Chavin gets 22.5 years. Look at all these murderers sentenced to a lot longer

[AZLD4Candidate]

What is the difference? This time, it's a police officer getting convicted.

Click to video and look at the "related videos" as well.

[catbyte]

1. I agree he should've gotten life, but 30 years was the maximum allowable sentence

in Minnesota for what he was convicted of. I'm a little disappointed he didn't get the full 30, but it's not going to be a walk in the park for him. They won't be able to put him in general population--he'd be dead in 24 hours--so he'll be in protective custody which means he'll be in solitary confinement 23 hours a day and that, my friend, is hard time.

Plus, he might get more years tacked on if convicted on federal charges so hopefully, he'll be an old man before he breathes free air again.

[AZLD4Candidate]

2. 12.5 years for murder.

That's all I'm going to say. 12 and a half years for MURDER while torturing a man in full view of numerous people.

As for the federal charges. . .I hope he gets the book thrown at them.

[catbyte]

3. Agreed, but it will be 12.5 long, hard years. And he deserves every ounce of boredom,

misery, and isolation that's coming to him. I'm right with ya in your frustration. I'm so relieved that we actually have a Justice Department again so this isn't the end of his legal problems.

[AZLD4Candidate]

4. I'm sure he will be protected by the COs and they will put in numerous "good behavior" reports

so he can get out early.

Blue Code and same team after all.

[SoCalDavidS]

5. Who Is Chavin? nt

[AZLD4Candidate]

7. To be honest, I don't care if I spell his name wrong

I don't even capitalize trump's name when I type it anymore. To quote Carlin about how typed Governor bush's name.

[live love laugh]

9. +1

[sheshe2]

6. I agree with you to a point.

I wish it was longer, yet it is a solid sentence in a landmark case. Something we have not seen before, a police officer arrested, on trial and now sent to prison for 22 years.

If we can't get all we want then you want nothing? You have been on several threads and are angry. I watched the presser and lawyers. Family and friends are good with this. They will work with this and make it better.

Please chill.

[maxsolomon]

8. Unfair sentencing doesn't mean Chauvin's sentence was light.

22 1/2 years (which he will not serve, but still) puts him at 67, 68 when that sentence is done. I think that's long enough to make the point and remove him as a danger to the community. It would be long enough in 95% of homicide cases.

The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The thronèd monarch better than his crown.
His scepter shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptered sway.
It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings;
It is an attribute to God Himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice.

[AZLD4Candidate]

10. From the US Sentencing Commission

https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/demographic-differences-sentencing

Let's see if that applies to black people convicted of the same crime. He got off WAY easy.

[maxsolomon]

11. Giving him an unfair sentence cannot right the injustices of unfair sentencing.

I understand that sentencing of minorities has been historically disproportionate; I learned it at CRT Indoctrination Camp.

Given that, I was surprised the sentence was so harsh.

[GemDigger]

12. Be grateful for what he got, he could have gotten nothing and been reinstated as law enforcement.

[Atticus]

13. In your multiple posts waxing indignant about the Chauvin sentence of 22.5 years, you seem

to think that those who even somewhat disagree with you are "happy" with a less than maximum sentence and are ignorant of the well-known fact that our justice system hands out harsher penalties to people of color than it does to whites. You are wrong as to both presumptions.

It looks like anything less than 40 years would be evidence of racially motivated injustice as far as you are concerned. As mentioned elsewhere on this board, vengeance is not justice.

You have yet to post anything that actually supports your position that the Chauvin sentence is a "joke".

[Tomconroy]

14. Just to try and add to the confusion,

Homicide statutes vary by state. In a lot of jurisdictions what Chauvin was convicted of would be called Manslaughter, not Murder.

[WarGamer]

15. I think he'll pull an Epstein.