Joe Biden participated in the jury’s deliberations in the monumental trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Tuesday, suggesting that the evidence against the man accused of murdering George Floyd was “overwhelming.” Just hours after Judge Peter Cahill suggested Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) could have put a guilty verdict in danger of being appealed when she suggested protesters might need to “become more confrontational. “If the policeman had been released, the president would have joined the fight. Speaking to reporters in the oval office, Biden said he “knew George’s family” and spoke to them as they – and the world – wait to find out what will happen to the man accused in the murder that sparked the largest protest movement. in American history.
Noticing that he waited until the jurors were apprehended in order to avoid their inappropriate influence as a public figure, Biden made it clear where he was, without explicitly requesting a guilty verdict. “I pray that the verdict is the right verdict,” he said. “Which is … overwhelming in my opinion.” Chauvin, who was fired shortly after pressing his knee on the neck of Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, for more than nine minutes in Minneapolis last May, is charged with second-degree murder. , third-degree murder and murder. Closing arguments ended on Monday, and the jury resumed deliberations on Tuesday morning.