Of course. They all will, including the dozen or so deaths that have been caused by a week of every city in the country burning, not to mention all of the deaths that will happen as a result of unemployment, hopelessness, depression, and crimes of opportunity that will occur between now and when the country returns to pre-COVID levels of employment.
This is precisely the point I tried to make a week ago or so that was misinterpreted as me defending the actions of Mr. Chavin. Thanks, Rip, for doing the heavy lifting (pun) for me and laying out exactly why he'll walk, as unfortunate as this outcome is. To answer your question about the other three dickheads--they also walk, of course. And the nationwide reaction to this outcome, 9 months to a year from now when unemployment is twice what it currently is and a million other unspeakable tragedies have beset the nation as a result, will pale in comparison to the current situation. His family will cry at the delivery of the verdict and that picture might make the bottom half of the front page and that will be it--no looting, no riots, no protests, nada. Recent history has unfortunately provided waaaaay too many examples to support the likelihood of this outcome.
Furthermore, Yyou all will be forgiven for not immediately seeing through the farce of Mr. Ellison's actions in amending the charges and arresting the other officers because you haven't lived in Minnesota. I lived there when Mr. Ellison was in the house of representatives for the district I lived in in MN. He is a callous, calculating, cold-blooded politician just like the rest of them. He only does things that he expects will contribute to the longevity of his career as a leech on the income of the people. In his defense, he is a very capable attorney, and were he acting on his attorney's instincts rather than his political ones, he would not have gone so blatantly overboard with the charging of these assholes. He's made fighting the case a walk in the park for them because he doesn't actually care that they'll walk. He knows that in a year from now, when the verdict is read and they're all found innocent of all charges (lets not forget this is Minneapolis, after all) that nobody will care. In the meantime, he can still tout how he was 'brave enough' to step in and charge all four of them during a time of national crisis. As a bonus, for now, he saves face with the black community that already hates him and gets to parlay this 'favor' he did to other politicians somewhere down the line when he reminds them that he single-handedly ended the rioting and looting nationwide by bringing trumped-up charges and a show trial to 4 murderers.
No, no its not. This is why I can't read the journals anymore, especially the ones in the social sciences. Everything about every single premise is wrong; namely those who have a greater trust in science inherently have greater trust in scientists. They DO NOT, precisely because those that have actually practised the scientific method know how easy it is to get wrong and how easy it is to fuck-up, intentionally or otherwise (ask Stef about this...). Also, they excluded education as a factor because it would have rendered their whole hypothesis DOA (see the previous sentence for exactly why). Just no--no all around. This paradigm shift actually occured in the 80s with the proliferation of post-modernism and this horseshit paper is more of the same.