Derek Chauvin Trial: 'Blue Wall of Silence' Collapses

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  • Опубликовано: 8 апр 2021
  • BLUE WALL COLLAPSES: Law enforcement’s ‘blue wall of silence’ is collapsing at the Derek Chauvin murder trial - civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong explains what that means (warning: distressing).
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  • @Kenn_Adams
    @Kenn_Adams 3 года назад +480

    Let's just admit it. If that video of him kneeling on George's neck didn't go viral these guys would've defended this man. They need a scapegoat to save face. It's not gonna end with this guy.

    • @MiVidaBellisima
      @MiVidaBellisima 3 года назад +3

      What nobody is talking about is the government is all together on this one, the mil and the “good ol boy” system is the same way.

    • @barneygoogle4003
      @barneygoogle4003 3 года назад +8

      You're right. It will end when murdering cops are prosecuted and convicted on a regular basis.

    • @olympiaskye2324
      @olympiaskye2324 3 года назад +2

      This is NO scapegoat. Let's admit THAT. He is the ONLY guy kneeling on his neck the WHOLE time. No one else came in to forcibly stop him. No one else came in, to kneel on his neck. Let's just admit that if this video wasn't made, he would've gotten away with this! He obviously has many times before, because there WAS NO video of him using brute force! Let alone kill anyone! This was GOING to happen to someone, because of HIM. This was MEANT to happen to HIM, because of HIS actions. It's called "ACCOUNTABILITY" He did this to HIMSELF. The bystanders BEGGED him to stop. He did NOT. HE (and he alone) even kept his knee on his NECK, LONG after he stopped moving! How is that SO hard to understand?!

    • @Kenn_Adams
      @Kenn_Adams 3 года назад +4

      @@olympiaskye2324 You're mad because you didn't "UNDERSTAND" the context here. What's hard for you to understand here? I'm blaming the entire dept here. You've actually said what I said. If this video wasn't so viral, these guys would've defended him. Why are you getting all railed up? They needed to save their face and they're compelled to act on it. They've always defended this type of behaviour and they will keep on doing it.

    • @laradowney7755
      @laradowney7755 3 года назад

      it’s not exactly a scape goat if he did it.

  • @nigelbaboolal5072
    @nigelbaboolal5072 3 года назад +7467

    The only reason it "broke down" is because this indecent was so public. That wall is still up and working everywhere else.

    • @whysocurious7366
      @whysocurious7366 3 года назад +78

      Incident*
      And yeah, sad but true x.x

    • @Jay-Niner
      @Jay-Niner 3 года назад +95

      ^^ this, 100%.
      And wouldn’t it be so easy to enact a couple of laws that automatically charge cops with dereliction of duty when they refuse to cooperate in a case, just because the suspect wears the same uniform as they do. Doesn’t even matter what happens to the initial case. If it is clear that you are being uncooperative, you immediately lose your job and face jail time.

    • @jspain7690
      @jspain7690 3 года назад +26

      @@Jay-Niner as much as I agree, what about the fifth? It's the same right we all have. I really appreciate this heavier use of body cams we have seen in these past few years.

    • @whysocurious7366
      @whysocurious7366 3 года назад +30

      @@jspain7690 good idea, it makes it sus af when they turn off the body cams :)

    • @dont90know
      @dont90know 3 года назад +61

      Yep, everyone officer that worked with Chauvin knew that he wasn't right, and they all did nothing for years and said nothing as he routinely took new officers under his wing for training.

  • @Julia-cp9nt
    @Julia-cp9nt 3 года назад +221

    my grandfather was a state trooper until 2003. before that, if he saw something wrong, he reported it and the officer was reprimanded. starting in 2000, anytime he reported a county officer or another trooper, the heads would always get extremely upset with him. finally it got to a breaking point when a sheriff told him “we have to protect each other”. my papa told him “no we protect those who cannot protect themselves” and quit on the spot. it’s become ridiculous

    • @worsethanjoerogan8061
      @worsethanjoerogan8061 3 года назад +5

      Blue wall of silence is a bit of a myth. Fact is most disciplinary actions from police departments are because other cops bring it to command's attention. Just because it's not done in public doesn't mean it isn't happening. Cops do get fired for misconduct

    • @Julia-cp9nt
      @Julia-cp9nt 3 года назад +25

      @@worsethanjoerogan8061 however it’s rarer than it should be, and the cop who turns the other in always get flack for it

    • @mho...
      @mho... 3 года назад +4

      sooo he left instead of fighting?!... THAT is exactly the problem! .... ignoring injustice is the same as participating!
      greetings from germany 😏

    • @larsmalsbender7472
      @larsmalsbender7472 3 года назад +6

      Tell your grandpa he is a great man! I wish your family all the best!

    • @cuanchulainn
      @cuanchulainn 3 года назад +15

      @@mho... i dont think you understand. People that try to stand up to their higher ups and do what's right may one day be left alone in a very dangerous situation without any backup. It happens. A lot.

  • @BigOne1910
    @BigOne1910 3 года назад +1027

    I would like the Chief to respond to why Chauvin was allowed to remain on patrol for so long with so many complaints against him. And how he was cleared of all of them

    • @chrissnyder8108
      @chrissnyder8108 3 года назад +56

      Absolutely. I suspect this cop murdered or maimed non-violent "suspects" before there was so much camera evidence to make coworkers realize they'd suffer more for not telling the truth than for protecting their trainer.

    • @BadgerCheese94
      @BadgerCheese94 3 года назад +54

      In all fairness he is a fairly new chief and Chauvin was on the force for like 17 years

    • @chrissnyder8108
      @chrissnyder8108 3 года назад +45

      @@BadgerCheese94 Good point, my apologies to the chief. But undoubtably there were some people on the force in positions of power for some of those 17 years, and D.C. wasn't stopped or even fired from his job despite numerous civilian complaints, which seems astonishing to me.

    • @charochaneldavis4969
      @charochaneldavis4969 3 года назад +64

      The police union is why he remained so long. The union makes it nearly impossible for a police chief to fire someone for aggressive behavior. The only reason he was fired was because the heinous crime was filmed for the world to see. Had there been no video, he would have gotten away with this to do again and been free to train others to do so.

    • @charochaneldavis4969
      @charochaneldavis4969 3 года назад +23

      @@BadgerCheese94 In all fairness, the previous chief had several complaints and therefore several opportunities to get this evil off the streets.

  • @jesirrah12
    @jesirrah12 3 года назад +4232

    I don’t think it’s being broken down, but he’s their sacrificial lamb to appease the masses.

    • @aznmochibunny
      @aznmochibunny 3 года назад +170

      Yeah I had a similar thought. Some of those who may be testifying against him are maybe saving their own skins so they're not bashed in the public eye. Though I'm sure some have good intentions though.

    • @Fumi007
      @Fumi007 3 года назад +238

      The term “sacrificial lamb“ implies an innocent person is being used for a negative purpose. If anything this is the opposite. An evil person is being used to bring about good.

    • @munozf20
      @munozf20 3 года назад +12

      Very well said

    • @3goats1coat
      @3goats1coat 3 года назад +82

      @@Fumi007 wish you were right, but you're expecting change in a system that rewards cruelty and cowardice.
      How did a country get to the point of law enforcement actions revolving around their own safety? How did it slump to the level of subduing on the ground and kneeling on people to begin with? You're treated like cattle and the only solution is to fire all of them and have the next generation trained by police of civilized countries.

    • @cireyenned
      @cireyenned 3 года назад +18

      @@Fumi007 he is innocent

  • @cybergothika6906
    @cybergothika6906 3 года назад +1392

    They're being ''praised'' for doing something that they should always do everywhere?

    • @guillermollamas7899
      @guillermollamas7899 3 года назад +32

      yes lmao welcome to the U.S. of A

    • @roems6396
      @roems6396 3 года назад +14

      Yes, because it doesn’t happen anywhere. Cops don’t tell on other cops, period. Those that do are harassed off the force.

    • @rustyshackleford5516
      @rustyshackleford5516 3 года назад +5

      @@roems6396 Pretty much, you're trained to worry about yourself but when you start you're immediately told to forget everything you're trained and told "This is how it works around here." And you dont last long when people refuse to back you up because you will not cover for their indiscretions.

    • @cybergothika6906
      @cybergothika6906 3 года назад +1

      @@roems6396 I'm not sure you paid attention to my sarcasm. I obviously know about that and they wouldn't be harassed if that happened more often, everywhere.

    • @daisuke910
      @daisuke910 3 года назад

      @@roems6396 what is this? Fraternity? Cop is to enforce law and if they don't do it, meaning it defeat the purpose.

  • @mho...
    @mho... 3 года назад +42

    the saddest part about all this is, that they only take it serious, because the world is watching!
    and NOT because they really want to do the RIGHT thing!

  • @prettybrowneyez3338
    @prettybrowneyez3338 3 года назад +102

    I'm a nurse. And I've seen how other colleagues of mine sometimes treat patients, as if they are beneath them. But instead of looking the other way, I call them out.
    I always tell them the same thing: We are here to provide a service. We are not better than them, we NEED them. Because without patients, we are nothing. We wouldn't have a job. And we wouldn't have a paycheck.... Simple as that.

    • @QuanBrown27
      @QuanBrown27 3 года назад +6

      - You right 👍. Should be a no brainer but MFs be on some BS!

    • @kiarose5792
      @kiarose5792 3 года назад

      Good but I hope you have the same energy for doctors who mistreat patients as well or even when Doctors are being condescending to your own colleges

    • @prettybrowneyez3338
      @prettybrowneyez3338 3 года назад +1

      @@kiarose5792 And I do. At least I not only have the energy but I do something about it. I have the good luck of working with doctors that not only respect their staff, but their patients as well. For me it's all across the board, because ONE funk up messes it up for the rest of us. From the receptionists to the doctors. I found out that our office manager, of many years, was doing something behind one of the doctors' back. She was fired.

    • @Richard.Pompey
      @Richard.Pompey 3 года назад +4

      The saying 'treat someone, like you would like to be treated yourself, comes to mind. People in your line of work, do an amazing job. But there will always be a one or two that let the side down.

    • @kiarose5792
      @kiarose5792 3 года назад +5

      @prettybrowneyes its good to know that you're fair because too often nurses are the scapegoats for Failing hospitals and Doctors are often protected. Im a Nurse manager and I've seen it for 25 years.

  • @moistpeanut5986
    @moistpeanut5986 3 года назад +2080

    “Blue wall of silence” is a danger to our society

    • @gaja9092
      @gaja9092 3 года назад +10

      It isn't.

    • @moistpeanut5986
      @moistpeanut5986 3 года назад +69

      @@gaja9092 explain

    • @gaja9092
      @gaja9092 3 года назад +2

      @@moistpeanut5986 how is it a danger to society? It literally isn't even a city level threat let alone a humanity level one. Next up butterfly's dangerous for human society.

    • @squalley
      @squalley 3 года назад +111

      It's a menace to the society they are supposed to serve and protect.

    • @gaja9092
      @gaja9092 3 года назад +4

      @@squalley but its not a threat. Nuclear armagedon, ww3, economy crash, etc. are threat to society. Officers not reporting other officers is not.

  • @paulfoss5385
    @paulfoss5385 3 года назад +3148

    They want to paint him as an anomalous bad apple to protect their funding. Be glad that it helps the prosecution, but don't buy into it.

    • @xwwg1wgax277
      @xwwg1wgax277 3 года назад +8

      You mean the funding that was redistributed* and then rescinded* lmao

    • @831mrscardoso
      @831mrscardoso 3 года назад +83

      yeah that's what I got from seeing these co-workers turn on him. They are protecting themselves. There will be several other murders via cops, this trial and its outcome wont change that. They need to really change it from within in order to regain trust with communities across this country.

    • @xwwg1wgax277
      @xwwg1wgax277 3 года назад +14

      @@831mrscardoso "They are protecting themselves"
      Common ground 💯

    • @dont90know
      @dont90know 3 года назад +61

      The thing is that Chauvin was a bad apple. He was working with new officers that day, because all the other officers didn't want to work with that freak.
      This a big part of the problem. Police communities know who their bad apples are, and they do nothing about them.

    • @antclerfont8478
      @antclerfont8478 3 года назад +6

      I saw right through it. Thats called cover up

  • @severed6s
    @severed6s 3 года назад +574

    The blue wall of silence is sacrificing one of it's own in order maintain itself.

    • @roseking8555
      @roseking8555 3 года назад +18

      Exactly!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏. That is my thought as well. I thought that throughout this entire trial!! Thank you for voicing that truth.

    • @TimNewmanGaming
      @TimNewmanGaming 3 года назад +15

      Bingo! They think we don't know what they're doing!

    • @worsethanjoerogan8061
      @worsethanjoerogan8061 3 года назад +2

      Do you not understand how your statement contradicts itself?

    • @hoseiimaging6215
      @hoseiimaging6215 3 года назад +6

      Well said. We are lucky the public recorded this for 8 minutes.
      They cant spin this one out.

    • @ianjimenez9769
      @ianjimenez9769 3 года назад

      A couple months ago a wannabe narco here shot up hella cops and got away. The streets turned him in to the cops dead with a cardboard sign on his body stating this was the killer. The cops were then able to prove this was the case. ...they sacrificed him in order to maintain itself..so they thought at least.

  • @thewhatsupdude
    @thewhatsupdude 3 года назад +31

    "But you don't understand the stresses of the job!" Says the guy who doesn't understand being a freaking taxi driver is quantifiabley more dangerous

  • @longxiao9823
    @longxiao9823 3 года назад +799

    So this "Blue Wall of Silence" is basically a fancy phrase for "covering up for my peers by making false witness".

    • @andrewcarlton6196
      @andrewcarlton6196 3 года назад +1

      No it is this fiction thing that people not in law enforcement made up to explain why cop are normally justified in the level of force they use.

    • @longxiao9823
      @longxiao9823 3 года назад +31

      @@andrewcarlton6196 yeah and that justification came from false witnesses their peers made.

    • @andrewcarlton6196
      @andrewcarlton6196 3 года назад

      @@longxiao9823 ya that is not how it works. The biggest reason cops say nothing is because they know full well something is justified but the crazy zealots will except nothing less then guilt.
      Hate to tell you, but many police departments have independent investigation and the majority of the time they find it justified. Cops have even gone to jail for justified homicide just to appease the more because the reality is there are a lot more criminals out there willing to shot a cop then the other way around.
      In fact statistically cops are 33 times more likely to be killed or injured by a criminal then the other way around.
      Ypu would rather act on ignorance and emotions the the bear the reality of knowledge and logic.

    • @journeyman553
      @journeyman553 3 года назад +25

      @@andrewcarlton6196 Where do you get your data....links please.

    • @harrynac6017
      @harrynac6017 3 года назад +22

      @@andrewcarlton6196 ofcourse there are more people willing to shoot a cop than the other way around in America. You have the most people per capita imprisoned in the world. People go to jail for a long time without a trail. People confes to crimes not committed by them, because they are afraid to be imprisoned even longer because of a failing justice system, that rather punishes an innocent person than leave a crime unsolved. And your prisons need their free labourers. Even children are handed over to prisons by corrupt judges. Poor people, and especially poor black people are afraid to call the cops, and that's for a reason.

  • @EtaruMusic
    @EtaruMusic 3 года назад +629

    One incidence, especially so public, is not a crumbling wall. It's just a crack that the light of truth can shine through.

    • @Marcus-sk2xf
      @Marcus-sk2xf 3 года назад +6

      It looks more like betrayal. “Knee on neck” is absolutely part of their training!

    • @incrediblec872
      @incrediblec872 3 года назад +1

      🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾💯

    • @castillo33brandon
      @castillo33brandon 3 года назад

      LiGhT oF tRuTh rEeEeeE

    • @NATASEXISTS
      @NATASEXISTS 3 года назад +2

      Beautiful but sad words and so much truth to them.

  • @joseramongudino
    @joseramongudino 3 года назад +115

    They said "f*** it, no way of getting out of this!", they rather save their own skins......

    • @rodniestruiken1256
      @rodniestruiken1256 3 года назад

      Where do the police find those racist officer?? At a kkk rally?

  • @MaverickZ007
    @MaverickZ007 3 года назад +20

    The phrase "It's only wrong if you get caught" comes to mind here.

  • @daxwave
    @daxwave 3 года назад +473

    Of course they spoke up, they would have been shamed if not. That blue wall is still as tall as before this case. This was just a small crack, nothing has changed!

    • @st0n3p0ny
      @st0n3p0ny 3 года назад +1

      It's amusing watching you mindless big-government boot lickers pretending to oppose totalitarian government.

    • @nathanlevesque7812
      @nathanlevesque7812 3 года назад +16

      @@st0n3p0ny You only speak nonsense.

    • @st0n3p0ny
      @st0n3p0ny 3 года назад

      @@nathanlevesque7812 No, you tools simply lack the ability to recognize the difference.
      You lick boots and demand bigger government. Or are you a Conservative? lol...
      Don't give yourself a nose bleed trying to think it over. Just give up.

    • @nathanlevesque7812
      @nathanlevesque7812 3 года назад +8

      ​@@st0n3p0ny You're making assumptions, and are completely full of yourself. The two tend to go hand in hand. Another pairing would be how I value self determination and therefore democracy both in the public and private sector. You can call that 'big government' like a child, or realize that people should be able to decide their own fate--instead of whoever has the most money.

    • @EazyMurphy
      @EazyMurphy 3 года назад +8

      @@st0n3p0ny and what are you out here doing besides talking down on people with your sad life.

  • @natestarr9935
    @natestarr9935 3 года назад +589

    Good on them for doing the right thing, but we still have a loooooong way to go. At least it's a step in the right direction

    • @IMGreg..
      @IMGreg.. 3 года назад +21

      You mean finally doing their jobs.

    • @daveyjones18
      @daveyjones18 3 года назад +6

      Yeah, they breaking "the blue wall of silence" because it was blatantly wrong.
      Even though race division is still a big problem, don't let the media trick you (left or right) into thinking this is a race case.
      This is a cop on a power trip!

    • @neonvpn9485
      @neonvpn9485 3 года назад +15

      @@daveyjones18 I personally think its a case of both. This isn't the first time Derek has done this.

    • @StarBucks718
      @StarBucks718 3 года назад

      @@IMGreg.. Exactly. That doesn't warrant applause.

    • @killajok3337
      @killajok3337 3 года назад +1

      @@daveyjones18 why u think Christopher dorner did what he did in 2013???

  • @tebogomorifi3860
    @tebogomorifi3860 3 года назад +148

    Don’t think the blue line of silence has finally fallen .....this is just an isolated events

    • @nicocrestmere9688
      @nicocrestmere9688 3 года назад +5

      It gives me hope that change is coming. I wont hold my breath but I will continue to believe good will triumph in the end.

    • @synjata8670
      @synjata8670 3 года назад

      Agreed, this was just to big to sweep under the rug

    • @theredman9151
      @theredman9151 3 года назад +2

      They knew they had to do something. This caused a summer of civil unrest across the nation. But believe me when I say if his death didn't spark the summer civil unrest this would have been swept under the rug. That wall of silence in that department would still be up.
      R.I.P George Floyd
      Your family will have justice.

    • @samthompson3714
      @samthompson3714 3 года назад

      While by no means proof that it is gone or anything there are also many cases of officers reporting other officers you just won't see these covered the same as why report the positives?
      Of course, it is still a massive issue and needs to be addressed but there are also plenty of officers who have good conduct and report bad conduct.
      There was a recent case of 4 officers on scene when one used excessive force on an arrested suspect and all 3 other officers independently reported the incident.
      Just to add on: obviously this example should absolutely be the norm not the exception and thats the problem but people need to realize it isnt all black and white there is plenty of grey. An officer being harassed by the public for their job may be one who has reported several peers for misconduct and is doing everything in their power to help make the system a much better one.

  • @sivadethr.t1940
    @sivadethr.t1940 3 года назад +16

    "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing " - Edmund Burke

    • @nunyabidnis3815
      @nunyabidnis3815 3 года назад

      That is a truly great quote; the rest of Burke was justifying the monarchy and finding poor folks repulsive, so that sucks.

  • @joshuaroberts675
    @joshuaroberts675 3 года назад +250

    Just one of many cases across the U.S. 🇺🇸

    • @vo6172
      @vo6172 3 года назад +3

      Sadly not just the US all over the world. There will always be a bad/evil officer.

    • @chrisnuttall3212
      @chrisnuttall3212 3 года назад +2

      Not near the volume found in America!

    • @chrisnuttall3212
      @chrisnuttall3212 3 года назад

      America is quite happy to tolerate 12000 gun related deaths every year because of their evil liberal gun laws! Mainly because their moronic politicians are funded by the NRA, the new terrorists. America is the most racist country in the world! The land of the free? What a joke!

  • @Kate-hh8yi
    @Kate-hh8yi 3 года назад +86

    This is why cameras are important as well. I believe if courts had more in public view- reform for the better would become inevitable.

    • @sirmister9099
      @sirmister9099 3 года назад +1

      true, one of the officer cams shows Dereks knee was not on Floyds neck.

    • @char_shine
      @char_shine 3 года назад +4

      @@sirmister9099 .......I dont think you watched the right footage my guy

    • @andrewcarlton6196
      @andrewcarlton6196 3 года назад +1

      @@char_shine ya the footage show the knee across his shoulder blade. I say you did not watch the un edited footge

    • @jagan9235
      @jagan9235 3 года назад +4

      @@sirmister9099 delusional

    • @sirmister9099
      @sirmister9099 3 года назад

      @@jagan9235 literally video proof. im sorry it doesnt fit your agenda

  • @gaynorsmith4843
    @gaynorsmith4843 3 года назад +48

    As an SEN teacher, working with some very challenging and aggressive students, I was taught re managing this potential or actual aggressive behaviour, by folk who had worked with psychiatric patients. We were taught to de-escalate, to manage the situation with the least physical intervention, to ‘let go’ , but if necessary to re engage, then let go, re engage. There are easy ways to turn a person from prone to supine. Especially with an adequate number of persons to do this. It’s still possible to do without enough ‘strength’. NEVER keep someone prone! EVER! Always manage the head of a person, to make sure they are ok. ALWAYS. That kind of restraint needs monitoring very closely. Shame on you. This is pretty basic training.

  • @bmichael1165
    @bmichael1165 3 года назад +25

    Anyone who actually perpetuates a “blue wall of silence” needs to be removed from their position as they are a plague on our society

  • @houchi69
    @houchi69 3 года назад +361

    Blue Wall of Silence...which translated to Acting without Heart or Conscience.
    In the justice system, this is call being an accomplice. So maybe from now on, all officers should be charged. Let's make that part of a reform.

    • @marystephens765
      @marystephens765 3 года назад +13

      Exactly!

    • @thecalmbro
      @thecalmbro 3 года назад +15

      Oh yeah, the blue wall of silence is completely inverse to the foundational principles of the justice system. Not to mention how the judges are involved in this. Oh also the green wall of silence, aka the military version of the same thing. Look up eddie gallagher as an example of that, one of many.

    • @socorrocbenitez
      @socorrocbenitez 3 года назад +9

      Cops that are called for backup or are also at the scene should definitely be charged as an accomplice. I totally agree. Now after chauvin is convicted let's bring in the other officers at the scene holding him down and convict them as well. It's time for accountability.

    • @jspain7690
      @jspain7690 3 года назад +8

      @@OO-nb2kt I hope you are not implying that cops or anyone will not lie because they are “under oath”. That's simply false and has been proven many times. The blue wall absolutely exists, I'll explain why. When your a cop, military, firefighter, etc... In those high-risk jobs, you get a mindset that is your team versus the world. “No one will have your back but the guy next to you” was routinely mentioned. Don't anger said guy, they might not be there to have your back when you need them most. Not including you are usually spending more time with your coworkers than you are with your actual family, going through much harder situations that most people can not relate to. This creates the perfect environment to force people to decide between doing what is considered more right and doing what's easier for personal reasons or safety. Also take into account that these are high-risk and pressured jobs, just like any employment people will mess up. There is a difference between a bad call, and a blatant action though. Just food for thought.

    • @whysocurious7366
      @whysocurious7366 3 года назад +5

      @@OO-nb2kt you can get in more trouble with law enforcement for snitching on them than you can for perjury, especially if you have law enforcement on your side to prevent you from being arrested/ tried/ found guilty of perjury..

  • @arain764niara
    @arain764niara 3 года назад +45

    Scape goat so people won't look closely at the department

    • @vincea1830
      @vincea1830 3 года назад +3

      It is an infamously racist and corrupt department.
      There is an insanely low bar for cops to be hired onto the Minneapolis PD, 1 YEAR of training/school and you get to carry a gun around and be the ultimate level of authority in a city of 300,000

  • @kristinLB
    @kristinLB 3 года назад +25

    This trial has been hard to watch. I’ve cried a few times for George, and so e of the bystanders. The prosecution has been good, and so far the defense is weak. I’m afraid of what kind of BS the defense will bring up for their case. I hope George, his family, and black folks all over this country get justice!

    • @KParks
      @KParks 3 года назад

      Have you actually been watching or have you been watching the small updates on TV from what I’ve seen the Defense has been doing great and at this point I wouldn’t be surprised if he walks.

    • @kristinLB
      @kristinLB 3 года назад +1

      @@KParks I’ve watched every second of this trial and the prosecution has everything on its side. Truth, facts, massive amounts of video, The countries BEST most respected experts, and incredible lawyers. The defense is trying to do one thing. Put George on trial. Today’s “expert” witness for the defense was a joke. Oh and the police chief and several officers testifying against chauvin.

    • @KParks
      @KParks 3 года назад

      @@kristinLB You had several experts for the prosecution say it couldn't of been a overdose because fentanyl would make you pass out/fall asleep ect and a friend of george testified that she was in the car and he was passed out asleep and and couldn't wake up right before this all went down. I think the defense has done a pretty good job of raising doubt. From what I've seen so far I'd be shocked if he gets convicted.

  • @thomasorth-hall4738
    @thomasorth-hall4738 3 года назад +7

    Everyone can learn something from the narrator of this video. She was unbiased, well spoken and non-volitile in her presentation of the facts. I think a lot of people would feel more compelled to listen to one another if they had the same poise and etiquette that she has. Very well done!

  • @lynxjackson2779
    @lynxjackson2779 3 года назад +53

    The good guys are tired of the bad guys giving them a bad reputation

    • @TavaraTheLaughingLion
      @TavaraTheLaughingLion 3 года назад +8

      There aren't enough good guys to save their reputation anyway, else they would've stepped up a long time ago.

    • @merrymerry8495
      @merrymerry8495 3 года назад +4

      There are no good cops in a racist system

  • @kevinallen5345
    @kevinallen5345 3 года назад +75

    Well let it crumble!

  • @deli5194
    @deli5194 3 года назад +51

    There was just no way for them to get outta this with their reputation intact so theyre trying to salvage it and distance themselves from him. the wall is still up, but this is progress

  • @Dustyphoto915
    @Dustyphoto915 3 года назад +3

    Imagine a nation so used to law enforcement lying in court that this is noteworthy.

  • @akaya714
    @akaya714 3 года назад +113

    Pretty sure they don’t have a choice.. this only gives them a Pat on the back for doing what they should have done and was preventable death.

    • @sreejithsubhash7301
      @sreejithsubhash7301 3 года назад +1

      Yeah if he didn't overdose on fetyl, Floyd might have been alive

    • @morbidlyoppressed9038
      @morbidlyoppressed9038 3 года назад +2

      When the police kill someone it’s always the polices fault. When a bad guy kills someone it’s the guns fault

    • @lilkidd8936
      @lilkidd8936 3 года назад +7

      @@morbidlyoppressed9038 You're right, the police shouldn't have guns either.

    • @airdrighmor1439
      @airdrighmor1439 3 года назад +6

      @@sreejithsubhash7301 good thing an expert said the drugs were beginning to metabolize and an od was highly unlikely.
      That narrative is old and tired.

    • @artisticcannibalism1350
      @artisticcannibalism1350 3 года назад +7

      @@sreejithsubhash7301 He would definitely still be alive if Chauvin hadn't stood on his neck for 9 minutes AFTER they had already cuffed him.

  • @russhall1414
    @russhall1414 3 года назад +141

    I saw the videos, no doubt in my mind. Hope Chauvin is put away for a long time.

    • @brett8460
      @brett8460 3 года назад +18

      I saw the video at least 6 times since the duration of the trial. I always mute the video because it makes me sick to my stomach hearing George calling for his mom.

    • @majorbelov
      @majorbelov 3 года назад +4

      @@brett8460 "Mamma" was not his mom, it was his girlfriend. She testified on the stand and confirmed this.

    • @dustine.4151
      @dustine.4151 3 года назад +4

      It's so sad to see overdose in this country.Its to bad he couldn't have gotten drug counseling

    • @majorbelov
      @majorbelov 3 года назад +2

      @Mr. H Dr Lindsey Thomas, the prosecution's witness, said it looked like, "Heart failure" and if not that it looked like, "Drug overdose". Floyd had both of those: a heart problem and 3x the lethal dose of Fentanyl in his body.

    • @adashelton
      @adashelton 3 года назад +5

      @@majorbelov Mr. Floyd was near death and he knew it. I believe he was calling out for his REAL MAMA. Mama is who you call on growing up when you hurt and sick, and George Floyd was being MURDERED!!! Chauvin was killing him who to say he didn't see his deceased mother.

  • @HighAsHeckPriestess
    @HighAsHeckPriestess 3 года назад +27

    How can they not tell the truth? It's not like everyone with internet didn't see the evidence play out in real time already

    • @celticcheetah6371
      @celticcheetah6371 3 года назад +1

      Social media causes a lot of hurt, but this great service outweighs that, I think.

    • @pablocabeza7959
      @pablocabeza7959 3 года назад

      Yeah of course we all saw it. But we didn't know he was out of his mind on drugs too.

    • @tdotson1907
      @tdotson1907 3 года назад +3

      @@pablocabeza7959 you still dont kneel on a person kneck that outweighs any excuse.Its common sense you dont need to be a doctor.

    • @Sotryn_Fox
      @Sotryn_Fox 3 года назад

      Yeah but people still deny it because they hate this man or they're so caught up on their little cult of personality they can't tell what reality is anymore.

  • @chelbelle773
    @chelbelle773 3 года назад +13

    “This isn't how we are trained”- except if you look at their training manual...

    • @justcomments
      @justcomments 3 года назад

      Yep they’re not covering for one person, but still covering for others...

    • @samthompson3714
      @samthompson3714 3 года назад

      It genuinely isn't though... there are ways to hold down a suspect who is resisting and this was not one. Specifically because of how it can impact the suspect. Also the suspect needs to be resisting for an officer to need to be restraining them which Floyd was not so twice he broke training protocol. Show me where what he did appears in training manuals, please.

  • @user-ux7yg2ch6i
    @user-ux7yg2ch6i 3 года назад +54

    Putting a knee on a neck for ANY amount of time can cause a serious injury or death.

    • @paruhblgen4222
      @paruhblgen4222 3 года назад +4

      Firing shots kills even faster, instantly. Why then knowing this police carry firearms??

    • @user-ux7yg2ch6i
      @user-ux7yg2ch6i 3 года назад +17

      @@paruhblgen4222 Because America is a stupid place and there are guns everywhere. The police don't carry guns in the UK.

    • @happytimeharry363
      @happytimeharry363 3 года назад +7

      @funky chipmunk ,...whenever there is a stabbing in the UK, our gun worshipers line up to say, "See? If they had guns, this would not have happened." Meanwhile, there was a mass shooting in Texas yesterday, where they have open carry. Our educational system is very poor, and much of our populous is highly suggestible. Brain-washable. They call us, the sheep.

    • @anatomicallycorrectmuppets8180
      @anatomicallycorrectmuppets8180 3 года назад +1

      @@paruhblgen4222 agreed. We need to disarm our country

    • @whysocurious7366
      @whysocurious7366 3 года назад

      Black Lives Matter

  • @csurams84
    @csurams84 3 года назад +97

    Finally... Hope this becomes a new thing.

    • @debo2189
      @debo2189 3 года назад +4

      He's been made a sacrifice, a scapegoat, and this is ONLY happening because of worldwide pressure witnessing the case... They're doing it to 'save their faces' in front of the world... Had it been NOT trending, it would've never been the case....Ahmaud Arbery was caught on camera AND the video sent to the police... The arrests only happened MONTHS LATER only after the video started trending.... So having video evidence isn't enough against cops/ex-cops, it must gain national attention

  • @bobbybrown1389
    @bobbybrown1389 3 года назад +21

    Yes the blue wall is willing to Sacrifice one of their own for fear of a bigger situation occurring once all this passes back to business

  • @azureblu5683
    @azureblu5683 3 года назад +4

    💞💞 sending love and hope to all that are holding this officer accountable and to the families, friends, witnesses who spoke up

  • @reddawn2031
    @reddawn2031 3 года назад +61

    The pain in her eyes makes me so very sad.

    • @alisonrain3527
      @alisonrain3527 3 года назад +1

      You are so right, and she showed great courage and strength, thank God.

    • @morbidlyoppressed9038
      @morbidlyoppressed9038 3 года назад +1

      Crazy that When the police kill someone it’s always the polices fault. When a bad guy kills someone it’s the guns fault

    • @morbidlyoppressed9038
      @morbidlyoppressed9038 3 года назад

      @@alisonrain3527 wow When the police kill someone it’s always the polices fault. When a bad guy kills someone it’s the guns fault

    • @ecclesiastesThreeVerseSeven
      @ecclesiastesThreeVerseSeven 3 года назад

      This video is edited if you watch the trial the chief himself agreed with the defense that chauvin knee was on flyods shoulder..

    • @ecclesiastesThreeVerseSeven
      @ecclesiastesThreeVerseSeven 3 года назад

      What happens to the two black girls that just killed the the uber driver... where the justice in that? They were released without any consequences

  • @jeffrowisdabest
    @jeffrowisdabest 3 года назад +32

    This is just a crack in the wall, but it's something. I hope it leads to the whole thing coming down like when a dam bursts.

  • @antgal9467
    @antgal9467 3 года назад +15

    The blue wall didn't break, they placed explosives at the wall. They decided last year to sacrifice him to preserve others. He's just a sacrificial lamb...

  • @hiymecorp.258
    @hiymecorp.258 3 года назад +6

    It’s not a collapse when they are saying all of this in a court room. That was supposed to be brought up by them that same day it happen.

  • @jeremyanderson3819
    @jeremyanderson3819 3 года назад +25

    I love how EVERYONE is recognizing that there is a blue wall of silence the first time it ISNT a barrier to justice.

    • @adashelton
      @adashelton 3 года назад +1

      Right!!!

    • @soulEATERofcookies
      @soulEATERofcookies 3 года назад

      How so? Are you saying that if an officer is being unlawful other police officers should stay quiet? Because that’s definitely what I would call a barrier to justice.

  • @toryshropshire5396
    @toryshropshire5396 3 года назад +14

    Damage control is what I call it. Slight of hand

  • @bartwilson2513
    @bartwilson2513 3 года назад +2

    I don’t understand: They are under oath; Lying isn’t supposed to be an option. They don’t get any bonus points.

  • @fireskycam9889
    @fireskycam9889 3 года назад +3

    They know they have to speak up because they know there's no way to defend it.

  • @midnightnavigator
    @midnightnavigator 3 года назад +10

    It's just because they know they can't defend it this time. If it didn't blow up and start a movement they would have defended him 100%. I think that's why Derek was so calm and casual during the whole thing.

  • @wufspyder
    @wufspyder 3 года назад +4

    If there weren't video of it? There would be no outcry of the injustice of it.

  • @Dornatum
    @Dornatum 3 года назад +3

    Why is this still going on? Takes too long to convict a suspect caught on camera with overwhelming testimony.

    • @walsh9354
      @walsh9354 3 года назад

      Because he had so many drugs in his his system & underlying health issues. Stated he couldn’t breathe inside the police car. A knee to the neck doesn’t cause cardiac arrest. We need to hear from multiple doctors what caused the cardiac arrest

  • @ginnashupper725
    @ginnashupper725 3 года назад +1

    I pray for protection around these people who live in the community that have stepped up and testified. Very brave❤🙏

  • @maryrose8478
    @maryrose8478 3 года назад +20

    An organisation that has that as part of their code of conduct is an untrustworthy organisation.

    • @AlexADalton
      @AlexADalton 3 года назад +2

      That isn't part of the code of conduct of any police department.

    • @devinspencer1678
      @devinspencer1678 3 года назад +3

      @Dan A heavily enforced unwritten rule, from what I understand

    • @AlexADalton
      @AlexADalton 3 года назад

      @Dan sure bud, but the point is it is not in the code of conduct lol. Unless of course you have no idea what the phrase means.

    • @carrieullrich5059
      @carrieullrich5059 3 года назад +2

      It does nicely counter the rotten apple myth, if one apple is bad and all the others are their accomplices in covering up mistakes and crimes, then they're all bad apples.

  • @skippss01
    @skippss01 3 года назад +6

    I'm not gonna congratulate people for doing the right thing when it should have been done all along.

    • @QuanBrown27
      @QuanBrown27 3 года назад

      - You right 🤷‍♂️👍!

  • @iradukundacynthia3038
    @iradukundacynthia3038 3 года назад +1

    Hoping that things can change despite the amount of time it will take which unfortunately is/will be longer!

  • @starcheese
    @starcheese 3 года назад +1

    Her statement is so on point, such an important message as we watch this unfold.

  • @joyridesham
    @joyridesham 3 года назад +17

    One Derek chauvin is on trail for many Derek chauvin's. Justice for floyd will hopefully stop many more Goarge Floyd's. But we have a long way to go and lot more hard work to do.

  • @jonwestergren3437
    @jonwestergren3437 3 года назад +14

    I was thinking that too but there's been other cases that had just as much attention as this taste it in the officer still paid no price there was no justice there was compensation but no justice
    It seems like America has confused compensation with Justice

  • @blackeyedsusan727
    @blackeyedsusan727 3 года назад +1

    Excellent video. Thank you for giving a platform to this expert to tell the truth. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

  • @thecarrow4728
    @thecarrow4728 3 года назад +2

    There shouldn't be ANY wall. Officers shouldn't be afraid to call out bad officers.

  • @silviaalicia7678
    @silviaalicia7678 3 года назад +10

    Great content thank you

  • @havefaith4358
    @havefaith4358 3 года назад +3

    This makes me a bit misty-eyed. I am so pleased and proud of these officers. We need more. Now! is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their city, state, and country!

    • @JohnWick-do6vv
      @JohnWick-do6vv 3 года назад

      Proud !! This is a basic requirement of Law enforcement They should not be praised for doing what is the basic fundamental requirement of their job !! And your Proud ??
      Just goes to show how the basic values of America / Americans no longer exists !!

  • @carriec7596
    @carriec7596 3 года назад

    Well said. I’m glad she pointed this out.

  • @rendellbaldwin8946
    @rendellbaldwin8946 3 года назад +1

    Thank you officers for taking a stand against wrongful behavior amongst themselves.

  • @LifeofMJGS
    @LifeofMJGS 3 года назад +4

    The funny thing is.... They left out the guy who said that the type of restraint used by Chauvin was actually trained

  • @Shadowjester1985
    @Shadowjester1985 3 года назад +3

    The blue wall isn't collapsing...it's more like a few bricks are being replaced. The blue wall of silence is well fortified.

  • @CJ-rd9oj
    @CJ-rd9oj 3 года назад

    That chief and the rest of the officers THANK YOU for standing up and saying something

  • @MsBdoll87
    @MsBdoll87 3 года назад +1

    This was good & informative! The attorney did a great job

  • @roberthatch6230
    @roberthatch6230 3 года назад +3

    In the department I worked for we were trained to intervene when you see a fellow officer start to lose control whether it be their professionalism or using too much force. Intervention saves law suits and possibly jobs . In this case the officer should have been pushed off and the suspect allowed to breath . Tell him Rigo take a walk then report it to a supervisor. A man would’ve had his life and the officer would’ve been disciplined accordingly . I truly believe there is no more wall of silence anymore based on new training and cameras .

  • @ViolentOrchid
    @ViolentOrchid 3 года назад +7

    26 times too late.

  • @haykay1626
    @haykay1626 3 года назад

    We need more of this.

  • @RoMoReJo
    @RoMoReJo 3 года назад

    Thanks for this clear view!

  • @kimberlysandiego3810
    @kimberlysandiego3810 3 года назад +9

    St. Louis could learn something from Minneapolis.

  • @Summer_Sunset15
    @Summer_Sunset15 3 года назад +3

    I’m in Canada and everyone I know is watching. Not just in Canada all over the world is right. People are looking to see how evil their going to be.

    • @exanthus9131
      @exanthus9131 3 года назад

      As a canadian myself, only the leftists go crazy

  • @mrroygaskin6046
    @mrroygaskin6046 3 года назад +1

    Thank you for this video 👍👍👍😘

  • @grateful9672
    @grateful9672 3 года назад +2

    If it wasn't caught on camera I could see where he'd be protected, but oh My not this time.

  • @rafflesssadiss8182
    @rafflesssadiss8182 3 года назад +3

    Change.....

  • @HobbesHobbiton
    @HobbesHobbiton 3 года назад +17

    Justice that comes at the cost of moving the world is not justice at all.

    • @nabinnyc
      @nabinnyc 3 года назад +1

      What do you mean?

    • @wreams2964
      @wreams2964 3 года назад

      Idk. The world ain’t exactly just as it is

  • @ssmythe61
    @ssmythe61 3 года назад

    Justice!!!

  • @benjiebenjamin7810
    @benjiebenjamin7810 3 года назад

    Very well stated.

  • @toniat8278
    @toniat8278 3 года назад +2

    The woman with the dark hair did not help the prosecution whatsoever! This is why she is going to be testifying for the defense this week. The defense attorney liked her so much, he requested she testify this week...

  • @kelleren4840
    @kelleren4840 3 года назад +10

    "One blue wall" is why US law enforcement is a humiliation to anyone who cares about honor and honesty.

  • @Mattlewis91
    @Mattlewis91 3 года назад

    I’ve never heard of the “blue wall of silence” before in my life

  • @nealgrant7727
    @nealgrant7727 3 года назад

    Wow 👍 Grate reporting thank you.

  • @Icewind007
    @Icewind007 3 года назад +10

    Good that it's collapsing, but I want to see it destroyed.

  • @smartalix5295
    @smartalix5295 3 года назад +3

    No! No more silence! It exists, and we'd be liars to deny it.

  • @BlackShogun1
    @BlackShogun1 2 года назад +1

    Can't say it's collapsing over one case ... please give me a Break...

  • @tierrapetersen4651
    @tierrapetersen4651 3 года назад

    I want to be a civil rights attorney like this woman.

  • @Victorblud
    @Victorblud 3 года назад +7

    Sadly, while it may be receiving damage it won't ever go away. Also, I hate when people think it's complicity that keeps good officers quiet. It's the threat of reprisals in a career where you have to depend on someone to potentially save your life. All it takes is someone deciding they don't want to respond to your call for backup as fast as they possibly could and you end up injured or worse. The worst part of it is, the people who leave you for dead just shrug it off and it never comes up.

    • @Jay-Niner
      @Jay-Niner 3 года назад +5

      All it takes is for politicians to enact laws that target corrupt cops and for a bit of a shakeup in the justice system to make sure that prosecutors do not hesitate to charge police officers. Once the laws are in place and two or three hesitant prosecutors lose their careers, heads will start rolling.
      The only problem there is that the politicians in America are also amongst the most corrupt of any developed country and getting them to do the right thing will be hard.

    • @jasminewheeler4465
      @jasminewheeler4465 3 года назад

      That’s absolutely awful.

  • @samuraijack1371
    @samuraijack1371 3 года назад +9

    Imagine this kind of work culture at a corporation. They would be fired the same day

    • @HarryS77
      @HarryS77 3 года назад

      Works for the mafia.

    • @722Moo
      @722Moo 3 года назад

      @Rusty Shackleford theyre all dead now though. That was over 200 years ago.

    • @722Moo
      @722Moo 3 года назад

      @@royr1016 no its not you have no proof lmao

  • @Popeyeschickenlover912
    @Popeyeschickenlover912 3 года назад +2

    Missed the part where the chief said his knee was on the shoulder blade! Mistrial.

  • @lundholmproduction
    @lundholmproduction 3 года назад

    Not speaking up is also to agree with wrong doing in any situation.

  • @jeremiahkerry
    @jeremiahkerry 3 года назад +5

    The ‘Blue wall of silence’ is Omerta! - A Mafia practise.

    • @ygamltd8212
      @ygamltd8212 3 года назад

      Lmao....the mafia tells more than anybody

    • @gabrielcarter4822
      @gabrielcarter4822 3 года назад

      Not really surprising as the mobs ran many police departments. The Irish Mob owned the Boston PD for years, the Mafia owned the police union in New York.

    • @jeremiahkerry
      @jeremiahkerry 3 года назад

      @@gabrielcarter4822 From experience, 1983. Public services Boston was subject to positive discrimination legislation like other US cities. However, the unions that are supposed to represent ALL members, drew up union deals with the employers that halted the promotion of black public servants for many years and because black employees were in the minority, still do. It was SO EASY. Promotion became based on length of service only and not intellect, capability or professionalism. So the newest recruit has to wait decades before getting to first base.

  • @HaRv3yD3nT
    @HaRv3yD3nT 3 года назад +2

    I'm pretty sure people know what will happen if he doesn't get convicted...and I'm more than sure they want to avoid that.

  • @SL-cr1ux
    @SL-cr1ux 3 года назад

    Just imagine if health care professionals behaved the same way. If a nurse or a doctor didn’t report a coworker for negligence.

  • @howard1beale
    @howard1beale 3 года назад

    What a great video. Thank you

  • @corruptgunslinger
    @corruptgunslinger 3 года назад +2

    At the most, they'll let this guy take the wrap, pat themselves on the back for doing the right thing, and then go right back to George Flloyding more people.

    • @exanthus9131
      @exanthus9131 3 года назад

      And then the people who hide in corners who killed david dorn are forgot of because it doesnt follow the left's narrative.

  • @SnoopCatts
    @SnoopCatts 3 года назад +9

    If you're voting this video down because you don't believe what she said, face it... You're just not a good human being. You're not a good person. Face that fact... And then take the appropriate action

    • @TheDavidcora
      @TheDavidcora 3 года назад +1

      That's your opinion

    • @SnoopCatts
      @SnoopCatts 3 года назад +1

      @@TheDavidcora it's just the FACT of the matter.

  • @durbdeedurb
    @durbdeedurb 3 года назад +1

    This isn't breaking the blue wall of silence, this is strategic self preservation!

  • @agenericbot
    @agenericbot 3 года назад

    *for this single instance* is an important distinction.