Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Says He ‘Felt A Little Bad’ For Derek Chauvin
#Socialites, get a load of this: The lead prosecutor in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial recently did an interview and admitted that he actually“felt a little bad” for the convicted former Minneapolis police officer.
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While appearing on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison was asked about his reaction when the jury came back with three guilty verdicts in the high-profile case last week.
He explained that he felt, “Gratitude — humility — followed by a certain sense of, I’ll say satisfaction. It’s what we were aiming for the whole time,” the New York Post quotes. He went on to say, “I spent 16 years as a criminal defense lawyer, so, I will admit, I felt a little bad for the defendant,” Ellison added. “I think he deserved to be convicted. But he’s a human being.”
Before concluding he said, “I hope we never forget that people who are defendants in our criminal justice system, that they’re human beings,” he told the outlet. “They’re people. I mean, George Floyd was a human being. And so I’m not going to ever forget that everybody in this process is a person.”
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