The Hard Truth about ‘L’Affaire Chauvin’

American Thinker ^ | 9 Jun, 2025 | Jack Cashill

[MtnClimber]

A week or so ago, I received an email from an old friend in the intelligence community—let’s call him “Smiley”—commenting on my research into the case of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in April 2021 of murdering chronic felon and drug abuser George Floyd a year prior.

Said Smiley, “Time for you to write a ‘J’accuse’ piece--naming names.” He was referring to the powerful public letter French author Emile Zola wrote in 1898 damning the people responsible for the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of French Army Captain Alfred Dreyfus four years prior.

A few days later, I received a providential email from American Thinker founder Thomas Lifson, a man whose opinion I have always respected. “I need to tell you,” wrote Lifson, “that your work, and that of John Dale Dunn, rectifying the injustice of Derek Chauvin’s convictions, makes me proud to know you both. Chauvin is the Alfred Dreyfus of our era, and that makes you the Zola. I mean that emphatically.” John Dunn, I should note, is a doctor and an attorney, and a frequent collaborator.

“Keep it up!” concluded Lifson, and so I shall. As Zola said, “My duty is to speak, I don’t want to be an accomplice. My nights would be haunted by the specter of the innocent who atones over there, in the most dreadful of tortures, a crime he did not commit.”

The parallels between L’Affaire Dreyfus and L’Affaire Chauvin are strong, not in the nature of the “crimes,” but in the motivations of the accusers and the reaction of the public. Human nature, when allowed largely free rein in a democratic republic, seems to be a constant.

In brief, Captain Dreyfus stood accused of betraying his country by secretly sharing French artillery secrets with the Germans.

[bankwalker]

did you watch this entire video?

The Fall of Minneapolis

[daler]

I realize there’s absolutely nothing I can do about it, but it seems to me that if there’s any reasonable doubt at all that what Chauvin did constituted murder, five years in prison, being stabbed multiple times and having his life ruined should be sufficient punishment for his “crime.”

He shouldn’t have to spend another day in prison, IMO.

[rlmorel]

Chauvin shouldn’t be in prison to begin with. He was railroaded as a sacrificial political lamb. It is shameful and criminal what was done to those police officers.

All of them. What police go through every day was similar to what you see on those body cams. And that is a fact.

I am not a “Back the Blue-False or True” person, but what these cops did was not police brutality. It was police doing the dirty, dangerous, and difficult job we want them to do every day to try to keep a lid on things.

There are bad cops out there who we should have and should be going after.

I didn’t see bad cops in this video.

[Organic Panic]

Zero chance of getting out of prison, Especially when the judges there, and especially the judge in the case, allowed the prosecution to with hold exculpatory evidence, lie, and silenced the defense team. The judge collaborated with the prosecution to ensure a conviction. Being a state charge Trump can’t pardon him. No way Tampon Tim will pardon him. There is no way any other judge is going to go against their commie comrades. So, sadly, Chauvin will rot as a real political prisoner.

[Degaston]

The other 3 didn’t call for backup either. That was the problem.

[daler]

Totally true and well said.

[yldstrk]

I would never want the job of a cop and I am grateful someone will do it.

[rlmorel]

Me too, FRiend. Me too.