Guest Post by Ann Coulter
Why is this case the one inciting mass protests? Ninety-nine percent of the country is denouncing the Minneapolis police in the most damnable terms possible over the death of George Floyd. The 99% are demanding that the 1% “hear their voices”?
The arrest certainly looks awful. Everything is going along relatively peacefully as Floyd is walked to a police van, then there’s some commotion out of sight of the camera — and suddenly you see Floyd pinned to the ground, an officer’s knee on his neck. How did that happen?
One reason some of us are waiting for all the facts is that we suspect the media may not be extra scrupulous in cases that give them the opportunity to wail about “systemic racism.”
It turns out, for example, Floyd didn’t die of asphyxiation. According to the Hennepin County medical examiner’s report cited in the criminal complaint charging Officer Derek Chauvin with murder, he died of a heart attack. The autopsy also found Floyd had fentanyl in his system, had recently used methamphetamine, had coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease. Two weeks ago, this would have been another COVID-19 death.
According to Nexis, these official autopsy findings have not been reported at all on MSNBC and only briefly — to be explained away — on CNN. (The family’s private autopsy concluding Floyd’s death was caused by strangulation has been widely reported.)
It could still be murder, but the “I can’t breathe” slogans aren’t quite accurate. Aw, they’ve already made their protest signs, and we’d have to re-do the chyrons — does it really matter?
There also hasn’t been loads of reporting on Floyd’s five years in prison for armed robbery. I know the guy has just died, and he seemed to have turned his life around, but the media isn’t holding a memorial service. They’re supposed to be reporting news. How about an interview with Floyd’s victims? Wouldn’t that be a newsy segment?
Again, according to Nexis, Floyd’s armed robbery conviction has been fleetingly mentioned only once on ABC News and once on Fox News.
The other reason some of us are waiting for all the facts can be summed up with two words: Rodney King.
That arrest looked pretty bad, too. The jury forewoman on the first trial said that when she saw the King video on television, “I was revulsed. … I thought they were hitting that poor man too hard and too long.”
But at the trial a year later, she got to see the 13 seconds of video that had been deliberately edited out by the media: the 6-foot-4, 240-pound King rising like a phoenix and charging at one of the officers.
The video that played on an endless loop on TV showed only the tail end of the encounter, when officers were whacking King with their batons.
In fact, however, the beating was the officers’ last resort for subduing King, who’d just led them on a high-speed car chase, at times reaching speeds of up to 115 mph, drawing several police cars and a police helicopter.
Once stopped, King’s two (black) passengers exited the car and got on the ground, as instructed. They went home without a scratch that night.
But King leapt out and began dancing and babbling, crouching, kneeling, laughing and waving to the police helicopter overhead. Both the officers and King’s passengers believed he was high on angel dust.
The senior officer, Sgt. Stacey Koon, ordered the officers to back away and holster their guns. He didn’t want to risk a fatal encounter.
Four officers tried swarming King — he threw them off his back like rag dolls. A dart from a Taser gun did nothing. Then another — also nothing. King lunged at an officer and got hit with a baton, but kept on raging. The police were running out of options that would allow everyone to stay alive.
That’s when three officers began hitting King with their metal batons, under the supervision of Sgt. Koon. If King moved, they whacked him. Finally, they managed to double-cuff him — the procedure for suspects on PCP — and put him in an ambulance to the hospital.
When Sgt. Koon first heard that the arrest had been captured on video, he was ecstatic. “This is great!” he said. “They got it on tape! Now we’ll have a live, in-the-field film to show police recruits. It can be a real-life example of how to use escalating force properly.”
Not only the jurors, but nearly everyone who saw the first trial ended up supporting the acquittal, including Roger Parloff, a liberal legal reporter who sat through most of the trial for the American Lawyer, and Lou Cannon, who covered it for The Washington Post. The renowned (black) economist Walter Williams was shocked by “the news media’s dereliction and deception” in their editing of the tape.
All this is detailed in my book “Mugged,” but at the time, the public knew none of it, thanks to our activist media.
The endlessly played Rodney King video hid the same part of Floyd’s arrest that’s being withheld today. Doesn’t anyone else wonder how Floyd ended up on the ground? Where are those videos?
Nah, it’s much easier — and cost-free! — to Speak Truth to the 1%.
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Put a sock in it Antif-ann.
Too gay.
It’s not that she is wrong, it’s that she’s a Boomer. Boomers can’t buy one in the new world order.
Using a knee to pinch the carotid artery is dangerous and should NEVER be used as a method of control. In fact, this “carotid pinch” method has been taught to American police by israeli “trainers” and is commonly used by israeli troops to “subdue” Palestinians…
Pinching the carotid can cause a heart attack.
I have no use for George Floyd, but, in this case, the cops brought it on themselves. Pinching the carotid artery for 8 minutes assures a dead suspect.
Anarchyst,
Close but no cigar. The knee wasn’t close to the right carotid.
BTW, there is a left and right catotid artery. Even if one was occluded the other was still open and provides adequate circulation. The carotids are anterior to( in front of) the large sternocleidomastoid muscles that run primarily from behind the ear ( mastoid process) to the sternum with a minor branch attachment to the clavicle. Put your hand on your forehead and push your head forward and you’ll see the SCM pop up. The knee DID NOT kill Floyd.
Sorry pal. I watched the video. The cop was on top of Floyd for ten minutes, including at least three minutes after he passed out. The cop killed him. No doubt about it. None. And as for Coulter’s question about what happened before the 10 minute video – it is irrelevant. Floyd had been completely subdued. If you have any doubt, watch the video.
centsless
We all watched the video(s). You don’t know he died, you think you know. I have yet to see the corroners exact time of death. How do we know when he died.
Until we can witnees the real body at the viewing we don’t know if it was another hoax/FF.
Waiting for more videos to come out. Maybe someone will give their video to Dianne Feinstein and she will divulge it sometime around October 15.
I know he died because I have two eyes.
I don’t endorse any of the rioting or any of that, but come on. If you think that the cops didn’t cause his death, you are just making yourself look like a complete nut.
And… Armstrong was on the moon in ’69.
CC, in the unlikely event I would be on trial for something I would pray to God that you would not be selected for the jury.
Here is the video you idiots. Watch it and tell me that the cop did not kill him.
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Ah yes–the old, “I saw it on TV” explanation. Proof enough it happened for sure.
Would he have passed out and died if he wasn’t on fentanyl and meth? Do you know how dangerous fentanyl is, even when not mixed with meth?
It is the optics of the knee on the neck, hearing him say “I can’t breathe” (probably due to the heart attack he was having) and the crowds imploring the cops to lighten up. Regardless of what the rest of the tapes show, these guys are going down, especially in front of a Minneapolis jury.
Mixing fentanyl with meth is is dangerous. I’d say it assures death. Sooner rather than later. For a healthy person, this would not have been fatal. Nor would it have been fatal for a person not on that toxic mix of drugs.
Donna Brazille was on FOX speaking about him as if he was an angel….barf
Why does she even have a job after what she did ?
Because she did it for Hillary?
And because she probably gave Slick a bj to make amends.
She wasn’t the only one. Everyone of them says he had turned his life around, was leading a Bible study and changed his ways. I guess the meth and Fentanyl in his blood and that he had just passed a bogus $20 were missed by those who have “sainted” him.
Hey, when you are a true victim unlimited back sliding is allowed.
All that’s missing was his old altar boy pic.
My wife, out of the blue, asked if it was true that the cop and the guy he killed both worked at the same club doing security. I said that I’d heard that from the club owner in an interview, but that supposedly they never met.
Then she asked about the counterfeit money and I said I’d also heard that. Then she brought up the fentanyl OD. I could see her putting pieces together and then she said that maybe the two guys were involved in some kind of counterfeiting operation and the struggle in the cop car was when they shot him up with a hot dose to get rid of him and sitting on his neck was intentional to keep him still until he died from the OD. In other words getting rid of him intentionally because of some beef over the counterfeit money being passed/stolen/whatever.
Now she’s starting to think like me.
George and Donna? Sounds like a number to me.
One often unmentioned FACT about the Rodney King case is that the original stop was done by a CHP officer – about 5’5″ or so. He posed an imminent threat to her due to the size disparity but she stayed calm and did not shoot him – which would likely have been ruled a justifiable shooting due to that disparity and his actions/demeanor. It is possible that only those of us in LE at the time saw all of the video and got the ‘rest of the story’.
I do recall this.
Wrong-this is NOT the 99%. It’s only a noisy and noisome 1% trying to earn a buck doing what their masters demand.
“steal a buck”-fixed it.
The media is run by the globalists, and the globalists have an agenda – divide and conquer.
Blame the victim for causing the cops to kill him? For the doubters, go have someone kneel on your neck for five minutes. This murder does show stupid the cops are.
oh honey, once you pass fake bills, resist arrest, fight the cops AFTER they get you in a squad car… end up back on the street…
you ain’t a victim anymore.
Ya, do you think ellison is going to spend much time looking for the real facts behind the case?
Maybe you can get your name added to ellison’s list for potential expert witnesses.
Hey Ann, what does it matter that he spent five years in jail after getting murdered by a cop. Answer, it doesn’t. Youve crossed the line bitch.
Five years at Bernie’s? One weekend was enough.
Luv, care to explain all the non-existent media concern-then an now-for the White Aussie chick who likewise was murdered?
From the few observable facts in both cases I would find more reason to be upset about her murder. Either way, the libs and the globalists have ruined what used to be a fine city.
Let’s not forget the additional time ( up to 15 years) he would be facing for criminal fraud and passing counterfeit currency………just saying.
Here we go.
Thoughts?
attempted suicide by cop? he did reach for the belt.. death by senility? not enough sense to just move away?
I mean obviously the cop’s reaction looks terrible…
most young people today never spend any time around old people. cop’s probably never shoved someone that couldn’t handle it.
Looks staged.
Fucker should have kept his hands in his pockets. Better yet, he should have stayed home. Some people are so stupid they cain’t even pour piss out of a boot. That dude wins the pouring piss award for today.
The guy looks like a Poly Sci instructor from the local juco.
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