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Originally Posted by Justus

The city settled very quickly, indubitably to avoid more riots, burning and looting. The autopsy evidence was diametrically contrary to their decision. George Floyd was a dead man walking before his encounter with police. Please explain how lynching police officers for performing their duties is "important" to your country...

How despicable of you to use the word lynching in your screed. Lynching is as any aware and educated person would know, perhaps that includes you, is not what is happening when a cop who is charged with homicide is given a trial and a presumption of innocence. Lynching is what happened to mostly Black americans who were grabbed from their homes and often from jails and with the tactic support of "police" were murdered by white people. Of course a few Jews and others got lynched too as all "others" were at risk. Almost no lynching cases ever resulted in a prosecution or a conviction. How dare you suggest that Chauvin is being lynched. Disgusting. Your word choice was not hyperbole so don't use that as an excuse.

Here's real lynching not so long ago here in Florida. Yes it's long, but read it and let the images burn into your memory so you'll never use the term lynching again to describe the Chauvin trial

Claude Neal (b. 1911 – d. October 26, 1934) was a 23-year-old African-American farmhand who was arrested in Jackson County, Florida, on October 19, 1934, for allegedly raping and killing Lola Cannady, a 19-year-old white woman missing since the preceding night. Circumstantial evidence was collected against him, but nothing directly linked him to the crime. When the news got out about his arrest, white lynch mobs began to form. In order to keep Neal safe, County Sheriff Flake Chambliss moved him between multiple jails, including the county jail at Brewton, Alabama, 100 miles (160 km) away. But a lynch mob of about 100 white men from Jackson County heard where he was, and brought him back to Jackson County.

The time and place of the lynching were provided to the news media in advance and reported on nationwide, attracting a huge crowd. The spectacle lynching had been announced to take place at the Cannady farm, but the crowd had grown unruly, and a smaller group murdered Neal in secret. He was tortured and mutilated before being hanged by the instigators at a site along the Chattahoochee River, near Greenwood, Florida. They tied his body to the back of their truck and dragged his corpse to the Cannady farm, where a white crowd estimated at 2,000 attacked the corpse by stabbing it with sticks and knives. Later that night Neal's body was hanged from a tree in the courthouse square. When the sheriff discovered it in the morning, he cut it down.

A large group of whites went to the courthouse in Marianna, demanding that the body be hanged again so they could see it. When the sheriff refused, they began rioting, assaulting the courthouse, attacking blacks in the area, injuring 200, and looting and burning houses. The body was displayed on the courthouse steps so that anyone interested could see it.

In the next few days, whites rioted in an attempt to drive blacks from the county, injuring an estimated 200 persons, including two police, and destroying black-owned property. Finally the governor called in more than 100 troops of the National Guard to suppress the white rioting