Shortly before the judge in the George Floyd trial read former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdicts, CNN Legal Analyst Laura Coates suggested an acquittal could be imminent.
“What’s concerning though is we have a Pavlovian response in America that when we have pending verdicts and you see buildings start to be boarded up and businesses start to close, that trust gap that’s already there, between our justice system and members of our community, it expands exponentially. Because, in their minds, they say, ‘You’re preparing me for an acquittal. You’re telling me if it’s boarded up, you anticipate my unrest, my wrath, you anticipate the evolution of a protest into looting and other things,'” she explained.
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