Derek Chauvin’s Prosecutor Says He ‘Felt a Little Bad’ for Him, Chauvin Is ‘a Human Being’Wendell Husebo 26 Apr 2021
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said Sunday on CBS’s 60 Minutes he ‘felt a little bad’ for Derek Chauvin upon the guilty verdict of killing George Floyd.
“I will admit, I felt a little bad for the defendant. I think he deserved to be convicted. But he’s a human being,” Ellison said when asked by host Scott Pelley what he first thought when he heard the words “guilty.”
Pelley followed up on the question, “Somehow, I did not expect to hear from you a note of compassion for Derek Chauvin.”
“I’m not in any way wavering from my responsibility,” Ellison said. “But I hope we never forget that people who are defendants in our criminal justice system, that they’re human beings. They’re people.”
Pelley next asked if the murder was “a hate crime?”
“I wouldn’t call it that because hate crimes are crimes where there’s an explicit motive and of bias,” Ellison responded. “We don’t have any evidence that Derek Chauvin factored in George Floyd’s race as he did what he did.”
When Pelley asked what a message a maximum sentence would send, Ellison replied, “I think it is important for the Court to not go light or heavy.”
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