Welp...We have Accountability...

 in respect of the Chauvin verdict, but I take no joy in it.

My concern is, that we've set a precedent, maybe a very very difficult precedent in that now it is at least theoretically possible to convict a US Police Officer of brutality/homicide only if you have nine minutes of close up video footage with clear audio, multiple witnesses, first responders willing to buck the Blue Wall and or Police Willing to Testify on the record.

The next time (and there have been dozens more since then) will not have nearly as much evidence to tip the scales of justice, and therein lies the problem the bar has at last been set, about a mile above sea level. The fact that it worked in the George Floyd murder case obscures slightly that the standards are so high we may not see them again successfully invoked for another decade.

Meanwhile, thanks to Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs and then George Bush's War on Terror, the Police in this country have basically become Light Mechanized Infantry, so it should come as no surprise they react like Light Mechanized Infantry, shooting first and or last and then asking questions. We got here because the US Public Fears Crime Like a Vampire Fears the Crucifix, We Got Here Because Nobody wants to admit the Police have a In Culture Race Issue and We Got Here Because No One Wants to Discuss These Issues Honestly.

The GOP equates questioning police tactics with treason and the democrats are institutionally inhibited from antagonizing a public sector union, so in reality, no one is in charge, except of course a police culture we can't trust, a mission statement that emphasizes force over sense and all the ammunition and heavy weaponry in the world short of the First Armored Division.