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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I don't think the AG will try him for murder because he is white policeman and he murdered in cold blood a black man, but if we lived in some Twilight Zone alternate world where policemen in the states where held accountable for murdering black men then the fact they knew each other would actually be damning and would almost certainly lead to a 1st or 2nd degree murder charge, and at this stage I have no doubt what so ever that he fully intended to cause harm, my only question at this stage is did he intend to kill him, I suspect he did.
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How is it damning? Knowing each other doesn't prove intent in any way at all, and it certainly doesn't prove premeditation, so a 1st degree charge would lose. He didn't immediately set out to kill him or he would have shot him, so a 2nd degree charge would lose.