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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Wednesday, April 21st, 2021.

I'm John Puthhoritz, the editor of commentary magazine with me once again remotely executive editor Abringwald Hyab.

Hi John.

Associate editor Noah Rothman Hynoa.

Hi John.

And back from our technical disaster that made it impossible for us to have her on the podcast.

Yesterday, senior writer Christine Rose of Hyakristeem.

Hi John.

So the Derek Chauvin verdict came back three guilty verdicts.

And I am, I was ranting yesterday about how the behavior of Maxine Waters and Joe Biden and others, you know, was a, was an effect.

Was a violation of the idea that of eight centuries of common law that had people being judged by jury of their peers who heard the evidence under certain circumstances and made it and made a ruling.

That, you know, if you assume you want the verdict that you want and you don't get it that the jury is somehow, you know, that it delegitimizes the system and this was a terrible thing.

And I think it's very important in the wake of the verdict and frankly, some really kind of appalling rhetoric by people that I'm, you know, much more ideologically and sympathy with them than Maxine Waters.

This jury sat there. They, they listened to the evidence. They, they went through it.

It was there. They had a man's life in his future in their hands and they went into a jury room and they came up with a unanimous verdict in three different cases.

And the idea that we should then presume that they were doing so because they were afraid or because they were afraid of the mob or because they, you know, were being social justice worse.

Whatever it is that you want to say, I think that's really bad. I mean, you're, you're basically defaming these 12 people. You have no idea who they are what they, and, and, and this is the process. They, they did, they're, they did their civic obligation.

And, and from what we can tell beyond a reasonable amount, the prosecution made its case and it was very clear if you followed look we talked about it the week before that the defendant had a bad couple of days in the media weren't telling you about it or the prosecution had a bad couple of days in the media were telling you about it.

But clearly things turned around last week during the defense's case. They had their, their, their central witness was bad. It was not believable made a bunch of mistakes.

And they, and in the end, the prosecutor said, you saw the video, believe your own eyes and, you know, to believe that.

George Floyd wasn't killed by Derek Chauvin, you have to believe all sorts of things that are not in evidence and for which there is no forensic proof.

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