April 20, 2021, Minneapolis, Minnesota. When the verdict in the Derek Chauvin case was read, the reaction outside the Hennepin County Courthouse was intense.
When all public opinion is one voice, when many politicians and celebrities have taken a stand, one is fortunate to still hear a different voice. Candace Owens, an African-American conservative author, show host and commentator, said, “Derek Chauvin of Minneapolis was found guilty on all counts by a jury, and that was something (the verdict) that was decided by the mob.”
“When the media has built a successful propaganda system, after lie after lie, people don’t know what the truth is. I think that now more than ever a group of people who have the courage to stand up and tell the truth and point out what is going wrong in this country is needed, and Floyd and other criminal black men are not our heroes.”
On April 20 in Minneapolis, a jury convicted former city police officer Derek Chauvin of three concurrent counts of general homicide, second-degree manslaughter and third-degree murder for the alleged murder of African-American man George Floyd. Three other officers arrested at the same time the day after Floyd’s death could face trial in the fall.
The Real Floyd
Speaking recently on The Daily Wire, Owens said, “I appreciate the people who are tweeting to create pressure on me, but I’m not a coward. I don’t care if Democrats or Republicans, black or white are saying the verdict is right; but the propaganda about Floyd is such a lie that people are taking it as fact.”
“The media says Floyd moved to Minnesota, got out of prison in 2014, he’s just starting a new life, he loves his kids and is just trying to set a good example and make his life better. Why not release the footage of the cameras worn by the police? Some people want to keep this lie around the world forever and repeat those lies over and over again until the truth comes out.”
More recently, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said, “Thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice …… quoting his name will always be synonymous with justice.”
Owens responded, “Are you kidding me? Again, I remind everyone that Floyd has multiple criminal records; he was arrested and jailed for delivering controlled substances; he was arrested for burglary; he was arrested again for burglary and spent 10 months and 10 days in jail; he was arrested for failure to identify and served 15 days in jail; he was arrested for possession of controlled substances (less than one gram of cocaine); he was arrested for trespassing; he was arrested again for delivering controlled substances arrested; he was jailed for 30 months for possession, intent to manufacture or distribute; and he was arrested for aggravated robbery with a dangerous and deadly weapon.”
“Here is a victim’s statement, a black Ford pulled up to a woman’s house, Floyd knocked on the door and identified himself as the water department, he and five other black males forced their way into the residence, Floyd forced the complaining woman into the living room area with a handgun to her abdomen, and while Floyd searched the room, the woman was held at gunpoint by a second suspect head, with a toddler in the room at the time. Floyd caused pain to many victims during his life, but now everyone thinks he was a wonderful man and he is used as a synonym for justice, with children running around in T-shirts with his head on them and murals in the street.”
For whom justice should be done
In court, prosecution experts argued that Floyd died of asphyxiation or lack of oxygen, with pulmonary expert Dr. Martin Tobin saying that a normal person would have died from Floyd’s treatment; Hennepin County Coroner Dr. Andrew Baker argued that Floyd’s death, in the law enforcement context of intentional homicide due to cardiac arrest, and that “given his underlying heart condition and his drug use, it was the stress of that interaction that caused him to pass away.”
Defense witness Dr. David Fowler said it was the fentanyl and methamphetamine in Mr. Floyd’s system, as well as the paraganglioma he had, that caused his death due to atherosclerosis and hypertensive heart disease, a sudden cardiac arrhythmia during his subduing by police. Use of force expert Barry Brodd testified, “The force used by Jovon was not lethal, and what he did at the time followed Minneapolis Police Department policy and current law enforcement standards, and was a cause of action and objectively reasonable behavior.”
Owens argued, “We are living under mob rule, and if a black man dies and it is a white man associated with him, that must be considered a racial cause. The Black Lives Matter movement is what it is, they’re claiming a privilege, they’re not allowing people to tell the truth. Why can’t we be honest in our assessment? I would be more satisfied to say that Jovian is guilty of manslaughter. When people are shouting about black lives matter, why can’t they also talk about black crime? And the victims of black criminals are black people.”
“In the full video of the police arresting Floyd, which the media refused to show, the police repeatedly tried to put him in the car, but Floyd refused to be arrested, saying he was claustrophobic and that he had just ingested fentanyl, which is (100 times more potent) than morphine, and methamphetamine. People also ignore the testimony of his girlfriend, both of whom were addicted to the drug.”
“The media is celebrating the degradation of black people and is celebrating criminals, which only leads black people to believe they can riot and loot in the streets, which only makes the black community worse and leads to more black failure,” Owens said, “I am an American who respects police officers policing and believe that criminals should go to jail and that when a suspect tries to kill someone, any necessary steps need to be taken to stop them.”
Recent Comments