Derek Chauvin was convicted as part of a social movement. Everything he did was exactly what he was supposed to do, and it is proof that America is a tyranny that the government switched it up and said “actually, the suspect is black, you’re supposed to let them flee.”
It was also impossible, given the fact that Saint Floyd was the symbol of an entire epoch, that a court could say he wasn’t murdered.
Now, things have changed a lot, and most of this woke stuff is getting (partially) rolled back. Daniel Penny would have been convicted in 2021, and he got off clean.
AP:
A judge has granted permission to lawyers for Derek Chauvin to have samples from George Floyd examined as part of the former Minneapolis police officer’s efforts to challenge his conviction on a federal civil rights charge stemming from Floyd’s death in 2020.U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson agreed in an order Monday to let the defense examine Floyd’s heart tissue and fluid samples to test a theory that Floyd died of a heart condition aggravated by a rare tumor, not — as prosecutors contend — from asphyxiation caused by the white officer pressing his knee on the Black man’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes despite Floyd’s dying cries of, “I can’t breathe.”
Floyd’s death touched off protests worldwide, some of which turned violent, and forced a national reckoning with police brutality and racism.
Chauvin was convicted in state court on murder charges in 2021 and pleaded guilty later that year in federal court to violating Floyd’s civil rights. His federal defender for his appeal attempt, Robert Meyers, argued in his request that Chauvin’s original attorney, Eric Nelson, failed to inform his client that an outside pathologist not directly involved in the case, Dr. William Schaetzel, of Topeka, Kansas, had contacted Nelson before Chauvin entered his plea and offered an unsolicited theory that Chauvin did not cause Floyd’s death.
Chauvin claims that amounted to “ineffective assistance counsel” and is seeking a new trial, saying he would not have pleaded guilty if he had known about the pathologist.
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Chauvin is serving his 20-year federal civil rights and 22 1/2-year state murder sentences concurrently at a federal prison in Texas. The U.S. Supreme Court last year rejected Chauvin’s appeal of his murder conviction.
Convicted twice for the same crime, by the way.
Just standard American justice. Or as I like to call it “Jewstice.”
Chauvin probably will get a new trial and he probably will be released. A decade of his life would have been taken from him, but the times have changed and the government now wants to appear as if it is somehow reasonable.
