Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
If you remember, 3 years and 5 months ago we were told repeatedly that Minneapolis white police officer Derick Chavin murdered black drug addict George Floyd by holding him on the ground with his knee on Floyd’s neck while Floyd cried “I can’t breathe.”
The “evidence” was a video taken at a distance by a young black girl that was misleading because it suffered from camera perspective distortion as experts at the time explained but were ignored in the media hysteria focused on the police officer. Moreover, Floyd’s complaints that he couldn’t breathe began when he was sitting in the patrol car. As the up close police videos showed, Chauvin’s knee was on Floyd’s shoulder, the approved technique.
Chavin was restraining Floyd because he realized he had a fentanyl case on his hands, had called medics, and was restraining Floyd so he wouldn’t thrash around and use up what little oxygen he was receiving. Fentanyl kills, if my memory of my investigation is reliable, by depriving blood cells from carrying oxygen.
I reported these facts at the time and cited the evidence including the coroner’s report that Floyd’s blood contained a multiple of the fatal dose of fentanyl. But the false media narrative had no ears for the truth.
Chauvin was convicted by the media long prior to his trial, and no jury was going to go against solid national opinion. The jurors knew they would be denounced in the media and by politicians and would have Black Lives Matter and Antifa on their lawns. Consequently, innocent police officers were convicted for a crime that did not happen. The ignorant mob and corrupt media triumphed over justice.
When I was young, conviction by the media prior to trial and a guilty verdict meant the case was dismissed because the jury pool was biased.
Tucker Carlson recently reported the facts in the first 3 minutes and 30 seconds of this video–https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgXuprXyPg0 . What brought the facts to light again is a law suit filed by a prosecutor against her boss in which deposition under oath revealed the conversation between the prosecutor and the county medical advisor, who told her “that there were no medical findings that showed any injury to the vital structures of Mr Floyd’s neck. There were no medical indications of asphyxia or strangulation.”
We know the facts, Tucker says, but what can we do about it? Apparently nothing. Floyd, a drug addict who killed himself, has been made a martyr. There are monuments to him. Taxpayers turned over $27 million of their money to Floyd’s family. This is another lie set in stone. And innocent police rot in prison.
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They hate us and would kill us all if given the chance.
Who’s they? Tucker Carlson??
Why be deliberately obtuse? Do you think you are a comedian? Well, you are not.
The main positive in this “national tragedy” has been the surge in employment for nigger actors in teevee commercials.
And of course a pig rotting away in prison.
Zappa typed ‘main positive’ instead of better descriptive words . . only
every downvote musta meens dey be luvin ads on tee vee for 3 yrs feetturin jigaboo actors. . . and sheeeeit
This isn’t new information.
Not to anyone paying attention, but I would guess the residents of MN will be stunned to find this out.
Opioids and their synthetic derivatives, when abused, shut down the sympathetic nervous system in general and the medulla oblongata specifically. The lack of oxygen comes from the brain forgetting to tell your lungs to breathe.
Lying down prone with weight on you doesn’t help. Too bad so sad.
How dare you impugn the holiness of Saint George Floyd, PCR? /s
Do I have to feel bad for anyone? The cops who just followed orders when closing up businesses and will gladly round us up when the time comes or the serial felon/drug addict that OD’d. Nope, no sympathy.
Soon enough it will be me & you facing jail for bad thoughts and the same cops will be doing the arrests…just following orders.
Chauvin may have been one hard uncaring asshole, but he didn’t kill anyone and neither did the other cops. I can see where you might get a bit hard and jaded as a cop in a liberal city. Arresting the same people everyday and seeing them back at the same crimes the next day.
He was just doing his job.
A better outcome would have been for him to have been shot dead by one of his own brutha’s.
I’ll quote Blowus Glump:
“One less thing.”
Because hey…it WILL add up to a super-positive outcome.
Eventually.
BFD.