Talk:Derek Chauvin

Bias
"is an American former police officer who murdered George Floyd"

Strong words for a highly contested case that has strong evidence to the contrary, and a case deeply hampered by a desired political outcome. In the very least, the article should state that Derek was convicted of murder, not simply that he "murdered George Floyd". We know the courts sometimes seek out political outcomes and that their ultimate ruling does not represent what much of the public knows is to the contrary. 24.235.210.58 (talk) 05:13, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
 * The sources are unanimous on what happened. You claim it’s disputed but that’s simply not the case. Not even close. There’s a video of it so it wasn’t hard to verify. 25stargeneral (talk) 05:18, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is unanimous, for anyone capable of independent query, who doesn't take their idea of unanimity from old guard media.
 * What is also unanimous is the one party state rule of Wikipedia, apparent in the legion of locked articles by left wing "academics", almost immediate attempts at refutations, and reversions of my edits. Which is why many people have washed their hands of the whole thing, and you have increasingly dwindling right wing representation on this platform, and why I may only interact with the platform once a year, if only engaging in exercises of futility. But enjoy your echo chamber.
 * I know you're not supposed to impugn motives and try to be objective on here. but the time for that passed long ago for me, when I noticed the severe imbalance of power here.
 * Blood on your hands, you whole lot, of an innocent man. 24.235.210.58 (talk) 05:32, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
 * No injuries were found on Floyd consistent with the neck injury narrative. The coroner said as much, and was pressured politically to change their opinion. 24.235.210.58 (talk) 07:19, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
 * You'll never change their minds. It's not even worth trying. 2603:6000:A602:121D:7E09:BF15:32A3:B103 (talk) 01:35, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * All true. No asphixiation found in the autopsy. 2600:1014:A019:7A20:112F:FFDC:C831:B6E9 (talk) 04:07, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I miss when Wikipedia wasn't run with bias 2601:18C:600:7510:A2AE:3E0C:2CEE:151 (talk) 12:05, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree- 2600:1014:A019:7A20:112F:FFDC:C831:B6E9 (talk) 04:05, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I find this wiki ‘statement of fact’ also surprising. With the plethora of drugs in Floyd’s system and the known factors of some of these drugs to cause overdoses / death, I’m sure that the page should actually remove the “murdered” aspects and replace it with something less definitive. Convicted in the death of Floyd is a much better way to describe.
 * The coroners report / autopsy is readily available online for anyone who wishes to read it.
 * I firmly believe he wasn’t murdered but died as a result of drugs and the officers actions. 205.206.76.168 (talk) 16:27, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree, the article should say Chauvin was "convicted of murdering" rather than "murdered George Floyd". The reason is simple logic. Most criminal case decisions have the chance of two types of errors--false negatives and false positives. Therefore in general wikipedia should say things like "was convicted of murder" or "was convicted of child sexual abuse" or " was convicted of fraud" Academicskeptic9 (talk) 08:28, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. That is a factual and legal determined by a jury and court and the challenges to it have not succeeded. The only blood here is that shed by Mr. Floyd while a uniformed police officer ground his knee into the back and side of his victim's neck until that victim's heart and lungs stopped. Kablammo (talk) 11:31, 28 November 2023 (UTC)


 * I don’t think you know everything about that case at this point. See the new documentary, The Fall of Minneapolis.  Very revealing. 2600:1014:A019:7A20:112F:FFDC:C831:B6E9 (talk) 04:08, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
 * That is not how legal decisions are made--they are made on a reasonable doubt basis, and doubt in most cases never goes down to zero. A conviction or aquittal does not discover a fact (except the fact of conviction or aquittal). In other words, there are always possibilities of type 1 or type 2 errors. So wikipedia should not be writing "Depp is not guilty of assault" rather "Depp was found not guilty of assualt". If Chauvin is ever exonerated of murder, wiki should not then say "CHauvin did not murder Floyd"--it should say "Chauvin has the murder conviction overturned by..." And currently, wiki should not write "Chauvin murdered ...." it should say "Chauvin was convicted of murdering..."  This argument is AIRTIGHT. Academicskeptic9 (talk) 08:36, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Moreover, Chauvin disregarded his training and knew that his actions could kill someone. On June 23, 2020 Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said that Chauvin had been trained in the dangers of positional asphyxiation and characterized Floyd's death as murder.
 * "knew that his actions could kill someone" It seems that he went out of his way to kill, not just risking a death. Dimadick (talk) 15:04, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

The Chief said:
 * “Mr. George Floyd’s tragic death was not due to a lack of training — the training was there. Chauvin knew what he was doing.”
 * “The officers knew what was happening — one intentionally caused it and the others failed to prevent it. This was murder — it wasn’t a lack of training.”

Other factors in George Floyd's death
It should be noted in the Wikipedia article on the cause of the George Floyd's death that there were several factors that contributed to Floyd's death. According to an AP article, the medical examiner indicated that Floyd suffered from heart disease, hypertension, enlarged heart, plus fentanyl intoxication and methamphetamine use at the time of his death. Those factors along with the pressure on his neck from Officer Chauvin caused his death. 2600:1700:2E37:1C00:702F:BD3A:4C80:C525 (talk) 20:22, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Those details are covered at Murder of George Floyd, and that's not what they say. Both autopsies agreed that Floyd's heart stopped because Chauvin crushed his neck for upwards of nine minutes. One of the reports identified these other causes that made it more likely that Floyd's injury would be fatal, but Chauvin's restraint caused the fatal injury, and that's what's relevant to this article. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 21:00, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

43 or 23?
In the heading to Career: "He received a medal for valor in 2006 for being one of several officers who fired 23 shots on Wayne Reyes..."

But later on:

"On October 29, 2006, Chauvin was one of six officers who opened fire on Wayne Reyes, killing him, after he reportedly stabbed his girlfriend and a friend and fled in his truck.. Police shot 43 rounds in four seconds."

Which one?

Edited as initially ctrl + entered whilst incomplete by mistake. EPEAviator (talk) 14:47, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

First Sentence
The first sentence is grammatically incorrect ..he is a former American police officer..if you take away the word American the statement is still valid..if you take away the word former it is not...descriptors move from particular to general..just like in mathamatics and for the same reason Anonymous8206 (talk) 18:56, 7 June 2024 (UTC)


 * This is a debate I'd rather not get into, but I'll at least point out that those on the other side tend to say that "former American police officer" implies that Chauvin used to be American but is no longer. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 19:01, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I think he's still American. Brunton (talk) 19:09, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Which has nothing to do with anything..the statement is grammatically incorrect..he is a former police officer..his nationality is secondary to that Anonymous8206 (talk) 23:20, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 14 July 2024
Change the word "murder" to "kill" when not referring to names of criminal charges, in quotes, etc. PhantomSamurai97 (talk) 23:18, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template. PianoDan (talk) 17:31, 15 July 2024 (UTC)