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Eagle Ed Martin @EagleEdMartin - This post is why you must read Jeremy’s book. He is wise now.
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Jeremy Carl @realJeremyCarl
Here's the thing about Chauvin and Floyd:
The death of George Floyd tells you NOTHING about America.
But the continued incarceration of Derek Chauvin tells you A LOT about America-- namely that even despite the heroic work of the Trump administration, we are still so institutionally anti-White as a country that we put an innocent White cop in prison (where he was nearly killed by a fellow inmate) and despite the fact that Chauvin is NOT GUILTY beyond a reasonable doubt, very few political leaders are willing to call his punishment unjust and demand his release.
I had thought of writing The Unprotected Class for years, but Floyd and Chauvin turned an idea into a necessity.
There has to be ONE standard of behavior and punishment regardless of race-- and we're a long way from making that a reality.
Hopefully books like Harker's-- and continued pressure from the public, will eventually lead to the release of Derek Chauvin, America's most prominent political prisoner.
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Passage Publishing @PassagePress
Today we are proud to announce the release of American Scapegoat: How a Corrupt Justice System Sacrificed Derek Chauvin to the Mob by former federal prosecutor T.J. Harker (@TJ_Harker).
Six years ago today, George Floyd died while in custody of Minneapolis beat cop Derek Chauvin, sparking the most destructive riots in our nation's history and becoming the pretext for an era of mass political hysteria that threatened to rip apart the very fabric of American life. Cities burned. Floyd's body was paraded around in a gold casket. Every institution was made to bend the knee to BLM. Ordinary white Americans, represented by the person of Derek Chauvin, were called to account for three centuries of racial grievance.
All most Americans saw of that day was the grainy cellphone footage of Officer Chauvin's knee restraining the back of George Floyd's neck. Few bothered to learn any other details about the case, and by the time the trial rolled around, the verdict was a foregone conclusion. An innocent black man had been killed by a racist white cop, they were told. And for America to atone for its original sins, that racist white cop had to pay the price.
What they didn't know was that Chauvin's knee did not prevent Floyd from breathing. They didn't know Chauvin was following procedure by the book. They didn't know Floyd had taken lethal amounts of fentanyl minutes before being restrained. They didn't know Floyd had a pre-existing heart condition. They didn't know the autopsy report had been revised under threat of professional harm. They didn't know the original prosecutor removed herself from the case after seeing all of the evidence. They didn't know the subsequent prosecutors had to abandon their theory of the case just days into the trial. They didn't know the prosecution never established a cause of death, let alone that Derek Chauvin was responsible.
In American Scapegoat, author T.J. Harker breaks down what happened on that fateful day six years ago, analyzes the thousands of court documents manipulated and recontextualized to achieve the trial result Minnesota politicians demanded, and relives the trial itself in thorough, painstaking detail to definitively show that Derek Chauvin did not kill George Floyd.