Sorry, but justice is not served when the jury is pressured into giving a guilty verdict. Even the judge admitted that when he said to the defense attorney : "Congresswoman Waters may have given you something on appeal that may result in this whole trial being overturned."

Only street justice, which is the only thing you know apparently

Repeating a falsehood does not make it true.

Here is another quote from Judge Cahill, who declared in open court that “I wish elected officials would stop talking about this case, especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law and to the judicial branch and our function. If they want to give their opinions, they should do so … in a manner that is consistent with their oath to the Constitution.”

If the cop was black nobody would care, if Floyd was white nobody would care. Nobody cares about the thousands of black Americans that murder each other in Detroit, Baltimore and Chicago every year, there are no protests and riots about it. BLM doesn't care, the fake news media doesn't care. It's all a big joke.

This is exactly what Officer Derek Chauvin thought up until couple hours ago.

Now HE cares!!

You unfortunately missed altogether @GodSpeed's very important point. Many more black americans are being murdered each and everday day by black american criminals in numerous crime-ridden cities and districts of the US. All of the politically motivated and carefully guided US media attention on Chauvin's killing of Floyd is fully intended to distract the weak minded among us from that most important fact.

Clever US politicians on both sides of the aisle in congress, including the congressional black caucus, are all using one man's death for their own political purposes and self-gain. Meanwhile they continue to get away with ignoring and doing absolutely nothing about the much larger problem of ever increasing widespread black-on-black violent crimes in which thousands of black americans are senselessly killed each and every year.

It's called RACISM. White cop abusing his power and position over a black man. This cop had a long, long history of abusing his power -- over black citizens.
And yes, you are correct about black killing black or white killing white. But that isn't RACISM related. 400 years of racism by white over black.
That is the freakin point. How hard is it to understand?

It's hard for someone to understand a problem when THEY are a part of the problem! Racism is normal to them so the "problem" doesn't exist to them.

Yesterday's verdict is not a solution in itself, but one small step in the right direction of solving a 400 year old problem that will take decades to correct the systemic racism in America. Other countries will follow suit as well, however, America is keeper of racism.

The initial police report was totally scrubbed of any wrongdoing by the cop. Had no one videotaped and witnessed Floyd's murder, it would gone as just another black man murdered by the "system". We the people caused yesterday's verdict, and we the people must continue pushing the anti racism narrative!

I gather you think the many indiscriminate (non-racial) killings in the US are okay as long as they are mischievously masked by all of the politically charged media hype surrounding the relatively few killings of black americans by white police officers.

That's your myopic view and you're certainly entitled to it. But many of us prefer seeing the bigger picture to avoid getting lost in the weeds and never seeing the trees.

Yes, black people killing black people is horrible. Yes, white people killing white people is also bad. But none of those murders have anything to do with RACISM. Those murders are part of an entirely different problem and will require an entirely different solution.
What we are referring to today and with yesterday's verdict dealt 110% with RACISM. Again, how hard is it not to recognize that some white cops are 110% RACIST to the core. We simply want cops to be non-biased and do their jobs with respect and equality towards all colors. Period.

With age I've grown wary of all those inclined to use racism labelling in a highly charged way to achieve their own mischievous political goals. Pindling did it to keep the reins of political power in his hands for 25 years, and just look at the course he charted for our country and its people.

Too bad there were six men murdered in this country recently and dozens of others. But their families and loved ones may never get closure. When it is a police involved killing, there is no full investigation and when it is a ‘criminal murder’ the suspects don’t always make it to trial. There are several more police officers in the US, including at least one female officer, that will be brought up on charges of killing young, black male suspects. One such ‘suspect’ was only 13 years old when he was chased by police and shot in the back. Police later claimed he had a semi-automatic weapon. Then there was the 20 year old young male who was stopped for driving with expired license tags. He tried to escape and was shot in the midsection by a female police officer who claims she thought she was using her taser and not her service weapon. And the US army sergeant, also Black, who was pepper sprayed and dragged from his vehicle and pinned to the ground, despite being in full uniform. He was abused with racist slurs and threatened by the officers. He has since filed a million-dollar lawsuit.

All these deaths could have been avoided if :

These persons had not been involved in crime.

These persons had complied with Police instructions.

As for the US army sergeant, I don't know the case, but I would love to be in his place to collect the $ millions.

My dear friend proudloud, we can always count on you to be on the criminals' side;)

Are you talking about the 6 that were executed locally?

Floyd was a violent criminal, high on drugs who resisted arrest. I won’t make him a role model like you. There are much more deserving people out there like David Dorn, a black retired St Louis police captain who was shot and killed last year, while attempting to protect his neighborhood from BLM looters. Now that man is a hero and role model, but since he was no criminal, people like you don't care about his death or justice being served.

Bingo!

He was not high on drugs at the time, that was debunked by two witnesses for the state - both of whom are doctors.

And, by your specious logic, because he had drugs in his system (read: NOT HIGH ON DRUGS) then that was a decent enough excuse to murder him. That is galactically stupid - like Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods level of specious baloney.

I have no issues with your POV, but please don't spread untruths about Mr. Floyd's condition at the time.

"George Floyd had "fatal level" of fentanyl in his system

New documents filed in the George Floyd case give new information about the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's findings in Floyd's autopsy.

"If he were found dead at home alone and no other apparent causes, this could be acceptable to call an OD. Deaths have been certified with levels of 3," Baker told investigators.

In another new document, Baker said, "That is a fatal level of fentanyl under normal circumstances."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-c…

And speaking of untruth, at no point did I write that he deserved to die

Your "sources", meager and inaccurate as they are, are refuted by direct testimony from two doctors on the witness stand, under penalty of perjury, who testified that Mr. Floyd did not have fatal levels of any drug - including fentanyl - in his system.

Seeing that you like to "google", go and look up their testimony - which is publicly available, btw - and read for yourself. Somehow, you won't do that though, I suspect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkEGGLu…

do we need to defund the police in the Bahamas? are the police racist against their own black men? Black security guards stop black kids over in Atlantis to make sure they are guests. Why stop a black kid in Atlantis ? Are tourist only white? Should bahamas air stewardess' give you the forms coming into the country only because of the colour of your skin? If you have black skin, you do not get a form, if you have light skin, you get a form regardless of your Bahamian citizenship. We have systemic racism in the Bahamas. A young light skinned girl with an almost 4.0 point GPA was denied a merit scholarship because , her parents can afford it because she is white. What an assumption. My light skinned aunt had to endure whispers at PMH when getting medications because the people sitting in the waiting area thought she could afford the meds because she is light skinned. last year while at the Blue Hill Super Value during our lockdowns I had to endure whispers about why am I in blue hill road. The people on the line could not understand why my light skinned self could not stay in the west. Systemic racism is prevalent and must be stamped out.

Finally his soul can move on in peace knowing that justice has been served.

He's a crack addicted petty thieving thug. His soul will never rest in peace.

My, your mother must be proud.