This is the Tom Harbin Program.

And welcome back here on the Tom Harbin Program.

Just in the news, George Floyd's family just got a $27 million settlement from the city

of Minneapolis.

The jury selection in that trial continues with some very, very bizarre questions.

But the good news in terms of the probability of Mr. Chauvin, Derek Chauvin, I think

is his name.

Being held responsible for the murder of George Floyd is that the prosecution has successfully

introduced a third-degree murder charge as well.

Sometimes it's really hard to convict not just a police officer, but anybody of first-degree

murder, premeditated murder, where somebody thought, okay, I'm going to kill this person,

now I'm going to take this action and then they take the action and then they kill them.

In particular, because this knee on the neck thing is widespread practice among police

departments around the United States.

And so they figured, okay, if the jury says, well, he didn't intend to kill him, he just

intended to incapacitate him and he kept his knee on the neck a little too long.

You know, he wasn't paying attention at the time or if that's the kind of argument that

they're going to make, then the backup is, okay, then convict him with a third-degree

murder, which is, you know, like if you're texting while driving or you're drunk while

driving and you kill somebody, you still go to prison for a long, long, long time.

So the prosecution is actually celebrating that, that they've got that in and the defense

is very upset about it.

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