When Pundits Express Joy at Derek Chauvin's Conviction

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May 12, 2021
When Pundits Express Joy at Derek Chauvin's Conviction
By Peter Nichols

Among the dalliances of the season, none so enraptured a certain kind of political commentator as the conviction on all counts of Officer Derek Chauvin.  To such authorities, it was not so much a trial as a ritual sacrifice to the god of racial justice, in which, presumably, Chauvin should have been proud to play his indispensable role.  "We witnessed something good this week," intoned Peggy Noonan.  "To my mind it was a kind of triumph."

It was a triumph to Miss Noonan because "t meant that black lives matter, George Floyd's life mattered, the police aren't above the law, the system worked ... a jury of your peers confirmed what your eyes saw ... the American nation, which spends so much time putting itself down, retains something that long distinguished it: a conscience to which an appeal can be made," and "the entire nation saw that video and did not look away."

Certainly, it would have been less of a triumph had the jurors (or just one of them) found reasonable doubt as to any of the counts.  But among the "elements of inspiration" delighting Miss Noonan was the "unanimous verdict from a unanimous jury that had spent the trial taking notes," whose members "were varied in every way — race, ethnicity, sex, profession, neighborhood," and who "came to peaceful and emphatic agreement and spoke with one voice."

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[goatprairie]

This was not just a trial of Chauvin. This trial was a trial of all white policemen who supposedly have been hunting down and killing innocent black males since the founding of the country or the first police forces were created.
That's the thinking of many of the (deluded) people who celebrated Chauvin's conviction.
The fact that the police don't hunt down black males to kill them and that  a police officer is 18 times more likely to be killed by a black male than vice versa does not bother their thinking in the least.
They will still delude themselves that huge police reform needs to take place while totally ignoring the slaughter of black people by other black people that occurs daily on the streets of America.