Opening statements in the trial of George Floyd’s accused ex-police officer killer were “predictable,” Cardozo Law’s @ekownyankah tells @mehdirhasan. While prosecutors presented the “utterly heartbreaking” video of Floyd’s death, defense attorneys were looking to “smear him”:
Mar 29, 2021 · 11:39 PM UTC
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Convictions of police for excessive force are rare -- only five officers have been convicted of murder in the past decade and a half, @deray tells @mehdirhasan -- and in the Chauvin case, “the defense understands that they just need one person on the jury” to side with them.
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