he Hard Truth about ‘L’Affaire Chauvin’

American Thinker ^ | Jack Cashill

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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...

[Mouton]

One point the defense failed to raise, the size difference between St George and the copper.

[Tell It Right]

Thanks for posting. It contains an exhaustive list of “I accuse” for who lied and stirred up the masses to convict innocent men.

[Honorary Serb]

Free Derek Chauvin!

Once again, riots have broken out in America cities! There are credible threats that the riots will spread to many other cities, and last all summer long!

Don’t let rioters overrule our justice system. Free Derek Chauvin!

[sport]

This entire episode was political and the ending cut and fried from A to Z. The trial itself was as illegal as the trial of Jesus. A Jew in one of Hitler's People's Courts in the 39’s or early 40’s would have gotten a fairer trial. Chauven’s case

[DesertRhino]

Being a cop today is a bad decision on day one. But if you’re going to be one, you need to go to the Mexican side of town, get a fake ID and passport… Keep a few thousand in cash and 10,000 in bitcoin standing by. When something happens, and you can see the writing on the wall, there’s not a minute to waste. Within a day or certainly two days of it happening… You need to go down to the truckstop, put your cell phone on a westbound truck, go to the airport and leave. Go south… Don’t stop until you meet people speaking German. Somewhere around southern Argentina.

But of course, if you have to make such exotic preparations, it does beg the question as to why you were working there in the first place.

[The Great RJ]

Chauvin’s trial was a lynching and jurors were intimidated. One prospective juror said flat out that he feared for his safety and that of his family if he served on the jury. He was dismissed from serving on the jury. The trial should also have had a change of venue to a remote part of Minnesota.

[EandH Dad]

There’s already a book about George Floyd riots. The name of the book is “They’re Lying” by Liz Collins. She was a local TV anchor and is married to the president of the police union. Yes, Tim Walz’s part is the whole ordeal is detailed. Well written and researched while I highly recommend it, I can only read a few pages at a sitting because my blood pressure jumps up.