The plot thickens…
If Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison isn’t panicking yet, he is almost certainly beginning to sweat as the prosecution struggles to make the case that Derek Chauvin is guilty of murder.
The former DNC co-chair and acolyte of Nation Of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has staked his political career on lynching the former Minneapolis cop who is accused of ruthlessly killing petty criminal and drug addict George Floyd and after four days of testimony, the state has yet to land the decisive body blow that the mob is clamoring for.
One potential problem for Ellison may have been solved with the refusal of one Morries Lester Hall to testify. The man who was in the vehicle with Floyd at the time of the fateful encounter will refuse to testify, invoking his rights under the Fifth Amendment which is a reversal from when he sang a different tune to the New York Times in a story that was published last June.
According to the Times, Hall said that “I know that I’m going to be his voice” and now that voice has clammed up. Hall is also quoted by the Times as saying: I’m a key witness to the cops murdering George Floyd, and they want to know my side. Whatever I’ve been through, it’s all over with now. It’s not about me.”
Key witness in George Floyd trial who was in the car with him refuses to testify: Morries Lester Hall had outstanding warrants for his arrest on felony possession of a firearm, felony domestic assault and felony drug possession. Daily Mail Online https://t.co/9KXXGjJZYy
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Via The Daily Mail:
A key state witness has refused to testify in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Morries Lester Hall, 42, was in the car with George Floyd, 46, on the day of his death.
He has spoken publicly in the months since the incident outside Cup Foods and has consistently claimed that Floyd did not resist arrest and that he himself attempted to diffuse the situation.
But in a surprise move Hall, who is on the State’s witness list, filed a motion with Hennepin County District Court late Wednesday evening in which he gave notice that he would plead the Fifth if called upon to testify by either side.
Hall’s decision came at the end of the third day in Chauvin’s trial, which saw the jurors shown previously-unseen footage of Chauvin with his hands around Floyd’s neck, trying to wrestle him into a patrol car.
Hall was far from co-operative at the outset of the investigation into Floyd’s death.
He had outstanding warrants for his arrest on felony possession of a firearm, felony domestic assault and felony drug possession at the time of Floyd’s death.
He gave a false name at the time, and then left the city two days after Floyd died, and hitch-hiked to Houston, The New York Times reported.
Agents of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension attempted to contact Hall numerous times to no avail.
He was tracked down to Houston and arrested, spending a night in jail following questioning.
Mr. Hall’s choice to take the fifth comes the day after a previously unreleased video from Cup Foods showed Floyd acting as if he was stoned out of his gourd – which he was – and also that Hall was in the car when the deceased went back after passing the counterfeit $20 bill that set the chain of events into motion.
It is only speculation but who better than Hall to deliver testimony on Floyd’s physical and mental state and whether he may have had difficulty breathing before the police arrived. Floyd also was infected with COVID at the time of his death, not a good mix with fentanyl.
The trial continues today…
