The entire myth of George Floyd is coming apart, but the Biden-Harris regime is doing all that it can to hold it together.
The death of George Floyd tore the nation apart. Not only were there riots all over the country that caused over $2 billion in damage, but Floyd’s apparent death at the hands of a racist white cop was used as a battering ram against any racial harmony that had built up in the post-segregation years. Leftists contended that Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s alleged murder of George Floyd was proof that America was beset by “systemic racism” that only a sharp turn to the left and a thoroughgoing societal reset could cure.
Floyd and Chauvin quickly became larger-than-life symbols of racial inequality and white supremacy, such that many questioned whether Chauvin could possibly get a fair trial anywhere in the United States. Even now, three and a half years after he was convicted, Chauvin is still trying to clear his name, but the Biden-Harris regime’s desperately corrupt and viciously politicized “Justice” Department, aware of what clearing Chauvin might mean for the left’s entire race grievance narrative, is doing its best to stop him from doing so.
As Victoria Taft reported Tuesday, Chauvin was just “granted a chance to take a look at George Floyd's heart to explore an alternate theory of why the man died in police custody. The federal judge's move on Monday will allow Chauvin's lawyers to determine if the former cop's knee on his upper back killed him or if the fentanyl and other drugs he was on exacerbated an already weakened heart and created a condition that ended in his death.” Now, however, Merrick Garland and his henchmen are saying “Not so fast.” The race-hate narrative must be preserved, even if it costs Derek Chauvin his life.
Fox News reported Wednesday that “federal prosecutors in Minnesota are asking a judge to reconsider his decision to allow former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to re-examine George Floyd's heart as part of an appeal after he was convicted of violating Floyd's civil rights.”
Chauvin's “legal team is investigating the possibility that Floyd died from a heart condition and not Chauvin's actions,” but “prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota argued that Chauvin had ‘no legal basis for [his] discovery requests, all of which stem solely from an email he received from an unvetted doctor offering a weaker version of the medical defense than the version that the jury had previously rejected at his state trial.’"
The real issue here, however, is not really whether an “unvetted doctor” (horror of horrors!) can offer anything useful. It is whether the U.S. Attorney’s Office is prepared to admit that Chauvin may not have killed Floyd, and that despite how iconic Floyd’s death has become for the race-hustling industry, Chauvin still deserves justice.
Prosecutors also reject Chauvin's contention that he had “ineffective counsel at trial, claiming that his original defense team's decision not to examine Floyd's heart was a ‘strategic decision that courts have recognized as “virtually unchallengeable."’”
They do not address the fact that any counsel Chauvin had at all, even if his defense attorneys had been Clarence Darrow, F. Lee Bailey, and Johnnie Cochran, would have been ineffective. There was no way his counsel could have been anything but ineffective, given the hysteria of the media coverage and the cultural climate in America at the time. To have acquitted Chauvin would have been tantamount to affirming “white supremacy” and “systemic racism,” and thus Chauvin simply had to be convicted.
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David Gelman, a defense attorney who was once a prosecutor, sided with Chauvin, saying: "Chauvin should have every opportunity to exhaust his appeals just like any other defendant. If this was any other case, I bet the Justice Department wouldn’t have objected." Exactly so. If Derek Chauvin had been any other defendant, he would have had an excellent chance of being acquitted altogether, since Floyd’s autopsy report shows that he died not from Chauvin’s actions, but most likely from from an overdose of fentanyl and other drugs. The autopsy report states that “no life-threatening injuries [were] identified.” That statement alone should have enabled Chauvin to walk free.
Now there is a chance for justice to be done, and characteristically, the Biden-Harris regime is against it. How many more lives must be destroyed in order to preserve the regime’s corrosive fantasies of racial victimization?
