I personally don’t understand how 2nd-degree and 3rd-degree murder applied here. I think the case for manslaughter was stronger, and a guilty verdict on that front is defensible. I’m sure there will be plenty of discussion on that in the near future, including the coming appeal.
Regardless, as per our usual arrangement, Democrat politicians have to try to make political hay of an issue being the narcissistic figures that they are. One of those politicians is Nancy Pelosi.
To reiterate the context of the clip I’m about to show you, the jury found that George Floyd was murdered. Therefore Nancy Pelosi, in all her glory, literally went out today and thanked Floyd for being murdered in order to advance her political narratives about social justice.
You expect politicians to be like this, but sometimes the things they say still jar you. This is one of those times. Floyd did not choose to sacrifice his life, as Pelosi says. In fact, I’m pretty certain, if he were given the choice, he’d choose to still be alive right now. These tortured attempts to turn him into a quasi-religious martyr, choosing death for the greater good of social justice, are not just cringy, but they are pretty gross on a human level.