The Hard Truth about L 'Affaire Chauvin
I have the temerity to posit that Dereck Chauvin is innocent of the murder of George Floyd and that the “Summer of Love” was orchestrated by corrupt leaders of BLM to capitalize on his death and to line their pockets with millions upon millions in donations for personal profit instead of funneling the lucre to black communities where it was intended to go. It is the number one “Sting” in the annals of our country and among the greatest scandals in the human tableau. . It is worth reflecting upon because of what it reveals about the scapegoating of a single individual and offering him as a sacrificial lamb. It is the perversion of a redemptive act offered to erase the lingering odor of malignant racism, the memory of which, plagues our nation. Critical thinking is scarce and when personal absolution is offered at the price of another man’s life, an unsympathetic one at that, it evokes the bestial nature of mankind. Man, at his best, the paragon of nature, is reduced, when prompted by fear, to a predator seeking so assuage his bloodlust by singling out the weakest of his prey from the pack.
Why should we care that Chauvin was wrongfully convicted and that his incarceration is a daily reproach reminding us that the glory of America is not in failing to match its highest aspirations, but in never abandoning its sacred principle that an ‘injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere?” We have moved on from his case, (though he has not moved on, and that should concern us) preoccupied now with the lawlessness and chaos DuJour. LA is burning as Minneapolis burned, for the wrong reasons, in the wrong way: by riotous anarchy, not reasonable protests, and similarly fomented and funded by Marxist ideologues purposed on filling their own coffers by perverting the human need for social justice. See how these malevolent prevaricators rile the gullible not by stirring the worst in them but by appealing to “the good angels of their nature.” It is their diabolical skill which allows them to recruit the oblivious to their agenda of destructiveness while convincing them that law-enforcers are the enemy, that the laws to be enforced are oppressive, and that dignity inures only to the criminal element, despite how heinous the crime.
Presidential powers of pardon have been abused by both Biden and Trump. But because a pardon may be controversial is not a justification for not issuing one. Pardoning Dereck Chauvin will not be popular and race hustlers will attribute to the President every malign motive conceivable beginning with the acrimonious charge of racism. The legacy media will gleefully beat this drum to chastise and deprecate the action. Riots are likely to ensue and calls for impeachment will reverberate throughout the halls of Congress. Trump will be pilloried as a Dictator, and he will be so personally diminished that his effectiveness as Chief Executive will be obliterated. “This is the kind of case that finishes careers and Presidencies.”
Perhaps, the consequences of doing the right thing are too severe, so detrimental to the common weal, and so violently distracting that there is no viable alternative but to continue Chauvin’s incarceration despite the overwhelming evidence that he is not guilty. It is axiomatic that “no man is above the law,” however, Dereck Chauvin may be deigned to be a man below the law. He was sacrificed in the beginning, perhaps, he must be sacrificed to the end.
Many readers of this piece will sympathize neither with me nor Chauvin. Some may even lump us together in a derogatory way. My frustration is too over-abiding that I cannot remain silent. I must speak out whether I am heard or not. I reiterate the accusations leveled in the attached article entitled, L ‘Affair Chauvin by Jack Cashill. Chauvin has been done a grave injustice which constitutes an open wound in our land of liberty. I am not defending him because he is an angel but because it doesn’t matter. I don’t equate him with the abhorrent treatment of the Scottsboro Boys, Medgar Evers, Emmett Till or the magnitude and multitude of the predations suffered by blacks for centuries. As “each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” so every victim of injustice is victimized in his own way. We are obliged to denounce injustices, not weigh them on a scale, we are never to condone them by silent acquiescence, and we must forever advocate for each regardless of public favor or disapprobation.
Utter frustration has no escape valve, there is no conniving to circumvent, no burrowing out, no clawing down or over barriers, just a sense of disempowerment and a persistent, gnawing, queasy feeling in the pit of the stomach that won’t taper off.
Let's examine the evidence in this case starting with the ubiquitously quoted "cause" of Floyd's death having been a homicide.
"Cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint and neck compression."
Which is an extremely weak conclusion and raises questions as to what the exact cause of death was. Sometimes what is not said is often as telling as what is, and in this case, that was the best explanation the Examiner could come up with that would allow him to conclude that it was a homicide. He bent over backwards to do that after having been threatened and tampered with (not to mention the implicit threat of violence from mobs of angry protestors). It begs the question, why was there a cardiopulmonary arrest?
Why didn't the autopsy find even a scintilla of evidence of asphyxiation despite what must have been a very thorough and desperate search for it? The "hard" evidence in the case is as follows:
Floyd's arteries were found to be 75% and 90% blocked and he had a very enlarged heart.
Potentially fatal levels of fentanyl were found in his system combined with methamphetamine described as a "stimulant hard on the heart". Partially consumed speedball pills (fentanyl + meth) were found in the police squad car, implying recent ingestion of the drugs whose effect is most pronounced within 5 minutes of ingestion. The Medical Examiner who performed the autopsy even said something to the effect that if he had found Floyd dead in his apartment with no signs of foul play that he would have concluded he had died of a drug overdose.
Floyd's lungs were weighed as being 2-3x their normal weight consistent with pulmonary edema caused by fentanyl overdose: "Fentanyl at 11 ng/ml. He said, “that’s pretty high.” This level of fentanyl can cause pulmonary edema. Mr. Floyd’s lungs were 2-3x their normal weight at autopsy. That is a fatal level of fentanyl under normal circumstances."
The autopsy report revealed zero evidence of strangulation, asphyxiation, or blood flow restriction despite the Medical Examiner having thoroughly if not desperately searched for signs of such evidence. If what Dr. Tobin said in his Emmy Award winning performance were close to true, then surely, we should see at least a scintilla of evidence of this.
In a similar incident a year before, an EMT measured Floyd's blood pressure as being 216/160, which is a dangerously high level - a "hypertensive crisis" - notice that Floyd was off the chart. However, in the case when he died, he engaged in more physical exertion and presumably his health condition would have been worse, implying a similar blood pressure level or even a higher blood pressure level.
Could all of that have caused the "cardiopulmonary arrest"?
In the meantime, it's difficult to open a newspaper, or turn to a news channel on the radio or TV without coming across a reference as to how extremely deadly fentanyl is. It's as though people forget that and suffer a cognitive dissonance whenever the fact of Floyd's potentially fatal level of fentanyl comes up.
This case does not merely present a reasonable doubt as the exact cause of Floyd's death, but rather an insurmountable mountain of doubt, especially combined with the fact that the knee restraint is a widely accepted technique around the world few people die from.
In addition to the Medical Examiner having been threatened and tampered with and his safety and the safety of his family being under threat from an incensed mob of BLM protestors and the potentially passive aggressive statement about how he would conclude Floyd had died of a drug overdose had he found him dead alone in his apartment (an admission that death by drug overdose was not an impossibility, but rather very possible in the Examiner's view), now we have new evidence - breaking news - that Dr. Baker may not have really believed that the officers were the cause of Floyd's death.
Quoting testimony text from the article "Chauvin Did Not Murder George Floyd:"
“I called Dr. Baker early that morning to tell him about the case and to ask him if he would perform the autopsy on Mr. Floyd,” said Sweasy under oath. “He called me later in the day on that Tuesday and he told me that there were no medical findings that showed any injury to the vital structures of Mr. Floyd’s neck. There were no medical indications of asphyxia or strangulation,” Sweasy added.
By day two, Baker knew the risks involved in telling the truth. Sweasy continued, “He said to me, ‘Amy, what happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on?’ And then he said, ‘This is the kind of case that ends careers.’”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/06/the_hard_truth_about_l_affaire_chauvin.html