As the Derek Chauvin murder trial draws to its end, it’s worth noting just how egregiously the mainstream media have lied about it.
Yes, shocking, I know: the mainstream media lie.
That’s why you need independent media, like The BFD, to try and get to the truth when no one else will. For instance, not even in the centre-right The Australian will you read that George Floyd was probably interrupted by the police, mid-drug deal, and had triple the lethal dose of fentanyl in his system. Virtually all of the mainstream media continue to parrot the Big Lie, comprehensively debunked on day one of the trial, of the “knee on the neck” (Chauvin actually knelt on Floyd’s back and shoulders).
I’ve covered much of the Chauvin trial already, but there’s one other telling detail the media have deliberately avoided reporting: how the same crowd who angrily recorded Floyd’s death almost certainly contributed to it.
One of the main arguments being advanced by Eric Nelson, sole attorney for Derek Chauvin in his trial for the murder of George Floyd, is that the hostile crowd itself prevented the officers from attempting to perform CPR in the last minutes of Floyd’s life.
The mainstream media, which has assiduously peddled the lie that the trial has been a slam-dunk for the prosecution, have quietly avoided this crucial detail.
Even the prosecution’s “use of force” experts admitted repeatedly on cross-examination that a hostile crowd would justify Chauvin keeping Floyd restrained until an ambulance arrived. An officer’s duty to provide care is overridden by his duty to keep himself, the suspect and the bystanders safe.
As was evident from the videos (and admitted to by the bystander witnesses), they were shouting obscenities at the police, threatening them with bodily harm and, in a few instances, had to be held back from rushing the officers.
And of course, because of the presence of the angry crowd, the EMTs themselves did not stick around to provide care, but did a “load and scoot,” heaving Floyd into the back of the ambulance and driving three blocks to get away from the mob on the street. They didn’t even want to work inside an ambulance near this feisty group.
The onlookers have carried their belligerent hostility into the courtroom itself. One prosecution witness was so confrontational with the courtroom lawyers that the judge was forced to warn her to tone it down – whereupon she rounded on him, precipitating her removal from the courtroom and being sent off to the court equivalent of the Naughty Corner.
But, if the mainstream media have to report on this critical detail, they’ll still do everything they can to keep the narrative going.
As it becomes increasingly obvious that the belligerent onlookers themselves may have gotten George Floyd killed by creating a dangerous situation for the officers, media commentators leap in to do backup work for the prosecutors by sneering at the idea that the officers might have felt threatened by a few rowdy teenagers.
Oh, the big pansies! So, a few teenagers yelled at the officers. Show me just ONE example of disaffected urban youth going from agitation to brawling!
It should surprise no-one that chimpin’ out videos are a dime-a-dozen on YouTube, despite its rigorous censorship of anything that might cast a poor light on the noble, “mostly peaceful” victims of systemic racism.
Here’s one! One Saturday morning in May 2019, six teens beat the crap out of an off-duty firefighter on the Upper East Side because he stepped in to defend an elderly couple from the youths’ harassment[…]
This one is outside a church in Memphis in 2016 after services. The instigating event is entirely unknown.
But the police were armed! Yeah, what are they going to do if one of the bystanders rushed them? Shoot him? Shoot them all?
Here’s a video of (armed) cops making an arrest in the middle of a crowd of rowdy teenagers at a carnival two years ago.
And here’s a 2019 video of a mob of students surrounding an (armed) police officer restraining a student. One student kicked him in the face.
Here’s a brawl that broke out in 2017 after a woman on a bus was bumped with a book bag. The mayhem continued with an attack on (armed) police officers called to the scene, who were bitten and spit upon. One boy tried to take an officer’s gun.
So, yes, I see your point, MSNBC, it’s completely crazy for the officers to have felt threatened by the agitated crowd of urban youth hurling epithets at them.
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No matter how carefully the mainstream media blur the videos and coyly refer to “teens” of no particular description, there’s a notable pattern in those videos.
So, is it any wonder that the police and even paramedics were just a teensy bit concerned with looking out for their own safety from a howling, violent mob?
Not that the mainstream media will ever admit that.
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