Civilized said:
The court system worked. The mob did not mete out justice, the court system did.
And, Chauvin's actions were a flash point for mass calls for racial justice and police accountability.
Both were true.
Masses of people demonstrating that they wanted justice in the courts both for this case and for police accountability in general does not mean that what transpired was mob justice.
I can find a DA to charge you with something that requires a jury and then apply pressure to the jury until they find you guilty of it. I wouldn't call that justice...even if you are guilty of whatever you were charged with.
The same thing happened here. There was a threat of violence by the mob if the jury didn't come back with a certain verdict. A mob applied undue pressure to a jury and they voted a certain way. I'm not saying that they would of come back differently if there had been no outside pressure because I don't know but I think it's silly to think that the jury didn't feel pressured to make a certain decision. Are we ok with that pressure being applied to other cases....I'm not