But if George Floyd somehow elicited a measure of my sympathy for the way he was subdued, so does Derek Chauvin elicit mountains of my sympathy for the way he was tried. He did not get a full measure of justice." . . .
American Spectator The Government has asked the Minnesota court that convicted Derek Chauvin to lock him up for the next 30 years. The judge will announce the verdict on June 25.
"I am no Chauvinist. Whatever side Derek Chauvin is on in the world of law enforcement, that is not mine. Yes, I am satisfied that he did not kill George Floyd. The science is settled. I also am satisfied that George Floyd was a social miscreant who made our world and country just a little bit less wonderful than they would have been without him. George Floyd — Say His Name! — was a druggie with all sorts of forbidden controlled substances in his bloodstream. He once held up a Black woman and stuck a pistol into her pregnant tummy, threatening to murder her. He had a long rap sheet. He was not rehabilitated. Apparently, his last known active act was passing counterfeit bills while pumped up with illegal substances, and his last passive act was refusing to comply with simple police instructions to get into the car. As recounted objectively in Wikipedia in pertinent part:
Between 1997 and 2005, Floyd served eight jail terms on various charges, including drug possession, theft, and trespass…. In 2007, Floyd faced charges for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon; according to investigators, he had entered an apartment by impersonating a water department worker and barging in with five other men, then held a pistol to a woman’s stomach and searched for items to steal. Floyd was arrested three months later during a traffic stop and a 7-year-old victim of the robbery identified him from a photo array. In 2009, he was sentenced to five years in prison as part of a plea deal and was paroled in January 2013.
"This is an icon? I feel pity for those conned into idolizing heroes who offer little to adulate. Consider those who foolishly identify and associate with the racist, anti-Semitic Black Supremacist group that cynically calls itself “Black Lives Matter.” Of course Black lives matter! That is a major reason that 110,000 Union soldiers gave their lives on the Civil War battlefields, and 360,000 Northerners in all died for Black freedom. Black lives matter very, very much. They matter every weekend night in Chicago, too. They matter everywhere that a Black person exists. Likewise, White lives matter — just as much. So do Arab Muslim lives, Jewish lives, Christian lives. How tragic that kids who grew up learning about President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. now must watch their grandchildren, enrolled in Critical Ethnic Studies public school curricula, instead being taught that President Lincoln was a racist, Rev. Dr. King an “Oreo,” and the real heroes for children to emulate are Al Sharpton, Michael Brown of Ferguson, and George Floyd of Minnesota." . . .
Rabbi Dov Fischer, Esq., a high-stakes litigation attorney of more than twenty-five years and an adjunct professor of law of more than fifteen years, is rabbi of Young Israel of Orange County, California. His legal career has included serving as Chief Articles Editor of UCLA Law Review, clerking for the Hon. Danny J. Boggs in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and then litigating at three of America’s most prominent law firms: JonesDay, Akin Gump, and Baker & Hostetler. In his rabbinical career, Rabbi Fischer has served several terms on the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Council of America, is Senior Rabbinic Fellow at the Coalition for Jewish Values, has been Vice President of Zionist Organization of America, and has served on regional boards of the American Jewish Committee, B’nai Brith Hillel, and several others. . . .
