Derick Chauvin: The Sacrificial Lamb Thrown to Ravenous Wolves by a Forsaken Judge

During my time as a deputy sheriff for San Diego County, California, in the mid-1980s, I watched as San Diego police officers, California highway troopers (I’ve never met a female trooper), and deputies Sheriff’s officials applied restraints to resisting suspects. arrest, and there were no deaths from the proper application of those restrictions as a result of their proper use. Upon learning that 19-year-old Minneapolis police officer Derick Chauvin was charged with murdering alleged criminal George Floyd for resisting the misuse of an approved arrest and restraint, I began to thoroughly investigate the incident to uncover the facts. more prominent and convincing. After examining the effect of liberal media reporting on the racial undertones of Floyd’s death, I immediately assumed that if Floyd had been a white male in the exact same set of circumstances, the media would have found no interest, in absolute, in the death of a white man at the hands of the police while resisting arrest.

The first three weeks after Floyd’s death and autopsy, during which the media accused Office Chauvin of causing Floyd’s death by fixation through the use of a department-approved knee and shoulder restraint system, gave as This resulted in false accusations against Chauvin that he had cut off Floyd’s air by applying the knee restraint, and that the restraint alone, applied for nine minutes, was the cause of Floyd’s death. That gave the media plenty of time to produce headlines that would skew and prejudge the minds of most Minneapolis people as to Officer Chauvin’s guilt in “murdering” George Floyd. By the time the sixth week had elapsed in the pre-trial discovery process, Chauvin’s defense team had induced sufficient credible evidence from Floyd’s forensic autopsy and toxicity test to indicate that the “but for” premise for criminal lack of culpability would apply to Chauvin’s actions and Floyd’s physical condition prior to his death. Simply put, were it not for the lethal level of illegal drugs in Floyd’s body and the severe physical condition Floyd was in prior to his death, Officer Chauvin’s nine-minute kneeling restraint would not have caused the death of George Floyd.

As such, the criminal culpability, or culpability, of Officer Chauvin was essentially denied, as Chauvin acted as he would any other suspect, of any race, who had resisted arrest prior to the application of the knee restraint. . He therefore could not be charged with first-degree murder, second-degree murder, third-degree murder, or manslaughter since he had applied the department-approved knee restraint for nine minutes without causing George’s death. Floyd. The exculpatory fact that Floyd claimed to have shortness of breath fifteen minutes before Chauvin applied the knee restraint made it clear that Chauvin’s knee restraint had not caused the shortness of breath, and that the officers would not have necessarily The conceited Floyd resists complaints, as it is a proven fact that criminal suspects will say anything to be patiently treated by the police.

Then came the politically motivated Minnesota judge, Peter A. Cahill, who highly inappropriately allowed Derick Chauvin’s trial to be televised, and began to notoriously and inexorably tip the scales of justice against Derick Chauvin with bias and prejudice. In effect, Cahill made it impossible for Chauvin to receive a fair trial through his willful acts. A sophomore in law school would have clearly recognized that what Cahill was doing to allow Chauvin to be charged with second- and third-degree murder was totally improper, and that the elements of those crimes did not fit with what Chauvin really meant. have done. . Cahill had to appease hungry wolves who threatened severe violence on the streets of Minneapolis if Chauvin was acquitted. I will put it this way, if Amy C. Barrett, recently appointed SCOTUS judge, had been chosen to preside over the trial, she would have done things completely differently and granted the defense’s request for a change of venue. and she would have kidnapped the jury from the beginning of the trial. She would have sought justice for Derick Chauvin and not political and racial appeasement for the black mobs in Minneapolis. Finally, if Barrett had been in charge, there is certainly no question that she would have declared a mistrial based on what the very stupid Maxine Waters did to invoke violence on the streets of Minneapolis if Chauvin were acquitted.

The old American aphorism put forth by such dedicated lawyers and judges as Clarence Darrow and the Honorable Learned Hand, “It is better for twelve guilty defendants to go free than one innocent defendant falsely convicted,” does not apply in the grossly wrongful conviction of Derick Chauvin. . There is no question that if a Minnesota appellate court does not reverse Chauvin’s conviction and order either an acquittal or a new trial without bias elsewhere than in Minneapolis based on the egregious errors of law allowed by Judge Cahill , the standard of justice in the State of Minnesota will be tarnished forever.