Who needs a trial when we have Twitter?

Chelsea Handler has some ideas about criminal justice reform.

In Back to the Future II, we learn that in the far-off year of 2015, criminal trials only take a few minutes because lawyers have been banned.

I wonder if Chelsea Handler, whom I understand to be famous though I’m not sure why, thought it was a documentary or something:

It’s not even the celebrity’s ignorant musings that offend me so much as the hundreds of trained seals in the responses agreeing with her, confident that a world of mob justice will work out just peachy for marginalized people.

Here’s a statement that might offend you: the horrifying video of George Floyd’s death does not, by itself, prove that Chauvin’s actions actually caused that death. It strongly suggests as much - hence Chauvin’s arrest, detention and trial - but it is not absolute proof.

The video does not determine Chauvin’s state of mind, nor whether he intended to kill Floyd. It does not show what happened before the cameras were running, nor what happened after the cameras were turned off. It does not show wh…