Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
I don’t pretend to know if Derek Chauvin is guilty in the objective sense – Judge Mom, a conservative who sent a lot of people to jail as a prosecutor before doing it from the bench, made a convincing argument to me for a murder conviction soon after the incident – but I do know one thing. This trial was a travesty, a kangaroo court, and as a country, we should be ashamed of ourselves.
This is not to argue whether he is innocent or guilty. I don’t know. There were arguments both ways, and compelling evidence for both points of view. There was powerful evidence for his guilt. Say what you want about that videotape, but it’s solid evidence. And there was powerful evidence for his innocence – George Floyd was clearly in mid-overdose and, after all, fentanyl does have the side effect of killing you. That’s solid evidence too. This was no slam-dunk. A fair trial required careful thought and sober deliberations. And it required a process where neutral citizens could act as jurors to sort it out try to find the truth based on the evidence and the law, and only that. It required a process free of fear and intimidation. But let’s not pretend we got that here.
From the beginning, we had politicians, media hacks, cultural poohbahs, and Twitter twerps demanding a pound of flesh. This was not outrage over a perceived crime – it was a mob interested in scoring points. A literal mob. People burned down the town where it happened. And a lot of other towns.
So, in an environment of violent chaos, did our glorious establishment stand up to defend the justice system by doubling down on the due process protections every accused is entitled to?
Of course, it did because courage in the face of controversy is the hallmark of our magnificent elite. They are our betters and worthy inheritors of the greatest nation in human history.
I’ll give you a second to stop laughing.
No, instead our elite tossed out the most basic component of our justice system, the idea of due process and a fair trial because to not do so would have led to evil and dumb people calling them “racists” and they couldn’t handle that heat. They folded, joining in the chorus demanding blood – something very different than demanding justice.
A fair trial? What a joke. At every point, they stacked the deck. “Due process is apparently a luxury we can’t afford because BLM will get mad,” went the elite’s gutless reasoning. In fact, like free speech and freedom of religion, the right to a fair trial and due process matters most when defending that right is hard.
When you have to hear words you hate.
When someone rejects your faith (including pagan faiths like the global warming cult) in favor of his own.
When someone you don’t like is on trial.
That’s the thing about rights – the people you like never have to demand their rights, only the people you don’t.
What happened here? Well, they piled appellate issue on the appellate issue in a towering pile of errors that would, by all rights, lead a real court of appeals to toss this case back for a retrial.
The judge refused to change the venue. He made the case be tried in a city whose inhabitants set it aflame. Seems legit.
The judge refused to sequester the jury, making them pinkie swear to ignore the Class 5 hurricane of media attention. That’ll work.
The city council decided to settle the wrongful death case right during the trial. What a coinkydink.
Minneapolis’s goofy mayor demanded a conviction. Great.
Minnesota’s governor did too. Awesome
The loathsome Maxine Waters – as part of the Army, I had to help clean up the mess she made in 1992 in LA with her “No justice, no peace” incitement – decided to encourage violence if her preferred verdict didn’t come down. Spectacular.
The leftist scumbags did their part, splashing pig’s blood on the house of someone they thought had been a defense witness for the crime of giving testimony the mob disliked. Nothing to see here.
And the media did its part, ensuring that the jurors knew they’d be doxed if they got it “wrong” (and praised if they got it “right”). Oh, the media didn’t say it expressly – but the media still made it clear. Do you have any doubt our brave journalists would hesitate to hassle a juror for wrongverdicting? Democracy dies in darkness or something.
Oh, and the media also cheerled the prosecution throughout. Of special note is the genius “legal analyst” – Pro Tip: If the legal analyst is not Harmeet Dillon, Ron Coleman, or me, he/she/xe is probably going to be terrible – who inexplicably chose to say, on purpose, this: “Defense begins the closing by defining reasonable doubt, not with why #DerekChauvin is innocent. Think about that. #DerekChauvinTrial #GeorgeFloyd”
Only an idiot would think about that. I am not going to insult your intelligence by explaining why that’s appalling. She apparently once worked at the Department of Justice, which does explain a lot.
Piled together, this was a towering heap of due process violations that made this trial a farce. Not because of the evidence, but because the establishment decided to tamper with the jury. No, no one overtly told the jurors how they had to vote, but did anyone need to? Do you imagine anyone on that jury was unaware of what was in store for them if they determined the evidence defined the narrative and acquitted?
No, you don’t. But don’t look to any appellate court to have the guts to do the right thing and send it back for a fair trial. Sadly, the smart money is on the jurists getting the message too.
The message was crystal clear, just as it was meant to be. And the jury came through – maybe. Maybe the jury really was convinced by the evidence and thought he was guilty. But maybe it didn’t. Maybe it was scared. And that possibility is unacceptable in a civilized and free society.
Yet, our elite will not just accept it. Our elite will celebrate it.
And that’s a disgrace.
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Justice?
How quaint.
It was a show trial that would have made the apparatchiks of the Soviet Union proud. It was a travesty and a sick joke of a trial and the judge was the apex from which all injustice descended.
The truly loathsome and vile poisonous toad Maxine opened her gaping maw, spewing hate as is her wont, coupled with all the rest of the filth that pretends to journalism and the grotesques in the democrat party and the professional race baiters all worked together to see that a lynch mob was created. Any white person should take very careful note of how ‘justice’ is meted out these days. Blacks are sacrosanct and worshipped and allowed to run roughshod and rampant and they will only ramp up the violence because they can.
“And the media did its part, ensuring that the jurors knew they’d be doxed if they got it “wrong” (and praised if they got it “right”)”
I believe that’s pretty much the case here. I’m betting at some point one of the jurors will talk and let the cat out of the bag that they all decided to cover their asses and convict no matter what. They didn’t want the mob after them. Calling Project Veritas…
I still do not understand how one person can die and the perpetrator is guilty of killing him 3 times. It is either one or the other, but should not be all three. IMO, 3rd degree was the correct verdict, as Chauvin restrained St. George even after he became non-responsive.
“I still do not understand how one person can die and the perpetrator is guilty of killing him 3 times.
Here is how one website explains it ….
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Second-degree murder – GUILTY
Possible sentence: 12.5 to 40 years
The second-degree murder charge required prosecutors to prove Chauvin caused Floyd’s death while committing or trying to commit a felony — in this case, third-degree assault.
Prosecutors had to convince the jury that Chauvin assaulted or attempted to assault Floyd and in doing so inflicted substantial bodily harm. Prosecutors did not have to prove Chauvin was the sole cause of Floyd’s death – only that his conduct was a ‘substantial causal factor’.
Second degree murder carries a maximum sentence of 40 years, but because Chauvin does not have any prior convictions sentencing guidelines recommend he serve 12.5 years.
Second-degree manslaughter – GUILTY
Possible sentence: Four to 10 years
The manslaughter charge has a lower bar, requiring proof that Chauvin caused Floyd’s death through negligence that created an unreasonable risk, and consciously took the chance of causing severe injury or death.
Second degree manslaughter carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison – sentencing guidelines for someone without a criminal record call for no more than four years behind bars.
Third-degree murder – GUILTY
Possible sentence: 12.5 to 25 years
Third-degree murder required a lower standard of proof than second-degree. To win a conviction, prosecutors needed to show only that Floyd’s death was caused by an act that was obviously dangerous, though not necessarily a felony.
Third-degree murder carries a maximum sentence of 25 years but because Chauvin has no criminal history he would likely end up serving about 12.5.
That explains the nuances of the different charges, but if one is guilty of one, shouldn’t that negate the necessity of finding guilt on the other 2 murder charges?
Those parts of the US controlled by liberals are not civilized or free. It is occupied territory in a decades long war against Uncle Salty. The “elite” described are perhaps and projected as elite, they are in fact enemies of the State up to and including the junta installed occupant of the white house.
I can’t speak for anyone else but, personally, I don’t give a shit about Chauvin. I’m sure he would happily take guns and violate the civil liberties of white Americans if told to do so without a second thought. The obvious, chilling, and ultimately concerning result of this trial was that Chauvin was convicted of all those crimes cause he is white and Floyd was black. It’s becoming increasingly clear in Clownworld, USA that if you are white you can no longer police, defend yourself or even defend others if the aggressor is black. I dont fed post. But I’m afraid that white people are going to have to start doing “fed posty” stuff in order to survive. The last two years really seem to have accelerated the depersonification of white people.
Don’t worry. Chauvin doesn’t give a shit about you.
I think Chauvin had a gook wife as well.
Go fuck yourself, coward.
We have TPBers here married to Asian women. At a minimum, show some respect.
The Powers That Be believe in Justice ….Just Us ….not you peasants .
Didn’t you get the Congress Memo (The 1964 Civil Riots Act) that ruled White Males Bad, everybody else Good. Government just expanded it to all Whites and Asians Bad, everybody else Good. There are subsets like Republicans Bad, Democrats Good; Rural Bad, Urban Good; ICE bad, EV Good; Straight Bad, Homo Good; Coal Bad, Solar Good; Cows Bad, Impossible “meat” Good; HCQ and Ivomec Bad, The Shot Good; Work Bad, Welfare Good; Voter ID Bad, Voter Fraud Good; Student Test Bad, Automatic Pass Good; Morality Bad, If It Feels Good; Drug Laws Bad, Drugs Good; Parents Bad, Prostitution Good; Church Bad, Protests Good; Old Monuments Bad, Burning Businesses Good; Police Bad, Riots Good….
Floyd had 3x the lethal dose of fentanyl on board, the Minneapolis police manual teaches this very technique for restraint of a dangerous and violent offender, Floyd actively resisted arrest for several minutes, police body cam footage shows the knee was NOT on his neck, autopsy results showed NO trauma to the neck, trachea, or carotid, i.e. no evidence of traumatic asphyxiation. The city paid $27 million to the family BEFORE a verdict was reached, the Minneapolis paper published identifying characteristics of ALL jury members, the mob promised violence if anything less than a first degree murder conviction was declared (wasn’t even a formal charge), blm/antifa painted a “defense witnesses” house with pig’s blood and left a pig’s head (he didn’t even live there). A mountain of evidence supporting reasonable doubt and/or mistrial was ignored to attempt to appease the blm/antifa savages, who will never be satisfied. The actions of the court are reprehensible and signal the absolute end of any semblance of equal protection under the law. Get ready for the new Wild West, complete with communities armed and organized to protect themselves from the mob.
Judge Roy Bean…In Minneapolis .
I wouldn’t call it a trial. More like a racist lynch mob.
I watched enough of the trial to be convinced that the actions of Chauvin did not kill Floyd. To say that the prosecution proved him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt is nonsense. this trial was totally decided on emotions which is typical of society these days, facts are ignored, emotions are everything.
MEANWHILE ….
— Dementia, Da Ho, Obummer and many other senior Demoncraps vowed to make Floyd’s death a turning point in civil rights
— Dementia phoned Floyd’s family outside the court to pledge that he was going to change the course of history!!
— Floyd’s family held a press conference, with his six-year-old daughter Gianna among the tearful gathering … ‘We are able to breathe again,’ younger brother Philonise said. ‘Justice for George means freedom for all’
— Except the fucken Libfuks STILL say justice was not served! Da Cunts & Ilk, AOC and Ilhan literally said the verdict ‘is not justice’ … the verdict is only “the beginning” of a long process to purge Amerika of white supremacy
— AG Merrick Garland isn’t done either … said the Justice Department is opening a sweeping investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department’s policing practices … the end of policing in Minny Hellopolis is imminent.
Yo, White Peeps! Glue down your nuts and grab your ankles, we’re in for a Bumpy Ride!
Someone will have to explain to me how you can restrict the wind pipe by pressing on the back of the neck. Apparently they taught us anatomy wrong decades ago when we understood you had to constrict the front of the neck. Alas, face masks now work, men can now be women, and the trachea is now at the back of the neck. This new “science” baffles me.
I’ve tried over 100 times and I am still unable to say “I can’t breathe” if I can’t breathe.