I've just done a little research and found some stuff I was unaware off, seems Chauvin was not the model police officer the RWNJ here make him out to be.
Chauvin had 18 complaints on his official record, two of which ended in discipline, specifically letters of reprimand.
On October 29, 2006, Chauvin was one of six officers who opened fire on Wayne Reyes after he reportedly stabbed his girlfriend and a friend and fled in his truck. Police shot 43 rounds in four seconds. Reyes was a member of the Leech Lake Ojibwe Band. The officers were placed on administrative leave for one week; a grand jury in 2007 decided against charging any of the officers, determining that the police use of force in the case was justified.
On May 24, 2008, Chauvin was responding to a domestic violence call about 21-year-old black man Ira Latrell Toles by the mother of his baby. He broke down the bathroom door and nearly killed unarmed Toles by beating him with his pistol and then shooting him twice at close range after he allegedly reached for an officer's gun.
On August 8, 2011, Chauvin was involved in the shooting of 23-year-old Alaskan Native American man Leroy Martinez in the torso by fellow officer Terry Nutter. Eyewitness accounts contradicted the police's claim that Martinez was armed when he was shot. According to them and Martinez himself he had already dropped his gun and held his arms in the air but the police shot him nonetheless. The three officers returned to work after a standard three-day administrative leave. After investigating the incident, the then Minneapolis Police Chief Timothy Dolan stated that the police officers acted "appropriately and courageously".
On September 4, 2017, Chauvin was among officers responding to a complaint by the mother of two young children. Videos from the scene were said to show Chauvin hitting a 14-year-old black boy in the head with a flashlight so hard he required stitches, then holding him down with his knee for nearly 17 minutes, ignoring the boy's complaints that he could not breathe. Trying to avoid prejudice in the Floyd trial, the judge prohibited the prosecutors from raising the matter.
According to the former owner of El Nuevo Rodeo, a Latin nightclub where Chauvin had worked off duty as security while George Floyd was also working as security, but was not certain whether they knew each other. The owner has been critical of Chauvin since his arrest, describing Chauvin's tactics as "overkill" and saying "Chauvin was unnecessarily aggressive on nights when the club had a black clientele, quelling fights by dousing the crowd with pepper spray and calling in several police squad cars as backup".
In 2023, the City of Minneapolis agreed to pay almost $9 million to settle lawsuits brought against Chauvin by Zoya Code and John Pope Jr., black residents who both claimed that Chauvin "pressed his knee into their necks" in 2017, the same tactic that killed Floyd in 2020. According to a Minneapolis City Council announcement, Code and Pope were expected to receive $1.4 and $7.5 million, respectively.
So it would seem that had got away with reckless behaviour prior to the indecent with Floyd and was probably in the state of mind he could get away with it again. No doubt the RWNJ here will defend all of the above
I also read that Chavin was offered a plea deal that would have him plea guilty and get a 10 year sentence
So end of the day Chauvin was found guilty by a jury, he lost a appeal, tried to appeal to the SC but SC refused to take it up.
It is unfortunate that he got attacked in jail, he should have had better protection because an attack like that was foreseeable. But the is as far as my sympathy for him goes.
Not going to comment on this further, you RWNJ can rant and rave as much as you like but it's not going to change anything
Have a nice day
