Why I'm not cheering the Derek Chauvin verdict and why the two main themes of all the media coverage,

racism and police suppression were actually refuted both by the trial and by the jury.

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A lot of people are cheering wildly at the Derek Chauvin murder verdict.

Kabung, touchdown, big one, big win for our side. There's a sense of jubilation.

Here's the African-American columnist Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post. He goes,

Derek Chauvin's conviction shouldn't feel like a victory, but it does. Touchdown.

So you get the feeling here. And perhaps if you were to ask these guys, why are you cheering?

They would say that's the sweet sentiment of justice. So that I ask myself, I don't have that feeling.

My feeling is sober, almost somber. Why? Well, it's not because I think Chauvin is innocent, the trial proved that he did nothing wrong.

It's not that at all. In fact, when I going back now several months to when I first saw the video, my reaction was one of sort of almost uncontained fury.

And I said that publicly at the time. Interestingly, this is not a situation that produced some big ideological divide from the beginning.

What we saw on the videotape was in fact appalling. And the only question was, is that the full story? Was there other information left out?

And that's why you have a trial. That's why you have a jury. Now the reason that I am, although satisfied with the verdict,

it's very well quite possible that justice was done, but we don't know for sure. And why is that?

It's because of the mob atmosphere surrounding the trial. It was Abraham Lincoln who says, this isn't the Lycium address of 1830.

And there is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. I don't think we can deny that there were powerful mob elements here,

not just the crowd outside screaming and being, we better get the verdict. But powerful political figure showing up, egging on the mob.

Notably Maxine Waters. She goes up there. She basically says, we're expecting a guilty verdict. And if we don't get it, guys, go out there.

Be in their face. Stay on the street. Be more confrontational. In other words, cause more violence. That's almost a classic definition of incitement right there.

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