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Why The Judge Is Dead Wrong About Maxine Waters
Judge Peter Cahill denied the motion for a mistrial during closing arguments in the Derek Chauvin trial, before the deliberation phase was activated. But Judge Cahill didn’t miss the opportunity to grant Chauvin’s defense attorney a righteous gift by acknowledging the source for the last-ditch effort to game the system on behalf of a murderous former cop.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters has never been shy about vocalizing her assessment when it comes to national emergencies that are a matter of life and death, and her recent statements regarding the high-stakes of a murder trial that had to deliver the only verdict that matches what the world witnessed nearly a year ago is exactly what we all needed to hear.
During her visit to Brooklyn Center in Minnesota, the monitored location where peaceful protesters and reporters are converged ahead of the highly-anticipated verdict, Waters simply spoke truth to power about what has to transpire if George Floyd’s cold-blooded killer is allowed to walk away from his crime.
“We’ve got to stay on the street and we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business.”
