Joe Biden struggled on Tuesday in the jury hearing at the monumental trial of Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, suggesting the evidence against the man charged with murdering George Floyd was ‘overwhelming’. Just hours after Judge Peter Cahill suggested that Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) might have endangered a conviction to be thrown on appeal when she suggested protesters “would have to be more confrontational” if police evacuated become, the president closes the fight. In the Oval Office, he told reporters he “got to know George’s family” and spoke to them as they – and the world – waited to hear what would happen to the man charged with the murder of the biggest protest. movement in American history.
He noted that he waited until judges were sequestered, to avoid being unduly influenced as a high-profile public figure, and Biden made it clear where he stood without explicitly asking for a conviction. “I pray that the verdict is the right one,” he said, “which I think is overwhelming.” Chauvin, who was fired shortly after pushing his knee on the neck of Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, in Minneapolis for more than nine minutes last year, is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder a manslaughter. . The final arguments were settled on Monday and the jury reconsidered on Tuesday morning.