{"id":22228,"date":"2021-04-07T19:01:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T23:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=22228"},"modified":"2021-04-07T19:01:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T23:01:56","slug":"just-a-thought-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=22228","title":{"rendered":"Just a thought&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;with the Derek Chauvin trial still going on for his killing of George Floyd last year by kneeling on his neck for almost 9 minutes, a thought hit me today about how screwed up our legal system is that this trial has gone on for almost two weeks&#8230;let&#8217;s think about a hypothetical for just a minute&#8230;what if we replace George Floyd with a german shepard and Chauvin kneeled on it&#8217;s neck for 9 minutes in the view of witnesses? Right now Chauvin would be in in prison for a count of felony animal abuse and it would have been an easy open and shut case. So, why is it so hard to see that Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd&#8217;s neck for 9 minutes that killed him isn&#8217;t at least manslaughter? Especially since he had George handcuffed and lying on the ground and posed no threat to the Chauvin? I&#8217;m afraid our legal system is too far gone to be saved if this creep is let off from the murder charges&#8230;and I fear for Minnesota if that is the outcome&#8230;I don&#8217;t advocate for violent protests at all, but damn&#8230;this is as open and shut as a case gets&#8230;and it is highlighting there really is a different legal system for white people in this country&#8230;and that is just wrong&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;with the Derek Chauvin trial still going on for his killing of George Floyd last year by kneeling on his neck for almost 9 minutes, a thought hit me today about how screwed up our legal system is that this trial has gone on for almost two weeks&#8230;let&#8217;s think about a hypothetical for just a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=22228\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just a thought&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2916,2917,2918],"class_list":["post-22228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-derek-chauvin","tag-george-floyd","tag-no-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22229,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22228\/revisions\/22229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}