Comments by "Don Taylor" (@dontaylor7315) on "Ex-Cop Derek Chauvin Found Guilty Of All Charges" video.

  1.  @williardbillmore5713  "SCOTUS never re-hears a simple murder case," and shouldn't, but the court has been altered enough in recent years that it's not impossible. We once thought it was impossible that the SCOTUS would reinstate Jim Crow but it did. I bet most people didn't expect the Citizens United decision but now we're living under it. I hope you're right but it's not a certainty.
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  2.  @tomlord5398  They're trying to suppress videos but court after court is ruling that recording the police is a right. Another guy was thrown to the floor on his own porch just the other day and arrested for videoing and the video went viral anyway. Lawsuits and scandals will keep multiplying and sooner or later they'll reach critical mass.
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  3. That's why protests are NECESSARY. Democracy is the PEOPLE'S job and it's a full-time job.
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  4.  @julielevinge266  Bring it on, if that's what it takes to convince the PDs they can't afford to keep recruiting cops who value violence over public service, and if that's what it takes to convince government it can't afford to keep allowing police academies to train for such short periods and focus their training on combat skills rather than real police work and community relations.
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  5.  @newbieprepper8451  Did you think that reply through before you posted it? Did you see the context? The commenter I replied to said "SCOTUS never re-hears a simple murder case" and the operative word was "simple." If the judge hadn't been meticulous about keeping it straightforward (which he was) and if EVERY subsequent appeal hearing is unfairly rigged against Chauvin's defense (zero chance of that happening) then the case won't be "simple" and the SCOTUS should hear it. Otherwise the Supreme Court normally weighs in on cases of Constitutional significance, especially precedent-setting cases, and it typically turns away more cases than it accepts.
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  6.  @newbieprepper8451  "The defendant's life [and/or] freedom are at stake" in EVERY murder case. Based on that criterion, how many cases a year would the SCOTUS be hearing? They'd have to expand to an entire system of courtrooms and the number of Justices would have to be multiplied many times over.
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  7. @Cyra Del.aRev It's too soon to say that. We The People can't afford to relax yet. Keep up the fight.
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  8. To which gang was the murder of George Floyd related? Which gangs were involved in the two additional murders that occurred while the trial was going on?
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  9.  @igvc1876  Every win for BLM makes EVERYONE a little safer in the long run. I'm white and I feel a little safer each time a cop is charged.
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  10.  @newbieprepper8451  What were the circumstances? Was that the Somali-American cop who killed an affluent white woman in an affluent white neighborhood? If it was that case too many lines were crossed to make a difference overall on police impunity. I hope you're talking about a different case because if so it gives me hope. Edit: Van Dyke isn't a Somali name, come to think of it, so maybe it's better than I thought initially.
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  11.  @newbieprepper8451  That's good to know, thanks. I agree these need more publicity, the accumulation of cases in the public eye would help toward a sea-change.
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  12.  @josue.ortega  https://youtu.be/HKzUt2Qzw08
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  13.  @toddstevens13  My post was in response to a conversation already going on between two other commenters about the eventuality and likelihood of the case winding up before the SCOTUS after exhausting appeals at the state level.
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  14.  @susanbradleyskov9179  Yes!! Even the Blue Wall of Silence is equivalent to the code in any gangbanger crew.
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  15. I hope so but I suspect it's going to take a lot more than this one time to make very many cops stop and think.
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  16. It'll take MUCH MORE than this one time to make them stop and think.
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