Another, Clearer Take on the Chauvin Trial

April 11, 2021 By Clarice Feldman

I leave it to you to decide why, from the Trayvon Martin case to the George Floyd case, the media has so consistently misrepresented the facts. Whether it is that unskilled reporters are covering these matters, or that the press is simply looking to attract consumers with florid tales, or that the media looks forward to destroying urban areas with false tales of murderous white racists (amid a shortage of real ones), I cannot say. But it was shocking to me to get letters from heads of very good independent schools who had bought completely into the initial media accounts of an out-of-control white cop deliberately murdering a black suspect in his custody. It occurred to me then that if people like these could be sold the false narrative, officer Derek Chauvin was surely in for a judicial lynching.

Once again, I turn to Legal Insurrection, which has consistently provided the most detailed and reliable accounts of high-profile trials and warn readers away from the AP, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and TV and cable news if you have any respect for truth. (I’d also note that it is my experience that reporters’ deadlines often conflict with the way trials proceed, so that too often the prosecution (or in civil matters, the plaintiff) case is presented just before deadline and the cross examination occurs too late to be covered in that day’s edition, leaving only a false, one-sided version of the day’s action.)

There, a highly-skilled defense counsel, Andrew Branca, has been monitoring the trial and has posted so far nine daily accounts of the trial proceeding. Like me, Branca feels the publishing deadlines overvalue the direct testimony and underrate cross examination.

On Saturday, William A. Jacobson, the owner of the site, provided a wrap-up of the trial coverage to date. Here are the key points:..........To Read More...

Our Group's Take  - A few things that I think are worth noting.  Early on as soon as the blood levels of fentanyl had been released, I looked up a fatal dose and discovered that his levels were well over that of an ostensible "fatal dose."  The fatal dose for people who have not regularly taking an opioid is quite a bit lower than a fatal dose for someone who has been taking opioids regularly and built up a tolerance.

I have no idea if Floyd had been using opioids regularly enough to build up a tolerance or not... And even if he had built up a tolerance whether it could be enough for the massive dose in his system to not have been fatal. In other words it's still entirely possible that he died of an overdose, especially since he had not only the high level of fentanyl in his blood but also methamphetamine. 

 

But it is also possible that the high level of fentanyl may not have been a fatal dose for him. I think when you add in the methamphetamine and the fact that he had some pretty serious heart disease that the odds are awfully good that he died of a drug overdose. Especially since there were no signs of asphyxiation.

I also think it is extremely noteworthy that the government had officer body cameras showing clearly that Chauvin's knee was not on Floyd's neck the vast majority of the time and that it was the camera angle of the horrifying video that the private individual released that went so viral that made it appear as if that was the case when it wasn't. And yet the government did not release those body cam videos which could have helped at least a little bit and maybe quite a lot in reducing all of the subsequent rioting and destruction which occurred.

It really does increasingly seem that all of the Democrat actions across the nation are aimed at increasing anger, rioting, racial division, and generally shredding America. That includes stoking this massive illegal alien influx as they have done. Everything more and more seems to suggest that they really are pursuing the cloward-piven strategy with a vengeance.

Reminder for anyone who doesn't recall what that is, it was a strategy proposed back when Obama was in college by two of his highly respected (at least by the left) Progressive professors at Princeton, who advocated using the systems own rules and laws against it to grossly overwhelm the American government system and cause it to entirely collapse. That this would cause so much chaos that the American public would then clamor to replace the Constitution and our system with a socialist system instead. In other words, to destroy the nation from within.

Finally, remember again that either shortly before the entire Floyd incident or slightly afterward, there was another horrific incident where policeman did essentially the same thing that it appeared was done to Floyd to a white guy who also died. 

Watching the video of that one is actually even worse than the Floyd video, because the policemen are sitting there laughing, including laughing that maybe the guy had just died. When in fact he had, although they apparently didn't realize it at the time. And yet, gee, nobody rioted about that and you sure as heck didn't see it in the mainstream media.

 

Obviously it didn't fit the left's narratives because the guy who died was white! Therefore, in their eyes, it just doesn't count because if it were widely known, it would help destroy their narrative rather than support it.