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…"

‘Banana Republic’: Joe Rogan Rips Democrats for Un-American Attempt to Jail Political Opponents

'Banana Republic': Joe Rogan Rips Democrats for Un-American Attempt to Jail Political Opponents - The Lid (lidblog.com)   "During a recent broadcast of his popular podcast, Joe Rogan Ripped Fani Willis, Letitia James, and the political persecution of former president Donald Trump, saying, “It seems like what happens in banana republics.”

"Rogan spoke about how many times they’ve indicted Trump.

“It’s kinda crazy because it seems like what happens in banana republics, but just somehow or another, it’s okay? The exact same thing? Did you see when that guy from Shark Tank? Kevin O’Leary, when he was discussing this whole thing, saying, ‘you’re gonna ruin real estate development in New York.’ People won’t want to do real estate deals there because this is how they do it,” Rogan said.

“ 'When they say my building is worth $400 billion, you’re supposed to say no, it’s worth $300 million. Here’s a loan on $300 million. To say that that’s fraud when he paid the loans back. Yeah, this is crazy. That is the epitome of, what are you doing? What are you chasing? What have you not chased down? Can we go over what you have not chased down, and you’re chasing this down? ”

Will Biden's Betrayal of Israel Save His Campaign?

 PJ Media  "Remember how Democrats rushed to the television cameras after Joe Biden's State of the Union address, shouting, "See? He's vigorous! He can totally handle the presidency!" 

"Now, as we've previously reported, some expert opinion holds that Biden's team medicated him for the speech. Even if we ignore that, it's amusing how Democrats have hinged their entire argument that Biden is physically and mentally capable of handling the presidency on just one speech, and they dare to believe that the issue is thereby settled. 

"The problem with this argument is that Biden still has to go out there and campaign, and the same public that saw him at the State of the Union earlier this month will also see his later performances — like his campaign speech in North Carolina on Tuesday, which was a disaster. Let me put it this way: after that speech, he should just give up on trying to flip the state.

"Currently, Donald Trump has a +4.4 spread in the RealClearPolitics average in North Carolina and has led in every single poll there for a year now. Biden had a +3.0 spread there at this point in 2020. But let's get back to the campaign speech.

"While doing his usual pitch on healthcare, anti-Israeli activists interrupted him, and he seemed weak, feeble, and confused, telling his supporters to "be patient with them" and conceding that "they have a point."

"It couldn't be more obvious that Biden has given up on pretending to be on Israel's side anymore. It was downhill from there.

"Slurring. Mumbling. Zero energy. Other times, he seemed to trip on his teleprompter." 

"While boasting about this economy, he said, "Leading economists aren't making much fun of Bidenomics anymore. They're thinking maybe it works.' " . . .

California Wants Everyone To Drive Electric Cars. The State’s Energy Policies Make Charging Them More Expensive Than Ever.

 Susannah Luthi (freebeacon.com)    

Soaring electricity prices have nearly doubled cost to charge EVs since 2022.

 "If we electrify all of our end use, where will we get all that power?" Ring asked. "It’s absurd to think we can get that much electricity from wind and solar." 

"As California pushes consumers to drive electric vehicles, the state is also moving away from fossil fuels, making electricity—and charging those vehicles—more expensive.

"California has ushered in a nearly 70 percent spike in electricity costs since 2010 when the state began its big break from fossil fuels due to its cap-and-trade regulations, mandates on utilities to procure higher-cost renewable energy, crackdowns on oil and gas, and taxpayer subsidies for solar panels. And while Californian households use less electricity than residents of other states, their rates are nearly 63 percent higher than the national average.

"Now the price hikes are hitting EV owners, in some cases nearly doubling the charging costs since 2022, even as regulators ready a 2035 ban on the sale of gas-fueled autos. EVs still represent just a fraction of the cars on the road—just over 903,000 of California’s 14.3 million registered automobiles were electric as of 2022. The soaring costs come as President Joe Biden models his own administration’s green energy policies on California’s, with an aggressive target to cut carbon emissions, and push for electric freight trucks and EV sales. But critics of California’s renewable energy push say it’s ultimately an example of the state’s myriad climate policies undermining one another.

" 'Policy choices have driven up electricity prices in California, which is completely inconsistent with their desire to put people into electric vehicles," said Wayne Winegarden, a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute.

"Others say the dilemma is another sign California may be barreling toward a dead end with its goals of eliminating gas and diesel vehicles while powering the electric grid with renewable sources like wind and solar.

" 'To convert California’s transportation fleet to all-electric … you’re going to have to drastically increase electricity supply—and they don’t have any idea how to do it," said Edward Ring, cofounder of the California Policy Center and longtime energy policy analyst." . . .

Watch your back, Mr. President

 

Watch your back, Mr. President - American Thinker   . . ."Consider the incredible planning that went into the 2020 election theft. Massive amounts of planning in multiple states, and executed simultaneously. We all concluded going to bed that evening that this was Trump’s win… and then in the morning it wasn’t. We all saw videos of ballots appearing out of nowhere in the voting centers. Ballot counting centers were shut down and poll watchers told to leave while vote counting still took place. We all either watched or are fully aware of the incredible discoveries revealed in Dinesh D’Souza’s “2000 Mules” that filled ballot boxes with suspicious ballots.

"Yet it happened. And we could do nothing about it. Biden is serving his fourth year." . . .

RFK's leftist running mate Nicole Shanahan; fear her.

 RFK Jr. has a running mate, and she’s a radical leftist - Olivia Murray   . . ."Unsurprisingly, she’s also a financial supporter of Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón; according to the official recall movement seeking to remove Gascón from office, Shanahan gave  Gascón at least $175,000 in donations. The man is a Soros-owned DA, and a reliable advocate of abusers and criminals. Among other things, Gascón has enforced, and continues to do so, a number of directives, including: . . ."

Nicole Shanahan

RFK Jr.’s Sister Fears He Will Put Donald Trump in the White House – RedState  "The sister of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has admitted the real reason she is so opposed to her brother's presidential campaign.

"As an independent candidate, RFK Jr. is appealing to both elements of the right and the left with a unique campaign that is centered around taking on America's deep state. 

"The Kennedy family, meanwhile, have repeatedly denounced their relative's efforts and are increasingly concerned that his broadly left-wing positions may siphon votes from Joe Biden. 

"Among them is RFK Jr.'s sister Rory, who explained in an interview with CNN on Monday why she feels it is "dangerous" to support her brother's campaign: 

It is really about siphoning votes from Biden. The polls I am seeing Bobby is taking 70 percent of the votes from Biden and 30 percent from Trump. I feel strongly that this is the most important election of our lifetime. 

Biden Policy Divides at Home and in Israel

Biden and his fellow Democrats have heaped shame on our once-great nation. TD

 Shmuel Klatzkin; The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

"In the Middle East, they seek to reward the orgiastic terror of Hamas by making them the ones who finally achieved Palestinian statehood."

. . ."What few know and fewer yet talk about is that access to the holy places, the hospital, the university, and the Mount of Olives were guaranteed in the agreement. Here is the relevant part of the Jordanian-Israeli General Armistice Agreement of April 3, 1949, which testified to agreement to be carried out to see to “resumption of the normal functioning of the cultural and 

"In fact, the holiest place to Jews remained off-limits to them; their homes in the Jewish Quarter denied; and all access cut to the Western Wall and all the other holy sites behind the armistice line.

"You don’t hear in today’s discussion that formerly, Jews had only the most limited access. The Western Wall was along a small alleyway, and Jews were not allowed to hold any prayer services there. This was true of other places of special holiness, The graves of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs of Israel, the Cave of Machpelah, had been off-limits as well, long before there was Zionism. Jews could not enter to pray, only climb an outside stair and look in.

"When Israel declared its independence in 1948 it proposed another way, more consonant with the Bible’s love and wisdom:

[Israel] will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions.

 . . ."Strange how some American leaders let guarantees to Israel lapse when it is inconvenient. What is good faith to a Machiavellian?" . . .

The West’s shameful betrayal of Israel gives Hamas the chance to kill again

" ‘Father, I killed 10 Jews! I killed 10 Jews with my bare hands. Check your WhatsApp. Father, be proud of me!” 

"Have we forgotten? Have we really forgotten so quickly the monstrous events of October 7 last year that we genuinely want an immediate ceasefire in Gaza before Hamas has been utterly destroyed as a military force and potential government there? 

"As we watched the British ambassador to the UN raise her hand at the Security Council meeting this week to vote for a ceasefire, alongside the Chinese and Russians, leaving our ally the US in the cold as the only member abstaining, do we not feel embarrassed, even ashamed? I know I do. 

"How proud I would have felt if we had actually had the guts to veto a resolution that is designed to prevent Israel from genuinely exercising her right to self-defence, which Britain and America were so quick to declare they believed in back in October – however, hypocritically, as it turns out. For Israel’s “right to self-defence” is utterly worthless if its forces are stopped from entering Rafah and annihilating the Hamas leadership there. 

. . ."The Israeli lawyer said he repeatedly started asking her about her sex life and when her period was due while she was held alone in a child’s bedroom and chained by her left ankle. She said he would sometimes sit beside her on the bed, lift her shirt and touch her. 

"Then, on the morning of October 24, Muhammad unchained her from the bed and led her to the bathroom, where she undressed and began washing herself in the bathtub. Before she was finished, he returned and stood in the doorway, holding a pistol.

" 'He came towards me and shoved the gun at my forehead," Soussana said during her Times interview. He then hit her, forcing her to remove her towel, groped her, sat her on the edge of the bathtub and hit her again. 

" 'He sat me on the edge of the bath. And I closed my legs. And I resisted. And he kept punching me and put his gun in my face," Soussana said. "Then he, with the gun pointed at me, forced me to commit a sexual act on him," she recalled." . . . 

Our Rashida Tlaib foreign policy; Can Israel ever forgive us?

In 1940 during the Blitz, Winston Churchill's big fear was Germany dominating England and establishing a pro-German government. That happened with Quisling in Norway, and Laval and Petain in France. Now Israel is faced with a pro-Hamas "ally": the United States in the person of Joe Biden, the Democrat Party, and its host of pro-Islamic members such as Rashida Tlaib, AOC, Pramila Jayapal, Ilhan Omar, and enough others to make a considerable anti-Israel faction in Congress. A faction that has brought Joe Biden to heel and caused that feckless man to desert a faithful American friend and ally for decades; an ally surrounded on all sides by people who hate Israel simply because they are Israel. We must place our trust in the hands of the Living God, the Founder of Israel and the Healer of the Valley of Dry Bones who has restored Israel to the land He gave them thousands of years ago. As with Gideon so long ago, God stripped them of all their strength so all that region would know that God alone was their deliverer. The Tunnel Dweller

 Silvio Canto, Jr. - American Thinker

What makes our "abstaining" so pathetic is that Israel is defending itself.  They were attacked on October 7th.  Young women were raped at a music festival.  Families were shot at their homes.  How is Israel going to negotiate with people like that?

Tlaib

"Over at the United Nations, the U.S. showed the world that President Biden is weak. 

"We abstained from a UN vote and threw Israel under the bus because too many voters in Michigan voted uncommitted in the primary. 

"What a travesty. 

"Here is the story: 

The Biden administration declined to veto a United Nations Security Council resolution on Monday that aims to limit Israel’s ability to win its war against Hamas. Washington’s action is short-sighted and counterproductive.

 

The resolution calls for a “ceasefire” in Gaza. Four members of the U.N. Security Council voted in favor of the resolution, while the United States abstained. Israel responded by scrapping plans to send a delegation to Washington. This was the fourth attempt in recent days to pass the resolution, with members of the Security Council haggling over its language.

 "Counterproductive? 

 

"How about stabbing a friend in the back?  Shame on the Biden administration or whoever is writing all of these speeches that the president reads." . . .

Hamas Rejects Biden-Backed Lopsided Hostages-for-Terrorists Deal, Hardens Position As Western Pressure On Israel Increases (legalinsurrection.com)

. . ."According to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office, “Hamas’ stance demonstrates they’re not interested in continuing the negotiation and deal-making process. This is a regrettable testament to the damages caused by the UN Security Council’s decision.”

“ 'Hamas once again rejected any compromise offer from the Americans and reiterated its extreme demands: an immediate end to the war, a complete withdrawal of the IDF from the Gaza Strip and leaving its governance capabilities in place to enable it to repeat the massacre of October 7, as promised.”

“ 'Israel will not yield to Hamas’ outrageous demands and will continue to strive for all the war’s objectives: releasing all hostages, destroying Hamas’ military and ruling capabilities and ensuring Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel.” . . .

BREAKING: US Abstains As UN Security Council Passes Demand for Gaza Cease-Fire; UPDATE: Gallant Rejects – HotAir   "Oh my. Joe Biden picked this fight, and now he's going to get it -- no matter how useless this UN Security Council resolution actually is. And typically for Biden and Antony Blinken, they blundered their way into the hands of Russia and China." . . . 

Democrats and their tool Biden have turned our once great nation into the Vichy French of WW2, aligning us against our former friends and allies. TD

Douglas Murray Roasts Biden & David Cameron Israel Criticism - And A Purim Message!! (youtube.com) Comment to this video: "I hope it is of some comfort that many people in the UK loathe Sunak and Cameron, and are pro-Israel. Our voice is somewhat smothered by the woke media. You have much support amongst Christians here. Happy Purim, and may the Lord bless you all. "

Israel admits it may not be able to destroy Hamas now US has turned its back (msn.com)

Hamas has already stated – and in this, at least, one can’t fault the group for its honesty – that it is committed to repeating October 7-style massacres as soon as it gets another chance. As its spokesman Abu Obeida has stated, Hamas intends to make Israel “taste new ways of death”. The international community has clearly shown that it is happy to let Hamas have the opportunity, because the immediate ceasefire in the UN resolution is intended to be followed by “a lasting sustainable ceasefire”, in which Hamas would surely survive.

'Squad' member said claims of Hamas rapes were 'propaganda' days after lawmakers saw videos of 10/7 atrocities

Why, Mr. Bowman, did you make the statement you just made? Pictured: Gazans mock and stone the body of an Israeli kidnapped on Oct 6th. How can anybody side with these darlings of the Democrat Party?

"Extreme House Democrats remain so blinded by their Antisemitism and their love of Hamas they will not only ignore horrific crimes committed against Israeli women, but will actively seek to discredit their trauma," NRCC National Press Secretary Will Reinert told Fox News Digital in a statement."

 Story by Joe Schoffstall   "New York Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman called reports of Hamas terrorists raping Israeli women "propaganda" just days after lawmakers viewed a nearly 45-minute video of the bloody Oct. 7 attacks on Israel. 

"A social media post that slipped under the radar shows the 'Squad' member making the remarks during a Nov. 17 rally with dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters in New York.

"There was propaganda used in the beginning of the siege," Bowman said in a TikTok post discovered and reported by Politico. "There’s still no evidence of beheaded babies or raped women. But they still keep using that lie [for] propaganda."

"Bowman made the contentious remarks just three days after he and other lawmakers were offered a November 14 viewing of the Hamas raid. The 150 House members who attended the screening were left in a state of "shock and disbelief" after seeing the attack, Jewish Insider reported at the time. The House Foreign Affairs Committee hosted the screening.

"Politico further noted that evidence of Hamas raping innocent women grew substantially in the months after the attacks. He also appeared to backtrack on the "propaganda" remarks in a statement provided to the publication." . . .