Minnesota has a lot of things to be ashamed of, currently most notably our whacked Governor, the Incompetent Blowhard hisself. Another is the George Floyd incident, which set off a nationwide rioting spree and led to insanely racist DEI actions almost everywhere. While those are slowly being rolled back, a lot of damage has been done, especially in Minnesota. And as the five-year anniversary passes, the Minnesota media and Dem politicians are doing their usual lying about what actually happened and who George Floyd actually was.
George Floyd was a career criminal and drug addict. He didn’t care about anyone else, on the day he died, he was scamming a poor grocery store owner by passing counterfeit bills, which he apparently had done before. His most notorious act was to literally stick a gun in the belly of a pregnant African-American woman and try to get drugs or money from her. Yeah, a really great guy and a tremendous loss to the community–the criminal community that is.
And Floyd was loaded with drugs the day he died, including fentanyl. He would not have died if those drugs were not in his system. I don’t know why Officer Chauvin knelt on his neck for an extended time, but there was evidence that this was a trained police technique to control suspects displaying certain kinds of behavior. I do know that George Floyd was not murdered. The charging and trial of the police officers was pure politics.
Murder requires intent. There is no way Chauvin intended to kill Floyd, or even harm him. Floyd was not beaten in any way. He was handled relatively gently. Recall the Floyd was a very large human, clearly under the influence, and potentially very dangerous. Chauvin was railroaded. Every race hustler in America showed up, led by the always despicable Al Sharpton, who constantly vies for the title of most racist man in America. Venue should have been moved out of Minneapolis, but wasn’t. The jury was full of people who obviously had their minds made up and were going to get Chauvin, or who were afraid of rioting or violence directed at them and their families if they did the right thing and voted not guilty. Chauvin had inadequate counsel and resources. The state spend endless sums in a charade of a trial. It found “experts” who for free were willing to tell lies out of ideology. The state put on witnesses who intentionally lied.
The aftermath of the Floyd episode has been massively destructive to America’s cities. Minneapolis is a great example. Crime went out of control–murders, carjackings, thefts, assaults, general mayhem. Police officers quit, because who wants to be demonized, second-guessed and potentially criminally charged for doing your job. A job which is unbelievably hard, dealing with the worst scum in the world. Minneapolis is unsafe everywhere and people avoid the city if they at all can. And who suffers most–African Americans and other minorities, the very people the whacked pro(re)gressives claim to care about.
So once more Minnesota does its part to destroy justice, the rule of law, common sense government and fairness. We should all be mightily ashamed.
I highly recommend the documentary done about the arrest and trial, ‘The Fall of Minneapolis’. The first half of the movie is just the police body-cam footage.
https://rumble.com/v3vyvzv-the-fall-of-minneapolis.html
The most ridiculous thing is that Chauvin and his attorneys were not allowed to present documents at trial showing that the MRT was part of Chauvin’s training, how the first autopsy showed that Floyd died of a drug overdose (before it was conveniently changed to fit the narrative), or even show the police bodycam video from a different angle that showed Chauvin’s knee was across Floyd’s shoulder blade (not directly across his neck). In any sane society, the judges and prosecutors in the case would be disbarred from ever practicing law again and possibly criminally charged themselves. This reminds me of the case in Louisiana from the 1960’s that they made a movie out of where the prosecutors and judges all charged (and convicted) a well-known cowboy even though they knew the entire time he had nothing to do with the murder. Both the prosecutor and judge got promotions after the trial. The only person who didn’t benefit from the charade was the defendant.
You mentioned that the trial’s venue should have been changed. While I agree in spirit, you would have just had the threat that the vandals were going to burn down whichever much smaller community if the “wrong” verdict was reached. I have no idea if there’s an option for this in Minnesota, but the correct solution (besides never charging the cops in the first place) would have been still holding the trial in Minneapolis but only using a jury pool from the rest of the state (say jurors are only eligible if they live more than 60 miles from downtown). That way you avoid the fear the jurors would have of thugs burning down their city. While it would be impossible to get a jury that’s completely neutral in a case like this due to publicity, you’d at least get one that doesn’t want to convict the cops before the trial begins.
Is there any way that the Feds could charge Katie Blackwell with perjury? I’m not sure if you can get charged in federal court for committing perjury in state court, or if the charges would have to be in state court. It’s pretty much an open and shut case if they can. We know that Blackwell will never be charged in state court as long as Ellison and Walz are around.
Amen and amen to all of this!!!