George Floyd was to say the least no saint. But you would not know it from recent coverage.
Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.
Noam Chomsky
Ten years ago I wrote on The American Thinker two articles on the Freddie Gray case. The Baltimore Judicial Railroad and how it collapsed. For those needing a refresher, Freddie Gray was arrested for an illegal knife. While being transported in a prisoner wagon, he slammed his head against the wall multiple times, severing his spine. The power-hungry State Attorney, Marilyn Mosby, indicted six officers for multiple felonies. As the officers were guilty of, at worse, department policy violations, she lost three of the cases, and the rest were dismissed.
I thought of these articles as I read this morning’s Houston Chronicle, my adopted hometown’s local leftist rag. Front page, top of the “fold” was a serious piece of propaganda:
Loved one recon with new efforts to erase him.
It crept up on Tiffany, that tangle of grief and memory she could never quite shake. She paused by the sharp edge where land fell off into the murky Gulf water, where she could hear children squealing and see seagulls dancing on the waves, and let herself tumble back to the time when her friend was alive…
Children squealing? Maybe you should remember the screams of a pregnant woman Floyd robbed at gunpoint, sticking a pistol into her stomach. Or multiple cocaine offenses. Or theft.
…Most of the world remembers her friend as a dying man. Tiffany holds tightly to the details of his living and the life they shared during his many years in Houston…
…The movement that ignited in Minneapolis after his murder raced across the country. George Floyd’s face graced murals. An entire street in Washington, D.C. was painted to remind anyone walking by that Black Lives Matter…
Arthur Ashe, Walter Williams, Colin Powell, Jackie Robinson, James Baldwin. Houston natives Dr. Ronald McNair, one of the seven crew members on the USS Challenger (the Houston Police South Central Patrol station is named after that great man). Or Officer Edward Thomas (one of the first black men on Houston Police, and the department headquarters is named after him). Great Americans and great men. But you want to honor a multiple felon?
…The status quo fought back…Donald Trump took office in
January 2025 and vowed to punish schools over DEI policy and issued an executive order to undo “corrosive…divisive, race-centered ideology.” The Black Lives Matter Plaza was
jackhammered into nothingness.
“It’s nothing new,” civil rights attorney Ben Crump said. “We just have to pray America believes in its heart that it’s better than this.”
If Mr. Crump wants something badly, pray he doesn’t get it. Like a maggot to dead flesh, he shows up anywhere there is money to be made on racism. Or another opportunity to “rub raw the sores of discontent.”
Never in this “news article” was a mention of Floyd’s extensive criminal record. Nor in any of the other writings in the paper that day. Just one missive after another on how he was a small thin kid who loved to play sports, made his family proud.
Of course there are stories on how the federal government has failed to “reform” law enforcement. How cops should “deescalate” themselves and never use force. The fact people need to deescalate themselves and not commit crimes never seems to come into the discussion.
Recently a rumor went around that President Trump was looking at pardoning Derek Chauvin. I see the usual suspects feigning outrage over that, but they had no issue with then President Obama pardoning the traitor Bradly Manning. I’m still not sure of a pardon, but I’m sure of one thing, Chauvin deserves a trial, not a railroad like get got in 2022.
If ever there was a case calling for a sequestered jury and change of venue, this one did. The idiot judge glibly dismissing calls for a change of venue, “What, are we going to change the venue to Mars?” Then allowing the trial to be televised ala OJ. “Judge” Cahill said in Covid days he was limited to six attendees at trial, and those seats were reserved for family.
Judge, you know you can move a state trial out of the state. Rare, but it happens, it is legal, and again, if any case needed to be moved out of this state, the Chauvin case did. I wonder why you never thought of it?
Mr. Cahill, have you ever heard of Judge Richard Matsch? He oversaw the prosecution of Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City Bomber. After the cluster of the OJ Simpson trial, he did not allow his courtroom to become a laughingstock. No television broadcast (except for opening remarks and reading of the verdict) and he allowed the families to view the proceedings via CCTV. And the US DOJ moved the trial to another state (Colorado) to ensure the defendant got a fair trial. Radical concept their judge.
The state’s radical attorney general, Keith Ellison, personally took control of the case from local authorities and led the persecution of the former cop. Hostile crowds surrounded and screamed all during the trial. Adding to that were politicians encouraging the crowds to be confrontational.
I have my issues with Chauvin’s conduct at the scene. I speak as a 27-year veteran cop, almost all on patrol. First off, once an officer detains or arrest someone, the officer is responsible for the suspect’s safety. Use of the neck compression was proper under the circumstances.
What changed the circumstances was when they lost a pulse. At that moment, he needed to flip the man over, start chest compressions, inform dispatch he stopped breathing (actually stopped breathing from his drug overdose), and tell them to speed but the ambulance, so the medics know what to expect.
Do the mistakes Chauvin made on scene add up to murder? No. But that is for a fair and impartial jury to determine. Something Chauvin was denied (i.e., railroaded) four years ago. A disgrace to the cause of justice that needs to be corrected now.
Michael A. Thiac is a retired Army intelligence officer, with over 23 years experience, including serving in the Republic of Korea, Japan, and the Middle East. He is also a retired police patrol sergeant, with over 22 years’ service, and over ten year’s experience in field training of newly assigned officers. He has been published at The American Thinker, PoliceOne.com, and on his personal blog, A Cop’s Watch.
Opinions expressed are his alone and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of current or former employers.
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