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<blockquote data-quote="El Correcto" data-source="post: 4838500" data-attributes="member: 60631"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.twincities.com/2020/07/19/the-quiet-life-of-derek-chauvin-before-the-public-death-of-george-floyd/[/URL]</p><p>“He was awkward. Other officers often didn’t like him or didn’t know him. He didn’t go to parties and didn’t seem to have many friends. Some neighbors knew so little about him that they didn’t even know he was a police officer until after his arrest. Even his wife of 10 years, a Hmong refugee and real estate agent, ended up estranged: Days after Floyd’s death, she filed for divorce and asked to change her last name.</p><p></p><p>Chauvin always wanted action. He continued to pound the streets in one of Minneapolis’s busiest precincts on its hardest shift, 4 p.m. to 2 a.m., long after many others his age moved to desk jobs or the day shift.</p><p></p><p>That earned him kudos. He received two medals of commendation, for tackling an armed suspect and arresting an armed gang member. He also was awarded two medals of valor, after shooting a man wielding a sawed-off shotgun and subduing a domestic-violence suspect — whom he shot and wounded in the process.”</p><p>[ATTACH=full]335110[/ATTACH]</p><p>Was officer Chauvin a perfect individual, no. But who the hell is in this cesspool of humanity. He still didn’t deserve to get tossed under the bus in this show trial.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="El Correcto, post: 4838500, member: 60631"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.twincities.com/2020/07/19/the-quiet-life-of-derek-chauvin-before-the-public-death-of-george-floyd/[/URL] “He was awkward. Other officers often didn’t like him or didn’t know him. He didn’t go to parties and didn’t seem to have many friends. Some neighbors knew so little about him that they didn’t even know he was a police officer until after his arrest. Even his wife of 10 years, a Hmong refugee and real estate agent, ended up estranged: Days after Floyd’s death, she filed for divorce and asked to change her last name. Chauvin always wanted action. He continued to pound the streets in one of Minneapolis’s busiest precincts on its hardest shift, 4 p.m. to 2 a.m., long after many others his age moved to desk jobs or the day shift. That earned him kudos. He received two medals of commendation, for tackling an armed suspect and arresting an armed gang member. He also was awarded two medals of valor, after shooting a man wielding a sawed-off shotgun and subduing a domestic-violence suspect — whom he shot and wounded in the process.” [ATTACH type="full"]335110[/ATTACH] Was officer Chauvin a perfect individual, no. But who the hell is in this cesspool of humanity. He still didn’t deserve to get tossed under the bus in this show trial. [/QUOTE]
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