What probably wasn't mentioned is that the jury can ignore any such directions. Jury nullification is a contentious issue, but as far as I know it still exists in USA law.
I know for a fact it exists in UK law today, but I also believe it exists in US law. The bottom line is that Jurors can pick guilty or not guilty, they do not have to justify their answers and they cannot ever be prosecuted or held liable for their decision, so they can believe someone to be guilty by the strict definition of the law and the circumstances but then vote not-guilty (or vice versa). So you can nullify the effect of a law if sufficient number of jurors basically think the law itself is unjust.
More evidence of corporate media deceptions/lies:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...rump-call-Georgia-elections-investigator.html
If he is found not guilty, regardless of the evidence, the media will simply incite more violence on the streets while calling it mostly peaceful protest. They are pushing propaganda, not journalism.
The media coverage in the US has become increasingly polarized and bias, and the public's trust in media is at an all time low, as is true in the UK as well. I think it's largely that citizen journalism such as real live streaming from peoples phones or cameras can be watched before journalists even turn up and they'll trend on social media and places like youtube. And you have alternative media online that are exposing a lot of the bias. These are kind of death throws of classic media to remain relevant by stoking the fire of outrage and produce "click bait" like material. I'm hoping the cabal of traditional "TV" and "TV media" dies in the next few decades and is replaced largely by online media presence. Clips taken by traditional MSM were always out of context where as I can go onto youtube and watch some alternative media dude I've never even heard of just dive into the middle of the riots with a camera and battery pack and record like 6 hours of unedited footage adn you can just watch large chunks of that on 2x speed and get a feel for what is really happening outside of any kind of selective editing.
Half of the MSM would have you believe the riots are brave people standing up to their oppressors and it means we should consider why they're doing it and look at reform and all this kind of stuff. Where as actually groups like the Sunrise project a black lives matter group had their zoom calls leaked where they were talking about arson being a legitimate form of protest against their oppressors. And the alternative media showing you raging fires as stores burn to the ground.
I haven't watched the footage yet but from what people are saying, the "I can't breathe" comment first happened before he was placed on the ground? Was he restrained of did he have anything around his neck at this point?
If not, this shows just how much control the media have over people. Paying attention to THAT as a takeaway is far more important than some potentially-misguided anti-racism movement.
He says he can't breath before he's physically restrained in any way. The clip the media circulated lacks the full context and so shows the cops in a purely a bad light. The full context reveals 2 important things, first of which the cops made a decent effort to resolve it all peacefully and that it was Floyds constant refusal to cooperate and physically fighting back that lead to force being used in the first place. And second that his health conditions prior to being restrained were obvious, he was obviously erratic due to drug use and had problems breathing. Both will be addressed and be taken into consideration in the trial I have no doubt, where many in the public remain ignorant of this and that divide between how justice is carried out and how media portrays things is going to cause a rift between people that divides them and leads to more anger, resentment and ultimately violence.
You can lean either way on the trial and what you think a correct outcome ought to be, but I think there must be one thing we can surely all agree on here, and that's the media handled this terribly, that their misrepresentation of this could very likely be deliberate for the sake of causing more outrage and thus views/clicks. And that's not good. A man died that day but the resulting chaos killed at least 25 other people across the country due to the riots, and no one gives a s*** about them people. Because you're not told by the MSM to care, because it's not pushed in your face 24/7
