These are my thoughts. Maybe they are wrong, but still, seeing what I have on the body cams, I don't think that Chauvin is guilty. The jury says yes, but I think that they considered all the rioting across the country that would have happened if an innocent verdict was issued and that was heavily weighed in their decision.
George Floyd kept saying "I can't breathe", yet he was breathing. As the defense said, that in order to talk you must breathe. Chauvin did use his knee to the neck, but it was to the side of the neck and not the windpipe. Floyd was on fentanyl and methamphetamine when he passed the counterfeit money and got arrested. He was foaming at the mouth when he was approached. That in itself could cause breathing problems.
Then there is the "race factor. The media and the left played that to the hilt. Too much publicity and left wing activism tainted the jury's decision.
Is Chauvin "innocent"? I think that he is complicit, yes. But murder? Not so much.
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