Posted on 05/31/2020 1:40:21 PM PDT by EyesOfTX
Guest Piece by Americas History Teacher, Larry Schweikart About six months ago I suddenly realized that we had not heard from the fascist so-called antifa in a long time. I actually thought perhaps we had broken them, that their ineffectiveness previously had caused the movement to dissipate.
Boy was I wrong. Something quite different had been occurring. The fascist antifa had been mobilizing and sitting in their little commie-type sleeper cells awaiting a call for activation. No one, including George Soroswho either personally or through channels sent the go orderknew exactly what that instigating event would be. The point is, the fascist antifa was ready. They were trained to be in the streets within 24 hours, in multiple cities, en masse. There was a deadly beauty to the organizational skill involved in the call up of these quasi-military forces. And no doubt, more than a few of the snowflakes were sufficiently intimidated by the China Virus and obediently took to their masks as they sheltered in place.
But after a week, it is clear that there are two basic groups involved in these riots. The first are blacks who took the opportunity of George Floyds death to protest, loot, and burn. No one on the rightnot one single person so far that Ive seenhas called Floyds death anything less than a murder. No one has suggested anything be done with the killer cop than perpetual jail. (Proving premeditation would be nearly impossible here and hence there will not be a death penalty on the table, no matter what some of the whackos call for. In other words, the right is united that this was a case of police brutality.
In the case of Minneapolis, however, it appears that this policeman in particular has been given repeated passes on his over-the-top violence. And in 2017, Mohamed Noor, a Somalil cop in Minneapolis, shot and killed Justine Damond. Naturally, instead of endorsing the jail sentence for a murderer, the civil rights crowd complained Noor was treated differently from other officers who killed civilians. Noor shot the unarmed Damond as she approached the car. Minneapolis, in other words, has had a track record of excessive police force. Various photos show as many as three police on top of George Floyd with Derek Chauvin kneeling on the handcuffed Floyds neck as he lay face down. Whether Chauvin actually choked off Floyds air supply or merely contributed to his heart giving out will be a matter of debate by medical specialists.
Whats equally troubling is that one other person was filming the whole event; at least two other officers were helping Chauvin; and another officer was standing nearby. None intervened to simply place the man in the back of the police car. Such an incident should provoke a massive reaction, including a complete overhaul of the Minneapolis Police Department. What it should not have provoked were mobs burning and looting stores and taking over a MPD precinct station. In all cases, both the MPD and the mayorand the snowflake governor who essentially encouraged the lootersthe police should have immediately moved in to stop illegal activity.
But here comes the kicker: when they started arresting people, the police found out that some 40% of them were out-of-towners. Who could that possibly be? Fascist so-called antifa mobs. Video surfaced today of a white antifa goon instructing protestors where to go and what targets to hit.
We wont even get into the reality that many of these (mostly) black-owned businesses that were looted or burned were still under the snowflake governors lockdown policies and were dying on the vine.
Make no mistake: this was a Soros-backed, fascist so-called antifa-led series of national mob riots with no connection whatsoever to George Floyd. Most of the mob rioters probably thought Floyds first name was Pink. This was a well-planned, orchestrated evil designed in the pit of George Soross hell to destabilize not just the USA, but also England and Canada (where protest of more Pink Floyd fans joined the rioting. Like some snakes, this operation was beautiful in its design and deadly in its venom.
Today President Donald Trump announced he would officially designate the fascist so-called antifa group a terrorist organization. Among other things, that means that not only the Department of Justice will now (we hope) prosecute it, but the Treasury and IRS can now become involved in tracking the terrorists finances that almost certainly lead to George Soros. This is a big deal. But . . .
How big depends entirely on the vigor with which Attorney General William Barr actually follows through. More important, it will require a significant buy-in from the leftist-leaning bureaucracies in the FBI, Treasury, and IRS. Whether an actual prosecution of the fascists called antifa is possible remains to be seen. Ironically, however, Trumps designation of antifa as a terrorist organization means that so far Barack Obama has been largely responsible for the creation of two terrorist groups, ISIS and antifa. Now, if we can only get Black Lives Matter to be so designated . . . .
Larry Schweikart is the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, A Patriots History of the United States with Michael Allen and the author of Reagan: The American President. His website is the Wild World of History www.wildworldofhistory.com
You are not the only person I have encountered who is suggesting this cop may be getting railroaded, and that there may be more to this than that one video they play 24/7.
But where are you getting these time lines? How do you know what happened off camera in such tremendous detail?
Do you have links so that I can share your perspective, which - frankly - is at odds with the overwhelming national consensus, driven largely by that one video?
There is video of George getting arrested and put in cuffs.
There is video of George and officers struggling to get him inside the police car.
There is a picture of George being held down by three officers on the side of the car.
The timeline is pieced together from a number of sources. This one shows much of what happened, but leaves out critical details, such as the clerk telling dispatch Floyd appeared intoxicated. It says officers called for an ambulance about the time they are attempting to get him into the police car. It does not show the struggle in the car.
Some is from images of partial reports that have been released.
For example, we know the police called an ambulance after George collapsed when they pulled him from the police car. It has been reported they checked for a pulse, but I have not confirmed it in official reports. The exact timeline is unclear. It has been reported the ambulance arrived in six minutes, but that doesn't appear to be correct. I suspect it is more like nine minutes. The code was changed from a code 2 to a code 3 (life threatening, as I understand, at some point. I have not found the time of dispatch on this incident report, which was written by someone who arrived after Floyd had left in the ambulance.
FDIDStateCompleteNarrativeMMDDYYYYStationIncident NumberExposureIncident Date*****2721820-001819700017 MN2520205E17 was started code-two to assist EMS on a call, then updated to code-three. Pre-arrival info stated only that pt had trauma to his mouth. E17 arrived at Cup Foods (38th & Chicago) with multiple squads on scene and small crowd of citizens. As 17s attempted to locate the patient, the crew overheard and was told by several people that the police 'had killed the man.' Bystanders were upset but not unruly. No clear info on pt or location was given by either initial pd officers or bystanders. Crew finally located an officer inside the store who stated HCMC medics had loaded the patient and relocated from the scene. E17 encountered an off-duty firefighter who had witnessed the end of the struggle and witnessed the pt go from struggling to unresponsive on the ground while handcuffed and subdued by PD. Dispatch notified E17 that medics needed Fire code-three, and E17 relocated to 36th & Park Ave.
In the original uncut video, one police officer answers a bystander, who asks: Why don't you put him in the car? The officer says: we were trying to do that for ten minutes.
I gave the link to the MPD policy on neck restraints.
It is important to note there are alternative explanations for what happened, exculpatory evidence is being uncovered, and we should follow regular order and due process.
Maybe there is police misconduct here. It seems less clear the more we know about what happened.
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