Hawk Newsome from BLM said after the conviction that he believes the cops would have not gotten convicted without the threat of riots and I fully agree with that
That could have played out differently without throwing the cops to the lynch mob.
Because that's what this was. A Lynching.
Guilt by threat of mob violence, only they wanted to hang the Sheriff.
Which begs the question (and really, I am NOT racist):
Does this mean court cases are going to be decided not on evidence, or guilt or innocence, but on the basis of who can get the largest crowd and threaten to break and burn the most stuff?
Because if that is the case, it isn't anything close to "Justice". It's a devil-take-the-hindmost, every-man-for-himself, war.
Chauvin has had a chance at appeal, with new evidence. If he gets killed in custody, the whole narrative busting gob of 'jurisprudence' and the stain on all who participated just goes away. So this sounds more like a hit to me, not just a minor dispute gone wild.
