It was judged when the jury convicted him of felony murder; one of the things the jury had to decide is that the murder occurred during the commission of a felony (although IMHO I think it pretty clear that choking someone by placing one's knee on their neck is a felony--what welse would it be?),. FWIW, this is normally the way felony murder is proven--we don't have a separate trial to determine if the robbery in which the guard was killed was a felony. If it was not, then it would not be a felony murder.The issue I was trying to raise is — at what point was it decided that the knee in the neck was a felony assault?
Here's a link to the judge's instructions if you would care to review them:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/ ... cfb2783f2/
Not their primary focus? Then why was his knee still on his neck? He didn't care what happened to Floyd, at the very least and he killed him. So far as I can see it was not because he feared the crowd or its reaction--if he did maybe he would have acted like an ethical police officer, not to mention like a like a human being, and put him in the car and gotten him medical attention. But he didn't give a damn--that's a depraved heart.Chauvin and the three other officers were in a situation where they were becoming involved with an ever-increasing group of potentially hostile persons, making them more and more vulnerable to violence against themselves from said crowd. Because of that, I think that the welfare of Mr. Floyd was no longer their primary focus, and they were more concerned with whether or not THEY were going to be the ones leaving the scene in body bags.
As for
would you prefer we just carry laws on the books that we do not enforce? I'm not a saying any of these crimes are applicable to what happened here, or that there is any evidence that the Minneapolis police department is a corrupt organization, but of they are why not enforce the law?But why just let it end there with murder and manslaughter charges? Why not add a couple of 'hate-crime' enhancers, since Floyd was black and Chauvin wasn't? Or maybe someone will claim the whole Minneapolis police department is a corrupt organization and bring in some RICO charges as well; or a terrorist group like Al Qaeda, the Ku Klux Klan, or the 'Boogaloo Bois'.
And why does it bother you so much that someone who killed a man by a reckless (at the very least) act was convicted of a crimes he deserved to be convicted of?
