Warner Todd Huston – The Western Journal Nov 16, 2023
The former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted in the 2020 police-involved death of George Floyd has filed an appeal of his conviction, citing new evidence that the jury never saw.
Police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted in 2021, filed papers in court on Monday, saying that the evidence proves that he did not commit murder in Floyd’s death, the Associated Press reported.
In his filing, the former cop said he would never have agreed to plead guilty if he had known about the theories of a Kansas pathologist who says that Floyd’s physical condition was the principal cause of death, not the actions of the police.
Chauvin is asking the judge to throw out his conviction and order a new trial, or at the very least open a new evidentiary hearing to look at the evidence.
The convicted Chauvin pleaded guilty to charges after a video showed him placing his knee on George Floyd’s neck during an arrest attempt on May 25, 2020. In the video, Floyd is heard saying “I can’t breathe,” before passing out. The man’s death sparked dangerous and costly riots nationwide and spurred the growth of the anti-cop “Defund the Police” movement.
More riots were threatened, too, if the courts did not convict Chauvin.
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Chauvin said that Topeka, Kansas, Dr. William Schaetzel has reviewed the autopsy records and feels that Floyd did not die of asphyxia caused by the cop’s knee cutting off his air flow, but instead died of a rare tumor called a paraganglioma, which can cause a fatal surge of adrenaline.
Schaetzel told The Associated Press that he felt his diagnosis was serious enough to alert authorities and Chauvin.
“I can’t go to my grave with what I know,” Schaetzel said. “I just want the truth,” he added.
Schaetzel also said he tried to alert officials during Chauvin’s trial in 2021, as well. He said he spoke to trial attorney Eric Nelson as well as Judge Peter Cahill, but nothing came of the attempt.
Chauvin claimed that Nelson was negligent for neglecting to tell him of Schaetzel’s claims. The convicted cop also said that Nelson failed to challenge the constitutionality of the federal charge.
The jailed cop also said that no jury would have convicted him if they had heard Schaetzel’s evidence.
Chauvin filed his motion without a lawyer.
When he pleaded guilty in 2021, he also waived his right to appeal the conviction, unless he could prove he was given ineffective counsel from his lawyer.
This is not the first time Chauvin has filed an appeal, though. Two previous attempts have already been rejected. And he is still waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether it will hear his case for acquittal.
Many others agree with Chauvin that Floyd died from medical causes, not from a knee on his neck, and that Floyd was not “murdered.”
Last month, for instance, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed that “the whole George Floyd story was a lie.”
In his commentary, Carlson pointed to testimony by former Hennepin County prosecutor Amy Sweasy, who said that Floyd’s autopsy showed no evidence that anything the police did caused Floyd’s death.
Carlson then noted that Floyd was “not murdered,” but “died instead of what we used to call natural causes — which in his case would include decades of drug use, as well as the fatal concentration of fentanyl that was in his system on his final day.”
In other evidence, forensic pathologist Dr. Lindsey Thomas has said that Floyd had an extremely high level of fentanyl in his system, according the the autopsy, and could have died from an overdose, not asphyxiation.
Ahhhh just in time to drive the loonies crazier than normal over the next 12 months leading up to the next US election, expect riot on top of riot if (((the authorities))) require such a smoke screen.
I’m an old X prison inmate sentenced to over 27 years in Can and will be the first to say this conviction of an innocent man F..king stinks. I knew the shithead Floyd died of a drug overdose from the start. I hope the man gets off this load of BS
The ape-man should have been killed long before: they let his friends burn cities instead
It’s unlikely this Chauvin character is even actually in prison…and that’s because the whole thing was just theatre with absolutely no legal precedent..no state goon in his right mind would plead guilty to a case that would be thrown out of court… particularly knowing he would be banged up with a bunch blacks baying for blood…
You would fight that…Yes siree…
It certainly looks like carefully crafted political charade..and one from which Mr Chauvin will now probably ‘walk’… ( but not on his knees)..
and that’s because it was…
NB: remember when BLM got mask exemptions and riot passes and white imbeciles were lining up to kiss the feet of black gangster from the hood..while everyone else was being force injected and locked up by the State..
because you should…
We even had so called ‘protests’ in little villages in England such is the reach of electronic media and the stupidity of the clown show that passes for a society…
Well you can thank Floyd George for that… it was very useful to the usual suspects if somewhat of a failure..
10 to 1 Gorilla Floyd is still alive. It was all an agitprop skit performed by the ADL-Masonic police & their simian star. This was done to provide the pretext for the primates & jew/white Antifa scum to riot & promote ‘defund the police’, so ZOG could further advance the disintegration of the USA into an anarchic Afro-Latino third world pit like Cuba or Brazil. Nyk.
Lewis Jones is spot-on in his comment above; the less-than-worthless nigger should have been smoked in response to his own senseless violence years ago. And good on Tucker Carlson for pointing out the whole shit-show of an incident was a lie. Sure, Chauvin was a f*cking imbecile, as are most cops, but he didn’t kill that street simian orc, the street simian orc was already well on his way to death by his own bad behaviors.
The whole Burn Loot Murder crowd should have been gunned down in the streets. The only black lives that “matter” are the 10%, and even that percentage is probably overly generous, who actually contribute to society rather than the degradation and destruction in which the other 90% actively participate. Any sane society is FAR better off without blacks or jews present and doing what they do, which is shit all over everything.
Yes knowledge in the right time before the event
is the grail . but since we are not gods we stumble
unknowingly from one trap into the next trap satan
prepared for us on this planet and his little servants
the jew judges + lawyers enjoying it like vultures .
a wild gorilla under drugs is better a dead gorilla !