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I went to Law School at the University of Minnesota, so this is the state where I learned how these things work. First degree murder means you intended to hurt someone and they died. You don& #39;t have to want to kill them, if you intentionally punch someone and they die, 1st degree. https://twitter.com/akinmnsci/status/1266435749408387075">https://twitter.com/akinmnsci...
Second degree is when you are in a justifiably "excited state" and aren& #39;t thinking right. The two big examples are a) finding your spouse fucking someone else and killing one of them "crime of passion" style, or when you& #39;re justifiably defending yourself against NON-lethal force
and end up killing the other party. So another party starts a bar fight, you defend yourself, and you end up killing them, that& #39;s 2nd degree. Usually police force is generously seen as some form of self-defense.
3rd deg murder is "Depraved Heart" or manslaughter plus. Manslaughter is when you kill someone through negligence, like bad driving. 3rd deg is shooting a machine gun into the darkness, or getting so drunk and driving so fast you& #39;re probably gonna kill someone.
The problem here is that Chauvin new he was applying force to Floyd. 3rd degree is for situations when you& #39;re doing something really stupid into the void and someone gets in the way. If you are knowingly, willfully applying force to someone, it& #39;s 1st or 2nd degree murder.
knew, sorry.
The County Attorney keeps comparing this to the Noor case from a few years ago, but in that case the (black) officer shot into the darkness at something he couldn& #39;t see. That is the definition of third degree, and it& #39;s what he was convicted of.
America has a very long history of using second degree murder and justifiable self defense to make murdering black people more legal than killing white people.
