SpecialOlympian wrote:No. They're expressing what the majority of people think: it's a good thing that a cop was held accountable for an unjustified murder. Hopefully this becomes the norm and not the exception.
Chauvin is a murderer. It doesn't take a genius to figure it out that putting your full body weight on someone's neck for 9 minutes will kill them. The entire world saw it, I don't know why this is so hard for you wrap your head around.
Oh I 100% agree he's guilty and is a murderer, that has nothing to do with my point, I'm just saying that a POTUS and VP coming out and saying so boldly their opinion on a court verdict in a homicide is extremely unusual if not unprecedented. I can't think of any other example from at least the last 20 years off the top of my head. I can't personally think of any other example ever, besides maybe a SCOTUS decision, like Gore/Bush in 2000, but that case directly affected the presidency itself.
They can show their support of the process, and urge for more police reform around the country etc, but it's just weird for a POTUS to publicly make an opinion on whether a specific verdict is right/wrong. Anyways, whatevs.