Ann Coulter explains the status
of the Derek Chauvin trial

"Now you know why prime-time cable suddenly went back to covering COVID vaccination schedules this week." - Ann Coulter, observing how prosecution witnesses upend the prosecution's own case.

I disagree with Ann's conclusion that the prosecution witnesses are destroying the case. I believe it's probable Derek Chauvin will be convicted, but on appeal his conviction(s) will be reversed because of errors regarding admission of the prosecution's evidence.

Win or lose it doesn’t matter......Minneapolis will burn again anyway. And frankly Scarlett I really don’t give a damn.

The prosecution has badly over charged. You cant murder a man who died of fentanyl overdose. Knee on the neck or not. They might could say excessive force, but even there, it was the cops training and he did it exactly textbook.

100% innocent but that will not matter in our evil cancel culture Thank god I am old and trying to not care for the rest of my life

This week's witnesses for the prosecution assure us they would have treated George Floyd with kindness and gentle words. The fact that he was COVID19 positive and was OD'ing on a cocktail of narcotics is conveniently overlooked.

The whole premise of the trial is false. Floyd was not murdered. He died of a drug overdose. End of story. Unfortunately Minneapolis can’t get their $27 million back. That money is on its way to being gone. And I am certainly not predicting he’ll be found innocent. Justice has no relationship to the truth.

Obviously, Floyd was not murdered, but he will be "overcharged" for now to try to pacify the crowds. That won't work and the town will get burnt and I don't give a ... care. Later, in quieter times the charges will be reduced on appeal and life will go on.

..their inevitable Spring looting and burning spree will just be Payback...for all the rioting white people did after the oj simpson verdict................../s

Even should an appeal be successful, Chauvin will be charged again. The officers in the Rodney King were found innocent and then the riot ensued. After that the feds came in and prosecuted them again with both ending up with time in prison. The war on cops as been going on for a long time.

I'm watching the trial, and while I was tough on the dense counsel, my opinion has changed. He was absolutely brilliant yesterday. And the prosecutors were bumbling fools - sort of how I would imagine Dementia Jo performing in the courtroom. It is difficult to select one worst witness from yesterday. The female forensic scientist who searched the squad car and the Mercedes deserves a vote. She photographed interior and exterior of each car, and the photos clearly showed pills in each car. When she was asked why she didn't collect and test the pills, her answer was jaw dropping "No one told me drugs were involved." Yet every sentient American knew that drugs were involved, as Minneapolis was burning down.. Several months later, the defense was given copies of the photos, spotted the pills and blood, and asked for a second search of the cars, which had ben secured and impounded. Floyd's blood was found on the back seat of the squad car, and the pills included Methamphetamine, fentanyl, Oxycodone. And one of the prosecutors tried to imply the defense had planted the pills! The 'expert witness' who is a sgt. from the Los Angeles Police Department couldn't remember what he had written in his 26 page report. That's about like defending a doctoral dissertation, and forgetting the content. HLN is doing an excellent job covering the trial, actually looking at both sides of the case. And they have Mark Geragos, who was cracking up yesterday about the prosecution using the (incompetent) LAPD Sgt. as an expert witness. Geragos said his law practice is now dedicated entirely to suing the LAPD for police brutality, and has 5 active cases against the LAPD.

I was wondering why the leftist media wasn't talking about this case. Every once in a awhile, there will be a piece about what some witness said, but they move on quickly to something else. This is a sure sign that justice is being done, and the woke idiots are getting beat.

I searched for Hansen on Twitter. Unsurprisingly, the blue-check brigade thought her antics as shrieker-in-charge and her self-aggrandizing testimony made her a heroine.

#10, I will never forgive Bush 41 for allowing double jeopardy in that case. Karma got King in the end - he blew through his payoff and died drunk and drugged by drowning in his swimming pool. Something similar will happen to the Floyd family.

We're in for quite a show. I hope that the people of Minneapolis have used the brief pause in the rampage wisely. There is nothing good that can come out of this.

Innocent or guilty BLM said, "cities will burn". True it's Spring shopping season for blacks they need their stuff along with a handful of 'white privilege trash'.

RE #14 - If I remember correctly, Rodney King's friend/accomplice in the car with him that night - cooperated with the police when they were stopped - unlike Rodney. And I believe the friend/accomplice with Floyd in the car also cooperated - unlike Floyd.

A sheet of plywood cost over $50.00 right now in Minneapolis! Of corse, once the axes, gasoline and fire bombs are expertly deployed (planning underway since the last fires) the city will once again burn and our pitiful politicians will stand back and let BLM and Antifa flourish!

Ann Coulter deserves zero clicks.

Murder requires intent (the 3rd degree murder charge is so-called depraved-heart murder, which is doing something that shows indifference to human life, like firing a gun at a moving train that unintentionally hits and kills someone). Where is the evidence of Chauvin's intent? Or even indifference to life? He had no motive to kill Floyd and he was restraining him in a way that was approved by his department. This is, at most, a manslaughter case. And even that is a stretch. Without the racial element and the riots, it likely would never have been tried as a criminal case. The Floyd family has already been greatly compensated for the MPD's alleged negligence.

Floyd had enough fentanyl in him to kill him by slowing the heart and starving the brain of blood. Floyd had enough meth in him to kill him by speeding up his heart to the point of fibrillation so the heart just quivers instead of beating and starves the brain of blood. So the meth sped up the fentanyl slowed heart and kept him from dying. And the fentanyl slowed down the methamphetamine fibrillating heart and kept him from dying. Eventually the balance wasn't perfect and he died.

!. Acquit Chauvin. 2. Shoot all the rioters. 3. Problem solved.

Andrea provides a good overview, but those of us who have looked closely at this case, and ignored the tidal wave of disinformation about it, and sought out the facts, have read the autopsy and discussed it with pharmacists, like I have, already know that there was no case whatsoever against the officers. I will repeat for probably the thirtieth time since last summer - the police officers did absolutely NOTHING wrong, and Floyd killed himself with a huge drug overdose. The officers had summoned an ambulance, and then upped the call to "Code 3", which is lights and siren, fastest response possible. And the autopsy shows NO asphyxia, and specifically dissected and examined the neck muscles, trachea and surrounding tissues. No indication of any bruising, abrasions or the tiny red spots which occur from strangulation were found. And the restraint position used by officer Chauvin was precisely what was trained by the MPD training manual (there is a photo of this exact position in the manual for all to see), and the position was specifically selected by medical experts at Minneapolis Medical School after a study to determine how to best restrain subjects without interfering with their ability to breathe. It is my theory that this medical study and training was likely in response to the death of the literally morbidly obese man who died from asphyxiation in NYC during a struggle with officers over an arrest. In that case, his own weight made it impossible for him to breathe when on his stomach being restrained. I suspect that a proactive MPD asked for medical advice on how to most safely restrain someone without interfering with breathing. So this restraint method was MEDICALLY developed as safe, and taught to the MPD officers. It is clearly in their training manual. None of the officers did ANYTHING wrong. Floyd killed Floyd with a massive drug overdose.

Why even have a trial? Save the state money and use it for extra fire and police services sure to be needed.

I hope Ann covers this morning ‘s “expert.” According to him, drugs had nothing to do with Floyd’s death. His lungs were the culprit and Chauvins knee of course.