The pervasive sense that cities would burn if Derek Chauvin were not convicted raises questions about whether the jury’s verdict was reached dispassionately.
America’s cities did not burn last night. But the terrified preparations in Minneapolis and elsewhere in anticipation of the George Floyd verdict—the razor wire and barricades around government buildings, the activation of the National Guard, the declaration in Minnesota of a “peacetime emergency,” the fortified police presence, the curfews, the cancellation of school, the boarded-up businesses—raise serious questions about the rule of law in the United States.
Had the jury failed to convict Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin on all three counts of murder and manslaughter, the ensuing riots would likely have made the conflagrations of 2020 look like a Girl Scout campfire. – Heather Mac Donald
AN ALT said that she saw the protesters when she was comming home from listen to the trial .. and she did not want them to come to her house and do what ever so that why they voted to CONVICE it was on twitter what she said and alsdo said he GUILTY