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00:01:46.000Alrighty, so the big story of the day continues to be over the course of this week, the trial of Derek Chauvin.
00:01:52.000He's the police officer in Minneapolis who infamously knelt on the neck of George Floyd for some eight minutes and 46 seconds.
00:02:00.000That video, of course, went completely viral.
00:02:01.000It spurred the largest protests in American history.
00:02:03.000Some estimated 15 to 20 million Americans in the street in the middle of a COVID pandemic.
00:02:07.000Our public health officials decided randomly that that was now okay because, of course, racism was a public health crisis as well.
00:02:14.000In any case, this is the biggest story in the country.
00:02:16.000It has been the biggest story in the country since that video emerged.
00:02:19.000And this raises the question, which stories become national stories?
00:02:24.000Why do some stories become national stories and other stories do not become national stories?
00:02:28.000And the answer, quite obviously, is the narrative.
00:02:31.000Because certain stories are national stories until they don't match the narrative, at which point they sort of fall off the radar.
00:02:35.000And other stories just stay national stories forever.
00:02:38.000So to take a perfect example, three weeks ago, all we were talking about in this country was the Atlanta shooting, where a white man killed eight people, including six Asian women.
00:02:47.000And the story was supposedly anti-Asian American hate.
00:02:52.000And it turned out the evidence just wasn't there to back it.
00:02:53.000We're not talking about that story anymore.
00:02:55.000Did you notice how that story just disappeared?
00:02:58.000Nobody's talking about Atlanta anymore.
00:03:00.000Meanwhile, we are still talking about George Floyd, not just because the trial is going on, but because we never stopped talking about George Floyd.
00:03:06.000And for those people who say, well, yes, police brutality is a bigger story than a mass shooting in Atlanta, Let me just point out that it depends on the police brutality story.
00:03:16.000The case of Daniel Shaver, the young man who was shot to death by police, I believe in Arizona, a couple of years ago.
00:03:33.000Nobody knows Daniel Shaver's name, but everybody knows George Floyd's name.
00:03:37.000What becomes a national story and stays a national story is completely up to a national news media that have decided that each story that is important is important because it is a data point in support of the broader narrative.
00:03:47.000The George Floyd story became a national story not because of the specific circumstances of the George Floyd story.
00:03:53.000As it turns out, if you are attempting to establish reasonable doubt on behalf of Derek Chauvin, if we're talking about preponderance of the evidence, I think Derek Chauvin gets convicted.
00:04:04.000If you're talking about reasonable doubt, it seems to me that the defense has a fairly easy case for reasonable doubt in this case.
00:04:10.000Again, remember, the standard in criminal law in the United States is not preponderance of the evidence.
00:04:14.000It's not what you think might have happened.
00:04:15.000It's not what you think is probably what happened.
00:04:17.000It's whether it is beyond a reasonable doubt.
00:04:20.000In that particular case, The circumstances surrounding that particular case are pretty dicey.
00:04:27.000At the very least, it's going to be a tough uphill battle for prosecutors in that particular case.
00:04:31.000But it is treated as a national story where the conclusion is a foregone conclusion or should be a foregone conclusion.
00:04:36.000Because again, it apparently is a data point in support of two ideas, one of which is that the police are routinely brutal to suspects, which the evidence is not there for.
00:04:45.000And the second is that police Routinely target black men for death, which again is also not true by the statistics, but the media love that narrative.
00:05:10.000It is just horrendous of Mohammed Anwar, 66, a Pakistani American.
00:05:15.000He immigrated to the United States in 2014.
00:05:17.000According to USA Today, he was assaulted on Tuesday with a taser when two girls attempted to carjack him, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
00:06:14.000Anwar had been working on an Uber Eats delivery Tuesday when two girls attempted to carjack him, according to a GoFundMe set up by a family member.
00:06:21.000A 13-year-old and 15-year-old were charged on Wednesday with felony murder and armed carjacking with a Taser.
00:06:27.000By the way, there are apparently 7,500 stolen vehicles in Washington, D.C., the city, every year.
00:06:32.000Every single year, 7,500 stolen vehicles.
00:06:35.000The GoFundMe for Anwar said Anwar was a beloved husband, father, grandfather, uncle, and friend.
00:06:41.000Okay, so how did the mayor of Washington, D.C.
00:07:08.000anti-police policy. Muriel Bowser instead released a video about how you prevent auto theft.
00:07:13.000That's that was her response. Her response was not we have a systemic crime problem here. Her response was not about racism or race. Whereas we know for a fact that if this it is a simple fact that if Mohammed Anwar had been killed by two white teenagers, that would be a national news story.
00:07:49.000So, Muriel Bowser shared a video on quote, preventing auto thefts amid her silence on the death of Mohammed Anwar, who died just days ago after two teen girls allegedly tasered him to steal his vehicle.
00:07:58.000She wrote on Twitter on Sunday, quote, Unbelievable.
00:08:01.000of opportunity. Follow these steps to reduce the risk of your vehicle becoming a target.
00:08:05.000Remember the motto, protect your auto.
00:08:07.000Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Apparently it was a pre-scheduled tweet, but if that's a pre-scheduled tweet, that is the worst time pre-scheduled tweet I have ever seen in my entire life.
00:08:26.000Because crimes that are far more common than what happened with regard to George Floyd and Derek Chauvin, which again, may or may not be a crime according to the black letter definition of the law, Crimes that are much more common get ignored, even though those crimes are much more of a problem.
00:08:53.000And if they are covered, they will be covered in a way that avoids any sort of racial angle on them, because the only racial angle that we're allowed to discuss in the United States is, of course, white hate crime against everybody else in the United States.
00:09:05.000We'll get to that in one second, because there's another story that will not be a national news story.
00:09:08.000If it is a national news story, it will be tied into broader anti-Asian animus without ever mentioning the source of the anti-Asian animus.
00:10:19.000Go check them out right now and get started.
00:10:21.000Okay, other stories that are not gonna be national news stories for more than about five seconds here.
00:10:26.000So there's a story in New York, horrific video that has now emerged, in which a 65-year-old Asian woman is walking down the street, just walking her way to church, and a black man beats the living hell out of her.
00:10:41.000And we know he is black because there's surveillance footage of the man walking down the street.
00:10:46.000And in the video, what you can see is that she's just walking in front of a security, it's a secure building.
00:10:51.000The man walks forward, he kicks her in the chest, knocks her to the ground, steps forward, kicks her in the face to the ground, kicks her again in the head to the ground.
00:10:59.000He's significantly larger than she is, kicks her again in the head, and then starts to walk away.
00:11:03.000There are two security guards who are looking on.
00:11:06.000Neither one of them do anything in New York.
00:11:08.000Not only do they do nothing, they walk over and they close the door.
00:11:19.000Are we going to talk about the fact that a huge number of anti-Asian hate crimes, particularly in America's major cities, which is where we've seen the escalation, are not coming from white supremacists?
00:11:27.000In the same way that a huge number of anti-Semitic hate crimes occurring in New York City are not coming from white supremacists that are coming from young black men?
00:11:34.000Are we going to talk about any of that?
00:11:35.000Of course we're not going to talk about any of that.
00:11:37.000Because that is not part of a media narrative that they wish to portray.
00:11:41.000They wish to say that the biggest problem in America is white supremacy.
00:11:44.000Any narrative that does not fit that narrative is simply going to be ignored.
00:11:47.000And any data point that doesn't fit that narrative is going to be treated as a local news story.
00:11:51.000We are not going to talk about any of the broader trends in American society that could lead to the spate of increased hate crimes against Asian Americans in America's major cities.
00:12:09.000Because again, the narrative is that when it comes to the problems of the United States, they're attributable, not in large part, in their entirety, to the white supremacist, white systems of the United States of America.
00:12:21.000And this infuses all of American politics, everything from crime talk to economic talk.
00:12:27.000It's the same reason why you will see the Biden administration pushing forward with the idea that if there is economic inequality, that economic inequality cannot be attributed in any way to individual decisions that differentiate by group, meaning that if you take any group in America and you put a dividing line down the middle of the group, there will be inequalities in that room because individuals within those groups make different decisions.
00:12:57.000This is why the Biden administration will continue to use racial gaps in income as an excuse to cram down a sort of redistributionist economic system.
00:13:06.000And they'll simply ignore stats that don't actually fit that line.
00:13:09.000So for example, the most important chart of the last couple of weeks minimum is a chart that was put out by, I believe, the American Enterprise Institute.
00:13:20.000And what this chart shows is median household income and share of births to unwed mothers by race, 2019.
00:13:25.000And what you will see in this chart is that there is an incredible correlation between the amount of single motherhood in a community and the lack of income in that community.
00:13:37.000Asian Americans are by far the highest earning median household income group in America.
00:13:41.000Almost $100,000 a year median household income for Asian Americans.
00:13:45.000Their single motherhood rate is 11.7%.
00:13:48.000For white Americans, the second highest earning group, $76,000 a year, 28% single motherhood rate.
00:13:52.000For Hispanic Americans, it is $56,000 a year and a 52% single motherhood rate.
00:13:54.000rate. For Hispanic Americans, it is $56,000 a year and a 52% single motherhood rate. And for black Americans, it is $45,000 a year and a 70% single motherhood rate. We're not going to see this chart because this chart suggests that some of the decisions you make in your life might actually be responsible for your outcome in life.
00:14:13.000The narrative, of course, is that it is systems of power in the United States, racist systems of power in the United States, that cause all suffering in the United States.
00:14:20.000So suffering that can be attributed to any other individual action, or suffering caused by some groups on other groups and neither of the groups is white, or suffering that is caused in circumstances that don't fit the narrative, That sort of suffering is just ignored.
00:14:34.000And that is why Mohammed Anwar will be a footnote in history by this time tomorrow.
00:14:39.000And George Floyd will continue to be a major story because the media have decided it is not a story when a Pakistani American man is killed, is murdered by two teenage girls stealing a car in Washington, D.C.
00:14:50.000The media have decided it is not a story when individuals are beaten because of their race by people who are black in New York City.
00:14:59.000It is only a story when there is a white police officer, of whom there is no proof of racism, by the way.
00:15:04.000They still have not proven a single shred of evidence that Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd because of race.
00:15:10.000Even if you think he killed George Floyd, the race angle is one that has been utterly non-proven throughout this entire... It doesn't matter.
00:15:17.000The story is The Derek Chauvin George Floyd story because again, that is one that fits the narrative and all that matters to our lying media are narratives that are untrue and data points that can be twisted to fit that narrative.
00:15:29.000We're going to get to the Derek Chauvin trial in a second and all the hullabaloo surrounding it because you can see how this is now being politically used.
00:15:35.000We'll get to that in just one second first.
00:15:38.000Let us talk about your safety and security at home, and also just being able to keep track of your property.
00:16:45.000Okay, so now we get to the actual story of the day, the one the media would love to cover, and that, of course, is the Derek Chauvin trial.
00:16:52.000Now, understand, the reason they're covering this trial is because they hope that it promotes a narrative.
00:17:08.000If Derek Chauvin is convicted, it's because his activity is far too common across the land, and we can use that as a wedge to simply indict all of America's policing systems.
00:17:16.000And if he is not convicted, then we can do even more than that.
00:17:18.000We can indict all of America as racist for Derek Chauvin not being convicted.
00:17:21.000Remember, the standard in criminal court is not the standard of public opinion.
00:17:25.000The standard is beyond a reasonable doubt.
00:17:26.000This is true in every single criminal case.
00:17:30.000Maxine Waters, of course, who is a racial radical, a woman who once declared that the L.A.
00:17:35.000riots, which did literally a billion dollars in damage and ended with tremendous loss of life and tremendous suffering, particularly in black areas, Maxine Waters declared that the L.A.
00:17:46.000The same Maxine Waters who said that you should get up in people's face and confront them over politics.
00:17:49.000She also says that the police around America believe that their job is to keep black people in their place.
00:17:53.000Remember, this is the narrative that the media wish to push, is that Derek Chauvin is all of American policing and Derek Chauvin was a racist.
00:18:00.000In fact, they haven't shown any evidence of that.
00:18:02.000They just sort of assumed it because he's white and George Floyd was black.
00:18:05.000And then the idea is that their goal is to keep black people in their place, which is very strange since that is absolutely not the goal of the police around the nation.
00:18:15.000There are 42 million black Americans living in the United States right now.
00:18:20.000The grand total number of black Americans who have been murdered, shot by police, unarmed every year is less than 25.
00:18:31.000That is not an existential threat to black life in the United States the way that the left would like to make it out to be.
00:18:34.000Here's Maxine Waters basically laying out there what the narrative is.
00:18:39.000This thinking about the need to control, the need to, you know, make sure that people stay in their place.
00:18:47.000So called, has been basically what has happened in America for all of these years.
00:18:56.000And I think it continues in various ways, sometimes a little bit more sophisticated ways.
00:19:01.000But the police, I think, really believe and in some ways are led to believe that their greatest challenge and their greatest chore is to keep black people in their place.
00:19:16.000The notion that police all around America are racially motivated to keep black people in their place.
00:19:22.000What an incredible slander against police departments all around America.
00:19:25.000By the way, you will also notice how when it comes to police officers, Democrats have a varying view of police officers, depending on who's doing the victimizing of the police officer.
00:19:32.000If a police officer is out there on the streets attempting to stop crime, then Maxine Waters' view of police officers prevails.
00:19:38.000If a police officer is being attacked by criminals inside the United States Capitol building, then all police officers are heroes.
00:19:44.000Very weird how the vision of police officers change depending upon which part of their job we are talking about.
00:19:49.000If the idea is that police officers all around America are into victimizing black Americans, George Floyd was arrested many, many, many times and let out of jail many, many, many times.
00:20:01.000The problem in this particular case is that he was counterfeiting.
00:20:13.000If you view the full 45-minute tape and not just the 8 minutes, 46 seconds of Derek Chauvin on his neck, what you will see is that he is begging not to be put in the car.
00:20:21.000They say they will crack a window open for him so that he has enough air.
00:20:27.000They were called to the scene because he was committing a criminal act in the first place.
00:20:31.000The notion that police all over America are attempting to keep black people in their place.
00:20:36.000is just belied by the evidence from across America.
00:20:40.000Again, Black Americans are not being held down by the police.
00:20:45.000There are other factors in American life that really harm Black Americans.
00:20:49.000The crappy public school systems in their areas would be a big one.
00:20:53.000The government incentivization of single motherhood would be an enormous one.
00:20:57.000The notion that the police are the biggest barrier between Black people and success in the United States is just not true.
00:21:02.000But again, this is all part of the broader agenda, which is why Karen Bass, Congresswoman from California, she is openly stating that Chauvin has to be convicted as proof that America is moving in the direction she wants it to move.
00:21:14.000Now, normally, when we look at criminal cases, the goal of a criminal case, the goal of due process of law is that what is happening outside the courthouse, the calls for For heads outside the courthouse that those are not respected.
00:21:42.000We have got to deliver for the American people.
00:21:45.000There has got to be hope that we can actually transform policing.
00:21:50.000And if there was ever a case that you can just not argue, it is this one.
00:21:55.000This trial has got to come out the right way, and we have to deliver.
00:21:59.000I believe that we will get a bill on the president's desk.
00:22:03.000I know the White House and the president absolutely wants us to move forward, and we have to deliver.
00:22:11.000I'm not aware that Chauvin's conviction has anything to do with what Congress does.
00:22:14.000Congress can do whatever Congress wants to do.
00:22:16.000Democrats are in charge of both houses of Congress.
00:22:19.000The notion that if Chauvin is not convicted, that police reform dies is just a lie.
00:22:22.000By the way, they've tried police reform in Minneapolis.
00:22:24.000You know what the effect of that police reform in Minneapolis was?
00:22:26.000Skyrocketing crime rates in Minneapolis.
00:22:29.000According to the New York Times, the sacred intersection, sacred, like hallowed, Like somebody who's made a saint.
00:22:37.000The sacred intersection where George Floyd died beneath the knee of a police officer has seen such an increase in violence that food delivery drivers are afraid to venture there.
00:22:44.000There have been gun battles with bloodied shooting victims dragged to ambulances because of barricades keeping the police and emergency vehicles away.
00:22:51.000Having no police, this is the experiment right here, said PJ Hill, a leader of Worldwide Outreach for Christ, a church that has been on that corner in Minneapolis for almost 40 years.
00:23:06.000The narrative is that the cops are the threat to black life.
00:23:08.000It turns out as soon as the cop leaves, people are shooting people.
00:23:11.000Turns out people are victimizing people.
00:23:14.000At the same intersection, the sacred intersection where George Floyd died beneath the knee of Derek Chauvin.
00:23:19.000I mean, technically speaking, he actually died after that, but where Derek Chauvin's intervening act allegedly caused the death of George Floyd.
00:23:28.000The narrative doesn't back, the data doesn't back the narrative.
00:23:34.000Okay, now we get to the actual Derek Chauvin trial.
00:23:38.000So again, it's all the narrative surrounding the trial that the media are very into.
00:23:41.000It's not the actual facts of the trial that matter.
00:23:43.000In reality, it is very, very difficult to achieve a confession beyond, to achieve a conviction Beyond a reasonable doubt in this particular case, the nature of the charges makes it very difficult.
00:23:54.000The reason that that makes it very difficult is because there are several charges that have been brought against Chauvin.
00:23:57.000We've explained this on the program before.
00:23:59.000Third degree murder does not really apply in this case.
00:24:02.000Third degree murder is a case where you are threatening murder.
00:24:06.000It's what's called depraved heart murder, where you don't care that somebody is going to die, but it has to be directed at a random victim.
00:24:12.000Okay, it can't be that you targeted X and you didn't care about X and that person died.
00:24:16.000It has to be like you take a brick and you throw it off of the top of a freeway intersection, off of an overhang, and then you hit a car, right?
00:24:30.000So third degree really does not apply.
00:24:31.000In this case, it doesn't fulfill the element.
00:24:33.000Second degree murder is the one that they're really attempting to go for here.
00:24:37.000Second-degree murder is felony murder.
00:24:38.000So the idea is that if you commit a felony, and in the process of committing that felony, somebody dies, you are now responsible for murder.
00:24:44.000So for example, you go and you rob a bank with a gun.
00:24:47.000And in the process of that felony, you shoot somebody accidentally.
00:25:35.000And so the second degree charge, which is the felony murder charge here, So I'm sorry, the third degree charge is the felony murder charge.
00:25:42.000The second degree charge would be the depraved heart murder.
00:25:44.000Okay, they reinstated the depraved heart murder.
00:25:46.000Third degree murder is the felony murder charge.
00:25:49.000The problem with felony murder is that you have to prove that he intended to commit a felony.
00:25:53.000Intent is still an element of the crime.
00:25:55.000If this was just negligence, then you're talking about maybe manslaughter.
00:25:59.000Even there, the elements there are kind of dicey.
00:26:02.000And I'm not the only one who's saying this.
00:26:03.000I mean, this has been pretty well known here for a while.
00:26:06.000Robert McQuaid wrote in May of 2020, In the Daily Beast, that it's going to be very difficult to convict Chauvin.
00:26:13.000She said to convict Chauvin of third degree murder, the prosecutor will have to prove that he acted with depraved mind without regard for human life.
00:26:18.000For second degree manslaughter, the prosecutor will have to prove that Chauvin acted with gross negligence.
00:26:23.000These are the same standards that apply in every case of third degree murder or manslaughter under Minneapolis law.
00:26:28.000What's different when the defendant is a police officer is that he may use a public authority defense.
00:26:32.000That means the state has the burden of proving the force used was not justified.
00:26:36.000A jury would be instructed to conclude that the force was not justified.
00:26:40.000It must find that Chauvin created an unreasonable risk of death or great bodily harm.
00:26:43.000So in other words, he would have had to know that Floyd was dying under his knee and he didn't care.
00:26:49.000That's kind of difficult, beyond a reasonable doubt at the very least, because there were intervening factors that Chauvin was not aware of.
00:26:57.000Namely, that George Floyd had a serious heart problem, and that he was full of fentanyl.
00:27:02.000This is why the medical autopsies are going to be a major issue in this particular case.
00:27:06.000This is why when you see people on the TV who are telling you that this case is a foregone conclusion, and that conviction is inevitable, and that if it is not happening, if it's not a conviction, then that is because of the racism of the American system.
00:27:17.000This case could go either way, and there's decent cause to believe it could go either way or should go either way.
00:27:23.000But beyond a reasonable doubt, it's certainly not a foregone conclusion based on the evidence in this particular case.
00:27:30.000In addition to the reasonableness requirement, writes Barbara McQuaid over at the Daily Beast, the federal offense also requires a showing of willfulness.
00:27:37.000To prove willfulness, the prosecutor must show the officer had a specific intent to do precisely what the law forbids, not just a bad purpose.
00:27:44.000A jury would be instructed it is not enough that an officer's force was excessive or unjustified, or that he intended to harm or to frighten the suspect.
00:27:51.000It's not enough to show that death was accidental, negligent, or reckless.
00:27:55.000It's not enough to show that death was caused by a mistake, panic, or bad judgment.
00:27:57.000Instead, prosecutors must prove the officer knew what he was doing was illegal and chose to do it anyway.
00:28:05.000So it's not just that in order to prove a felony murder, he has to show that he knew that kneeling on Floyd's neck that way was illegal, that he was committing a crime.
00:28:15.000And he ignored that in order to commit the crime because he hated Floyd that much or because he didn't care about Floyd that much.
00:28:23.000That's particularly difficult because the Minneapolis Police Department actually instructs people to use exactly this kind of hold on suspects who are resisting arrest, which Floyd was.
00:28:34.000He said he would rather be outside the car than be in the car.
00:28:38.000So this is a very, very difficult case for prosecutors.
00:28:41.000And the fact that the media have turned it into a not difficult case is because the media are ignorant about the law or they don't care about the law, which is probably the more likely scenario in this particular case.
00:28:50.000But again, the idea here built up by the media is that if he is not convicted, it is not because some of the jurors have good faith, reasonable doubts, which, again, very plausible in this particular case.
00:28:59.000It's because America is systemically racist.
00:29:01.000And this is the media the narrative are going to continually build over the course of the next couple of weeks.
00:29:05.000George Floyd's family knelt outside the courthouse for eight minutes and 46 seconds in symbolic protest at the activity of Derek Chauvin.
00:29:13.000Here's a little bit of video of that happening.
00:29:18.000Al Sharpton, by the way, being part of anything just immediately discredits the enterprise.
00:29:22.000Al Sharpton is one of the great race baiters in American history.
00:29:27.000And then we got Benjamin Crump, the attorney for the Floyd family, and Benjamin Crump, who's also been the attorney in a wide variety of other cases, including cases in which he's openly lied to the media.
00:29:40.000It was Benjamin Crump and his attorney's team who suggested that Jacob Blake was unarmed and shot by the police for no reason at all in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
00:29:47.000Benjamin Crump A person who has told repeated untruths.
00:29:52.000He says that the Chauvin trial is a referendum on how far America has come.
00:29:54.000In other words, if George Floyd, if Derek Chauvin is not convicted in the murder of George Floyd, then this means America has not come far enough.
00:30:02.000By the way, even if Chauvin is convicted, the implication is going to be that America still has so far to go because people like Derek Chauvin were on police forces in the first place, of course.
00:30:12.000There is no way, out of the conclusion promoted by the left, that police forces across America are racist.
00:30:16.000You convict him, it's just a demonstration that Chauvin is indicative of all of America's police.
00:30:20.000If you acquit him, and you show no evidence of racism, that is an indication that America is a white supremacist country that lets people like Derek Chauvin be on the police force.
00:31:13.000I could easily see this case going either way.
00:31:15.000I think anybody who is an honest legal observer can see this case going either way because, again, the Minneapolis Police Department does teach exactly the kind of suppression hold that was being used on George Floyd here.
00:31:24.000And you have to prove felony murder if you want a convicted felony murder.
00:31:26.000You don't have to prove bad things happened.
00:31:29.000You don't have to prove that this was an ugly video.
00:31:33.000You have to prove actual felony murder.
00:31:34.000And the notion that if Derek Chauvin is acquitted in this particular case, that is because America will not live up to its founding promise and refuses to live up to its founding promise, that's always the narrative.
00:31:45.000And that will be the narrative no matter what the outcome of this case.
00:31:48.000Frankly, I think that for many in the media, they're hoping that Chauvin gets acquitted so we can have another spate of remonstrations over how America is deeply racist and horrible.
00:31:58.000If Chauvin is convicted, we're still going to get those remonstrations.
00:32:00.000They just won't have the same sort of edge to them, obviously.
00:32:04.000In a second, we're going to get to the actual testimony that was happening inside the courtroom yesterday.
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00:34:14.000All right, so let's get to the actual testimony and the lawyer's cases in the Derek Chauvin-Trausman So the special prosecutor in this case makes the case that Chauvin betrayed his badge, that he acted in a way that was a violative of Minneapolis police policy.
00:34:33.000It's going to be a bit of an uphill climb there for the prosecutor, to be frank, because again, Minneapolis police policy does allow the use of exactly the sort of hold that Chauvin was using on George Floyd in those particular circumstances, which is why Minneapolis changed the procedure after the George Floyd case.
00:34:46.000Here's a little bit of the special prosecutor talking about the case.
00:34:49.000You will learn that on May 25th of 2020, Mr. Derek Chauvin betrayed this badge when he used excessive and unreasonable force upon the body of Mr. George Floyd.
00:35:08.000That he put his knees upon his neck and his back, grinding and crushing him Until the very breath.
00:35:19.000No, ladies and gentlemen, until the very life.
00:35:30.000His name was Donald Williams, who's one of the witnesses.
00:35:32.000And frankly, I'm kind of amazed that the judge allowed this sort of testimony because it really is pretty prejudicial.
00:35:38.000But the testimony that this guy gave was based on his extensive experience as an MMA fighter, which again, does not make him a doctor.
00:35:47.000It does not make him a person who is an expert in medical autopsy.
00:35:51.000Basically, he was allowed to give his quote-unquote expert testimony as an MMA fighter as to the kind of hold that Derek Chauvin was using.
00:35:59.000And of course, he used the most colorful language and described the kind of hold that Chauvin was using.
00:36:41.000A blood choke typically is meant to knock you out.
00:36:43.000And it's used frequently by police officers, by MMA fighters, etc.
00:36:47.000So here was the witness, Donald Williams, who talked about how this was a quote-unquote blood choke or a kill choke is what he called it.
00:36:54.000And of course, for people who are not familiar with any of the language, that sounds like significantly worse than, for example, an air choke, because blood sounds worse than air.
00:37:03.000The neck was diagonal across the throat, which on a blood choke, you would just tack the side of the neck, you know, in which you're in a camorra or side chokes or things like that.
00:37:15.000You want to tack the side of the neck to cut the circulation.
00:37:19.000from your person and then to get the choke tighter you hit different shimmies which I felt the officer on top was shimmying to actually get the final choke in while he was on top to get the kill choke because a side choke or a blood choke can ultimately turn into death and that's what we've seen here. Okay well here's the thing in MMA you don't kill people. The reality is that a suppression hold a quote-unquote blood choke is not designed to kill people.
00:37:46.000Again, there's a reason that many police departments have allowed suppression chokes.
00:37:50.000Suppression holds is what they're typically called.
00:37:52.000The reason they allow that is because it is a lot safer for the person they're attempting to suppress than anything like an air choke, for example.
00:37:59.000So again, what they have to prove here is a felony.
00:38:01.000They have to prove that Chauvin intended to commit a felony.
00:38:05.000He intended to use excessive force against George Floyd, sufficient that it ended with the death of George Floyd.
00:38:12.000One, that he committed a felony, and two, that it was that action that led to the death of George Floyd and not any of the intervening factors.
00:38:17.000Because remember, if it was an intervening, non-known factor to Derek Chauvin, it's very difficult to claim that he should have known that what he was doing was going to lead to the death of George Floyd in any way.
00:38:29.000And the autopsies tend to show that Floyd was chock full of fentanyl, that he had a serious, serious heart problem.
00:38:35.000George Floyd was a large man who was a very big guy, and he was actively resisting arrest up to the point where he was on the ground and Shalvin was on him.
00:38:45.000This sort of testimony is, having him use these sorts of terms, being a non-medical expert, is definitely an interesting move by the judge.
00:38:53.000I'm frankly a little bit surprised that the judge allowed this sort of thing to go through, but I guess I shouldn't be that surprised because the judge did allow the reinstatement of a charge that clearly does not apply.
00:39:01.000A second degree murder, that is the depraved heart murder, that clearly does not apply by black letter law.
00:39:06.000So, we'll see how this thing progresses.
00:39:08.000We'll continue to update you on the case.
00:39:10.000Again, the reason it is a national case is because of two things.
00:39:13.000One, the idea that white police officers are routinely doing this sort of stuff, brutality to black suspects.
00:40:34.000And she's a public figure, so you have to prove malice, but the fact that you immediately say that you don't care if there's evidence, and then you say she hangs with white supremacists, I suppose when Heidi Heitkamp says she hangs with white supremacists, what she means is she hangs out over here at the Daily Wire while she'll be doing a movie with us.
00:40:48.000Heidi Heitkamp is a bag of garbage, and Heidi Heitkamp was tossed from her seat in a year, 2018, where Republicans got shellacked because the people of North, she lost by like 1,000 points.
00:41:06.000And not just that, racism has now been boiled down in such a clear and overt way to whatever the left-wing agenda is, that it's now out in the open how exploitative these sorts of charges are, how much the narrative matters more than the fact.
00:41:22.000Let me give you an unbelievable example of what is clearly obvious, a clearly obvious extortion case being guised as an anti-racism case.
00:41:31.000Okay, so, the Detroit Free Press, Printed a story today.
00:41:36.000Full-page ad blasts GM CEO Mary Barra as racist.
00:41:40.000Leaders of several major black-owned media companies, including Byron Allen and Ice Cube, are accusing General Motors CEO Mary Barra of being a racist for what they described as her refusal to meet with them.
00:41:49.000They're asking for an hour-long Zoom meeting with her or, in the alternative, her resignation.
00:41:53.000That's according to a full-page ad on page 3A in Sunday's Detroit Free Press, accusing Barra of refusing to meet with them, quote, consistently over time and after multiple requests.
00:42:03.000So, Mary Barra wouldn't meet with them.
00:42:05.000She wouldn't meet with them because what did they want?
00:42:07.000They wanted her to sign millions of dollars over to them.
00:42:09.000The ad is signed by the heads of seven black-owned media companies, including rapper and actor Ice Cube, who co-founded pro basketball league Big 3 TV, and film production company Cube Vision, and contract with Black America, which he started with the goal of initiating dialogues about racism.
00:42:33.000In response to the ad, GM said it aspires to be the most inclusive company in the world, and that includes how it allocates its advertising expenditures.
00:42:40.000We have increased our planned spending with both diverse owned and diverse dedicated media across our family of brands, said GM spokesman Pat Morrissey in an email.
00:42:48.000The black-owned media group wants GM to allocate at least 5% of its ad budget to black-owned media companies, said Allen in an interview with the Free Press on Sunday.
00:42:56.000The ad says less than 0.5% goes to media companies owned by African-Americans.
00:43:01.000Allen said the group could recommend 14% of the budget be spent on advertising with black-owned media companies.
00:43:07.000We're not even asking for parity, we're asking for inclusion.
00:43:10.000Alan said the men who signed the ad have known each other for years, and they've been reaching out to Byron, asking for a meeting to win more of GM's advertising.
00:43:19.000So just to get this straight, there's a group of black-owned media companies who are asking for a meeting with GM's CEO so they can attempt to force her into spending her money on them.
00:43:28.000And then if she says no, she's a racist.
00:43:39.000And not only are you going to meet with me, you're then going to give me all the money in your wallet.
00:43:43.000And if you don't give me all the money in your wallet, I'm going to go to the press and I'm going to call you a racist and your entire company racist and try and take down your stock price.
00:44:40.000So, apparently, GM is now racist because they don't abide by the full agenda of a group that is attempting to essentially extort money out of them.
00:44:49.000Meanwhile, if you even defend people for not being racist, you'll get ousted.
00:44:52.000Sharon Osbourne, finally the other shoe dropped, and she has been forced off the show.
00:44:57.000She's been forced off a talk show that she has been co-hosting for 11 years after defending Piers Morgan and saying that he wasn't a racist.
00:45:06.000The network announced on Friday Osbourne had decided to quit, saying their internal investigation found Osbourne's actions, quote, did not align with our values, which is mush mouth for people inside the brass were angry that she wasn't woke enough.
00:45:17.000The events of the March 10th broadcast were upsetting to everyone involved, including the audience watching at home.
00:45:22.000As part of our review, we concluded that Sharon's behavior toward her co-host during the March 10th episode did not align with our values for a respectful workplace.
00:45:29.000Remember, Sharon Osbourne committed the great crime of saying that Piers Morgan was not a racist, her other co-hosts started berating her as a racist, she refused to acquiesce to their description that she was a racist, and now she is losing her job.
00:45:41.000But remember, every time this stuff happens, an angel gets its wings and we become a less racist country, every time you think more in terms of race, every time you take a data point that is not racial and you make it racial, any time you ignore an act of crime by a person who's of minority group that is higher ranked on the intersectional hierarchy than the member of the victimized group who actually is the victim, every time you ignore that, an angel gets its wings, America gets more woke, and racism is solved.
00:46:07.000Really, really exciting stuff happening in the country right now.
00:46:44.000So I'm speaking today, not necessarily as your CDC director, and not only as your CDC director, but as a wife, as a mother, as a daughter, to ask you to just please hold on a little while longer.
00:47:08.000We are not going to get impending doom because a huge percentage of the American population is vaccinated.
00:47:13.000Soon, more people will be vaccinated, according to the New York Times and the CDC.
00:47:17.000The coronavirus vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech are proving highly effective at preventing symptomatic and asymptomatic infections under real world conditions, according to the CDC, which she runs.
00:47:27.000So no, no, this is just, the panic is the point.
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