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Are any news organizations providing full courtroom coverage on this trial? I would really like to see the entire trial, including the deliberations at the bench between the prosecution & defense that are excluded from the jury.

In both the Kyle Rittenhouse & Derek Chauvin trials it was easy to put together a clearer picture, and see thru the prosecution's antics, when seeing the entirety of the trial. For example, Chauvin's defense wanted to call the drug dealer that was in the car with George Floyd to the stand to establish reasonable doubt regarding the proximate cause of Floyd's death (overdose by ingestion of fentanyl vs officers use of force). Since the prosecutor had already filed charges against the guy in the car but his trial date was still pending, they argued if called to the stand he would prejudice the jury in favor of the defense because he would merely respond "I plead the Fifth" to whatever questions the defense would ask since anything he said could hammer him during his own trial. Since the defense lawyer couldn't think of anything relevant to the case that wouldn't elicit a "Fifth Amendment" response from the witness (because anything relevant would likely implicate the guy in a crime), the judge ruled that guy couldn't be called as a witness in the Chauvin trial.

I would love to see what potentially exculpatory evidence is excluded from the jury's eyes/ears in SGT Perry's trial by a savvy, politically motivated prosecutor.

All I could find last night was a couple 1-2 minute clips of Foster's fiance/family/friends giving emotional testimony. Not really helpful in painting a real & unbiased picture.

C-dub wrote: ↑Sat Aug 01, 2020 7:56 pm Why the Sargent was there at that time is going to be of critical importance. I don't think he will be able to claim that he was just out for a drive and happened upon the protest. It is going to be a difficult path for him to navigate.

I politely disagree. He was lawfully present, driving on a public street, making a right hand turn at an intersection that just happened to coincide with a gaggle of people walking up to / through the intersection at about the same exact time.

Unfortunate timing, but I don't see anything that would suggest an unlawful presence or committing a crime.

PUCKER wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 11:18 am

Redneck_Buddha wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 10:17 am Forgot where I saw the new enlarged photo of the open carrier, but he has the stock raised to his shoulder with the rifle squarely pointed at the driver's side. No matter how the media is spinning things, they are going to have a hard time gaslighting this one.

I believe this is the photo (or one of them)....

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In this photo Foster clearly has the buttstock in his shoulder & at the low ready, however the muzzle appears to be pointed at the ground.

However, I'd add:

1. This snapshot is merely a still image of a single moment in time; he may have raised the muzzle the second after this photo was taken, or he may not have.

2. I can attest that it takes only a fraction of a second to go from low ready to engaging a target, especially at that close range.

3. And most importantly, I think any reasonable person in the same circumstances (or, who was surrounded by a mob beating on their car, and saw a young man approaching their stopped car with a rifle at the low ready) would reasonably believe they were in immediate jeopardy of death or serious bodily injury.

Link to what Ruark posted above.

www.kvue.com/amp/article/news/local/dow ... e4662f838e