{"id":200365,"date":"2021-04-29T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/04\/29\/did-not-expect-this-4\/"},"modified":"2021-04-29T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T00:39:00","slug":"did-not-expect-this-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/04\/29\/did-not-expect-this-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Not Expect This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It should come as no surprise that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/feds-plan-to-indict-chauvin-other-three-ex-officers-on-civil-rights-charges\/600051374\/?refresh=true\">the Department of Justice planned to indict all 4 officers involved in George Floyd&#8217;s murder on Civil Rights charges<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What does surprise me is that the DoJ planned to arrest Derek Chauvin <b>in the court house<\/b> in the event of a not-guilty verdict or a mistrial. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">Leading up to Derek Chauvin&#8217;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&#8217;s case.<\/p>\n<p>So they came up with a contingency plan: <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">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<\/span><\/b>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>These folks were sh%$ting their pants over the possibility that a bigot on the jury would blow everything up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It should come as no surprise that the Department of Justice planned to indict all 4 officers involved in George Floyd&#8217;s murder on Civil Rights charges.&nbsp; What does surprise me is that the DoJ planned to arrest Derek Chauvin in the court house in the event of a not-guilty verdict or a mistrial. Leading up &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,972,1041,1049,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-justice","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-protests","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}