The Ben Shapiro Show - The Jury Got It Wrong | Ep. 1240

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00:01:35.000 All righty, so, obviously, the massive news of the day is that late yesterday afternoon, Eastern time, the jury came in with its verdict in the killing of George Floyd by Derek Chauvin.

00:01:48.000 The jury determined that it was murder, not just second-degree murder.

00:01:52.000 It was second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and manslaughter, according to the jury.

00:01:56.000 Here was the judge announcing the jury verdict yesterday.

00:02:00.000 We the jury in the above entitled matter as to count one, unintentional second degree murder while committing a felony, find the defendant guilty.

00:02:07.000 We the jury in the above entitled matter as to count two, third degree murder perpetrating an eminently dangerous act, find the defendant guilty.

00:02:14.000 We the jury in the above entitled matter as to count three, second degree manslaughter, culpable negligence creating an unreasonable risk, find the defendant guilty.

00:02:23.000 Okay, so those charges carry as per the statute.

00:02:27.000 12.5 years for second degree, 12.5 years for third degree, four years for manslaughter if you don't have a prior conviction.

00:02:34.000 There are some extenuating factors that the prosecution is going to try to present to the judge to call for more than the maximum sentence allotted by law, suggesting that Chauvin should spend presumably decades in prison for the death of George Floyd.

00:02:47.000 So let's talk for a second about The jury here.

00:02:50.000 So the jury spent about 10 hours in deliberation.

00:02:53.000 It was a three-week trial.

00:02:54.000 They spent about 10 hours deliberating.

00:02:56.000 They came back early yesterday afternoon, like 2.30 Eastern Time, and it became clear that they were going to give a verdict.

00:03:02.000 So it was pretty obvious as soon as they announced that they were coming back that it was going to be guilty on all charges.

00:03:06.000 I said this publicly.

00:03:07.000 The reason being that in Minnesota, you actually have to be acquitted by the entire jury or you have to be convicted by the entire jury.

00:03:15.000 So, once the jury said they were coming back, unless they were going to acquit him on all charges, which was extraordinarily doubtful, it was pretty obvious they were going to convict him on all charges.

00:03:23.000 If there had been a hang-up, if there had been a couple of jurors who were not into it, then they would have gone back to the judge.

00:03:27.000 They would have asked questions.

00:03:29.000 They would have gone back to the judge.

00:03:30.000 They would have said, you know, we can't reach a verdict.

00:03:32.000 The judge would have sent them back.

00:03:33.000 He would have said, you need to go back and talk about it and see if you can reach a verdict.

00:03:36.000 They didn't do any of that.

00:03:38.000 In record time, they came down for the conviction of Derek Chauvin.

00:03:41.000 In my view of the evidence, the jury's wrong.

00:03:43.000 Now, Nothing unique in that.

00:03:45.000 Juries can be wrong sometimes.

00:03:47.000 Or perhaps I'm wrong.

00:03:48.000 But, in my view of the evidence, not only is the jury wrong, given the fact they didn't even ask any questions of the judge, I wonder if they even examined the evidence.

00:03:48.000 That is possible too.

00:03:57.000 The reason being, the second and third degree murder charges, it seems unsupportable to me, on a logical level, that the second and third degree murder charges, based on what we saw in the courtroom and the entire trial was televised, That those charges are justifiable by the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.

00:04:13.000 Remember, the standard is not by preponderance of the evidence.

00:04:16.000 The standard is not, do you think that Chauvin is guilty of second and third degree murder?

00:04:20.000 The question is, do you know beyond a reasonable doubt that he is guilty of second and third degree murder?

00:04:25.000 We've walked through these charges many times.

00:04:26.000 Third degree murder does not even apply in this case.

00:04:28.000 Originally, the judge said that third degree murder should not be brought as a charge because it's so-called depraved heart murder.

00:04:33.000 Depraved heart murder is where you shoot a gun into a crowd.

00:04:36.000 The statute specifically says, when you present harm to others, plural.

00:04:42.000 Right, and then you hit one person, you shoot into a crowd, you don't have any specific intent to kill a person, but you know that you probably will kill somebody.

00:04:47.000 That's what a depraved heart murder is, that's what third degree murder is, that did not apply in this case, they convicted Chauvin of it anyway.

00:04:53.000 Second degree murder, they would have had to find that felony assault was intended, that Chauvin intended to commit a felony assault, not to participate in a routinely used police procedure that was greenlit by the Minneapolis Police Department, but that he intended to commit a felony assault on George Floyd, Not that it was an accident.

00:05:11.000 Not that he went too far in the process of pursuing that.

00:05:14.000 But he intended, right?

00:05:15.000 Felony assault is an intent crime.

00:05:17.000 That he intended to commit a felony assault.

00:05:19.000 And in the process of that felony assault, George Floyd died.

00:05:22.000 The sort of criminal equivalent would be somebody who's robbing a bank.

00:05:25.000 They intend to commit a felony.

00:05:27.000 Somebody else gets shot during the process of robbing the bank by accident.

00:05:30.000 That's felony murder.

00:05:32.000 Very difficult to prove.

00:05:33.000 The jury went for that as well.

00:05:34.000 Manslaughter, I said all along, was the easiest charge to prove because all you had to prove there was recklessness.

00:05:39.000 And there, the prosecution made a fairly compelling case, because the prosecution said that in that particular case, Derek Chauvin could have seen that Floyd was dying under his knee, and therefore, he should have turned Floyd over, he should have given him medical care, right?

00:05:53.000 All of that is a lot more arguable and at least a lot more evidentiarily based than the second and third degree murder charges.

00:05:58.000 But the jury not only went for the second and third degree murder charges, they went for it in record time.

00:06:02.000 They went right for it, like very, very quickly.

00:06:05.000 Which suggests to me that they didn't really take a fulsome look of the evidence.

00:06:09.000 Now, maybe they did, and maybe they just came to a different conclusion.

00:06:11.000 But the presumption has to be that this was the most highly watched trial in modern American history.

00:06:18.000 You had the President of the United States sounding off about it.

00:06:21.000 You had Congressman Maxine Waters outside the courtroom.

00:06:23.000 who is saying that there were gonna be riots in the streets, essentially, if they didn't get the verdict they wanted.

00:06:27.000 He had the entire media declaring, the entire media to a man, declaring that this trial was a foregone conclusion, and not just a foregone conclusion, but that it was insulting to even have to watch the defense put on a case.

00:06:39.000 The notion that the pressure campaign brought to bear over the course of the last year to convict Chauvin had no impact on the jury here beggars the imagination.

00:06:48.000 I find it very, very difficult to believe that this was, in fact, an objective pursuit of the system of justice.

00:06:57.000 Now, perhaps it was.

00:06:58.000 Perhaps it was.

00:06:59.000 Okay, perhaps the jury just went in the room, and they did their best, and they came away after having examined all three weeks of the evidence, and they ignored the fact that George Floyd had three times the deadly level of fentanyl in his system, and they ignored the fact that he had a 75% arterial blockage, and they ignored the fact that he said he couldn't breathe before he was on the ground, and they ignored the fact that he was resisting arrest.

00:07:16.000 They ignored the fact that he asked to be taken out of the car and to be put on the ground.

00:07:19.000 They ignored the fact that he was actively talking just before he died, which shows that his airway was not obstructed.

00:07:24.000 They ignored the autopsy results.

00:07:25.000 that showed that he had many drugs in his system, and not just that he had many drugs in his system, but no damage to his trachea and no damage to his, and no damage to his, the arteries on either side of his neck, right?

00:07:35.000 Perhaps they looked at all of that and they said, you know what?

00:07:37.000 We just agree with Dr. Tobin, who is the prosecution medical witness, and we just agree with him.

00:07:43.000 And we believe that just by looking at the tape, he could magically determine the cause of death on George Floyd, and that it was only Derek Chauvin's knee, not even on his neck, on his upper back, that caused the death of George Floyd.

00:07:53.000 Maybe they did their job, and they did it beautifully.

00:07:56.000 But there's one thing that the jury didn't do.

00:07:59.000 There's one charge that the jury never even considered.

00:08:02.000 There was one charge that was never even alleged.

00:08:03.000 That Chauvin was convicted of.

00:08:05.000 And that, of course, is the biggest charge of all.

00:08:07.000 Not the murder charge.

00:08:08.000 The charge that Derek Chauvin is emblematic of an American system of racism.

00:08:14.000 That charge was never proved.

00:08:16.000 No evidence was brought to that idea.

00:08:18.000 There was not even an allegation that this killing was racial in any way.

00:08:23.000 That allegation never was brought to court.

00:08:25.000 There was no evidence presented of that allegation.

00:08:29.000 And yet, that was the entire story.

00:08:31.000 If you ask Americans today, is Derek Chauvin a racist?

00:08:35.000 I guarantee you, a majority of Americans will say yes.

00:08:38.000 And what is the evidence of that?

00:08:40.000 That George Floyd died.

00:08:41.000 That is not evidence of racism.

00:08:43.000 That's evidence, at best, of a bad cop.

00:08:47.000 It is evidence of bad police procedure.

00:08:50.000 It is evidence of recklessness.

00:08:52.000 That is not evidence of racism.

00:08:54.000 But we all know that the real charge that was brought against Derek Chauvin, because it was being brought against America more broadly, is that America is racist and this case is emblematic of that.

00:09:02.000 This data point is all about America being racist.

00:09:05.000 He was never charged with that.

00:09:06.000 He was never accused of that.

00:09:07.000 No evidence was brought of that.

00:09:09.000 But not only was he convicted of that, the entire country was convicted of a crime that there was literally no evidence presented of.

00:09:18.000 And that really is the part that is terrible for the country.

00:09:23.000 And has driven the narrative all along.

00:09:25.000 Because, let us be real about this.

00:09:27.000 If the body cam footage had broken, at the time when it was supposed to, by the way, the body cam footage broke well after the original third-party footage of what was going on with Chauvin and Floyd.

00:09:37.000 If the body cam footage had broken, and the third-party footage had broken, and all the evidence had been cast into the public sphere, if all of that had happened, and there had not been 20 million people in the streets declaring that America was systemically racist, and that this case was a case of racism, It is highly doubtful to me whether a jury would have convicted of second and third degree murder on this evidence, which suggests to me, of course, that when it comes to due process, this was due process in name.

00:10:06.000 It was not justice in effect because individual justice relies on you evaluating the evidence before you, not on bringing in preconceived notions about systemic American racism that were never alleged in the courtroom.

00:10:16.000 The prosecution did not allege that.

00:10:18.000 The prosecution did not allege that Chauvin was a racist who went to kill a black man that day.

00:10:22.000 That was not alleged.

00:10:23.000 The prosecution did not allege that Chauvin killed Floyd because he was black, or even that he was reckless because he was black.

00:10:30.000 The prosecution did not allege racism, but that is what Chauvin stands convicted of for the rest of his life.

00:10:34.000 That's what America stands convicted of in the view of the entire media, in the view of the entire Democratic Party.

00:10:41.000 This was eminently political from beginning to end.

00:10:44.000 From beginning to end.

00:10:46.000 So when I say that the jury is wrong, juries get it wrong.

00:10:49.000 But the question isn't whether the jury got it wrong.

00:10:51.000 The question is whether the jury got it wrong because they were actually convicting Chauvin of a crime that he was not even alleged to have committed, which is standing in for America's evil racist system.

00:11:01.000 And the answer there is pretty obviously yes.

00:11:04.000 And you can see it in every element of the narrative that's been trotted out.

00:11:07.000 Every single element of the narrative.

00:11:09.000 For example, Philonise Floyd, who is a relative of George Floyd's brother, got up and suggested, standing next to Al Sharpton, one of the great race baiters in American history, and Jesse Jackson, another one of the greatest race baiters in American history, and Benjamin Crump, another great race baiter in modern American history.

00:11:25.000 Philonise Floyd stood there and suggested that George Floyd was like Emmett Till.

00:11:32.000 Now, for those who don't know about the Emmett Till crime, one of the great racial crimes in American history, Emmett Till was a 14-year-old black boy who was falsely accused of having sexually harassed a white woman.

00:11:42.000 The white woman's family then went to the place where Emmett Till lived, dragged him out of his house, shot him, and threw him in a river. 0.92

00:11:48.000 In other words, the circumstances surrounding George Floyd's death are nothing like the circumstances surrounding Emmett Till's death, which was a purely racist murder in the South in the Jim Crow era.

00:11:59.000 But this is the comparison that was made, continuously and repeatedly, is that every day America's racist system is creating new Emmett Tills.

00:12:07.000 And George Floyd is just the latest example of this.

00:12:10.000 Here is Philonise Floyd making that case.

00:12:13.000 The person that comes to my mind is 1955.

00:12:19.000 And to me, he was the first George Floyd.

00:12:21.000 That was Emmett Till.

00:12:24.000 Wow.

00:12:27.000 Wow.

00:12:29.000 I did, uh, was on CNN with Deborah Watts and she just brought him back to life.

00:12:37.000 Wow.

00:12:38.000 People forgot about him.

00:12:39.000 Yeah.

00:12:41.000 But he was the first George Floyd.

00:12:44.000 Okay, that is a, that is a lie.

00:12:46.000 It is a, by the way, it is a slander against Emmett Till, who is not in fact a repeat criminal.

00:12:51.000 Who had held up a pregnant woman at gunpoint and robbed her house?

00:12:55.000 With her kid in the house?

00:12:56.000 He was not a repeat drug offender who'd done jail time?

00:12:59.000 He was not a person passing counterfeit bills, Emmett Till?

00:13:02.000 He was not somebody who resisted arrest?

00:13:04.000 He was not any of those things. 0.94

00:13:06.000 Emmett Till was killed because he was a black- Because he was a black boy living in the Jim Crow segregated South, and there were white racists who murdered him.

00:13:13.000 There's no similarity between the Emmett Till case and the George Floyd case.

00:13:16.000 But again, that is what Chauvin was convicted of yesterday.

00:13:19.000 Not just in the court of law, but in the court of public opinion, which in America matters a hell of a lot more than the court of law.

00:13:26.000 And it's not just Chauvin who stands convicted of that, of course.

00:13:29.000 The idea from the entire Democratic Party and the media is that it's the entire country that stands convicted of that, when it was not even alleged, based on evidence.

00:13:37.000 It was not even alleged.

00:13:38.000 And it seems to me that what happened really here is that the jury took allegations that were not even made and then read them into the crime.

00:13:45.000 Derek Chauvin had to be convicted of second and third degree murder, not because the fact pattern supported second and third degree murder, it might have supported manslaughter, but he had to be convicted of second and third degree murder, or whatever charges they threw at him, frankly, because he was a stand-in for the evil history of American racism and the current system of American racial prejudice.

00:14:02.000 of American white supremacy.

00:14:03.000 And that, to me, does not look very much like a justice system.

00:14:06.000 That does not look like a justice system designed to achieve individual justice.

00:14:09.000 It looks like social justice and racial justice projected into a case where the evidence didn't fit, but it didn't matter.

00:14:17.000 In just a second, we'll get to the reaction from the politicians and media that proved exactly what I'm saying.

00:14:24.000 I mean, it is pretty astonishing.

00:14:25.000 The reaction to this has been quite amazing and quite telling.

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00:15:43.000 Okay, so you can see how the media and our politicians react, and they are reacting not to the conviction of a cop on evidence presented that he was reckless, or even that he committed murder because he was brutal.

00:15:54.000 They reacted to this on the basis of the racial question that was not even alleged at trial and to which no evidence was presented.

00:16:01.000 There is not a jot or tittle of evidence that has been presented to suggest that if George Floyd had been a white man who was, and the police were called to the scene of a crime for a white guy who had a long, a rap sheet as long as your arm, and the white guy were high on fentanyl, three times the legal limit, resisting arrest, begging to be put on the ground, That that white guy would have lived under the exact same circumstances in which we saw this case.

00:16:23.000 That was not even presented.

00:16:24.000 There's no evidence presented to that.

00:16:25.000 They didn't bring a Facebook post from Chauvin.

00:16:27.000 They didn't bring any evidence of Chauvin's intent.

00:16:29.000 They didn't bring any evidence that Chauvin was in fact a racist.

00:16:31.000 It does not matter.

00:16:32.000 That is what America and Chauvin stand convicted of today.

00:16:37.000 And the way that the media treat this and the way the politicians treat this is perfectly obvious.

00:16:41.000 Nancy Pelosi gave what I thought was maybe the single most egregious statement on not just a criminal trial, but on the death of a human being that I have heard in quite some time.

00:16:51.000 Her take on George Floyd's death is malevolent.

00:16:55.000 I mean, truly malevolent.

00:16:57.000 Here is Nancy Pelosi talking about the death of George Floyd, who remember, did not willingly go to his death because he was making some sort of greater sacrifice.

00:17:05.000 Even if you believe the jury, He was killed.

00:17:11.000 He did not want to die, nor should he have wanted to die.

00:17:14.000 But Nancy Pelosi thanked him for his death.

00:17:18.000 She thanked him for his death.

00:17:19.000 Here's Nancy Pelosi.

00:17:21.000 Thank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice, for being there to call out to your mom.

00:17:30.000 How heartbreaking was that?

00:17:31.000 Call out for your mom.

00:17:33.000 I can't breathe.

00:17:34.000 But because of you, and because of thousands, millions of people around the world who came out for justice, your name will always be synonymous with justice.

00:17:47.000 Okay, forget for a second about the beginning of the statement in which she thanks a man for dying, which is just astonishing.

00:17:54.000 Breach of decency.

00:17:54.000 I mean, somebody gets shot by the cops, even if they're shot and they didn't deserve to be shot, you don't thank them for their death.

00:18:01.000 That is a bizarre, bizarre take at best.

00:18:03.000 But her statement that on the day of Chauvin's conviction, that because Floyd died and millions of people went out in the streets, basically Chauvin was convicted because of that, is itself an admission That this trial outcome was seen as the predictable outcome, not of the evidence, but of all of the surrounding hubbub regarding George Floyd and the BLM movement of last summer and the 20 million people in the streets.

00:18:27.000 Which is to say that it was not a pure jury case examining the evidence, looking at what happened.

00:18:33.000 It was, in fact, outside pressure that made a fair bit of difference.

00:18:37.000 And all of this ties in to, again, the broader American narrative, which is that all of this is about America's racist systems. 1.00

00:18:43.000 So, for example, you have the Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Fry, who is just a moron. 1.00

00:18:47.000 A moral idiot of extraordinary proportions. 1.00

00:18:51.000 Jacob Fry, the same guy who went and got shellacked last summer. 1.00

00:18:54.000 He went down to a BLM rally, tried to sympathize with them, and they said, what are you doing here?

00:18:58.000 Well, they started yelling at him for being a white supremacist.

00:19:02.000 Because when you show your neck to a mob of people who wish to tear down the system, and you're a member of the system, it never goes well for you.

00:19:08.000 But Jacob Fry tweeted this out.

00:19:09.000 George Floyd came to Minneapolis to better his life.

00:19:12.000 That is at best on the record debatable considering that he was in a car doing heavy doses of drugs and passing counterfeit bills.

00:19:20.000 Well, I think everybody agrees that George Floyd shouldn't have died.

00:19:34.000 There's no debate about that.

00:19:36.000 But the notion that this has bettered Minneapolis in some way is indicative of a basic democratic case, which is that the world has gotten better over the course of the last year because of this mass movement in the streets.

00:19:47.000 And I'm just wondering what the evidence is for that.

00:19:50.000 I'm wondering what the evidence is that the world has gotten better because of what has happened over the course of the last year in terms of the supposed racial awakening in the United States.

00:19:58.000 You had the same thing from Minnesota AG Keith Ellison.

00:20:01.000 He said, this isn't justice.

00:20:02.000 It's accountability.

00:20:04.000 Now, what you notice here is the reason he's saying that it's not justice is because the idea that Democrats are going to push forward and this is the next move, right, is that it was never about this particular case.

00:20:12.000 It's about the broader system.

00:20:14.000 You'll notice the language that is being used by the left today, by members of the media, by members of the Democratic Party, is not, the system worked.

00:20:21.000 Usually, in the aftermath of a criminal conviction, the line that you hear very often from politicians and the media is, yes, the system worked.

00:20:28.000 You're not hearing that today.

00:20:29.000 You're really not hearing that today.

00:20:30.000 Instead, what you're hearing is justice was done.

00:20:32.000 There's a major philosophical difference between justice was done and the system worked.

00:20:36.000 If you say the system worked, you're providing legitimacy to the system.

00:20:40.000 The left doesn't want to provide legitimacy to the system.

00:20:42.000 Remember, remember, the system is racist.

00:20:44.000 Remember, the system is bigoted.

00:20:46.000 Remember, the system is the bad guy.

00:20:48.000 Derek Chauvin isn't even the bad guy.

00:20:49.000 Derek Chauvin is just the outgrowth of the system.

00:20:52.000 In a certain way, a lot of folks on the left don't even believe that Derek Chauvin is responsible for his own actions, because they didn't prove that he was a racist.

00:20:58.000 He's just the outgrowth of a systemically racist system.

00:21:01.000 He's just a widget in the system.

00:21:02.000 The system is bad.

00:21:03.000 So they're not saying the system worked, because that would be lending gravitas and legitimacy to a system they hate.

00:21:08.000 Instead, it's justice was done.

00:21:10.000 When they say justice was done, what they mean is we got what we wanted.

00:21:13.000 Okay, so here is Minnesota AG Keith Ellison saying, it's not about justice, it's about accountability, because broader justice, of course, means that you tear down the entire system.

00:21:21.000 I would not call today's verdict justice, however, because justice implies true restoration.

00:21:30.000 But it is accountability, which is the first step towards justice.

00:21:35.000 And now the cause of justice is in your hands.

00:21:39.000 And when I say your hands, I mean the hands of the people of the United States.

00:21:42.000 There we go.

00:21:43.000 There we go.

00:21:44.000 Because the entire system has to be torn down, right?

00:21:46.000 That's the next step.

00:21:47.000 The next step is that this was merely indicative of a broader... That was not even a charge that was evidenced.

00:21:53.000 It was not a charge brought against Chauvin.

00:21:54.000 But Chauvin's gonna go to jail for that charge.

00:21:56.000 His life will be ruined for that charge.

00:21:58.000 I'm not saying he shouldn't go to jail.

00:21:59.000 Maybe he should for manslaughter.

00:22:01.000 Maybe the jury even had a legitimate belief in second and third degree.

00:22:05.000 But that is not why the media and the Democrats are convicting Chauvin today.

00:22:07.000 The reason that they are convicting Chauvin today is not on the basis of the evidence, it's on the basis of facts not in evidence.

00:22:12.000 Namely, that Chauvin was the racist outgrowth of a racist system.

00:22:16.000 Which is why this is a national story as opposed to a local crime story in the first place.

00:22:20.000 Now in just a second, I want to ask a pretty easy question, which is, okay, so is this hope?

00:22:25.000 Have things gotten better?

00:22:27.000 Because the basic idea is that things are now about to get better for black Americans in the United States.

00:22:32.000 The answer, pretty obviously, is no.

00:22:33.000 Things are not about to get better in the United States for black Americans. 0.97

00:22:36.000 Many more black Americans will die because of the approach of the media and the Democratic Party with regard to policing. 0.98

00:22:41.000 Period, end of story. 0.76

00:22:44.000 Okay, so let's take a look at what's happened over the course of the past year.

00:22:47.000 We've been told that the great racial awakening brought about by George Floyd's death has been a boon to the United States.

00:22:52.000 We've seen Nancy Pelosi on tape thanking George Floyd for his death in a bizarre show of misplacement.

00:22:57.000 I mean, my goodness, what a tone-deaf thing to say.

00:23:01.000 That this has made America better in some way, and particularly for black Americans.

00:23:03.000 There's an entire piece from the Associated Press today, titled, By the way, that's not an op-ed.

00:23:12.000 That is a news piece, because our media are fully invested in the idea that all the systems of the United States are deeply racist, and that only if Chauvin was convicted would we be on the road to recovery.

00:23:22.000 Here is the Associated Press in a news story.

00:23:23.000 Remember, not an op-ed.

00:23:24.000 That's a news story, gang. 1.00

00:23:25.000 Your media are hot garbage. 0.99

00:23:26.000 momentary is a feeling that black Americans have rarely known in America, from slavery and Jim Crow segregation to enduring punishments for living while black. 0.99

00:23:33.000 A breath of fresh air untainted by oppression has long been hard to come by.

00:23:37.000 That's a news story, gang. 1.00

00:23:39.000 Your media are hot garbage. 0.99

00:23:41.000 Your establishment media, Delenda Est. 0.99

00:23:43.000 They do not have the interests of the American people at heart.

00:23:45.000 They do not have the interests of American ideals at heart.

00:23:47.000 They don't have the ideas of Martin Luther King Jr.

00:23:50.000 at heart.

00:23:50.000 They have divisiveness and polarization and violence at heart.

00:23:53.000 I mean, this is bad stuff.

00:23:55.000 The notion that all black Americans are living under the constant threat of extermination is now being reported as objective news by the Associated Press.

00:24:03.000 Nonetheless, says the AP, the conviction of ex-cop Derek Chauvin for murdering George Floyd nearly a year ago allowed many across this city and the nation to exhale pent-up anxiety and to inhale a sense of hope.

00:24:13.000 But what might they hope for?

00:24:15.000 The fate of Chauvin showed Black Americans and their compatriots once again that the legal system is capable of valuing Black lives.

00:24:22.000 Well, the system is capable of valuing black lives, but what you are calling for in terms of changes to the system devalues black lives, as we will talk about in just one second. 0.88

00:24:30.000 Or at least it can hold one white police officer in Minnesota accountable for what many declared an unambiguous act of murder months ago.

00:24:35.000 Yeah, just because many declared something an unambiguous act of murder means nothing.

00:24:39.000 Today, you'll notice that there are many in the media who are attempting to declare it an unambiguous act of murder that a police officer in Columbus, Ohio shot a girl, a 15-year-old black girl.

00:24:50.000 Then the police released the footage and it turns out the 15-year-old black girl was trying to stab another black woman with a knife when she was shot.

00:24:56.000 Okay, but again, the facts are getting in the way of a good narrative here.

00:25:03.000 This may be the beginning of the restoration of believing that a justice system can work, said civil rights leader Martin Luther King III.

00:25:09.000 But we have to constantly stay on the battlefield in a peaceful and nonviolent way and make demands.

00:25:13.000 This has been going on for years.

00:25:14.000 In one case, one verdict does not change how systemic racism has worked in our system.

00:25:18.000 Right?

00:25:18.000 The systems have to be torn down.

00:25:20.000 What the media are calling for is not renewed faith in the system.

00:25:23.000 What they are calling for is continuous pressure on the system.

00:25:28.000 See, here's the bizarre nature of the only thing that changed yesterday because Chauvin was convicted as opposed to acquitted is that there weren't riots.

00:25:35.000 Because for the left, the outcome really didn't change.

00:25:38.000 For the left, it doesn't matter what the antecedent was.

00:25:42.000 The consequent was always going to be the same.

00:25:44.000 In the if-then statement, it did not matter what you said in the if.

00:25:47.000 The then was always going to be the same.

00:25:49.000 If Chauvin had been acquitted, Then they would have said this.

00:25:53.000 Okay, that was version number one, where Chauvin was acquitted.

00:25:55.000 This just shows that the American racial, the American justice system is racially malevolent, that America is a deeply systemically racist place.

00:26:01.000 And this requires, therefore, this requires that you give us inordinate power to reshape all the systems of American life so as to achieve racial equity. 0.78

00:26:09.000 Okay, that was version number one, where Chauvin was acquitted.

00:26:12.000 When Chauvin was convicted, here's the argument today.

00:26:15.000 Derek Chauvin was convicted.

00:26:16.000 And this is just the first step to realizing that you have to give us more power so we can reshape the systems of American power in line with providing greater racial equity.

00:26:24.000 It does not matter whether Chauvin was convicted or not for purposes of the agenda.

00:26:29.000 In fact, it seems that there are at least a few in the media who are kind of unhappy that Chauvin was convicted because it seems to grant a certain legitimacy to a justice system they really, really dislike.

00:26:39.000 I mean, to take one example, MSNBC's Jason Johnson seemed pretty pissed at the verdict yesterday.

00:26:43.000 He said, I'm not going to celebrate this verdict because it gives legitimacy to a system that's bad.

00:26:49.000 I actually always thought that he would be found guilty because it's sort of a cultural makeup call.

00:26:55.000 But I'm not happy.

00:26:56.000 I'm not pleased.

00:26:57.000 I don't have any sense of satisfaction.

00:26:59.000 I don't think this is a system working.

00:27:00.000 I don't think this is a good thing.

00:27:02.000 What this says to me is that in order to get a nominal degree of justice in this country, That a black man has to be murdered on air, viewed by the entire world.

00:27:14.000 There has to be a year's worth of protests and a phalanx of other white police officers to tell one white officer that he was wrong in order to get one scintilla of justice.

00:27:24.000 Okay, that last point there is him admitting that the jury was pressured by the millions of people in the streets, which of course is true and perfectly obvious to anyone with a shred of common sense.

00:27:33.000 He says, in order to get this conviction, you needed millions of people in the streets.

00:27:38.000 Okay, there's a word for that, and it's mob justice.

00:27:39.000 Okay, there's a term for that.

00:27:42.000 And this is not a French viewpoint, Jason Johnson's viewpoint.

00:27:46.000 In fact, you get the viewpoint, right?

00:27:47.000 Because the idea is if the system is bad, then anything that justifies the system may not be that great.

00:27:52.000 AOC, the irrepressible, brilliant, so fresh, so face, It's not justice.

00:27:58.000 in America.

00:27:59.000 Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, who spent tens of thousands of dollars on private security over the course of the last few months, but you should definitely defund the police.

00:28:06.000 AOC said that this verdict should not be a ray of hope.

00:28:09.000 It should just be a reminder that we need to completely change the systems of American life.

00:28:14.000 It's not justice.

00:28:15.000 And I'll explain to you why it's not justice.

00:28:18.000 It's not justice because justice is George Floyd going home tonight to be with his family.

00:28:29.000 Justice is Adam Toledo getting tucked in by his mom tonight.

00:28:38.000 Justice is When you're pulled over, they're not being a gun.

00:28:47.000 That's part of that interaction because you have a headlight out.

00:28:51.000 Right, justice is tearing down all the systems. 0.70

00:28:54.000 And you'll notice, the facts don't matter in any of these cases.

00:28:57.000 The Adam Toledo shoot was a justifiable shooting by a police officer.

00:28:59.000 Adam Toledo was missing for two days in Chicago.

00:29:02.000 His mom didn't even call the cops.

00:29:05.000 He was a member of a gang.

00:29:06.000 Where were his parents?

00:29:07.000 His mom tucking him in?

00:29:09.000 She did not call the cops when he went missing for two nights.

00:29:11.000 He was shooting a gun at moving vehicles.

00:29:14.000 When the police were called to the scene, he ran from the cops.

00:29:16.000 He had a gun behind him.

00:29:18.000 And as he dropped the gun, he was shot.

00:29:21.000 And for her, justice is that he goes home.

00:29:24.000 Justice is that George Floyd is... In other words, justice is the tearing down of all of the systems.

00:29:31.000 Because any bad thing that happens can be attributed to the system.

00:29:33.000 So this wasn't justice.

00:29:35.000 Right?

00:29:35.000 Justice is bad things don't happen anymore.

00:29:37.000 And bad things won't happen anymore.

00:29:39.000 Justified or unjustified?

00:29:40.000 Bad things will never happen anymore if you just tear down the systems.

00:29:44.000 That is the goal here.

00:29:44.000 Van Jones on CNN doing the same routine, right?

00:29:47.000 This just shows one down, but there are many more to go because the system is still corrupt.

00:29:50.000 The system is still bad.

00:29:52.000 That's the generalized point here.

00:29:55.000 This is not the end of anything.

00:29:56.000 This is the beginning of something.

00:29:58.000 Where is Congress?

00:29:59.000 They need to act.

00:30:00.000 Those chokeholds are still legal according to federal government.

00:30:03.000 That needs to change.

00:30:04.000 There's no duty to intervene from the federal government.

00:30:07.000 That needs to change.

00:30:08.000 There's no registry for cops like Chauvin.

00:30:10.000 That needs to change.

00:30:11.000 You know, when you have somebody like Representative Karen Bass and Tim Scott fighting, we need to get behind them.

00:30:18.000 This should never happen again.

00:30:20.000 One down, many more to go.

00:30:22.000 By the way, I noticed that it was the Democrats who filibustered Tim Scott's police reform bill last year because Tim Scott happens to be a Republican.

00:30:27.000 Reverend Al Sharpton, who, to my amazement and astonishment, remains a major figure in American public life despite being involved in the incitement of two separate racial conflagrations, one in Crown Heights and another at Freddie's Fashion Mart.

00:30:41.000 And who's been wrong on nearly every major racial issue and runs a shakedown network designed at getting businesses to pay money to his network so that he will leave them alone.

00:30:48.000 Al Sharpton's still considered a face of racial justice after the Tawana Browley scandal.

00:30:52.000 It's just unbelievable to me.

00:30:54.000 Here's Al Sharpton saying the war and the fight isn't over.

00:30:56.000 Again, because it was never directed.

00:30:57.000 It was never about this one case.

00:30:59.000 You understand?

00:31:00.000 The entire contention was that it was about the system.

00:31:03.000 Doesn't matter that they never showed it was the system.

00:31:05.000 They never showed that Derek Chauvin was a racist.

00:31:08.000 Again, this is the key point.

00:31:10.000 They're convicting the entire system and Chauvin of a crime they did not even allege with evidence against Chauvin or really the system.

00:31:17.000 Here's Sharpton pushing it.

00:31:19.000 We don't find pleasure in this.

00:31:22.000 We don't celebrate a man going to jail.

00:31:25.000 We would have rather George be alive.

00:31:27.000 Amen!

00:31:28.000 But we celebrate that we, because young people White and black.

00:31:35.000 Some castigated.

00:31:36.000 Many that are here tonight marched and kept marching and kept going.

00:31:41.000 Many of them looked down on but they kept marching and wouldn't let this die.

00:31:47.000 And this is an assurance to them that if we don't give up, That we can win some rounds, but the war and the fight is not over.

00:31:57.000 It's unbelievable.

00:31:57.000 Sharpton is openly admitting, he's openly saying that this was jury tampering essentially, right?

00:32:02.000 That if there hadn't been millions of people in the streets, Chauvin doesn't get convicted.

00:32:05.000 He's saying it straight out.

00:32:07.000 He's saying that straight out.

00:32:10.000 Already, there's a question as to whether, on appeal, the conviction is going to be vacated because of all of the outside pressure, including from Maxine Waters.

00:32:17.000 It would take a court of appeals of a certain level of courage that I don't think is going to be apparent to actually do that.

00:32:24.000 But it's not as though anybody is under the misimpression that public pressure didn't have anything to do with this verdict.

00:32:29.000 If you're under that misimpression, I point you to Al Sharpton, who thinks differently.

00:32:34.000 Okay, here's the question, and we're gonna get to this in just one second.

00:32:40.000 Here's the question.

00:32:42.000 Is the desire to tear down the system, is that making life better for Americans?

00:32:46.000 Is it making life better for Americans?

00:32:48.000 So yesterday, in the aftermath of this individual criminal justice case that took place in Minneapolis, the president of the United States and co-president of the United States, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, That in and of itself is astonishing.

00:33:00.000 That in the aftermath of a criminal conviction of a single cop for a murder charge, controversial murder charge, in an incident in a locale, the President of the United States is nationalizing the message.

00:33:15.000 The reason he's nationalizing the message is because always and forever this was part of a narrative, which is why it was a national story, as opposed to a local crime story.

00:33:20.000 As I've discussed before, the way the media work, if a story fits the narrative they're pushing, it becomes a national story.

00:33:25.000 If a story does not fit the story they are pushing, then it becomes a local crime story.

00:33:29.000 When Kermit Gosnell murders babies after they're born, by the dozens, that is a local crime story.

00:33:34.000 When George Floyd dies under Derek Chauvin's knee, that is a national news story.

00:33:39.000 The way they determine which is which is simply by determining whether it fits the narrative they are attempting to push at any given moment.

00:33:44.000 How strong is the narrative push?

00:33:46.000 The president of the United States, of the entire United States, black, white, and green, the president of the United States and the co-president, Kamala Harris.

00:33:52.000 First of all, it's super bizarre that Joe Biden constantly trots out Kamala Harris next to him, basically declaring her the heir, right?

00:33:59.000 If I plot, she's here.

00:34:01.000 That in and of itself is weird.

00:34:02.000 You would never have seen this from Trump.

00:34:04.000 You never would have seen this from Obama with Biden.

00:34:06.000 You think Obama would have let Biden anywhere within 30 feet of a microphone for a speech like this?

00:34:12.000 That's weird, just politically.

00:34:13.000 But the reason that the president is speaking out about this is because the narrative must be pushed.

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00:35:26.000 Alrighty, we're gonna get to Co-President Harris and President Joe Biden in just one second.

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00:36:09.000 All righty, so last night, the co-president of the United States and the president of the United States come out and speak on an individual local crime story that is a national story only because Democrats have somehow twisted this into fitting the narrative that America's justice system is entirely racist.

00:36:28.000 They use the term systemic racism because it means everything and nothing.

00:36:30.000 Systemic racism means that you don't actually have to show that Derek Chauvin was a racist.

00:36:34.000 You can say he was the outgrowth of a systemically racist system.

00:36:37.000 It also means that you don't actually have to show any discrepancy between the arrest statistics and the report statistics in order for you to declare the system racist.

00:36:44.000 Everything is racist and nothing is racist at the same time.

00:36:47.000 It is a deliberate mush term in order to be able to implicate a system in evil without actually explaining how the evil is predicated. 0.92

00:36:54.000 In any case, Kamala Harris comes out, the black vice president of the United States, to declare that America is deeply evil and racist. 0.83

00:37:01.000 Here she was yesterday. 0.99

00:37:03.000 Today, we feel a sigh of relief.

00:37:07.000 Still, it cannot take away the pain.

00:37:10.000 A measure of justice isn't the same as equal justice.

00:37:16.000 This verdict brings us a step closer And the fact is, we still have work to do.

00:37:22.000 A measure of justice isn't the same as equal justice, right?

00:37:25.000 The idea is that even though we got what we wanted in this particular trial, that doesn't justify the entire system.

00:37:30.000 The entire system is still broken.

00:37:32.000 Not only is the entire system still broken, says Kamala Harris, the black vice president of the United States, in a racist, deeply, deeply racist country.

00:37:38.000 Not only that, but what we are seeing today in terms of America's systems is exactly the same as what we saw in the Jim Crow era. 0.75

00:37:46.000 America has a long history of systemic racism.

00:37:46.000 a black vice president of the United States during the Jim Crow era, or a two-term black president of the United States, or you know, a black attorney general, or under Barack Obama, or black Supreme Court justice. Like, there are a few differences, but according to Kamala Harris, nope.

00:37:58.000 America has a long history of systemic racism. Black Americans and black men in particular have been treated throughout the course of our history as less than human.

00:38:13.000 Because of smartphones, so many Americans have now seen the racial injustice that black Americans have known for generations.

00:38:22.000 The racial injustice that we have fought for generations.

00:38:26.000 Okay, so the basic idea is that nothing has changed.

00:38:28.000 Nothing has changed.

00:38:29.000 Now when she says systemic racism, in order to say that nothing has changed, you have to ignore the fact that slavery was legal in the United States until the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.

00:38:38.000 That Jim Crow was legal in the United States until the Civil Rights Act of 1965. 0.91

00:38:42.000 That's actual systemic racism.

00:38:44.000 You know, in law.

00:38:46.000 In order for you to say that nothing has changed, you have to be utterly blind to reality in every possible way.

00:38:52.000 But that's exactly what she's saying.

00:38:53.000 And of course, it'll make America better if we all just say this over and over and over.

00:38:57.000 They're a good family.

00:38:58.000 gets to the microphone, he says exactly the same sort of stuff.

00:39:01.000 Now we all knew what Biden wanted before the verdict came down, right? He said that he wanted the right verdict. He didn't say the system is supposed to work, how the system works. It's not my job to weigh in on this, which is what a normal president would say.

00:39:11.000 Somebody who wanted to turn down the temperature. Instead, he turned up the temperature by saying in the middle of the jury deliberations that he wants the right verdict to happen.

00:39:18.000 Pretty obviously, he wanted Chauvin convicted.

00:39:21.000 They're a good family and they're calling for peace and tranquility no matter what that Don't worry, the outside pressure had nothing to do with the jury verdict here.

00:39:33.000 At all.

00:39:33.000 I wouldn't say that unless the jury was sequestered now.

00:39:37.000 Oh, I'm sure that now they've been sequestered.

00:39:39.000 Everything's fine.

00:39:40.000 So we just talked to them.

00:39:41.000 I want to know how they were doing.

00:39:42.000 Don't worry.

00:39:43.000 The outside pressure had nothing to do with the jury verdict here at all, at all.

00:39:46.000 OK, then Joe Biden gave a speech last night.

00:39:48.000 So that was before the trial, right?

00:39:49.000 So we know what he wanted before the actual outcome.

00:39:51.000 He could have just waited a few hours, but he didn't.

00:39:54.000 Then the outcome came.

00:39:56.000 And he just makes accusations that are not even alleged in the crime.

00:40:01.000 Here he was suggesting not only that this was murder, but that it ripped off the lid of the systemic racism in our system.

00:40:07.000 By the way, isn't there sort of a contradiction between I'm the head of the system and also the system is systemically racist?

00:40:11.000 This dude has been a member of the US government since he was 30 years old.

00:40:15.000 He is now 178 years old.

00:40:18.000 Joe Biden has been in Congress.

00:40:19.000 He has been in positions of public power at least a decade longer than I have been alive.

00:40:25.000 And yet Joe Biden is part of the system, but the system is racist.

00:40:28.000 And he was exposed to the light of day.

00:40:29.000 Not one scintilla of evidence has been provided that the Chauvin killing was in fact racist.

00:40:36.000 Does not matter.

00:40:37.000 Here's Joe Biden pushing this lie anyway.

00:40:40.000 It was a murder in the full light of day, and it ripped the blinders off for the whole world to see.

00:40:49.000 The systemic racism the vice president just referred to.

00:40:52.000 The systemic racism is a stain on our nation's soul. 0.94

00:40:56.000 The knee on the neck of justice for black Americans.

00:41:02.000 Profound fear and trauma. 0.93

00:41:05.000 The pain, the exhaustion, Joe Biden is a predatory politician, okay?

00:41:11.000 This is empathy. 0.99

00:41:14.000 This is policy that is going to get black people killed in the guise of empathy, what he's pushing right now. 0.96

00:41:19.000 Because what he's suggesting, of course, is a complete crackdown on policing across the country because, of course, if Derek Chauvin, there's no evidence of his racism, then we can only attribute racism to the entire system. 0.96

00:41:31.000 And, says Joe Biden, and this is the message, takeaway message from the media and the Democrats, is we can't stop here.

00:41:35.000 We can't stop here.

00:41:36.000 There must be more.

00:41:39.000 We can't stop here.

00:41:41.000 In order to deliver real change and reform, we can and we must do more to reduce the likelihood that tragedies like this will ever happen and occur again.

00:41:52.000 To ensure that black and brown people, or anyone, so they don't fear the interactions with law enforcement.

00:42:00.000 That they don't have to wake up knowing that they can lose their very life in the course of just living their life.

00:42:07.000 They don't have to worry about whether their sons or daughters will come home after a grocery store run or just walking down the street or driving their car or playing in the park or just sleeping at home. 1.00

00:42:18.000 He's such a damned liar. 1.00

00:42:20.000 Black Americans should not be living in fear that they are just going to be gunned down on the street by cops. 1.00

00:42:25.000 That is utterly unsupportable by any evidence whatsoever. 0.92

00:42:28.000 The number of unarmed black people shot and killed by the police in the United States every year is less than 20.

00:42:33.000 And in many of those cases, We're talking about suspects who are participating in criminal activity that is still dangerous to others.

00:42:40.000 The notion that every black American ought to be living in moral fear of the cops is a lie promulgated by politicians for their own systemic gain, for their centralization of power. 0.87

00:42:50.000 Joe Biden is a cynic. 0.94

00:42:51.000 He's a cynical politician who wants centralization of power under his own auspices, and he will lie to black Americans and to white Americans alike in order to get it. 0.97

00:42:59.000 By saying that America is deeply racist, and this giant crisis of racism, this public health emergency, as Fauci has said, as all the members of the government have said, this giant public health emergency, this giant emergency that tears at the soul of America, can only be solved by this doddering old white man who's half senile, fixing the system from the inside. 0.95

00:43:18.000 He says the entire system is thoroughly going racist.

00:43:22.000 He says we have to acknowledge it and we have to confront it.

00:43:25.000 There are consequences to the kind of stuff he's proposing.

00:43:27.000 It ain't going to be pretty.

00:43:28.000 Here is Joe Biden.

00:43:30.000 And this takes acknowledging and confronting head on systemic racism and the racial disparities that exist in policing and in our criminal justice system more broadly.

00:43:44.000 You know, state and local government and law enforcement needs to step up, but so does the federal government.

00:43:52.000 Yes, more power to the federal government.

00:43:53.000 Weird.

00:43:54.000 You know, just as every outcome in any if-then statement for Democrats is the systemic racism of the United States needs to be torn down.

00:44:02.000 There's another statement that goes right along with that one, which is, give us more power, which is what Joe Biden wants.

00:44:07.000 So what have the effects of this power been?

00:44:09.000 What have the effects been of the Black Lives Matter protests?

00:44:11.000 Well, we have some studies on this.

00:44:12.000 One study from Travis Campbell, a PhD student in economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, showed that thanks to the BLM protests from 2014 to 2019, this doesn't even include the massive murder uptick in America's major cities, 30% uptick in murder in America's major cities in 2020, from 2014 to 2019, A 15-20% reduction in lethal use of force by police officers, roughly 300 fewer police homicides, somewhere between 1,000 and 6,000 more homicides than would have occurred.

00:44:41.000 You know who's gonna pay the price for getting rid of the cops?

00:44:44.000 The people who live in these cities.

00:44:46.000 The predictable outcome of all of this is going to be police officers resigned from the force, nobody signs up for the police forces, the police officers who are there simply avoid actually going to the scenes of crimes because they know that their lives will be ruined even if they do the right thing, let alone if they do the wrong thing.

00:45:00.000 You're about to watch a collapse of policing in America's major cities.

00:45:02.000 You know who pays the price for that?

00:45:03.000 Not Joe Biden.

00:45:04.000 Not Kamala Harris.

00:45:05.000 Not anybody on CNN.

00:45:07.000 The people who pay the price for that are all the people who live in these cities as businesses leave, as the tax base erodes, as public services get worse, as taxes are increased to compensate and more businesses leave, as the police simply stop operating, We're about to watch America's major cities turn into Detroit.

00:45:26.000 That's what we're about to watch.

00:45:28.000 That has nothing to do with race. 0.86

00:45:29.000 That has to do with crappy policy.

00:45:32.000 We're about to watch an emptying out of America's biggest cities.

00:45:35.000 Because if you're a police officer today, and you're watching, the real-time notion that the facts don't matter in each individual case, the only thing that matters is how it fits into the Democrat and media scheme of narrative justice about race in America.

00:45:49.000 Why in the world wouldn't you take that early pension and get the hell out?

00:45:53.000 Why in the world would you be proactive in your policing?

00:45:57.000 There will be effects of this, but it ain't gonna be good for anybody.

00:46:01.000 The notion that America has gotten better in any way over the last year, I defy you to show me a statistic demonstrating, a piece of actual data demonstrating that the situation around race in America has improved over the course of the last year.

00:46:14.000 Or frankly, over the course of the past 10 years.

00:46:19.000 Very difficult to find any data to that effect because it's not improving.

00:46:21.000 It's getting significantly worse.

00:46:22.000 And it's getting significantly worse because everything must fit into the democratic narrative and it is a lie that America is systemically racist.

00:46:28.000 All of our institutions are shot through with racism.

00:46:30.000 Those systems must be torn down.

00:46:33.000 And every data point will be used as an indicator.

00:46:38.000 Every individual story will be twisted and turned until it fits a narrative that really is not even alleged.

00:46:44.000 There are consequences to this.

00:46:45.000 Joe Biden ain't gonna feel him.

00:46:46.000 Kamala Harris isn't gonna feel him.

00:46:47.000 Al Sharpton won't feel it.

00:46:49.000 Man Jones won't feel it.

00:46:50.000 None of the people, AOC won't feel it.

00:46:52.000 None of these people are gonna feel it.

00:46:54.000 Everyday American citizens, particularly living in America's biggest cities, are feeling it already, and they're gonna feel it a lot harder in the years to come.

00:47:01.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

00:47:04.000 In the meantime, go check out The Michael Mullins Show.

00:47:05.000 He discusses more on the Chauvin verdict.

00:47:07.000 That episode is available right now.

00:47:08.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:47:37.000 The George Floyd jurors saved themselves.

00:47:39.000 The president and Joe Biden celebrate the verdict.

00:47:42.000 And more drag bar perverts throw money at kids. 1.00

The Ben Shapiro Show - April 21, 2021

The Jury Got It Wrong | Ep. 1240

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