DOJ Considers Charging Derek Chauvin in 2017 Incident

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Chauvin should be tried for this crime also

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The hits just don’t stop coming for ex-Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin. Now that he’s been convicted of murdering George Floyd, the Department of Justice is considering the possibility of charging him in connection to a 2017 incident where the man who knelt on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes also allegedly knelt on a Black teenager for a whopping 17 minutes.

ABC News reports that when prosecutors were preparing for the case that would bring Chauvin to justice, they received several videos of the incident with the Black teen and said they were shocked by what they saw. Of course, this evidence wasn’t allowed at trial because the defense successfully argued that jurors should be barred from hearing about Chauvin’s history of neck and body restraints on suspects. (Which is wild considering the fact that defense attorneys also argued that Floyd’s past arrests should be admissible and some of that “evidence” was allowed in.)

From ABC:

The videos, from Sept. 4, 2017, allegedly showed Chauvin striking a Black teenager in the head so hard that the boy needed stitches, then allegedly holding the boy down with his knee for nearly 17 minutes, and allegedly ignoring complaints from the boy that he couldn’t breathe.

“Those videos show a far more violent and forceful treatment of this child than Chauvin describes in his report [of the incident],” Matthew Frank, one of the state prosecutors, wrote in a court filing at the time.

[Blue Owl]

1. Tack on another 10 years to that sick fuck murderer's sentence

May he never walk the streets a free man again...

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. I have no problem with this

[SheltieLover]

7. 10 years for every minute & every stitch!

[grumpyduck]

2. Why consider it?

Just go for it.

[Cha]

4. DK should have been charged

back then.

[FirstLight]

5. Bastard...shows a pattern of assault and abuse of power

So if the 2017 incident had been handled properly, George Floyd could still be alive?

[whopis01]

14. The importance of your point can not be overstated.

Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd but he did not do it alone.

Everyone who condoned Chauvin’s past behavior and allowed him to continue to operate as a law enforcement officer had a hand in George Floyd’s death.

If something had been done about Chauvin earlier, George Floyd would be alive and Derek Chauvin might not be about to spend decades in prison. If he had be fired, or punished early on his actions may not have escalated to the point of killing someone. I have no sympathy for Chauvin, and in no way mean to absolve him of any blame, but I do recognize that he could have been saved from his own behavior if people did their job.

[FirstLight]

16. well stated!

This is why police reform is so damned important...so many people in the past years could have been saved... and like you even said...even police could be saved from their own behaviors.

it's a sad situation all around

[WA-03 Democrat]

6. It was routine operating procedure for him n/t

[SheltieLover]

8. I'd read he had 17 previous complaints!

And still had his job.

[fuck trumpettes]

9. Chauvin-the manslaughter man

We all knew if you watched Derick C's history that he had almost 20 complaints of cruelty in his previous 19+ years in Minnesota if you watched HLN network. I know the judge refused to allow more that three or four to be admissible ( I don't recall the Prosecution using any but they didn't need them.) In June last year the WP (washinton post) said the George Floyd and Derrick Chauvin both had security jobs at the same place at the same time (although possibly different shifts and there was some possibility they knew each other). I heard none of it at the trial and wonder if anyone else has heard of an update on it. The D C (unhuman) should get 40 years (I personally think he should get the full 75 years), when the Prosecution meets in about 7 weeks to sentence him with aggravating circumstances. Personally also I want him to be put in prison with the rest of the prisoners, we'll see if his white supremist convicts can keep him alive. Either way he can be made to suffer a lot.

[plimsoll]

15. The cruelty may be what finally convinced people.

When I read this I think about severe asthma attacks and the sense of fear and panic they cause. I hear waterboarding is intended to induce that fear of drowning not being able to breath.

This was torture. Cruel and unusual. That he had a history of this and was made a training officer shows a systemic disregard in the Minneapolis police department for the population. I say it that way because it is now and has been for ages focused on blacks, but like Nazi Germany, the did not stop with the Jews. Everyone they felt "inferior" was a target.

Standup now, or it will be your white kid being torture because they don't like his haircut.

[bluestarone]

10. Yes he should be charged, along with

Whoever DID NOT charge him back in 2017!

[Sgent]

11. He could get life in federal prison

if they prosecute him under the civil rights code. The MN sentencing guidelines only call for 12.5yr (although the judge can deviate), so I hope they do go after him for this.

[Dreampuff]

12. He's demonic!

If you read his wiki page, it also explains about all his tax issues. Then you consider the other 17 or 18 previous complaints and the fact that he was a Minnesota resident and claimed the homestead exemption on his condo in Windermere, Florida, he has quite a history. It just made me so sad how they talked about the victim and yet, all of his nasty things didn't count. It was the same way in the Trayvon Martin trial.

[Rhiannon12866]

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[demtenjeep]

17. this is why he did NOT testify

it would have given prosecutors the opportunity to bring it up.

[orleans]

18. longer article here

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/doj-considers-charging-derek-chauvin-153600288.html