Author Jack Cashill has followed the intersection of the severe left and law enforcement for decades. In his latest article he walks through the Derek Chauvin case and outlines a familiar pattern. [Full Article Here]
Excerpt: […] “Roughly six or seven minutes before Floyd took his last breath, Chauvin had shown no signs of racism or brutality, let alone the potential for murder. To this point in the interaction, he had been polite, professional, and, if anything, too patient. “I’ll put the air on” — are those the words of a racist killer, Joe?
As Chauvin understood, attempting to subdue a drugged suspect a half a foot taller than he and 80 pounds heavier was not going to be easy. Finally acknowledging the futility of their collective efforts, Chauvin let Floyd leave the car at 8:19. “Thank you. Thank you,” said Floyd. When ordered to hit the ground, he sighed, “I want to lay on the ground, I want to lay on the ground. I’m going down, I’m going down. I’m going down.”
Rejecting the more aggressive but legal hobble restraint — cuffed hands and legs connected behind the suspect — Chauvin used the same restraint I saw applied on the sidewalk outside my office: knee on the area where the shoulder meets the neck. In addition to the officers’ body cams, Chauvin could see bystanders recording the scene. If he were intentionally violating the law, he knew he would be found out.” (read full article)
Once again showing jury selection is nothing more than looking for the lowest common denominator that will believe anything.
It ain’t law, it’s a talent show and popularity contest.
Which might just be a way for them to get rid of the jury system – the people themselves no longer have faith in them. I guess they figure the least amount of people one has to go through to get the desired result, the better.
Jury nullification…
Definition of voir dire: jury tampering.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower was responsible for the deaths of a whole bunch of people as he successfully led the invasion of Europe at the end of WWII.
I guess Ike should have been put on trial and “shown remorse”. And if he didn’t show enough remose, found guilty of murder.
“Hate crimes” established the idea that a crime is worse because of what the actor is thinking. Now–doing his job becomes criminal partly because he was not sorry he did his job.
Crazy-making is what it is.
And there’s no reason for anyone to be real shocked about where we are. It’s precisely where we’ve been headed for a very long time and anyone who understood the definition of continuum is not shocked. You/we will always, eventually, get where we are headed. Funny how that keeps happening.
How can police do their jobs going forward with this outcome hanging over their head? What perversion of law! What a sick and broken system.
DD
They can’t. Which means a segment of society representing law and order employing many with values to match gets hollowed out. And of course, nature abhors a vacuum.
Also, when fear and crisis is the default, smiling people offering lessening of fear and crisis can be quite appealing, even if their promises are hard to believe.
Gangs and mobsters will have a rebirth of their golden eras. Yay us. /s
the new mob will be defected COPS protecting us from the FBI
If only cops were that noble…..
Police will be the Gang of America fighting for it, when the STATE sends the FBI
support your police now BEFORE JOE FEDERALIZES IT.
Easy, just do as the DC police did after they murdered Miss Babbitt- ignore, deny, and tell everyone to STFU. It works for them, why not other departments?
I’m being serious. The only people who seem to get into trouble are those who let themselves be bullied into submission.
He’s guilty of negligent homicide, that is it. He’s not guilty of 2nd-degree murder. Yes, I said negligent homicide..because he did nothing to get Mr. Floyd assistance once it was needed, rather he did nothing. As an officer of the law he was required to take action to ensure Floyd’s safety. He did the opposite- and probably for good reason, but the law is the law.
This was a lynching. A bigoted racist lynching by those who constantly call others racists and bigots.
Just stop playing their game and force them to follow the same rules. Yet, no one does that….I keep hearing how we are actually the majority…well, ok, if so, then let’s start acting like it.
If this officer is guilty of 2nd-degree murder then the officer in DC is guilty of 1st.
Negligent homicide….surely you jest. Could he administered oxygen, cops don’t have O2. Could he mouth to mouth, while George was foaming at the mouth and in a COVID crises? Pushing air in his lungs wasn’t the problem, overdosing on drugs and being non compliant was. George said he couldn’t breathe. Its not the LEO responsibility to assist him in doing so.
LEO’S ARE NOT CHARGED WITH PROTECTING PEOPLE LIVES.
“…did nothing to get Mr. Floyd assistance…”
You mean like call for an ambulance?
Or do you mean to imply that Pretty Boy Floyd should have been offered PUBLIC assistance: food stamps, subsidized housing, Medicare, fentanyl vouchers, etc.? ?
I’m PRAYING Trump has a chance to PARDON him. Us celebrating ( like the tribes did when O.J. beat the rap) will make it unbearable for the commies.
They can’t, and that is the whole purpose of this insanity–to corrupt local police work to the point that the feds have to nationalize local police forces under federal control. Thus, if the police cannot be defunded, then whole communities will effectively be de-policed–a difference without a distinction.
Oh, and the best part; when helpless citizens attempt to defend themselves against these marauding super-predators, their fate will be the same as Derek Chauvin–or worse.
This is not going to end well.
Very well stated. Come soon Lord. Come soon.
DD
Exactly correct.
Exactly. This is what the DemoCommieFascists want…..a broken system so that people will be willing to let the federal government become law enforcement nationwide.
A perfect opportunity to set up 21st Century SS, STASI, Gestapo, KGB, etc
And questions remain about the “experts“ and priorities therein:
“After voluntarily spending 150 hours reviewing the video and other evidence, Dr. Martin Tobin, a pulmonologist and arguably the State’s best witness, concluded that Floyd drew his last breath at 8:25:16. At almost exactly that same moment, the crowd had grown sufficiently threatening that Chauvin pulled his Mace can and shook it as warning. He was authorized to use it. He didn’t.
“Chauvin and his colleagues did not have the luxury Tobin did. It was in the next three minutes that Chauvin and his crew turned from professional police officers to, from Joe’s perspective, racist murderers. If Tobin knew Floyd stopped breathing at 8:25, the officers did not.“
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“A New York Times headline captured the nut of the State’s case: “Expert Witness Pinpoints Floyd’s Final Breath and Dismisses Talk of Overdose.” That witness was the Irish-born Tobin. The media expressed wonder that such an esteemed Chicago doctor would volunteer 150 hours of his time.
““Well, when I was asked to do the case, I thought I might have some knowledge that would be helpful to explain how Mr. Floyd died,” Tobin testified in the way of explanation. “And since I’d never done this type of work in this nature before, I decided I didn’t wish to be paid for it.”
“When “asked” to do the case? Why, one wonders, would the State “ask” a doctor who had “never done this type of work” to serve as their star witness? My suspicion is that Tobin, upon seeing the video clip, made the State aware of his potential usefulness.
“The Times subhead fleshed out his testimony: “A pulmonologist told jurors that Derek Chauvin pressed 86.9 pounds onto the neck of George Floyd, who tried to push himself off the pavement with his fingertips.”
“As Nelson made embarrassingly clear, Floyd was lying on his side during the time he was allegedly pushing himself off the pavement. That was a minor problem for the State. More problematic was Tobin’s professional myopia. Presuming his motives were pure, one senses in Tobin’s testimony a touch of the syndrome known as Maslow’s hammer, usually shorthanded as, “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
“To reach his conclusions, the pulmonologist had to “dismiss” a lot. Among the complicating factors cited in Floyd’s death by the one man who examined his body, Hennepin County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker, were arteriosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease, fentanyl intoxication, and recent methamphetamine use. Floyd had 90 percent blockage in one artery and 75 percent in another, and he was recovering from COVID. He also had three times the fentanyl in his system needed to kill a healthy human, and healthy Floyd was not. Tobin dismissed all of this. For the State to make the charges against Chauvin stick, he had to.“
As we used to say in my profession, “Expert = Former Drip Under Pressure”. Unfortunately, mob justice will rule in high profile cases such as the circumstances in this one.
I’ve watched many magicians and my eyes convinced me that the trick was real. These jurors were not supposed to let their eyes deceive them. The evidence was clear and the prosecution never should have brought the case in the first place. But BLM needed a lynching and they got one.
The jury instructions were written for an assault with intent to harm not for a police officer who is duty bound to restrain a person arrested for a crime and hell bent on either escaping or causing harm. The judge instructed the jurors to convict Chauvin if the restraint was a factor in Floyd’s death as if the felony murder rule applied. Chauvin was only doing his job as a police officer to restrain a drugged out criminal who worked as a bouncer in a ghetto nightclub. The prosecution and the judge treated Chauvin as if he was an assailant who was committing a battery on an unsuspecting victim. Welcome to the new world!
I think if I was a cop I’d be looking for a new profession.When the law that you are supposed to uphold is working against you,it’s time to find another job.
I hope this gets appealed and Chauvin is set free. This however is my favorite part of the Article…
the jurors found Chauvin guilty on all counts with unseemly speed. In their haste, they called to mind Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’s caution about Leo Frank’s Atlanta trial a century earlier, “Mob law does not become due process of law by securing the assent of a terrorized jury.”
There is not a principled or courageous judge or court in this land that will overturn this verdict–riddled though it is with procedural error, jury tampering and judicial mismanagement.
This trial, and the verdict, was essentially the OJ trial mirrored. That is the simplest way to explain what transpired and the resulting and unsurprising verdict. Justice now demands that an appellate court throw out the verdict and order a new trial, somewhere hundreds of miles from Minn. There are at least a dozen solid legal grounds for this verdict to be tossed. Starting with venue and moving on from there. But I wouldn’t bet on that happening.
FTA “To justify $2 billion of damages and dozens of lives lost, the Democrat-media complex needed a cause as epic as the damage. The State and its allies had to overcharge all four of the officers. They had to turn Chauvin from a veteran cop, who may or may not have made an error of judgment in the final moments of Floyd’s life, into a villain. They had to turn the career criminal George Floyd into a secular saint. And, finally, they had to elevate an unintentional death into a racist murder.
If there was “stain on a nation’s soul,” Joe, it was the trial.”
This is a classical example of leftist narrativeism where the leftist narrative is absolutely void of any facts and loaded with feelings/emotions/sympathies/hyperbole/imagined law breaking/white racism/ hatred of blacks! This narrative had it all but facts, due process and justice!
This is the “Just us” system in the Communist havens controlled by the CPUSA Democrat Party mobsters. Even the “Supreme Court” is compromised by threats, intimidation, leftist political pressure, etc. not to act to enforce the Constitutional law of the land.
The Marxist Democrat Party ( along with the corrupt Guttless Old Party doing/saying nothing) use their propaganda (S)news media to spread the carefully edited videos and worded lies, use race baiters like Ben Crump, Mad Maxine, etc. to stoke the fires of the cry of “racism” or “equity”, activate and protect from law enforcement their useful idiot mobs of BLM/Antifa that threaten and carry out riots, burning, looting and intimidation of anyone who opposes their narrative, use the corrupted prosecutors, judges, lawyers, and tainted jury pools to convict anyone who stands in the way of the Communist collective agenda, etc. etc. etc.
This is America today under the Communist takeover push using every corrupt means necessary to install the NWO “Great Reset” that the elites want. The George Floyd incident, (a local issue BTW) was blown out of proportion for the purpose of weaking law enforcement on certain segments of society and to intimidate anyone who would oppose them. Think of the January 6th insurrection narrative, arrest of conservative Americans, razor wire fence, military presence, etc. at the “People’s House” while the real BLM/Antifa rioters and insurrectionist go unpunished never to be mentioned in the propaganda media..
The so called “trial and conviction” of Derek Chauvin was just another message sent to police officers across the country not to interfere with the Marxist mobs that seek to destroy the American cultural so as to instill Communist NWO, global tyranny rule.
“Guttless Old Party”
Better: Gelded Opposition Party ?
IMO it’s all political theater and Chauvin was the designated sacrifice.
My possibly crazy theory is that everybody got around the table and decided “look, we can’t have an acquittal, even if it is legally obvious – the mob is going to burn and plunder, and who knows where it might lead if we’re not in control of it, let’s be practical – the jury delivers a guilty verdict, the mob get their pound of flesh, our politicians look like shining Knights, and poor old officer Chauvin? – why he won’t serve more than a few days for appearances and photo shoots, then we’ll put him up in one of our anonymous ranches our pal Bill Gates has all over the country – people will forget in a month, 3 tops.
Yeah, that’s a crazy theory . The system doesn’t care in the slightest about essentially lynching an innocent white cop. The libs in power are no different than their BLM/antifa buddies trying to burn cops alive in the street.
“[L] et’s be practical.”
Practical men repeat the mistakes of their predecessors. Instead, let’s be principled.
The cop who shot the thug who wanted to knife the girl in pink is fortunate she was a black thug.
Chauvin’s private/professional life is over, just as it would have been if he had been found innocent.
The only hope for cops to ever retire with their lives intact is to not do their job.
Keep that in mind if you ever have to call 911 because black criminals have targeted you.
If white criminals have targeted you, it’s all good.
“The only hope for cops to ever retire with their lives intact is to not do their job.
Keep that in mind if you ever have to call 911 because black criminals have targeted you.”
Can confirm. Been there, done that. If your municipality is majority ghetto-black, and is already on the brink of unrest, you’re worse off calling the cops.
No cop will ever go to jail for not arresting somebody. So yeah, policing won’t happen, crime will go up. Last year there were 82 homicides in Minneapolis, including Floyd. https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1FWX1lWAaYxh78VtNsRXE1V6gvNofSAML&ll=45.03732026575838%2C-93.18594821729727&z=12 One was a guy shot by cops after he’d started shooting AT cops. The rest were “regular” murders. So even if you say George Floyd’s death was criminal, that’s 1 out of 82. If we could eliminate all questionable killings by cops (by limiting what they can do), but it resulted in a 5% increase crime (it would probably result in a far bigger increase), that would mean a net increase in deaths.
“There are no solutions, there are only trade–offs; and you try to get the best trade–off you can get, that’s all you can hope for.” – Thomas Sowell.
The FBI just raided Rudy’s house in NY
Anyone connected with Trump should be smart enough to already have a lawyer and deposit all information and records they have with them. Then delete everything they have. Its gonna get ugly.
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This lawyer ordinarily would agree… although… Rudy IS “the lawyer” and he was investigating for defense of impeachment allegations! (And see Michael Cohen.)
You caanot delete anything. That’s how George P got charged.
You absolutely can if it hasn’t been requested..yet.
https://mynorthwest.com/2831168/rantz-seattle-times-inclusive-group-bans-justice-system-inmate-for-social-justice/
The Seattle Times has banned the use of certain words and phrases – including “Excited delirium” because it isn’t a real thing and is just an excuse for police officers to excuse their use of force! Would LOVE to see any of these snowflake journalists get into a physical brawl with someone 100 pounds heavier than them who is amped up on Fetanyl!! They’d be calling 911 so fast it would make your head spin!!
To clarify – the idea that Excited Delerium is “just an excuse that police officers use” came from the article. It is definitely NOT my opinion as I personally know many police officers and firefighters who are well aware of how very real, AND dangerous, the condition is!
The concept of delerium has been a matter of debate even before Floyd’s death by overdose. The usual suspects never stop undermining.
Declaring the debate settled and banning the term is politics as usual.
But, it is still a fact that drugged up arrestees can act in irrational violent ways. They remain a threat to everyone, bystanders, police and themselves. And they can wake up from being unconscious in full violent mode.
It was Chauvin’s duty to keep the subject constrained until the medic gave the signal that they were ready. (The medic tapped Chauvin’s shoulder.) It didn’t matter if the subject had passed out or even stopped breathing. Violence has even taken place after resuscitation.
Frankly, Floyd, or Floyd’s friends and drug dealers could have told the cops Floyd was ODing on drugs and what drugs he was OWINGS on. They withheld the critical information that could have saved Floyd’s life.
Floyd was in the process of dying even before the cops arrived. And he made himself much worse in the cop car as he tried to hide his drugs by ingesting them. The liar wasn’t suffering from claustrophobia in his own car. He was preventing the help he needed by desperately trying anything and everything to prevent being taken to jail.
And the angry crowd further delayed help by necessitating that the medics set up blocks away and then shoot and scoot the patient from the angry crowd over to the thei new location.
Lots of other people guilty of denying Floyd the aid he needed. Chauvin did not kill Floyd, nor did he negligently allow Floyd to die. Chauvin did his duty, keeping Floyd, the angry mob, and his fellow officers safe while awaiting medical help.
Exactly! You clearly understand the totality of the situation, as your post is filled with FACTS and not “feelings”! Would like your comment more than once if I could!!
Adrenaline alone clouds thinking unless you’re trained to think through it.
This has been a leftist tactic for decades: push political matters into the courts — which are increasingly 0bama Star Chambers — where cases are decided politically. News media the same thing. Moreover, the Democrats are criminalizing normal, truth-based political activity that vexes them. May not agree with it, but it’s reality.
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The trial judge apparently was intimidated. He could have fixed this.
We’ll see how honest (and brave) the appellate court is.
At best there was negligence in positioning an individual in extremis that did not include proved criminal intent.
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P.S. Aside. I’m still in complete confusion regarding how it is that a convenience store clerk examined a $20 bill and called this in. Really? And such an aggressive police response to a crime impossible to get a conviction on (do YOU examine your $20 bills to see if any are counterfeit before you “pass” them?)
In certain areas, businesses – especially convenience stores – do check any bill $20 and over. I lived for awhile in one such area.
In such areas, it’s suicide for the cops to show up with fewer than two backup cars.
Maybe you had to see that bill.
Between this and the FISA article, isn’t too much to wonder about designs on the Supreme Court. Everything China, Russia, Venezuela, Cuba do to their people is ‘legal’.
We are being ‘legally’ engulfed. Appeal? It’s all legal, so change the law. Given the current state of the election integrity? I know Debbie Downer what’s my solution. The 100 trillion dollar question.
Lots of reasons to appeal:
Case should have been moved out of Minneapolis, given the riots last year.
$27 mil settlement by the city implied fault by Mpls police.
Jury should have been sequestered.
Maxine Waters’ threats.
That’s just the start if it. Just because Chauvin has valid reasons for an appeal doesn’t mean he’ll be granted a new trial.
“Lots of reasons to appeal:”
Judge failed to limit cumulative testimony.
Judge permitted Prosecution to denigrate Defense lawyer’s arguments.
The judge is a black robed cuck—the sort of jurist who is more highly valued for his malleability than for his jurisprudence.
This was not a trial, it was a lynching.
Did anyone notice in Cup foods virtually nobody coming in and out of the store in the video’s was wearing a mask?
And this was during May, certainly around the very peak of mask frenzy.
Great article by Jack. I however would have added that ‘unbiased’ volunteer witness Tobin was watching every minute of the trial – specifically the defense’s case as it was presented.
Amazing that he showed back up as a rebuttal witness to rebut the defense’s evidence of carbon monoxide poisoning.
He-Tobin actually called up the state and asked to be brought back to rebut it. Mind you the state didn’t call him-
Just another piece Tobin had to ignore to come to his biased conclusion.
IMO that witness Tobin was clearly a SJW – biased with an agenda, I gave him very little credibility. This guy was nothing more than a state plant.
Common sense could clearly conclude that if your head was inches from a running cars exhaust pipe you may be breathing in a lethal amount of CO2.
IMO the fact that his blood wasn’t specifically tested or if it was and wasn’t presented, is a BIG problem for the state or they purposely ignored it and didn’t introduce bcz they knew it would be.
Jury member, Brandon Mitchell, a 31-year-old high school basketball coach said he thought deliberations should have been over in just 20 minutes.
He also said, “It’s just important. If we want to see some change and want to see some things going differently, we got to get out there and get in these avenues and these rooms to try to spark some change.”
A comment about that found elsewhere:
Sweet. Activist jurist, who doesn’t understand what jury duty is.
As I noted in another thread regarding this trial, I’m not so sure jury of your peers is the best option anymore, because have you seen your peers lately? Once we got into the whole unable to tell the difference between a man and a woman thing, how can you really expect people to rationally decide a case? You can’t.
The salient point of Chauvins’ conviction, regardless of facts, was stopping billions of dollars in damage in the city where he was tried.
“[H]e had been polite, professional, and, if anything, too patient.”
Forbearance like Chauvin displayed has resulted in the needless deaths of many cops. If the suspect continues to bargain for time, it may be that he plans to retrieve a weapon and use it.
Be polite, be firm but have a plan to shoot the suspect who drags out an arrest for transparently disingenuous purposes.
My take doesn’t matter, however…. in that corrupted climate he had to testify, he had to say to the jury that he was kneeling on the perp’s shoulder in an approved manner.
If he was, the prosecution collapses on appeal. If it was a dangerous neck “hold” it’s basic manslaughter and he gets 3 years for stupidity.
I don’t see how this conviction stands on appeal outside the 3rd world local court system that handled it.
Do believe Chauvin was found guilty for the same OJ was found not guilty–fear of riots. Just my opinion.
Dennis Prager made an interesting point in his Fireside Chat podcast. He said there was no mentioning of Chauvin’s racism during his trial.
Isn’t it what all the fuss was about?
Wow… Chauvin Trial Juror Brandon Mitchell says on GMA he was an activist Juror…
“In order for change to happen… If we want to see different results… Jury Duty is definitely one of those things…”
Jury Nullification is also definitely “one of those things.”
As for myself, to me it is very obvious that the trial itself must be a “do-over,” because it is in my opinion impossible to now consider that an overtly-threatened jury could possibly be “impartial.”
However … I also suspect that the officer is guilty. “That’s my opinion, and I’m stickin’ to it …”
What I’m still waiting for, though, is a Jury verdict that I’m confident that I can trust.
The world is upside down. “They had to turn Chauvin from a veteran cop, who may or may not have made an error of judgment in the final moments of Floyd’s life, into a villain. They had to turn the career criminal George Floyd into a secular saint.” Floyd was no saint that’s for sure. The race card was played to distract people and votes nothing else.