“Time for you to write a ‘J’accuse’ piece--naming names.” He was referring to the powerful public letter French author Emile Zola wrote in 1898 damning the people responsible for the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of French Army Captain Alfred Dreyfus four years prior."
"A week or so ago, I received an email from an old friend in the intelligence community—let’s call him “Smiley”—commenting on my research into the case of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in April 2021 of murdering chronic felon and drug abuser George Floyd a year prior.
Said Smiley, “Time for you to write a ‘J’accuse’ piece--naming names.” He was referring to the powerful public letter French author Emile Zola wrote in 1898 damning the people responsible for the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of French Army Captain Alfred Dreyfus four years prior." . . .
. . ."What made Zola’s letter so effective, as Smiley suggests, was his willingness to name names, each name preceded by “J’accuse”— “I accuse.” Smiley helpfully included the list of people and institutions deserving their own moment of infamy. Among them are the following." . . . Quoting:
I accuse the media, national and local, of fanning the flames of unrest through their universally uncritical acceptance of the Black Lives Matter narrative based on no more than a snippet of viral video.
I accuse Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison of preserving the narrative by gratuitously withholding the exculpatory police body cam footage until being forced to do so by judicial order.
I accuse Black Lives Matter, Benjamin Crump, and other “civil rights” grifters of encouraging the $2 billion of destruction that followed the video’s release.
I accuse every public official who “took a knee” of assuring that Chauvin and his colleagues—Tou Thao, Alex Kueng, and Thomas Lane—would never find justice in a Democrat city in a Democrat state.
I accuse DC Medical Examiner Dr. Roger Mitchell of successfully corrupting the autopsy report by threatening Hennepin County Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker with ruin if he did not add “neck compression” to the final report. Mitchell volunteered this information in a documented meeting with four Minnesota Assistant Attorney Generals on November 5, 2020.
I accuse the four Minnesota Assistant AGs of failing to share this powerful exculpatory evidence implicit in Mitchell’s testimony with the defense in any meaningful way before the trial.
I accuse the same Dr. Roger Mitchell of potential witness intimidation. While Chauvin’s trial was still in progress, Mitchell enlisted 400 physicians to sign an open letter to Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh demanding an “immediate investigation“ into the practice of Dr. David Fowler, former Maryland chief medical examiner, after Fowler testified in Chauvin’s defense.
I accuse the understandably frightened Dr. Baker of yielding to Mitchell’s threats and finessing this critical deception about the cause of death through his trial testimony. In a deposition, Hennepin County assistant prosecutor Amy Sweasy testified that shortly after the autopsy, Baker asked her, “Amy, what happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on?” Baker found out.
I accuse Hennepin County assistant prosecutors Amy Sweasy and Patrick Lofton of knowing enough about the corruption of this case to withdraw from it—Baker had told them “there were no medical indications of asphyxia or strangulation”—but of lacking the courage to come forward.
I accuse feckless Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey of poisoning the jury pool. Said Frey, “I’ve wrestled with, more than anything else over the last 36 hours, one fundamental question: Why is the man who killed George Floyd not in jail?” He also falsely declared, “That particular technique that was used was not authorized by the MPD. It is not something that officers are trained in on. And should not be used period.”
I accuse Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo and Assistant Chief Katie Blackwell of repeating Frey’s lie under oath at trial in spite of the fact that, as Hennepin County Judge Edward Wahl recently acknowledged, the “MPD [Minneapolis Police Department] training materials from 2018-2019 … included images of officers applying knees to the neck or upper back.”
I accuse the Minneapolis City Council of corrupting the trial beyond repair by unanimously voting to award Floyd’s family $27 million while the jury was still in the process of being selected.
I accuse the “respectable” conservative media, FOX News in particular, of remaining silent in the face of this obvious injustice.
I accuse Judge Peter Cahill of undermining Chauvin’s defense by refusing a change of venue, by failing to sequester the jury, by failing to recognize Mitchell’s admission, by preventing the jurors from seeing the exculpatory MPD training materials, and by allowing Arradondo and Blackwell to lie about the training under oath.
I accuse Gov. Tim Walz of letting the rioters burn down much of Minneapolis, including a police station, while he hesitated to send in the National Guard for fear of offending his progressive base.
I accuse Gwen Walz—she who boasted of keeping her windows “open as long as [she] could” during the riots to smell the burning tires—of encouraging her husband’s craven behavior.
