Posted on 06/10/2025 4:17:03 AM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The left needed a narrative so they contrived one.
Powerful article with a great deal of detail I did not know.
I have been saying much of what is in the article from well before the trial.
Yep. Also, Liz Collin’s book is worth the read.
Can anyone sum up the chances of Derek getting out and when?
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
“ Human nature, when allowed largely free rein in a democratic republic, seems to be a constant.”
Times change.
Human nature doesn’t.
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The video looked pretty awful. Chauvin didn’t help himself. If he was wrongfully convicted, I am sorry. If police can act like that and still be patrolling later, that is sad.
Police ought to know that a lot of criminals are on drugs and be ready to call the ambulance immediately. The Chauvin case should, obviously have been handled differently, let the jury see all of the evidence. Change the venue. Stop the riots.
His mistake, and same for any cop anytime, is that he still retained command of the incident while he was hands-on. At that moment the role of incident commander should be automatically passed on to someone else. If all 4 cops are hands-on the scream some code for that to your dispatch line & they must follow up with reinforcements.
If there had been 12 cops there then no cops would have gone to prison. There was only 4 there. They were short staffed. And none of their chain of command has been held accountable for that mistake.
PING
Yeah, it would have helped if Chauvin called for backup.
Was really bad optics that day. With St. George of Floyd on his stomach and uttering can’t breathe with Chauvin’s knee on upper back who then knew he was dying from a self inflicted fentanyl overdose? Chauvin didn’t help himself here but true evidence shows his actions were not the cause of death.
Or, is there a Chauvin Defense Fund of some kind?
The George Floyd Death Certificate that was presented to the Chauvin Jury has two errors.
The errors are so obvious that I think it was done deliberately.
In addition, I believe the Minneapolis Medical Examiner, who signed the Death Certificate, made at least one deliberate error in his Chauvin trial testimony.
All three errors would be helpful to Chauvin, specifically, to obtain a new Minnesota state trial.
In the past, I have attempted to contact the Chauvin lawyers, also the Chauvin Minnesota trial judge, and the Minneapolis Public Defenders office.
No success at all.
Great article. Thanks for posting it. Very well written and on-target.
The Media is adept at cutting and editing video to make it look “pretty awful” so that the emotions of their viewers are engaged rather than their intellect. It is done intentionally for effect, and with a malignant purpose behind it, even beyond the simple mechanism of needing to draw users and make money.
And people still fall for it.
I stopped watching the Media back in the mid-late Nineties for that very reason.
I view with a jaundiced eye anyone who still watches it an any way, shape, or form, and conclude they have to be intellectually weak to even partake of any Media product, especially if they do so regularly for reasons other than determining what the Leftist talking points are.
“Or, is there a Chauvin Defense Fund of some kind?“
GiveSendGo has a Chauvin defense fund.
As I recall the Rodney King video was also selectively edited and played to death for maximum effect.
I watched the entire video
Sure you did. But you never worked as a cop in a city like Minneapolis, did you? And how many other Americans saw “the entire video”?
Yes it was. But there are always people, the vast majority of never spent a day dealing with that kind of filth, who want to condemn someone who did.
Many people like to live with the benefit of having someone else do the dirty work so they can have ostensibly clean hands by looking the other way, even though they pay them to allow the privilege of looking the other way and washing their hands of it.
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