The riots and looting are going to end very soon. When that happens and President Trump embarks on the two-pronged mission of healing the national wounds and helping the economy rebound, liberals are going to be miffed that their pets didn’t continue the riots through November 3rd.
What’s a revolution to do when its candidate is Joe Biden? Their best bet is to botch the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin as quickly as possible, so they can trigger another round of riots right before the election. And they’re already doing that.
Even the most hapless public defender on a measly taxpayer-funded salary would be able to instill a reasonable doubt in the minds of a jury with the case at this point. Within four days of George Floyd’s death video being posted on social media, former officer Chauvin was charged with third-degree murder and third-degree manslaughter (the charges have now been elevated to second-degree). The protesters, who began looting and rioting within 48 hours of the video being posted, are demanding to know what took so long.
Having covered murder trials and a crime beat in a metro area for more than a dozen years, maybe I can put this into perspective. Let’s say the cops are called to a domestic disturbance. When they show up and enter the house, they find the wife dead. The husband is kneeling over the body with a knife in his hand and is muttering, “I had to do it” over and over again. Neighbors report that the couple was always fighting, and the husband was the neighborhood bully/jerk.
Under normal circumstances, it can take anywhere from two weeks to three months before that husband is charged with murder. Evidence has to be collected, an autopsy has to be conducted, tons of interviews – possibly in multiple states with relatives – will have to take place.
This is what’s known as “an investigation.”
Under normal circumstances, prosecutors like to have all their ducks in a row before they charge someone, especially in a big case involving a potential murder. But… this isn’t a normal circumstance. It’s a slow-motion lynching, designed to fail in its execution so that they can trigger a second round of riots.
Remember: We (the public) don’t even know what happened in this situation, based on all the video evidence we have seen. The investigation is still in its infancy and detectives are still interviewing witnesses, collecting evidence. Something happened when George Floyd was behind a vehicle and out of sight of the cameras that caused four police officers to put him on the ground and restrain him – while they were waiting for an ambulance to arrive. Those are the facts.
As horrific as the case is, from what we’ve seen on the video, we still don’t know the reason that compelled a multi-racial group of police to force George Floyd to the ground. I’m not defending the actions of the police here. A cop kneeling on the neck of a civilian while he is handcuffed is certainly excessive use of force and Chauvin should be charged with something related to Mr. Floyd’s death. I’m simply looking at this case through the prism of the rule of law, trials, evidence and so forth.
They charged Derek Chauvin with murder before an autopsy had even been conducted on George Floyd. When the initial autopsy was concluded (which may have been rushed as well), it determined that George Floyd was on fentanyl and methamphetamine, and he died of a heart attack. He didn’t die of asphyxiation. Oops. We know that the family has now commissioned a second autopsy on George Floyd, in which a different doctor found that Floyd did die of asphyxiation. Oh, and he also had coronavirus.
I’ll come back to the autopsies in a second, but in the meantime, Minnesota officials have now allowed the state Attorney General, wife beater, Antifa supporter, and former congressman Keith Ellison to get his grubby fingerprints all over the case. One of the most hated and polarizing figures in America, you might remember Ellison as the man who praised Antifa vigorously, he even posted a photo of himself with the Antifa handbook and tagged President Trump in the post to rile him up. All of which sets up a conflict of interest that Derek Chauvin’s attorney should have a field day with.
Which brings me back to those dueling autopsies. In Minnesota, a jury decision must be unanimous. All 12 jurors in a murder case must agree that the defendant is “guilty” or “not guilty.” If just one disagrees with the verdict, it results in a hung jury. Prosecutors then have to decide whether to go back to the drawing board and re-try the case or drop the charges.
And a juror is not supposed to render a guilty verdict if they have a reasonable doubt in a case. Former officer Chauvin’s attorney now has two conflicting autopsy reports to wave in front of a jury. There’s your “reasonable doubt,” with Keith Ellison providing a healthy dose of conflict of interest and bias against the defendant.
A rush to prosecute is almost always an invitation for a mistrial. If Derek Chauvin has a defense attorney with a pulse, Chauvin will either be found not guilty or it will be declared a mistrial. Then it will be time for Rioting and Looting 2.0. With the breakneck speed at which they’re trying to rush this case, the trial will probably wrap up sometime in October.
This is deliberate – and it’s another example of the Democrats courting disaster for the whole country just because they want President Trump out of office.
