A cogent, moving analysis. Well done.

But let's not forget that even should killer-cop Chauvin be convicted, there is also no guarantee that this judge, this white judge, will appropriately sentence him. The LaQuan McDonald case here in Chicago is...a recent case in point: The killer-cop who shot 17-year-old LaQuan 16 times at point black range as he walked away from him, got only 7 years, and will "serve" less than half of that in a "secured" facility (read: place where no blacks will have access to him).

So...watch this judge, too.

In any event, as you point out, the "system" has always been, in Trump's parlance, "rigged" against us and it is not going to change no matter what happens in this one case.