![]() ![]() In Washington, House Republicans said on Tuesday they planned to bring a censure motion to the House floor to reprimand Waters for the commentary. WILL DEREK BE FOUND NOT GUILTY TRIALDemonstrators marched through downtown Minneapolis on Monday after closing statements in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, who is facing murder charges in the death of George Floyd Floyd’s death sparked enormous nationwide protests in the US last year. US cities are bracing for a potential outbreak of protests around the verdict when it is delivered. The jury of 12 people is now sequestered as it deliberates behind closed doors whether to find Chauvin guilty on three charges of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter. “Their failure to do so I think is abhorrent,” the judge said. “I wish elected officials would stop talking about this case, especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law and to the judicial branch and our function,” Cahill said from the bench on Monday. Judge Peter Cahill, presiding over the trial, denied the defence’s motion for a mistrial but had harsh words for Waters and said that he believed her remarks give Chauvin grounds to appeal a guilty verdict. ![]() “We have US representatives threatening acts of violence in relation to this specific case,” Nelson said. “It’s mind-boggling,” Nelson told the judge. We have got to make sure that they know that we mean business,” said Waters, an 82-year-old Democrat now in her 16th term in office.Ĭhauvin’s defence lawyer Eric Nelson in court on Monday seized on Waters’ comments, televised by local news outlets, to argue that the jury would be influenced, and the judge should declare a mistrial. “I hope that we are going to get a verdict that says ‘guilty, guilty, guilty,’” Waters continued. Waters, who is African American, speaking amid a crowd of protesters during the weekend said if Chauvin is not found guilty of Floyd’s killing, protests would need to be more confrontational.įormer Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin who held his knee on Floyd’s neck until he was unconscious is on trial on three counts of murder in the unarmed Black man’s death. Democratic US Representative Maxine Waters’s comments about the need for Black Lives Matter protesters to be more confrontational with authorities drew criticism from Republicans, as well as a rebuke from the judge in the George Floyd murder trial, now in jury deliberations in Minneapolis. ![]()
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