George Floyd Revisited: Derek Chauvin Was Wrongfully Convicted

 The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Derek Chauvin and his colleagues did not murder George Floyd. Chauvin’s prosecution and trial are emblematic of a criminal justice system gone awry — and not just in Minneapolis. 

"After Floyd was down on the pavement, he kicked Lane. To control the still struggling Floyd, Chauvin used a prone restraint known as the Maximal Restraint Technique (MRT), an approved MPD protocol for resisting arrestees and prisoners. Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s left shoulder and neck. Lane restrained Floyd’s back, and Keung his legs. Chauvin’s partner, Tou Thao, shielded the officers from a hostile crowd. 

"Thinking Floyd subject to excited delirium, a diagnosis well known by law enforcement, the officers called for an ambulance within a minute of initiating the prone restraint. About eight minutes after the restraint was applied, Floyd suddenly grew quiet. He had, in fact, died.  Resuscitation measures on scene and at the ER were unsuccessful.

"Sudden death makes cause of death analysis much less complicated because there are limited causes of non-traumatic sudden death. All suggest cardiac arrest.  An autopsy was performed Tuesday morning, May 26, by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner, Dr. Andrew Baker. In a deposition taken later on a different lawsuit, Assistant Prosecutor Amy Sweasy testified to her interaction that day with Baker." . . .

McDaniel and the RINOs in Washington

 

McDaniel and the RINOs in Washington (townhall.com) (Jan 2023)  . . ."The Democrat and RINO powers-that-be are too entrenched, too intermingled, too determined to stay put, regardless of the mess they are making of the nation.  We conservatives may be strong in the countryside; but we are spitting against a hurricane in Washington."

McDaniel eyes big payout after NBC drama - POLITICO   . . .McDaniel expects to be fully paid out for her contract — two years at $300,000 annually — since she did not breach its terms, according to a person close to McDaniel. That means that her single, not-quite-20-minute interview Sunday could cost NBC more than $30,000 per minute, or $500 per second." . . .

McDaniel took the president’s side on Twitter after her uncle slammed Trump’s behavior in office.

The Circus Over NBC News Hiring/Firing of Ronna McDaniel Isn't Over   ..."Some people don't agree with liberal America, NBC. Deal with it. Sadly, the main character for this episode was McDaniel."

Ronna McDaniel Is Deleting Tweets After Getting Gig With NBC | Crooks and Liars: "What a profile in courage Ronna McDaniel, whose last name was Romney until Donald Trump made her change it because her uncle hurt his feewings, is. Deleting tweets is nothing new for Ronna. In 2020, she deleted a tweet that admitted that Donald Trump had lost the 2020 election.  

"And she's deleting more tweets now that she got a gig on MSNBC and NBC as a political analyst. So, MSNBC is rewarding her even though she should be in prison for her part in the fake electors' scheme to overturn the 2020 election." . . .

"Purity of Arms"; When it comes to war, Israel answers to something higher than world opinion

 "Because I cannot believe that Israel is stupid enough to sacrifice herself for a world that despises her, I’ve got a different theory: I believe that Israel’s extraordinary humanitarian approach to warfare is because the Jews know that they answer to something higher than the baseness of world opinion. They are, truly, a Godly nation."  AW

 

 Andrea Widburg - American Thinker  "In the topsy-turvy world of 2024, when good is bad and bad is good, Israel is fighting an existential war with exquisite concern for the well-being of enemy civilians—and the world responds by castigating Israel as a genocidal monster and demanding her surrender. What’s worst of all is the fact that the Biden administration is leading this evil parade. But Israel answers to a higher standard than the opinion of a fallen world.

"Israel is a tiny, Jewish, liberal democracy in a sea of 250 million Muslims, most of whom are hostile to her in ways that range from mere hate to genocidal fury. Jews have occupied that same land continuously for 4,000 years. For around 1,900 of those years, they were colonized by imperial forces, usually Muslim. Barring the Druze and Bedouins, almost none of the Muslim Arabs in Israel, Gaza, or the West Bank have roots deeper than the 1830s.

"On October 7, Hamas, which controls Gaza (land from which Israel withdrew in 2005, although Donkey Chompers AOC and her ilk seem unaware of that fact), launched a military attack against civilians in Israel. The goal wasn’t just to kill people. It was to torture them to death, especially women. Hamas did so with the full (and continuing) approval of a huge majority of Gaza residents.

" 'Because October 7 was a military invasion, Israel responded in a military way by going into Gaza to destroy Hamas—which, incidentally, is an Iranian puppet army. Iran is an enemy of the U.S., openly dedicated to its destruction, something that’s not obvious given Biden’s fealty to Iran’s needs.

"Almost immediately, the world’s antisemites started screaming that any war that affected civilians—and the Gaza war does because Hamas is embedded among civilians—was “genocide.” They were helped by the fact that everyone, including the Biden administration, accepted uncritically the manifestly faked mortality numbers that Hamas published. Indeed, much of what we get from Gaza is theater: . . .     

"The grieving Palestinian mother"
Was shot in multiple locations with different support actors.

Pallywood at its best pic.twitter.com/CWo9KSOLjB

— Five Lucky Fingers (@5luckyfingers) March 27, 2024

Photographer co-wins for photo of terrorists taking Shani Louk into Gaza

  The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)

"A freelance photojournalist, Ali Mahmud, contributed to the Associated Press (AP) winning first place for the Team Picture Story of the Year last week for taking a photo of Shani Louk's half-naked corpse as Hamas terrorists were driving it away on October 7, alluding to the photographer's knowledge of the attack beforehand.   

"According to the Pictures of the Year program's website, the category "recognizes the collaborative effort of a photography staff covering a single topic or news story. It is a narrative picture story that consists of images taken as part of a team effort to cover a single issue or news story."

"Other photos, mostly attributed to other photographers on behalf of the Associated Press, were snapped of destroyed or damaged buildings in Gaza, injured or dead Palestinians, Israelis mourning at funerals or fleeing from rocket attacks. However, many of these photos allude to photographer's previous knowledge and possible involvement of the massive attack launched on Israeli soil - in order to get the "shot of a lifetime." . . .

UPDATE:   “We will not party together again”: Survivors of Israeli festival targeted by Hamas describe chaos (youtube.com)

"Five close Israeli friends all in their twenties - Guy Azar, Moshe Saadyan, Ben Hasid, Raz Mordechai and Or Moshe - attended the Supernova music festival together this weekend, held near the Israel-Gaza border. The 3,000-person event celebrated 'friends, love, and infinite freedom'. But when Hamas terrorists attacked in the early hours of Saturday morning, at least 260 were left dead. Ben was murdered. Guy is believed to have been taken hostage in Gaza and later killed. Moshe remains missing. Only Or and Raz survived and made it home. This is their story…"