Once upon a time, all it took was a white woman in the US crying “rape” at a black man and it was time fer a good ol’ lynchin’. Nowadays, all it takes is a black criminal to whine, “I can’t breathe”, and the lynching begins.
Of course, the Klan With a Tan are a teensy bit more sophisticated than the good old boys in their white hoods. These are “trained Marxists” we’re talking about, after all. If they’re going to have a lynching, they dress it up with a show trial first.
As I write, jury selection for the murder trial of Derek Chauvin is about to begin in Minneapolis. You remember Derek Chauvin, right? He is the (former) policeman charged with the murder of St George Floyd, race martyr (also drug addict, woman abuser, and career criminal).
(Since the publication of the original article, jury selection has been completed.)
Chauvin and his three colleagues disgusted civilized opinion last spring when a bystander’s video clip of Officer Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck was released. Nine minutes. Chauvin kept Floyd pinned to the ground for some nine minutes. ‘I can’t breathe,’ Floyd can be heard crying. An ambulance eventually came to whisk Floyd off to hospital. Too late. Floyd died, murdered by the brutish policeman who cruelly, gratuitously, asphyxiated him by kneeling on his neck, cutting off his air supply.
Well, that’s the narrative. The facts beg to differ somewhat.
First, the video clip that horrified the world was heavily edited. We see Floyd, pinned to the ground by Chauvin, piteously crying ‘I can’t breathe.’ Conclusion? That he can’t breathe because Chauvin is pressing on his windpipe. But a look at the police bodycam footage shows that Floyd was complaining that he couldn’t breathe before he was restrained by the police. Why? Because, as the FBI’s interview with the local medical examiner on July 8, 2020 revealed, Floyd was suffering from pulmonary edema, i.e., his lungs were full of fluid. And why was that? Partly because of an underlying heart condition, partly because Floyd was full to the gills with fentanyl, a drug known to affect respiration and cause pulmonary edema.
By the way, I say that FBI report ‘revealed’ this extenuating evidence, but it was evidence that the prosecution withheld from public scrutiny until the end of October 2020, by which time Minneapolis and many other cities across the country had been torched by Black Lives Matter rioters demanding ‘justice’ for George Floyd.
Here’s something else. Although Chauvin’s restraint looks brutal, it was actually part of the standard Minneapolis police protocol for dealing with persons exhibiting ‘excited delirium,’ a dangerous, often fatal, condition brought about by too much fentanyl with one’s afternoon tea.
Even so, as some naughty little boys tried to point out from the onset: if you can find the breath to say “I can’t breathe”, you clearly can breathe.
According to the medical examiner, Chauvin did not appear to have obstructed Floyd’s airway — Floyd would not have been able to speak if he had — and Floyd did not die from strangulation. Bottom line, George Floyd died from the effects of a self-administered drug overdose, effects that might have been exacerbated by his interactions with the police, i.e., his exertions in resisting arrest. For their part, the police were trying to help Floyd. It was they who called the ambulance because they recognized that Floyd was in extremis.
So, those are the facts. Police, following protocol set by a police department run by a long-standing Democrat administration, restrained a wanted, violent criminal who had just swallowed his entire stash of drugs, before calling an ambulance. Given that far-left Minnesota attorney-general Keith Ellison (a long-time associate of the anti-Semitic race-hate group Nation of Islam, accused domestic violence perpetrator, Antifa-sympathiser) upgraded the charges to first-degree murder, which necessitates an intent to unlawfully kill, the case seems a sure bet for acquittal.
Sure. That’s what Tom Robinson might have thought, too, in To Kill a Mockingbird.
This is a trial of a white policeman in a black, Democrat stronghold. The trial will be publicly broadcast, meaning that all jurors will have their faces splashed across national television.
If you were a juror, would you dare to return a ‘not guilty’ verdict?
Even should the jurors be so suicidal, the Democrat state is making sure its show-trial will go to plan.
As Powerline’s Scott Johnson reports, ‘At the behest of the mob, Gov. Walz lifted responsibility for the prosecution from the office of the Hennepin County attorney and assigned it to Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison.’ Take a moment to look up Keith Ellison. Savor his connections to the Nation of Islam and other radical groups. Then note that he has more than 130 lawyers in his employ. For the trial of Derek Chauvin, Johnson observes, Ellison has also tapped four prominent outside attorneys, who have offered their services pro bono.
On his side, Derek Chauvin has a local criminal defense lawyer named Eric Nelson. That appears to be it. As Johnson drily observes, ‘If you’re looking for Atticus Finch in the case, Nelson will have to serve.’
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Talk about a dead man walking. Emmett Till had a better chance at justice than Derek Chauvin.
The only other certainty is that, whichever way the trial goes (want to take bets?), the Democrat mobs will riot, loot and burn… oops, I mean, “mostly peacefully protest”.
Entrepreneurial Minnesotans, meanwhile, might want to start selling plywood boards by the bulk lot.
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