of George Floyd.

Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill dropped a lower-level murder charge against the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee into George Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, but kept a higher-level murder count against him. Cahill also ruled that there was enough evidence for jurors to decide whether three other former officers should be convicted of aiding and abetting charges.

The judge dismissed a third-degree murder count against Derek Chauvin but ruled that he will remain charged with one count each of second-degree unintentional murder and second-degree manslaughter.

All we can do at this point is wait and see. It seems Chauvin and as it turns out his three other colleagues will still have to answer for what happened on Memorial Day 2020. Of course some other visual evidence came out since the initial unrest which seems to show the whole police stop not only the point where George Floyd was restrained by Chavin's knee on his neck.

Count me in as one of those people who was ready to through the book at the former Minneapolis policeman. Now I'm not so sure how any charges will hold up. Sadly many people have made up their mind on this issue and in spite of the new evidence views this as a malicious racially motivated police death.

I wanted to share this video by ABL on this subject. He's also not so sure how these charges will hold up. He doesn't see where Chauvin and his colleagues could be responsible for Floyd's death as tragic as it was and sadly as tragic as it became around the nation with all the unrest. [VIDEO] 

With this said I saw that Tim Pool had also did a video about this news and is already concerned about "mass leftist riots". While I'm no longer in the mode to just dismiss this out right Pool can occasionally become very alarmist, however, often he's right about some of his predictions. He called it when left wing activists rioters decided it was OK to disturb people in residential neighborhoods.

From the same article shared in the beginning it seems as if Minneapolis authorities are gearing up for any potential unrest. Minn. Gov. Tim Walz is gearing to call the Nat'l Guard if necessary. It seems that at times since May 2020 the Twin Cities still hadn't settled down. And from the destruction of those initial riots, how long when the Twin Cities will recover.