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Usa, Floyd trial opens: “A referendum on the search for equality in America”

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NEW YORK – Kneeling for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in front of the gray tower block of the Hannepin County Courthouse, Minneapolis. The African American’s family members and lawyers George Floyd they wanted to reiterate in this way what from today and for the next few days they will repeat in the courtroom: “The policeman Derek Chauvin caused George’s death with a deliberate and intentional gesture. “By suffocating the man suspected of peddling a $ 20 bill in a tobacconist’s, pressing his knee to his neck for, in fact, for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. Insensitive even to appeals and to the protests of the small crowd of passers-by to yell at him to stop, while on their cell phones they filmed the agony of that poor man with his face pressed to the sidewalk, to gasp “I can’t breathe”, I can’t breathe, 27 times before expiring. then it became the most effective slogan of the Black Lives Matter movement and of the revolt sparked by that death, which last summer set the country on fire.

Usa, African American stopped by police dies of suffocation. “I can’t breathe, don’t kill me”

di ALBERTO FLORES D’ARCAIS


“Nobody would call this process” difficult “if the victim had been white,” he says Benjamin Crump, the superstar attorney involved in all the major civil rights lawsuits for African Americans, also legal for the daughters of Malcom X as well as of the family of Trayvon Martin – killed in Florida in 2012 by a suspicious security guard just because he had a hood on his head – a di Breonna Taylor, who died in her own home during a search by plainclothes agents.

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In the streets of Minneapolis, the rumble and fear: “Don’t leave home anymore”

by ROBERT J. ARMSTRONG FOR THE REPUBLIC



“Today begins a historic process, a referendum on how far America intends to go in the search for equality and justice for all,” said the lawyer during the press conference, held outside the court, in the armored city, where the process has begun.

The whole of America is glued to the television to follow the live broadcast from Court tv, the television specializing in trials, the only one admitted to follow the trial finally underway after three weeks spent in the difficult task of assembling an ethnically balanced jury – nine whites, four blacks and two multiracial, six men and nine women, whose identity is anonymous and whose faces can never be filmed. And above all “neutral”: people not influenced by that video that last summer went around the world, yesterday shown again by the prosecutors in the courtroom in all its brutality. Revealing, among other things, that if Floyd’s agony lasted 8 minutes and 46 seconds, the time spent by Chauvin to maintain his grip on the neck was even longer: 9 minutes and 29 seconds. Still in that pose even when Floyd was evidently already dead (this is demonstrated by the fluids that are seen copiously leaking from the body), giving up only when the ambulance is already there.

In the streets of Minneapolis, the rumble and fear: “Don’t leave home anymore”

by ROBERT J. ARMSTRONG FOR THE REPUBLIC

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“This is not a trial of the police, but of a single man who abused his strength”, the defense attorney reiterates in the opening indictment, Jerry Blackwell, anticipating a sort of road-map of the process: “We will call agents specialized in Defense techniques from the best police in America. And the chief of the Minneapolis Police, Medaria Arradondo, which on several occasions has explicitly spoken of “conduct not in keeping with standards”. Together with the eyewitnesses, people of different ethnicities and ages all agree on the horror of the scene. Still, eight doctors to confirm how death was caused by that choking move. ”

Immediately after that it was the lawyer’s turn Eric Nelson, lawyer of the policeman, remember: “Chauvin deserves to be judged beyond any reasonable doubt: with rationality and practical sense”. Separated from his gray suit client by a plexiglass wall, he traces his defense path: “He did exactly what he was trained to do in his 19-year honorable career.”

And he announces that he wants to call on the stand, among others, the two employees of the tobacconist where Floyd used the fake $ 20 bill to buy a pack of cigarettes: “It was clear to them, Floyd was under the influence of drugs” . Swallowed substance, he says again, when he saw the police arrive. “Let’s put politics aside. The man on trial has only done his duty.” But in the meantime, the White House is also closely following the trial: the sentence, really destined to write the future of America.

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