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MAGA is pushing a pardon for George Floyd murderer Derek Chauvin (www.independent.co.uk)

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Trump previously said Americans were ‘rightly sickened’ by Chauvin’s conduct

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[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

a federal pardon only moves him from a (relatively) safe federal institution out-of-state, back home to minnesota--and a potentially much more hostile environment, to serve out his longer state sentence (and iirc, scotus has already rejected an appeal of state conviction)