I hope I've thoroughly mea culpa'ed myself in previous posts for being wrong about George Floyd and Derek Chauvin. Floyd's death was unfortunate, yes, but I should have suspended judgment until more facts had come in. Instead, I was one of the first out the gate to condemn Officer Derek Chauvin for having killed Floyd. It didn't take long for the initial wild-eyed videos about Floyd/Chauvin to be debunked as real evidence started to trickle and then pour out to the public: the submission move used by Chauvin was, in fact, part of the police training manual; Floyd was able to say "I can't breathe" repeatedly, meaning he could breathe; Floyd was sick with COVID; Floyd's toxicology report showed his bloodstream at the time of death was chock-full of a cocktail of drugs; Floyd's "I can't breathe" utterances were happening before he went to the ground, and the same is true for Floyd's famously pained expression, etc.
The video below is long but worth your time. I don't know either of these two gentlemen; they seem to lean right but are no friends of Trump, so I guess they're not MAGA conservatives. But together, they talk about the "code" in the black community in which people have to toe a certain ideological line even if that contravenes the truth (and they mention cases like Michael Brown, another non-saint who did not hold his hands up but was said to have done so before being shot by an officer); they go over the details of the Floyd/Chauvin case, and together they conclude that the initial narrative was and is all wrong: Derek Chauvin has been jailed for a crime he did not commit, and he was not given a fair trial. Another bitter truth the gentlemen talk about is how it takes years for people finally to admit the truth about something or someone, e.g., with OJ Simpson. A shame, but that's how the world works.
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