BY TYLER O'NEIL| PJ Media
In this image from video, defense attorney
Eric Nelson gives closing arguments as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill
presides Monday, April 19, 2021, in the trial of former Minneapolis police
Officer Derek Chauvin at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. Chauvin
is charged in the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd. (Court TV via AP, Pool)
The jury found Derek Chauvin guilty of unintentional second-degree murder. The jury found him guilty of third-degree murder. The jury also found him guilty of second-degree manslaughter. All charges referred to Chauvin’s role in the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020.
The Associated
Press reported that the jury has reached a verdict, which the judge
read just after 5 p.m. Eastern.
Black Lives Matter and antifa activists are likely to
protest and even engage in violent rioting regardless of the guilty verdict. On
Monday night, after the case was handed to the jury, protesters marched and
a church was set on fire, although the cause of the fire
remains unclear. Last week, after a police-involved shooting, riots broke out
in a city nearby, illustrating just how much of a powder keg Minneapolis is.
Cities are preparing for another wave of unrest
similar to the riots following the death of George Floyd. Those riots
damaged no fewer than 700 buildings in Minneapolis last year —
with twelve structures “wholly destroyed,” i.e. burnt to the ground.
Tragically, the riots ostensibly aimed at combatting
racism destroyed black lives, black livelihoods, and black monuments.
While Americans should hope and pray for impartial
justice, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) demanded a guilty verdict, encouraging protesters to “get
more confrontational” if Chauvin is acquitted. President Joe Biden said he is “praying that the
verdict is the right verdict.”
