SNL cold open addresses Derek Chauvin trial - Vox.com

“He’s a white cop in Minnesota so I’m going to guess probation with pay, tops.”.

SNL’s cold open this week featured a fictitious morning news show in Minnesota in which uncomfortable disagreements between anchors highlighted differences in how white and Black Americans perceive the the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, and the state of racial progress.

After an initial series of agreements between the white anchors, played by Kate McKinnon and Alex Moffat, and the Black anchors, played by Ego Nwodim and Kenan Thompson, about how damning the evidence against Chauvin is, they run into trouble.

Desperate to find common ground, the news anchors ask the weatherman, played by Chris Redd, to weigh in.

“That being said, he’s a white cop in Minnesota so I’m going to guess probation with pay, tops,” Redd says.