Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the death of drug addict George Floyd, was nearly stabbed to death in prison last week and New York Post columnist Miranda Devine warned this week that the social justice warriors who put him in prison “will stop at nothing” to punish him.
Devine accurately noted that Chauvin, who was convicted of murdering Floyd in 2020, “has been thoroughly scrubbed of his personhood, let alone his rights.” On that note, Chauvin’s attorney slammed the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Saturday for failing to provide Chauvin’s family with updates on his condition.
“Chauvin is more reviled than all the pedophile rapists and sadistic serial killers in the land because someone was needed to embody the myth of systemic police racism that fueled the Democrats’ 2020 campaign and created a frightening atmosphere of chaos and lawlessness that helped dislodge Donald Trump from the White House,” she wrote. “In the wake of Floyd’s death, anarchists were given the green light to riot, burn, loot and kill in an orgy of anti-cop violence that threatened to engulf the country.”
Alive, their chosen fall guy continues to pose a problem to their well-laid plans, according to Devine.
“The corrupt political manipulators who engineered the unrest, and the cowardly agents of the state who staged the courtroom railroading of Chauvin, would like nothing better than for him to be dead, to save them from exposure,” the columnist said. “That exposure surely is coming, as an injustice so clear cannot stand in a country that still believes in the rule of law.”
The referenced “exposure” received a significant boost from “new evidence” uncovered in Liz Collin’s documentary “The Fall of Minneapolis,” according to Devine.
While noting that the Supreme Court just refused Chauvin’s long-shot request to review his murder conviction, Devine explained that his lawyers “argued that he had been denied a fair trial because Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill refused to move to a venue outside Minneapolis despite massive pretrial publicity and the prejudicial impact of angry mobs outside the courthouse, causing jurors to express fear for their own safety.”
“If a courthouse surrounded by barbed wire and National Guardsmen didn’t send a clear enough message of the ramifications of a not-guilty verdict, there was Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), who flew into town to rabble-rouse,” she continued. “The Democratic congresswoman urged protesters — who were attacking police and defying a curfew — to ‘get more confrontational’ if Chauvin was acquitted. ‘Stay on the street [because] we’re looking for a guilty verdict.'”
Readers are also reminded that President Joe Biden said while the jury — which was not sequestered — was deliberating that he was “praying” for a conviction.
Devine further noted that Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill “prevented the defense to present evidence that the ‘maximal restraint technique’ hold that Chauvin used to subdue a violent Floyd was part of the training of all cops in the Minneapolis Police Department,” and “ordered that a photograph (slide) in police training materials — which showed a man being restrained with a knee in precisely the way Chauvin restrained Floyd — be redacted.”
“It looked harsh in the viral video of Chauvin’s arrest, but it was textbook police academy training, applied by all Minneapolis police to control handcuffed, uncooperative, violent or drug-affected suspects,” Devine explained. “If the training was flawed, surely that is the fault of the department. Even if the chief of police testified under oath that ‘it was not’ a trained Minneapolis police defensive tactics technique, the evidence was against him.”
She also quoted from a speech Cahill gave to a conference of judges a year after Chauvin’s trial: “Every case that you deal with should be about racial justice.”
“All these high-profile cases where the judiciary failed in the area of racial justice,” the judge said, adding, “It is, in my mind, the number one issue for us as judges for preserving trust and confidence in the system, is to make equal justice under law reality every day.”
“There was not a shred of self-awareness in Cahill’s comments,” Devine concluded. “If any case has the potential to destroy public ‘trust and confidence’ in the justice system, it is the State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin in his courtroom.”
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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