Chauvin defense takes aim at crowd at scene of Floyd arrest (CNN)

CNN's Charles Ramsay and Laura Coates discuss the defense attorney for Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer on trial for the murder of George Floyd, tactic of trying to describe the crowd on the scene of the arrest as a distraction to the police and hostile.

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Chauvin defense takes aim at crowd at scene of Floyd arrest (CNN) (Original post)	ItsjustMe	Mar 2021	OP
A bad mistake. Where does that take them: the crowd made Chauvin do it?	marble falls	Mar 2021	#1
Wouldn't a 'hostile' crowd have been	NotAPuppet	Mar 2021	#2

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Wed Mar 31, 2021, 11:20 AM

marble falls (52,667 posts)

1. A bad mistake. Where does that take them: the crowd made Chauvin do it?

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Wed Mar 31, 2021, 11:26 AM

NotAPuppet (326 posts)

2. Wouldn't a 'hostile' crowd have been

the best reason to get George Floyd into the police car ASAP and remove him and the officers at the scene in the scenario that the defense is trying to lay out? I would think that people would generally be hostile to anyone who is killing another human being in broad daylight and can't understand the defense's argument.

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