Remarks after day 1 of the Chauvin murder trial

Anyonita
3 min readMar 30, 2021
Killed in police custody, George Floyd

I’ve never studied law, I think I’m too pragmatic to be a lawyer. I would struggle to compartmentalise fact from duty, especially if I were to be a defence lawyer.

Derek Chauvin, the ex cop who balanced a knee on George Floyd’s neck for nearly 10 minutes, pinning him against a dirty asphalt street and eventually killing him, is on trial. His lawyers – optimists, gluttons for…

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Anyonita

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