Hi Paul,

Yes, I just heard it on the news.

Perhaps this will send out a message that as you say -
black lives do matter.

He was always going to be found guilty by gutless Americans, probably Democrats, who are frightened by a few black people who might have started rioting, looting and burning again. The fools should realise that the same black people will always be rioting, looting and burning about something. The knee-on-neck incident was just an excuse to riot, loot and burn; nothing to do with the deceased.

I hope that George Floyd's family will finally have
some closure. Perhaps this will sway people
into having some belief in the American justice
system once again. One can only hope. This does not
happen very often for black people in America.
It's a good sign. Even President Biden spoke so
eloquently about this matter on the news this morning.
Congratulating the police officers who testified for
their bravery.

Only someone really reeking of malice and bile would find
something wrong with the verdict.

There were 141,116 deaths in Australia in 2020 for which only a handful of people were convicted.

Idiotic statistics like these prove nothing.

A report on Aboriginal deaths in custody recently indicated that the vast majority were from natural causes such as heart attacks, cancer etc and the likelihood of dying in custody for Aboriginal inmates was no different to that for non-Aboriginal inmates.

Similarly, for the crimes that are committed Aboriginal suspects are jailed at roughly the same ratio as non-aboriginal. That there are proportionally 10x as many aboriginal inmates as non-aboriginal inmates is largely due to a higher rate of offending.

Paul's conjecture that the higher rate of offending is due to the poor conditions has some merit but does not account for the vast difference.

Will the Floyd verdict bring about a less violence orientated mentality ?
Chauvin ended up killing Floyd because Floyd committed an offence & strongly resisted arrest.
Chauvin definitely applied excessive force after Floyd stopped resisting !
Chauvin couldn't have done to Floyd what he did if Floyd behaved himself in the first place !
Let's hope both sides come to their senses !

They said that rioting by BLM and other Commos would break out again if the cop wasn't found guilty. There was no suggestion, and still no suggestion, that the other side - white "supremists" and any other non-left, law abiding Caucasians would put on act if he was found guilty. Just shows they do know that there is a huge difference between racial groups, the left, and conservatives, when it comes to respect for law and order, and general behaviour.