The Obscene Imprisonment of Tuo Thao

Chauvin Partner Speaks Out, Blames Obama, Walz, enemies “inside the gates”

By Jack Cashill @ Jack's Substack

Editor's Note:  I stopped publishing the works of others some time ago, with exceptions.  This is one of those exceptions.  RK 

After spending nearly three years in prison, Tuo Thao is prepared to speak out. When asked why, Thao told American Reformer’s Daniel Strand, “If I know the truth and allow an innocent man to languish in prison, what good am I to God?” The innocent man in question was his partner on the night of May 25, 2020, Derek Chauvin, now serving a 22-year prison sentence.

In the Federal court, Thao was sentenced to 42 months in prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights. The State of Minnesota sentenced him to 57 months for aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. With “good time,” Thao served a little more than three years.

Thao has often been asked, “How someone who was doing crowd control and never touched Floyd could have been charged.” The reason, he believes: was that “I would not bend the knee to the mob and could not be bribed as a witness.”

Thao protects officers from growing mob

Thao had particular value to the prosecution as a racial minority. His people, the Hmong of Laos, were persecuted for having sided with the Americans in their shared struggle against the Communists. The son of grateful refugees, Thao was not willing to collaborate with the crypto-commies who run Minnesota. “It was only by the grace of God and His mighty hand,” explains Thao, “that I was able to stand up to evil and call it out as such, knowing that it would cost me much pain.”

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The prosecutors hoped Thao would turn on Chauvin. He refused. “I knew Derek personally. As a minority officer, if he were racist, why would I want to work with him?” says Thao. “I have never heard of anyone complaining that he was racist. That racial narrative was purely manufactured to stoke racial tension within the country.”

Thao knows his history. “I think we can also trace some of the racial tensions back to when President Barack Obama was in the White House,” said Thao. “You really see this oppressor and oppressed ideology being employed during election years. It’s kind of ironic because President Obama was elected as the first black president.”

Police Chief Medaria Arradondo lied under oath about Chauvin’s restraint

The case against Chauvin, elaborates Thao, was “absolutely unfair.” Knowing the case as well as he does, he cites the specifics. The restraint Chauvin used was “taught by the police department.” The original prosecutors, when “pressured to charge us and/or add charges,” removed themselves from the case.

The medical examiner, Andrew Baker, was “pressured professionally by an outside colleague, Dr. Roger Mitchell,” to add neck compression to the diagnosis or face public rebuke. The prosecutors schemed “to avoid any illicit drug discussions.”

These corruptions in the Chauvin case went unchecked because the powers that be had pre-positioned their thumbs on the scale of justice. Thao does not shy from naming names, citing “Tim Walz, Keith Ellison, Jacob Frey, Minneapolis Police Department Chief Medaria Arradondo…and Judge Peter Cahill,” not to mention “the Biden Department of Justice” and the “mainstream media.” Under these circumstances, says Thao, “It is impossible to defend yourself.”

Daddy comes home after 3 years in prison

Prison was not easy. On day one, he narrowly avoided an assassination attempt. For the duration, he desperately missed his wife and three children. What sustained him was his faith in Jesus. Says Thao, “As we know, Jesus says that in this life we will have trials and tribulations, but he has overcome the world. That is a promise those who are suffering can hold on to.”

For further education on this subject, Thao recommends The Fall of Minneapolis and Minnesota Mao, both films by Liz Collin and Dr. J.C. Chaix. “The enemies of our nation are not at the gates,” he concludes, “but inside the gates now, infiltrating all our institutions.”

Not without hope, Thao adds, “I believe it is our responsibility to ensure fertile ground for the faith of our children to be practiced and matured in this nation.” Thao’s valiant story undermines every virtue our friends on the left attribute to themselves. Please share.

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Derek Chauvin finds a lawyer

October 19, 2021 by Scott Johnson in Law, Minnesota, Policing

I wrote here (October 6) and here (October 7) about former Minneapolis Police Department Officer Derek Chauvin’s lack of legal representation on appeal of his conviction of George Floyd’s murder. Chauvin continues to be represented by Eric Nelson in the federal civil rights prosecution brought by the Department of Justice, but Nelson’s representation has terminated in the state court case that convulsed the Twin Cities.

I summoned the spirit of Clarence Darrow in putting out the call for an attorney to represent Chauvin. Chauvin has at least one winning issue on appeal — the third-degree murder conviction should be set aside under the Minnesota Supreme Court ruling in the Noor case — and several bona fide issues, to say the least. It seemed to me a disgrace to the profession that Chauvin go without counsel on appeal, especially while the prosecution required the efforts of at least three law firms that contributed lawyers and services at trial.

Minneapolis attorney Bill Mohrman has answered the call. Bill is a founding partner of Mohrman, Kaardal & Erickson as well as a former colleague and old friend. On Friday Bill filed a notice in the Minnesota Court of Appeals indicating that he has undertaken the representation of Chauvin on the appeal of his conviction..........To Read More....

• Minneapolis’s prosecutors always knew George Floyd died of natural causes October 21, 2023 Tucker Carlson reports on the story, but what’s really worthwhile is listening to Vince Everett Ellison, who is amazing. More
•   October 21, 2023 ‘Tucker on X’ Episode 32: ‘The Whole George Floyd Story Was a Lie’ In episode 32 of his newest production “Tucker on X,” host Tucker Carlson declared “the whole George Floyd story was a lie” and discussed with Vince Everett Ellison how the Democratic Party uses men like Floyd to advance its agenda and maintain power.

Cruel and Unusual Prosecutions

Federal charges against three of the officers in the George Floyd case are unwarranted and ill-advised.

 

Barry Latzer May 21, 2021 @ City Journal.  Published with permission.  I recommend subscribing, it's free.  

The Biden Justice Department has announced that it will seek federal civil rights charges against the three police officers who, along with Derek Chauvin, participated in the fatal arrest of George Floyd. This decision can’t be reconciled with the Justice Department’s own policy guidelines on second prosecutions. What’s more, prosecuting these officers will have serious negative consequences for police work in this country.

Let’s be clear here: we’re not talking about Derek Chauvin. We’re talking about J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane, and Tou Thao. These three cops are not accused of using excessive force; nor are they accused of illegally seizing Floyd. Moreover, two of them were inexperienced—Lane had been on the force only four days—and were following directives from Chauvin, the senior officer.

The government’s argument is that the three officers violated Floyd’s civil rights by assisting Chauvin, who seized Floyd in arguable violation of the Fourth Amendment. But Officer Thao was merely keeping bystanders away and had no part in restraining Floyd; he couldn’t possibly be accused of an illegal seizure. The other two, Kueng and Lane, held Floyd’s legs and back down, but this, too, does not constitute an illegal seizure, since the arrest was lawful, and Floyd had to be restrained when he refused to enter the patrol car. Furthermore, the force these two officers used was a far cry from the neck pressure Chauvin employed.

The indictment alleges that the three “willfully failed to intervene to stop Defendant Chauvin’s use of unreasonable force.” “Willful” means that the accused cops knew they were wrong. This will be difficult to prove, given that the inexperienced defendants were following the directions of a senior officer and the force used was not obviously excessive, such as in the case of a suspect being shot or clubbed.

These prosecutions are sending a clear message: that junior cops must second-guess their superiors in use-of-force incidents, lest they run the risk of federal imprisonment. But this is contrary to police training and discipline in the United States, and it puts inexperienced officers in an impossible situation. On top of all the other pressures they face, young cops must now choose between jeopardizing their careers by turning in or even restraining a superior, on the one hand, or facing federal prosecution if officials subsequently decide their partners’ use of force was excessive, on the other.

This prosecution puts police, who must make split-second judgments when confronting suspects who may be armed and dangerous, in a real bind. In an earlier time, the public understood this predicament. This meant that spur-of-the-moment decisions that, in hindsight, were mistaken—what looked like a gun wasn’t a gun—would not be held against the officer. The result was that prosecutions of police were difficult; unfortunately, this meant that abusive officers sometimes got away with excessive force. Now the pendulum has swung. The days of benefit-of-the-doubt are over. The police must get it right nowadays, even if the situation they confront is ambiguous.

The indictments pose another problem. The Justice Department has a long-standing policy—the so-called Petite rule—that is supposed to govern federal prosecutions that follow state charges for the same alleged misconduct. The policy states that the department seeks to “protect persons charged with criminal conduct from the burdens associated with multiple prosecutions and punishments for substantially the same act(s).” The state of Minnesota has already charged Kueng, Lane, and Thao with aiding and abetting murder by failing to restrain Chauvin and assist Floyd. In other words, the misconduct the state is alleging is identical to the acts serving as the basis for federal charges. Under Petite, the federal prosecutions shouldn’t be happening.

To anyone who isn’t an attorney, all this sounds like a violation of the Constitution’s provisions against double jeopardy. However, the Supreme Court has held that the federal government has the authority to enforce its own laws, even if the conduct involved also violates state law. The Petite policy seeks to moderate the harshness of this rule by requiring a “substantial federal interest” to support the federal charges. But there is no federal interest in prosecuting officers who did not themselves willfully and affirmatively violate someone’s constitutional rights.

The government will argue that there is a federal interest in getting police to restrain overly aggressive colleagues. But the state prosecutions are already serving this end. (The state prosecutions have been postponed until March 2022 to avoid prejudicial publicity; the federal prosecution may face the same problem.) Control of the police is still a state and local matter in the United States, and Minnesota is exercising due diligence. In this case, the prosecutions, along with investigations of entire departments for civil rights violations, may signal the Biden administration’s intent to increase federal control over state and local police.

At a time when many big cities are experiencing rising crime, demoralizing the police is bad policy that will make recruiting new officers more difficult. Why take up a career in which second-guessing your boss can get you fired for insubordination and failing to do so can land you in prison? The prudent person is apt to pick a safer line of work, while the more heedless will enter the next class at the police academy. Isn’t this the opposite of what we want?

Barry Latzer is Emeritus Professor of Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. His latest book is The Roots of Violent Crime in America: From the Gilded Age through the Great Depression (Louisiana State University Press, 2020).

• Minneapolis’s prosecutors always knew George Floyd died of natural causes October 21, 2023 Tucker Carlson reports on the story, but what’s really worthwhile is listening to Vince Everett Ellison, who is amazing. More
•   October 21, 2023 ‘Tucker on X’ Episode 32: ‘The Whole George Floyd Story Was a Lie’ In episode 32 of his newest production “Tucker on X,” host Tucker Carlson declared “the whole George Floyd story was a lie” and discussed with Vince Everett Ellison how the Democratic Party uses men like Floyd to advance its agenda and maintain power.

Bombshell Claim: Medical Examiners Bullied Over Floyd’s Cause of Death

Minneapolis police officer’s defense alleges that medical witnesses were subjected to coercion and retaliation. 

by George Parry May 17, 2021

Last week, counsel for Tou Thao, one of the former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd, filed an explosive motion for sanctions against the prosecution that alleges, among other things, that the testimony of Hennepin County Medical Examiner Andrew Baker in the trial of Derek Chauvin “was directly and indirectly coerced by the State and its agents” and that the former chief medical examiner for the State of Maryland, who testified for the Chauvin defense that Floyd’s death was due to cardiac arrhythmia, has been subjected to threats against his medical license.

The motion avers, in part, the following:

On May 26, 2020, Dr. Baker, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner, conducted an autopsy of Mr. Floyd. On that same date, Dr. Baker advised “prosecuting attorneys” that “[t]he autopsy revealed no physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of asphyxiation. Mr. Floyd did not exhibit signs of petechiae, damage to his airways or thyroid, brain bleeding, bone injuries, or internal bruising.”

In woke America, due process of law and the right to defend oneself in a court of law must not stand in the way of achieving social justice.

On May 29, 2020, the criminal complaint against Derek Chauvin stated that the full report of the medical examiner was pending, but that the preliminary findings “revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation.”

Prior to June 1, 2020, Dr. Roger Mitchell, former medical examiner for Washington, D.C., called Dr. Baker to discuss these preliminary findings. Citing an “Exhibit 1” (not accessible on the court’s website), paragraphs 5 and 6 of the motion state the following:...............According to the motion, following these conversations, Dr. Baker issued a press release in which the “final autopsy findings included neck compression,” which was “contrary to Dr. Baker’s conclusion before speaking with Dr. Mitchell twice.”...........To Read More....

Is Balkanization Inevitable?

May 6, 2021 By John Green 

 

Despite its flaws, the United States is the greatest country the world has ever known. We don’t need fences to keep people in America and there are no flotillas of refugees escaping to Cuba.  Its greatness stems from its foundation of freedom and liberty for everyone.   

But in recent years we’re seeing the convergence of some very dangerous societal trends which threaten America.  Intersectionality is encouraging divisiveness.  The rule of law is transforming into mob rule.  Finally, a growing grievance industry is pitting citizen against citizen.

Throughout much of human history, people have organized into tribes.  Tribal membership provided a means of survival against predatory animals, natural calamity, and aggressive rival tribes.  As a means of personal survival, it worked.  However, tribal societies became unnecessary once law and order were codified into civilized society.

Once rules of behavior were defined, and the infrastructure for enforcement was established, individuals no longer needed the protection of the tribe -- they were protected by the rule of law.  In America, the rule of law ensures fair treatment, and law enforcement provides protection from threats.  With that, tribal identities dissolved and America proudly became the great melting pot.  Our national identity emerged.  Citizenship in America became our shared identity. Tribal membership became a relic of the past -- and that was a good thing............

The Derek Chauvin trial was a graphic illustration how “due process” is being corrupted.  Defense witnesses were intimidated by mobs. Jurors needed National Guard protection to enter the courthouse each day.  Yet the judge refused to sequester the jury or grant a change of venue.   Even the jury pool was tainted.  One juror was photographed wearing a BLM “Get Your Knee Off Our Necks” t-shirt eight months before his selection for the jury!  Is this what the Constitution means by “a jury of peers”?..............To Read More....

• Minneapolis’s prosecutors always knew George Floyd died of natural causes October 21, 2023 Tucker Carlson reports on the story, but what’s really worthwhile is listening to Vince Everett Ellison, who is amazing. More
•   October 21, 2023 ‘Tucker on X’ Episode 32: ‘The Whole George Floyd Story Was a Lie’ In episode 32 of his newest production “Tucker on X,” host Tucker Carlson declared “the whole George Floyd story was a lie” and discussed with Vince Everett Ellison how the Democratic Party uses men like Floyd to advance its agenda and maintain power.

 

 

Derek Chauvin did not murder George Floyd

Exclusive: Jack Cashill talks to doc convinced 'cardiac arrhythmia' led to suspect's death

By Jack Cashill May 5, 2021

 

The one witness most responsible for the conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the "murder" of George Floyd was Irish-born, Chicago-based pulmonologist Dr. Martin Tobin. "You're seeing here fatal injury to the brain from a lack of oxygen," Dr. Tobin told the jurors as they watched the famed video of Floyd's last minutes. According to the New York Times, Tobin claimed that Chauvin and the other officers "restricted Mr. Floyd's breathing by flattening his rib cage against the pavement and pushing his cuffed hands into his torso, and by the placement of Mr. Chauvin's knees on his neck and back."..........."An honest reading of the autopsy leaves cardiac arrhythmia as the most likely cause of death – amplified by the tox and autopsy that showed meth on board, high levels of fentanyl and bad cardiac disease, both arteriosclerotic/atherosclerotic coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease (thick muscled big heart)."...........To Read More....

• Minneapolis’s prosecutors always knew George Floyd died of natural causes October 21, 2023 Tucker Carlson reports on the story, but what’s really worthwhile is listening to Vince Everett Ellison, who is amazing. More
•   October 21, 2023 ‘Tucker on X’ Episode 32: ‘The Whole George Floyd Story Was a Lie’ In episode 32 of his newest production “Tucker on X,” host Tucker Carlson declared “the whole George Floyd story was a lie” and discussed with Vince Everett Ellison how the Democratic Party uses men like Floyd to advance its agenda and maintain power.

Bearing False Witness

Leading civil rights organizations lend their voices to false claims about police.  

Ari L. Maas May 3, 2021 @ City Journal.  Published with permission.  I recommend subscribing, it's free. 

After Derek Chauvin was found guilty of the murder of George Floyd, many organizations and celebrities issued press releases that went beyond celebrating justice, offering blanket condemnations of the police as universally racist and oppressive. For instance, Seventh Generation, the Unilever-owned laundry detergent maker, tweeted that to stop the “killing of Black and Brown people at the hands of the police . . . we must divest from systems of harm.” The NBA’s LeBron James tweeted what appeared to be a threat (since deleted) toward the Columbus, Ohio police officer involved in the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant as she assaulted another person with a knife.

While I have come to expect this kind of anti-police rhetoric from the corporate world and celebrities, I was dismayed to see leading civil rights organizations also lending their voices to false claims about police.

As a police officer of almost 18 years, I understand the importance of conscientious and impartial policing. And as a third-generation Jewish American whose grandparents were forced to flee the rise of the Nazi Party, I have personally benefited from the hard work of civil rights organizations that champion vulnerable groups against discrimination and abuse.

When my grandfather, a Czechoslovakian, came to America after serving in the British army in World War II, there were still several anti-Jewish policies in place. Several prominent universities capped the enrollment of Jews well into the late twentieth century, and Yale didn’t have a Jewish full professor until 1946. Country clubs restricted Jews, blacks, and women from membership until the 1990s. Jews in America also faced many acts of violence. It was the civil rights organizations that stood up for us.

During my career I have participated in training classes and used publications put out by both the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Southern Poverty Law Center, (SPLC). I know firsthand that these organizations value their partnerships with law enforcement. Yet this history didn’t stop either of these organizations from painting every police officer with the same broad brush.

Every time a police officer takes a life, it is a sad and traumatizing event for everyone involved. But it is not, as the ADL contends, evidence of a system that “target[s] and devalue[s] Black, brown, and Indigenous lives for centuries.” An ADL press release opined that Adam Toledo, the 13-year-old shot by Chicago police, was killed because of “systemic racism,” not because police were responding to the presence of an armed individual fleeing the scene of a “shots fired” call. The shooting was tragic, but it wasn’t the result of systemic racism, and a group that seeks justice when churches are burned should know that.

The SPLC has done no better. Their recent press release lionizes Tony McDade, a black transgender man shot and killed by a Tallahassee police officer last May. McDade, a suspect in the stabbing death of Malik Jackson, pointed a handgun at police when approached, leaving the officers no choice but to shoot him. Investigators at the scene recovered a handgun, along with the bloody knife used to kill Jackson. Body camera footage corroborated the officers’ version of events, and a Leon County grand jury found that the use of force was justified. But none of this prevented the SPLC from citing McDade’s death as evidence of a “criminal legal system built on anti-Black racism and white supremacy.”

Many other civil rights organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, which believes that “racism . . . pervades law enforcement,” put out similar damaging statements.

Comments like these, which extend far beyond these organizations’ primary mission to advocate for vulnerable communities, will further erode the already-fraught relationships between police and their communities. By falsely tarring the entire policing profession with the bogus charge of systemic racism, these groups weaken their ability to help true victims of civil rights abuses—and endanger the relationships they have built with the large majority of sincere and hardworking cops who are their allies in championing justice for all.

Ari L. Maas is a law enforcement professional with 18 years of experience and a licensed attorney in both New York and New Jersey.

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• Minneapolis’s prosecutors always knew George Floyd died of natural causes October 21, 2023 Tucker Carlson reports on the story, but what’s really worthwhile is listening to Vince Everett Ellison, who is amazing. More
•   October 21, 2023 ‘Tucker on X’ Episode 32: ‘The Whole George Floyd Story Was a Lie’ In episode 32 of his newest production “Tucker on X,” host Tucker Carlson declared “the whole George Floyd story was a lie” and discussed with Vince Everett Ellison how the Democratic Party uses men like Floyd to advance its agenda and maintain power.

REVEALED: Feds 'had secret backup plan to ARREST Derek Chauvin in court for police brutality if he was cleared of killing George Floyd'

By Rachel Sharp For Dailymail.com 28 April 2021

Secret Department of Justice plans to arrest Derek Chauvin in court had he been cleared of murdering George Floyd have been revealed. 

Multiple sources told the Star Tribune federal prosecutors were ready to move in and charge the white ex-cop on federal counts moments after a not guilty verdict on charges of second and third-degree murder, as well as manslaughter, or in the event of a mistrial.  

Department of Justice prosecutors now also plan to bring civil rights violations charges - akin to hate crimes - of police brutality against Chauvin and the three other cops on duty with him when Floyd was killed in May 2020. 

Their secret plot saw DOJ investigators collaborate with their state counterparts at Minnesota US Attorney's Office to arrange to charge Chauvin by a process called criminal complaint which does not require a grand jury and would have sped up the process of bringing fresh charges against the former policeman amid fears a not guilty verdict would have prompted fresh riots.  

The Department of Justice had a backup plan in place to immediately arrest Derek Chauvin in court if he was cleared of killing George Floyd, it has been revealed. Chauvin is led away in handcuffs after being convicted of all charges last week..........To Read More....

• Feds plan to indict Chauvin, 3 other officers - StarTribune.com

• Minneapolis’s prosecutors always knew George Floyd died of natural causes October 21, 2023 Tucker Carlson reports on the story, but what’s really worthwhile is listening to Vince Everett Ellison, who is amazing. More
•   October 21, 2023 ‘Tucker on X’ Episode 32: ‘The Whole George Floyd Story Was a Lie’ In episode 32 of his newest production “Tucker on X,” host Tucker Carlson declared “the whole George Floyd story was a lie” and discussed with Vince Everett Ellison how the Democratic Party uses men like Floyd to advance its agenda and maintain power.

Appeasing a Racist Mob Isn't Justice: Chauvin Verdict is A Travesty of Justice

By Rich Kozlovich

 

First, to prove murder you have to show means, motive and intent.   Although motive isn't an absolute requirement prosecutors show motive to show intent.  Intent defines the difference between a deliberate action or an accident.  As for means, we'll come to that.  Then there's "mens rea", which is Latin meaning "guilty mind".  'To be convicted of a crime, the law requires the defendant to be deserving of punishment based on culpability or blameworthiness."  Did Derek Chauvin have a "guilty mind"?

 

We have six questions that need to be asked and answered.  Here's my two part Q&A that needs addressing:

1. Was there malice of forethought in Officer Chauvin's actions? 
2. Did he intend to do harm to George Floyd?  
3. Did he know his actions would cause Floyd to die?  
4. Did he demonstrate reckless disregard?  
5. Did Officer Chauvin have a guilty mind? 

Answers: 

1. There was no malice, including any malice based on systemic racism.  
2. There was no evidence of a "guilty mind".   
3. He didn't go there to deliberately harm Floyd, and there was no reason to believe Floyd would die from Chauvin's actions.  
4. Did he show reckless disregard?  Reckless disregard is defined as being "grossly negligent without concern for danger to others", which given the circumstances, the answer must also be no.  

And we'll come back to that.

  

This bring us to part two:

1. Was there "actus reas" by Floyd?  In other words did Floyd just merely want to commit the crime, or did he actually did commit a crime that officers, including Chauvin, had to respond to? That's the core of the issue.  And the answer?
   

George Floyd did commit a crime, and it was a crime he clearly intended to commit.  And the police did come in response to a call to his criminal act, and thusly, had to respond to that criminal action by Floyd.  And then when confronted for his criminal activity, he fought with the police, so there was no criminal intent or motive by the police, and holding him down isn't "means"!  Chauvin's actions didn't cut off his air supply, and the man was found to have serious levels of illegal drugs in his body, and at a level many considered toxic.

 

Entirely too many have lost perspective on this issue.  

 

This all came about because of this thug was attempting to pass a counterfeit $20.00 bill.  The police came as a response to that because...... and here it comes, watch out now, watch out now, here it comes...... passing counterfeit currency is a crime.  Really, it really is a crime.  Not only is it a crime, it's a federal crime.  The actions thereafter, even if some procedure wasn't followed, does not constitute murder.

  

As for the guy's complaining how he can't breathe, which may have been true, but do we really believe the cops don't hear that kind of thing all the time?  Chauvin was the last to appear at the scene and the man was already complaining about not being able to breathe before he got there.

 

What if that's nothing but a ploy to continue to resist the cops, and potentially represent a hazard to the lives of the police.  It isn't like they don't hear this kind of stuff all the time, and remember, his alleged inability to breath didn't keep him from resisting the police in the first place.  So then, why would they believe him?  But they still apparently called the EMT's.  So, they clearly they were not guilty of reckless disregard or even depraved indifference.  They demonstrated good cop concern. 

 

Let's take a look at this case as an example of what police go through on a regular basis:

  

In Atlanta, a man named Rayshard Brooks is passed out in the drive-thru of a Wendy's. It took some time for the police to get him to wake up and move his car. They interacted with Brooks for about an hour before getting him situated so they could get him in the back of a police car.

When the police attempted that, Brooks became violent and fought the police. He shoved one to the ground so hard that he caused a concussion. He grabbed one of the officer's Tasers and bolted. The second officer gave chase, and Brooks attempted to turn and fire the Taser. The officer responded with deadly force.

And the public response from local political "leaders"?

Local politicians immediately painted the officer as the bad guy. Of course, had Brooks successfully incapacitated the officer, perhaps he could have gotten the officer's gun. Judging the officer in the split second and making him the bad guy to placate the mob is not really justice. It just feels like justice as some have internalized the narrative that the police are racist. 

Cops are in a no win situation because these leftist anti-American politicians have been giving tacit permission to resist arrest, ignore police instructions, and in point of fact, to fight the police, even killing them.  All without a peep of outrage from these race pandering politicians.  

 

Cops have to evaluate every situation, and in this case the situation Chauvin was put in made him face a hostile crowd while holding down a criminal who was drug impacted and resisted arrest.  Would he have reacted violently if let up?  Who wants to find out?  That alone justified holding him down, specifically since videos showed other officers had to hold back the hostile crowd who were shouting obscenities at them and rushing at them.  

 

And in face of that are they suppose to do a "check list" to make sure they did everything by the book?  Even the EMT's fled afraid to do their job, even inside the ambulance, and I don't blame them.  They have no desire to end up dead leaving their families with the consequences of their loss for the benefit of a thug and a mob of thugs.   And their loss is the kind of loss that diminishes society, unlike the loss of  George Floyd who was a drug addict, a criminal and a thug, and if he had lived, he'd have continued to be a parasite on society.

 

And this pattern of mob violence in support of thugs and criminals like George Floyd, by blacks, against police is an unending pattern, forcing police to act accordingly.  When you fight with the police someone is going to get hurt, and why should it be the cops?

 

Chauvin is not guilty of murder on any count, and has become nothing more than a sacrificial lamb on the alter of Political Correctness and Critical Race Theory, all scams, all cons, and a slow suicide for America.  

 

When this very thing, and worse, was done to a white guy, that cop wasn't prosecuted and no one rioted.  Imagine that!  As for the media, they said little to nothing about it, and apparently the political sewer trout must not have even known about it since they were silent.  Right?  Well, my guess is they didn't care since a cop killing a white has no traction with leftist rabble rousers and a corrupt media.

 

We need to get our heads on straight about what this really is all about. 

 

There was no crime by the cops, there was  no motive, there was no intent, there was no means, and holding down a thug resisting arrest in the face of a violent threatening mob isn't means.

 

Candace Owens said it best after this verdict was read: "we have a pandemic of cowardice going on in this country".   

 

One of my all time favorite books is To Kill a Mocking Bird, which was an absolutely anti-racist book if there ever was one, and now some from the Church of Wokeness crowd want to ban it.  Which is ironic because different racists wanted to ban it when it came out. 

 

But for those who've read and loved that book,  (The movie was great, the book was greater) there's a question that needs asked and answered. 

  

Where Have You Gone, Atticus Finch?

On Julius Caesar, Derek Chauvin, and the Fate of Our Republic

Roger Kimball April 26, 2021 

Julius Caesar is often blamed for bringing about the end of the Roman Republic.  I think he merely happened to be there when the Republic imploded.  In 49 BC, Caesar crossed the Rubicon, a shallow river in Northern Italy, with a single legion.  The river marked the border between cis-Alpine Gaul and Italy proper. Bringing armed troops into the fatherland was illegal, tantamount to treason.  Caesar knew this, which is doubtless one reason he never mentions the episode in his account of the civil war that his action sparked..............

Derek Chauvin’s Trial..............

Before the verdict, Congresswoman Maxine Waters traveled to Minnesota, violated curfew, and declared that Chauvin was “guilty, guilty, guilty.”  “Mostly peaceful protestors” rampaged in various cities to underscore her point.

Indeed, Waters had earlier insisted that Chauvin be charged with first degree murder, as if the police officer had intentionally murdered George Floyd with malice aforethought instead of intervening to restrain a drug-crazed felon who, having just attempted to pass a counterfeit $20 bill, was resisting arrest.  Waters also warned that if a verdict for murder were not returned, Minneapolis—and not only Minneapolis—would burn.

The jury barely deliberated before reaching a verdict. They didn’t need to. The trial of Derek Chauvin was a show trial. The result had been preordained.  This was the work of a sedentary lynch mob, not so much angry as intimidated.

As David Horowitz observed, “The speed of the decision was itself evidence that the jury hadn’t deliberated or even considered any of the evidence presented in the trial, as to what actually caused Floyd’s death, whether Chauvin acted in accordance with the standard procedures of the Minneapolis Police Department, and therefore whether there was any malice or inhumane disregard for Floyd’s life involved in Chauvin’s actions.”.............To Read More.....

• Minneapolis’s prosecutors always knew George Floyd died of natural causes October 21, 2023 Tucker Carlson reports on the story, but what’s really worthwhile is listening to Vince Everett Ellison, who is amazing. More
•   October 21, 2023 ‘Tucker on X’ Episode 32: ‘The Whole George Floyd Story Was a Lie’ In episode 32 of his newest production “Tucker on X,” host Tucker Carlson declared “the whole George Floyd story was a lie” and discussed with Vince Everett Ellison how the Democratic Party uses men like Floyd to advance its agenda and maintain power.

How the Left Turned Chauvin Into a Racist Killer

They needed a cause as epic as the damage — and they needed a villain.

by Jack Cashill April 26, 2021 

Although he made up his mind before jury did, President Joe Biden quickly went public once he learned that the Minneapolis jury had, in fact, convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin on all charges. “It was a murder in the full light of day, and it ripped the blinders off for the whole world to see...........To Read More

 

Derek Chauvin: The Great White Defendant

The man-bites-dog news appeal. 

Mon Apr 26, 2021 Larry Elder 1 comment

In the brilliant novel "The Bonfire of the Vanities," author Tom Wolfe describes what he calls the intense media interest in covering "The Great White Defendant."

A review of "Bonfire" explains: "The overarching theme of the book is the search for the great white defendant. The vast majority of defendants in New York City are minorities, arrested for killing another minority. The vast majority of the cops and prosecutors are all about the press and their careers. One drug dealer killing another drug dealer is not going to get you any attention; it's a dog-bites-man story — no story. What you want is a man-bites-dog story. Therefore, subliminally, the police, prosecutors and press are always looking for a great white defendant who will make their careers."

Nobody, Wolfe writes, gets upset about massive media coverage of The Great White Defendant. Blacks enjoy watching media coverage of well-off white men, in this case a Wall Street trader, accused of serious wrongdoing, in this case murder. Guilty whites are used to perpetuate the systemic racism media narrative. And the media feel noble when pushing it. Win, win, win.

This brings us to the trial of Derek Chauvin, the white ex-Minneapolis cop convicted of murdering George Floyd, a Black man who initially resisted arrest.

Cable channel HLN has covered the trial from gavel to gavel. When bumping in and out of commercial breaks, HLN displayed a graphic, accompanied by foreboding music, showing two fists tearing an American flag in half, with the caption "America's Very Soul Is on Trial." Black Lives Matter activist Maya Echols, in a since-deleted TikTok video, said: "If George Floyd's murderer is not sentenced, just know that all hell is gonna break loose. Don't be surprised when building are on fire. Just sayin'." And Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., says she is "hopeful" of a conviction, but if not, Waters said: "We've got to stay on the street and we've got to get more active, we've got to get more confrontational. We've got to make sure that they know we mean business."

No, America's "very soul" is not on trial..............To Read More.....

Horowitz On the Chauvin Verdict

David Horowitz brings his take-no-prisoners style to the jury verdict in the Derek Chauvin case.

April 25, 2021 by John Hinderaker in Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Crime

No one in his right mind could have been surprised by the verdict in the Minneapolis trial of Officer Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd. For 11 straight months cities have been burned, people have been murdered and billions of dollars of property damage have been caused by a national lynch mob determined to be its own judge, jury and executioner.

Headed by Antifa and Black Lives Matter and supported by every so-called “Civil Rights” organization, the Democrat Party and its malignant leadership – Biden, Harris, Pelosi and Schumer, this lynch mob has been on the attack against law enforcement a decade and more. Their threat, No “Justice” No Peace, is a threat that more cities will be attacked, more people will die – perhaps even Chauvin case jurors – if the verdicts they want aren’t delivered. This is a criminal movement with a criminal mission: to substitute its own vigilante justice for America’s justice.

On the eve of the Chauvin trial the City of Minneapolis gave a $27 million settlement to the family of George Floyd – a career criminal and dangerous drug addict. The alleged crime was the wrongful death of Floyd. The settlement was made in advance of the evidence and of the trial. It was a blatant effort to put the authorities and taxpayers of Minneapolis in the camp of the lynch mob – telling the jury that the only justice lay in absolving Floyd of any complicity in his own death and the mayhem that followed.

Nonetheless, anxious that anything might be left to chance, Democrat congressional leader, Maxine Waters, demanded a first degree murder conviction, days before the verdict. The Farrakhanite Attorney General of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, hadn’t even charged Chauvin with First Degree murder, because it was preposterous. But Maxine was not content with letting justice take its course. The Alzheimer President couldn’t contain himself either. According to his opinion – as though he had watched and weighed the hundreds of hours of testimony, the evidence of Chauvin’s guilt was “overwhelming.” Really.

As soon as the formality of the trial was concluded the verdict demanded by the lynch mob was delivered with lightning speed: Guilty on all charges – murder and manslaughter, even though the murder charge didn’t make any legal sense, unless you think arresting a drug addled forged check passer and illegal substance ingester is a felony in itself. Second degree murder involves a killing in the course of committing a felony, and nothing else.............To Read More....

Dems are out to destroy a Chauvin defense witness’s life and reputation

April 25, 2021 By Andrea Widburg

George Floyd had a lethal dose of fentanyl in his body. His post-mortem blood oxygen level was a robust 98%, despite significant heart disease. He was complaining that he couldn’t breathe long before the police, following a violent struggle, got him to the ground in the Minneapolis-approved position for excited delirium. Accurate, previously unseen footage showed that Officer Chauvin’s knee was on Floyd’s shoulders, not his neck. Oh, and an alternate juror said that she was afraid the mob would go after her for a non-guilty verdict. On these and other facts, the prosecution got a guilty verdict. Armed with it, the Democrats are now working to destroy a former medical who dared to testify in Chauvin’s favor.

Here’s the story according to the Daily Mail:............You can read the rest here.

There’s a certain primitive ferocity to the left............That’s how Democrats roll. They have sent a warning to conservatives or independents in America that, if they run up against the Democrats on a single issue and lose, they will be destroyed. Does that mean we shouldn’t take principled stands, show courage, and fight the good fight? Of course not. It means only that, like Calgacus before us, we must understand the stakes...........To Read More

• Minneapolis’s prosecutors always knew George Floyd died of natural causes October 21, 2023 Tucker Carlson reports on the story, but what’s really worthwhile is listening to Vince Everett Ellison, who is amazing. More
•   October 21, 2023 ‘Tucker on X’ Episode 32: ‘The Whole George Floyd Story Was a Lie’ In episode 32 of his newest production “Tucker on X,” host Tucker Carlson declared “the whole George Floyd story was a lie” and discussed with Vince Everett Ellison how the Democratic Party uses men like Floyd to advance its agenda and maintain power.

Poll: Majority of Black Americans Say Politics at Least ‘Somewhat’ Influenced Derek Chauvin Verdict

Hannah Bleau 24 Apr 2021 

A majority of Americans, including a majority of black Americans, believe politics at least “somewhat” influenced the outcome of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s trial, although a majority also agree with the verdict, a Rasmussen Reports survey released this week revealed.

The survey, taken April 21-22 among 1,000 American adults, asked respondents to gauge how much politics influenced the outcome of Chauvin’s trial.

Fifty-eight percent said politics influenced the outcome either “a lot” (38 percent) or “somewhat” (20 percent), compared to 19 percent who said “not much” and 15 percent who said “not at all.” Fifty-three percent of Republicans said politics influenced the outcome “a lot,” compared to 24 percent of Democrats who said the same. Notably, 57 percent of black Americans said politics influenced the decision to some degree, 36 percent saying “a lot” and 21 percent saying “somewhat.”.........To Read More....

 

 

A Surprising Number of Republicans Disapprove of Chauvin Verdict. This Is Probably Why

Scott Morefield | Apr 24, 2021

 

While Americans overwhelmingly approve of the guilty-on-all-counts verdict for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, to the tune of 77 percent, a new poll showed a surprising number of Republicans disagreeing with the majority consensus. 

A Morning Consult poll showed over three-quarters of all participants "strongly" or "somewhat" approving of the jury's Wednesday decision, which found Chauvin guilty of third-degree murder, second-degree unintentional murder, and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, a tragedy that sparked months of demonstrations and violent riots all across America's major cities.

However, opinions differed somewhat along political and racial lines...........To Read More...

• Minneapolis’s prosecutors always knew George Floyd died of natural causes October 21, 2023 Tucker Carlson reports on the story, but what’s really worthwhile is listening to Vince Everett Ellison, who is amazing. More
•   October 21, 2023 ‘Tucker on X’ Episode 32: ‘The Whole George Floyd Story Was a Lie’ In episode 32 of his newest production “Tucker on X,” host Tucker Carlson declared “the whole George Floyd story was a lie” and discussed with Vince Everett Ellison how the Democratic Party uses men like Floyd to advance its agenda and maintain power.

Floyd vs Chauvin: The Real Crime(s)

This is the way America ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper.

By Steve Rossiter ——Bio and Archives--April 22, 2021

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This won’t be a conversation about the details of what occurred between Floyd and Chauvin on the street or at the Chauvin trial.  I have my opinion, but it has nothing to do with the devastation caused by the crime(s) that may or not be valid on the street or at the trial. Some people will say Chauvin was a good cop simply doing his job and is a victim of a jury fearful of coming to anything but a guilty verdict.

Whether Chauvin was a good cop or a bad cop is immaterial to the reality in America today.  We know we have lost one cop.  I wish that was the worst of it.  Every cop in America and every young man or woman that is considering a law enforcement career is re-examining the implications of being a cop in an upside down, woke American Marxist Democrat values system.

American society has been turned upside down in too many places

Every cop must consider several things; first the simple fact that it is a high risk occupation that has become more dangerous because of the tacit permission the culture is giving to bad actors to resist police instructions.  Next, do I want to risk imprisonment because I was just doing my job as I was trained?  Do I want to put my family’s financial future at risk when I could end up dead or worse having to waste all the family’s resources defending myself against woke or politically motivated, charges when I was just doing my job?  Lastly, every cop must evaluate every situation and determine for themselves: Should I take action or should I just avoid the potential woke/political risk?

The real crime is America was already losing thousands of good cops and will lose thousands more as a result of the Chauvin trial.  Worse yet, the difficulty of finding good young people to enter into law enforcement careers has increased exponentially.  Law enforcement agencies are already short staffed all over America.  The Marxist Democrats are winning another battle.

The bigger crime is the fact that the Marxist Democrat governments and the failed American values system is giving tacit approval for every thug in America to ignore the orders of a police officer. Then there are the George Soros funded Marxist Democrat District Attorneys who are picking and choosing the laws they are willing to enforce and prosecute. Say what?  The thugs of America in Marxist Democrat jurisdictions can now break all kinds of laws knowing they will not be arrested or prosecuted. 

Many Americans are living in Marxist Democrat jurisdictions where a thug can steal up to nearly $1,000 of your property, and the Marxist Democrat government doesn’t care and won’t do anything about it.  In effect, those Marxist Democrat governments have legalized shoplifting!  Worse yet, if the property owner tries to protect themselves, they may be subject to prosecution for doing so.  American society has been turned upside down in too many places. Is this even civilization?.......To Read More....

• Minneapolis’s prosecutors always knew George Floyd died of natural causes October 21, 2023 Tucker Carlson reports on the story, but what’s really worthwhile is listening to Vince Everett Ellison, who is amazing. More
•   October 21, 2023 ‘Tucker on X’ Episode 32: ‘The Whole George Floyd Story Was a Lie’ In episode 32 of his newest production “Tucker on X,” host Tucker Carlson declared “the whole George Floyd story was a lie” and discussed with Vince Everett Ellison how the Democratic Party uses men like Floyd to advance its agenda and maintain power.

Chauvin, Maxine, and the Consequences

By Rich Kozlovich

Well, the verdict is in.  Chauvin has been found guilty and it's clear the jury was intimidated long before Mad Maxine pulled her little stunt, and as I predicted, in spite of the fact she clearly violated the Democrat party's own evaluations for promoting violence, they, and their cats paws in the leftist media, demonstrated their hypocrisy and cowardice by surrounded her like an iron ring to prevent any negative consequences to her.

• House Dems unanimously back Maxine Waters, blocking censure resolution
• Reports: Democratic Leadership Whipped Votes Hard to Protect Maxine Waters from Censure
  
  

Gregory Hood in his piece We Can’t Police These People stated:

 

The trial was pointless. We knew the outcome. We knew the threat. Convict Derek Chauvin of murder, or cities will burn. Jurors surely knew they would be doxxed if they didn’t vote to convict; one potential juror was dismissed after he dared mention this fear.........This is about race, not police. I expect police will crack down further on law-abiding whites while ignoring black crime.

Mark Davis felt there was clearly reasonable doubt  and  in his piece, America's Streets Are Spared, But Was Justice Done in the Chauvin Trial? states:

But in navigating the actual Minnesota statutes defining the charges against Chauvin, I found multiple judgment calls that fell short of the burden of proof.  The second-degree murder charge required the restraint of George Floyd to be an actual criminal assault; third-degree murder requires a “depraved mind” and lack of “regard for human life.”  Even the least of the charges, second-degree manslaughter, requires taking “unreasonable risk” and “consciously” taking a chance of causing death or bodily harm..........

 Noting the recent discussions about the corruptive effect of events outside the courthouse, prosecutor and Fox analyst Andy McCarthy said after the verdict:  “The best way to show that the jury was not bamboozled into convicting would have been if deliberations had gone on for a few days, if they maybe acquitted on a count, if they made a record where you could say they made a discriminating appraisal of the evidence.”

Conversely, he added, “The best way for [Derek Chauvin] to show that he might not have gotten due process is a quick verdict with no notes where they just convicted on everything.  And that’s what happened.”

In The trial of Derek Chauvin has unleashed the dogs of thuggery and revolution Steve McCann notes: 

The trial of Derek Chauvin maybe over, but the repercussions have just begun. Whether Chauvin was guilty of murder or manslaughter or innocent can be debated endlessly; however, based on the testimony of all the witnesses, the conviction of murder seemed a bridge too far. But more importantly, the trial and the unfair manner in which it was adjudicated combined with the unabashed and overt threats of violence and the sycophancy of Joe Biden and the Democrats have permanently emboldened the radical left (or Marxists) and unleashed the dogs of unending thuggery and potential revolution. 

The primary lesson the militant left will take away from the Chauvin trial is not that he was found guilty but that its tactics work. Leftists' willingness to use violence, looting, intimidation, and threats has succeeded beyond their wildest dreams as they watched a judge and jury succumb to their threats and history of belligerence. 

Further, the elected members of the Democrat party as well as the Democrat media and the bulk of the ruling elites refused to criticize their tactics and in fact defended them and regurgitated their talking points as if they were trained seals. The primary lesson the militant left will take away from the Chauvin trial is not that he was found guilty, but that its tactics work. Leftists' willingness to use violence, looting, intimidation, and threats has succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.

Of course the real goal here isn't convicting a cop, it's convicting America. In this piece, Racist Professor Demands a 'Conviction of America' After Chauvin Verdict, a so-called:

Leading "anti-racist"Boston University professor Ibram X. Kendi is calling for the conviction of the United States of America and is brushing aside the idea that individual officers are responsible for their actions, rather than the entire justice system."

So now what? Chauvin is headed to jail, but is America headed to justice. Is justice convicting a police officer, or is justice convicting America?" Kendi asks in a new video for CBS News. "When tens of millions of Americans after Floyd's murder last year took to the streets of nearly every American town, we were convicting America."

The long term consequences of this is not now, nor will it be in the future,  one of peace, or racial harmony.  Even now the federal government, just as it did under Obama,will launch an investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department and, make no mistake about this as it's a forgone conclusion based on history:  Before that's over the city and the police department will make agreements with the DOJ that will give oversight to a bunch of misfit anti-cop activists. 

The Verdict by Jury vs Verdict by Community Organizers by Michael McCarthyPolitics - What about future jurors in future trials? Will they vote the way they think the President wants them to vote? Or vote the way community organizers want them to vote? The organizers who hint at mob violence if they do not get the vote they want? That’s when jurors feel threatened by violence themselves…

 The Verdict Judge and executioner. - No one in his right mind could have been surprised by the verdict in the Minneapolis trial of Officer Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd. For 11 straight months cities have been burned, people have been murdered and billions of dollars of property damage have been caused by a national lynch mob determined to be its own judge, jury and executioner...............

Headed by Antifa and Black Lives Matter and supported by every so-called “Civil Rights” organization, the Democrat Party and its malignant leadership – Biden, Harris, Pelosi and Schumer, this lynch mob has been on the attack against law enforcement a decade and more. Their threat, No “Justice” No Peace, is a threat that more cities will be attacked, more people will die – perhaps even Chauvin case jurors - if the verdicts they want aren’t delivered. This is a criminal movement with a criminal mission: to substitute its own vigilante justice for America’s justice. .....

BLM Is A Socially Exploitive Flim-Flam Machine - Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a domestic terrorist group, that has done more to factually harm and promote the regressive rejection of modernity than Ku Klux Klan (KKK) did in an 86 year period, and that includes being responsible for the deaths of black people.  Over an 86-year period spanning from 1882 to 1968 there were 3,446 blacks lynched in America by the Democrat controlled terrorist group.

BLM exists to extort massive sums of money and blackmail corporate America into doing the bidding of the rabid demonic hordes holding elected office and the Satanic demigods existing in the political shadow world, who fund and dictate the actions of BLM et al.

Nothing that BLM has done or will do, benefits anyone apart from their leadership and the godless entities responsible for the terrorist organization’s existence.

Mob justice for Derek Chauvin Why would anyone be a cop in a Democrat city?.....Reasonable people can disagree on whether Derek Chauvin was responsible for George Floyd's death, but it cannot be reasonably argued that the trial that resulted in his conviction was anything resembling impartial justice. After eight months of rioting in response to Floyd's death — resulting in more than a dozen deaths and billions in property damage — it would have been difficult for Chauvin to get a fair trial anywhere in America.

But the notion that an impartial jury could be seated in Hennepin County — the epicenter of those riots — is absurd. Minneapolis is a deeply traumatized city. Scores of businesses were burned and looted; a police precinct was burned to the ground; and elected officials, including the mayor, abandoned their responsibility for public safety. Murder rates soared. That the jury returned guilty verdicts on all three counts against Chauvin in just ten hours, without asking a single question for clarification of the many complex legal and technical issues in this case, confirms that the outcome was predetermined. 

 Candace Owens Says America’s Suffering from ‘Two Pandemics’: Ignorance and Cowardice - “There’s a pandemic of ignorance in this country, and that is only allowed to fly because we also have a pandemic of cowardice in this country. Okay? We have people that are purposely putting out a bunch of ignorant claims, and then we have people that are too cowardly to stand up and say, ‘You know what, this is wrong.’”

“We do not have people that are sitting in Congress willing to take this fight where it needs to be taken,” Owens said, contrasting the way media vilified former President Donald Trump’s call for a peaceful and patriotic march on the Capitol with the way they defend Rep. Maxine Waters’ (D-Calif.) multiple calls for violence: Following the Chauvin verdict, there are two videos you should see  Candace Owens explains what the left is doing to American via the Chauvin case, and Ben Domenech explains the cultural battle being waged in America.

Don't have any delusions. America is on the verge of anarchy.  Every black thug, male or female, killed by police will generate unrest and that unrest will be promoted by the media. Here in Ohio the "racial grievance industry" is booming. The media has cranked up a narrative of police racial injustice after Columbus cop stops a knife-wielding teen from stabbing another girl.  In Columbus the media is disgusting in it's creation of a picture of "predatory white police on the prowl" to kill innocent blacks in cold blood.  

Here's what really happened.   Cops were respond to a call, they just didn't happen to be there, and it was a call for help against a knife attack.  So this wasn't about some innocent black just standing around minding her own business.  When they get there's they find a fight in progress.  The cops order them to stop, but the girl wielding the knife ignores their instructions and continued to attack another girl, and so the cop shot her.  

What was he supposed to do.  Let one girl kill the other and say, well, I guess the murdered girl just had a bad day and go and eat a doughnut?  

We're seeing black on black crime that's almost unbelievable.  The blacks who actually are murdering blacks are almost totally ignored by the media, and certainly ignored by the "racial grievance industry" because it doesn't promote their narrative that America is vile and needs to be destroyed. Yet where's the real unmitigated violence?  Random ‘sucker-punch’ assaults leave frightened NYC residents on edge

If any community needs more policing, it's black America, but that's the community who elects misfits like Maxine Waters who conduct a war on the police and the justice system.  There's no fixing that.  Worse yet, this was part of a plan. The Left’s Long March Through The Institutions Is Now Pretty Much Complete, And It’s A Disaster.

We're heading into troubled waters, and I'm afraid those waters will be bloody before it's all over.

• Minneapolis’s prosecutors always knew George Floyd died of natural causes October 21, 2023 Tucker Carlson reports on the story, but what’s really worthwhile is listening to Vince Everett Ellison, who is amazing. More
•   October 21, 2023 ‘Tucker on X’ Episode 32: ‘The Whole George Floyd Story Was a Lie’ In episode 32 of his newest production “Tucker on X,” host Tucker Carlson declared “the whole George Floyd story was a lie” and discussed with Vince Everett Ellison how the Democratic Party uses men like Floyd to advance its agenda and maintain power.