Feds plan to indict Chauvin, other three ex-officers on civil rights charges

[mystery-ak]

Feds plan to indict Chauvin, other three ex-officers on civil rights charges
Ex-cop would face federal charges in two cases; three others just in Floyd case.
By Andy Mannix Star Tribune
April 29, 2021 — 5:59am

Leading up to Derek Chauvin's murder trial, Justice Department officials had spent months gathering evidence to indict the ex-Minneapolis police officer on federal police brutality charges, but they feared the publicity frenzy could disrupt the state's case.

So they came up with a contingency plan: If Chauvin were found not guilty on all counts or the case ended in a mistrial, they would arrest him at the courthouse, according to sources familiar with the planning discussions.

The backup plan would not be necessary. On April 20, the jury found Chauvin guilty on all three murder and manslaughter counts, sending him to the state's most secure lockdown facility to await sentencing, and avoiding the riots many feared could engulf the city once again.

Now, with Chauvin's state trial out of the way, federal prosecutors are moving forward with their case. They plan to ask a grand jury to indict Chauvin and the other three ex-officers involved in George Floyd's killing — J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao — on charges of civil rights violations, a source said.

If the grand jury voted to indict, the former officers would face the new civil rights charges on top of the state's cases, meaning all four could be headed toward yet another criminal trial in federal court.

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[Sled Dog]

Yeah, double jeopardy doesn't mean anything except on TV gameshows.

[mystery-ak]

BREAKING: Biden Department Of Justice Had Secret Plan To Arrest Derek Chauvin If He Were Found Not-Guilty
https://en-volve.com/2021/04/29/breaking-biden-department-of-justice-had-secret-plan-to-arrest-derek-chauvin-if-he-were-found-not-guilty/

[dfwgator]

Stevie Wonder could see this coming.

[cato potatoe]

Law enforcement was one of the worst jobs before this happened, and now the applicant pool will shrink dramatically.  I can't imagine why anyone would do it now.

[GtHawk]

BREAKING: Biden Department Of Justice Had Secret Plan To Arrest Derek Chauvin If He Were Found Not-Guilty
https://en-volve.com/2021/04/29/breaking-biden-department-of-justice-had-secret-plan-to-arrest-derek-chauvin-if-he-were-found-not-guilty/

No big surprise there, they would just be following in daddy Bush and Barr's footsteps of their Rodney King cops persecution.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

This will accelerate police leaving the workforce, to be replaced with ______?

[Sled Dog]

Law enforcement was one of the worst jobs before this happened, and now the applicant pool will shrink dramatically.  I can't imagine why anyone would do it now.

Once the Rodents have run the real cops out of the profession, the Nation of Islam is standing by to begin enforcing the Rodent laws instead.

THAT is why the Rodents are so anti-police these days.   They want to put their street thugs into power soon.

[dfwgator]

Once the Rodents have run the real cops out of the profession, the Nation of Islam is standing by to begin enforcing the Rodent laws instead.

THAT is why the Rodents are so anti-police these days.   They want to put their street thugs into power soon.

Been saying it for years,  Sharia Law No Go Zones are coming.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Law enforcement was one of the worst jobs before this happened, and now the applicant pool will shrink dramatically.  I can't imagine why anyone would do it now.

Part of the plan to ultimately replace all local and state police with federal police accountable only to DC.

Can you say Gestapo?

[skeeter]

Part of the plan to ultimately replace all local and state police with federal police accountable only to DC.

Can you say Gestapo?

The Chauvin case is purely a political prosecution now. America is in for some really difficult  times.

[Fishrrman]

skeeter wrote (correctly):
"The Chauvin case is purely a political prosecution now. America is in for some really difficult  times."

I'm not sure who here remembers, but more than once previously I had posted (before his conviction) that Chauvin's best course of action would have been to assume a new underground identity and try to slip out of the USA to another country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with us.

How does that sound now...?

[skeeter]

skeeter wrote (correctly):
"The Chauvin case is purely a political prosecution now. America is in for some really difficult  times."

I'm not sure who here remembers, but more than once previously I had posted (before his conviction) that Chauvin's best course of action would have been to assume a new underground identity and try to slip out of the USA to another country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with us.

How does that sound now...?

He, like many of us, probably thought justice could still prevail and that he wouldnt be found guilty of murdering a guy with heart disease who was jacked on three times the amount of fentanyl required to kill a man.

[jafo2010]

Federal government is out of line.

Chauvin was innocent, and over time, he will get a fair trial.  That crap in Minneapolis was injustice.  Floyd killed himself, plain and simple.