{"id":5662,"date":"2021-04-21T18:03:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T22:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/?p=5662"},"modified":"2021-04-21T18:47:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T22:47:14","slug":"the-verdict-on-the-police-officer-derek-chauvin-a-useful-analogy-by-fritz-saint-macary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/?p=5662","title":{"rendered":"The verdict on the Police Officer Derek Chauvin, a useful analogy by Fritz Saint-Macary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The verdict on the Police Officer Derek Chauvin, a useful analogy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>by Fritz Saint-Macary<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As the whole world awaited today April 20, a verdict on the George Floyd killing that occurred a year ago has been rendered today. The Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin has been found guilty on three charges. As the Attorney General told us on CNN, at least the principle of accountability \u2014 if not of justice (retribution) \u2014 has been upheld. In addition, some hours earlier President Biden stated that \u201cIt\u2019s overwhelming;\u201d there is no doubt that he meant \u201cThe evidence is overwhelming.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Is there a useful analogy to science here? Yes, an equivalent in the judiciary field of a \u201cnull hypothesis,\u201d that is the \u201cpresumption of innocence\u201d \u2015 better known as \u201cinnocent until proven guilty\u201d \u2015 has just been rejected by a 12-member jury. Pursuing the science analogy, and on the basis of the guilty verdict on three counts rendered against Officer Chauvin, one can say that it is instead the \u201calternative hypothesis\u201d \u2014 I.e., the \u201cnot innocent\u201d hypothesis \u2014 that has been accepted in lieu of the \u201cnull hypothesis.\u201d Very likely, that guilty decision will be appealed, as this kind of counterclaim is also often made by scientists operating within the scientific process. Need I allude here to dialectics, to reminding the reader that we\u2019re witnessing a clash between a thesis (the Officer is innocent) and its antithesis (the Officer is guilty), a clash that may lead to a successful or to an aborted synthesis, whatever that synthesis is?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It\u2019s up to you, the reader, to decide! Whatever you conclude, whether you come up with a correct or an incorrect answer, it will nevertheless be a contributing step towards the search for that always elusive truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cet article est publi\u00e9 par l\u2019hebdomadaire Ha\u00efti-Observateur, \u00e9dition du 21 avril 2021 <strong>VOL. LI, No. 16<\/strong>\u00a0New York, et se trouve en <strong>P.3<\/strong> \u00e0\u00a0: <a href=\"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/h-o-21-april-2021.pdf\">h-o 21 april 2021<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The verdict on the Police Officer Derek Chauvin, a useful analogy by Fritz Saint-Macary As the whole world awaited today April 20, a verdict on the George Floyd killing that occurred a year ago has been rendered today. The Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin has been found guilty on three charges. As the Attorney General told us on CNN, at least the principle of accountability \u2014 if not of justice (retribution) \u2014 has been upheld. In addition, some hours earlier President Biden stated that \u201cIt\u2019s overwhelming;\u201d there is no doubt&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,45],"tags":[4390,4392,4391,4393,725],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5674,"href":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662\/revisions\/5674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}