Jury reaches verdict in Chauvin trial

Regardless of the verdict, the fact that the entire country knows that cities will burn if Chauvin isn't convicted is a deep indictment of the state of the country.

I think it will be a mostly peaceful verdict.

Any Democrats wanna come out against destruction of Minneapolis regardless of the verdict? You’ve got about 30 minutes...

verdict will be any minute now...

It is fully insane that the president of the United States seeks to address the nation in the aftermath of individual criminal justice cases, but this is the new normal and has been since Ferguson

If the jury returns the verdict that we expect, there will be peace.

If the jury does the wrong thing by returning a verdict that we disapprove of, your cities will burn.

A progressive precedent of justice by mob rule.

For the best. And thank God the trial wasn't held in Minnesota's version of Simi Valley where a not-guilty verdict would have been assured. I don't see how a not guilty verdict would have been remotely possible, not when Chauvin's own supervisors got on the stand and said that kneeling on someone's neck until they asphyxiate was never ever an approved department method or procedure for incapacitating a perp that was being held down by three other officers.

Cuffs look good on him.

He has good grounds for appeal after Maxine Waters and Joe Biden's Comments.

On those grounds, not at all. I have my doubts that he will not still win appeal on other aspects. Overpowered police unions ftl.

Of course there will be appeals. I'm interested in whether the plan to put cities to torch goes ahead or not.

I'm sure there'll be some feral urban stupidity by those who are determined to be assholes no matter what the verdict was. I'm somewhat positive that it won't be anywhere near as bad as what happened last year. Or during the LA riots back in 1992.

I can't see appeals working, though anything is possible. Not with that kind of video evidence that everyone saw. There's no he-said she-said scenario here. Chauvin wildly over-reacted to a petty crime and killed a man. It doesn't get much more stark than that.