Biden and Bush Both Double Down.

 After Judge Cahill yesterday asked politicians to respect the judicial branch, today both former President Bush went on tv plugging his book of paintings and commenting on the Chauvin trial, and President Biden spoke with the Floyd family about what verdict he prefers...

I’m praying that the verdict is the right verdict, which is I think it’s overwhelming ... I wouldn’t say that unless the jury was sequestered.

No respect for the jury role.

Reminds me of when the criminal trial jury came back with a Not Guilty verdict for OJ killing his ex-wife (say her name...) Nicole Brown..  White women and ex-wives back then were asked to swallow hard and accept the jury's decision as just.  The Goldman and Brown families were encouraged to pursue justice through a civil trial, which was cathartic to them, I think, in holding the killer ultimately accountable.

The Floyd family has already accepted $27 million in Justice for George.  Burning down the City of Minneapolis further, and sending Derek Chauvin away for a very long time for killing a man he was forced to confront on the job and making poor judgment calls that resulted in the man's death, might be your idea of justice, but not mine.

You see, this trial is not about George Floyd, primarily.  It's about Derek Chauvin, how he was trained, how he worked in a department for many years, and what his reaction was on Memorial Day 2020 to a physical challenge on a call he was sent to assist, where officers had already escalated, the suspect was refusing to cooperate and be removed from the scene, and storekeepers were demanding the police act as private security addressing issues of loitering and counterfeit bills essentially, while breaking labor laws themselves...

I don't think this will end well for the country, even if "The Right Verdict" is reached and Derek Chauvin is made a scapegoat for police aggression and misconduct that has been tolerated and essentially built into the way the job is done.  

Changing the rules after the fact for the blue uniform on the street might make the elites feel better -- especially if you can convince yourself that a hack policeman like Derek Chauvin, of limited intellectual and emotional ability if you read about his past --  knew he was killing George Floyd, whether he intended that or not -- but that will not bring the real change that needs to come...

Now just shut up now, politicians, until the verdict is read?  Yes you can.

#JusticeforDerek

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ADDED:  Think about how many career police officers, especially the physically smaller ones who came up relying on other means to restrain and subdue, are simply not capable of addressing the physical, psychological and mental social work on the streets that we are currently tasking them with.   

Are you content to take the $27 million justice money and "guilty, guilty, guilty" verdicts and not address that?  

Will America simply let these officers continue to err on the job and when caught on camera, then go through this justice-seeking process, case by case, death by death?  Prosecute or prevent?  

My cynicism says no true reform will come in the wake of these victory celebrations.  Blacks are settling and being bought off, convinced that locking up Derek Chauvin for a long time is justice.  Too many of them are too accepting of corruption within the system if it ultimately pays off for them personally, I think.

I still believe change is gonna come, but to me, this a not change but a false peace, purchased at a high price. This verdict will change nothing about the way business is done in the Twin Cities and Midwest region that I can see. No change in social policies to help men like George Floyd before we ask men, and women, like Derek Chauvin to address social problems on the street with their own limited abilities and their guns and other weapons.