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March 26, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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The White Man Goes on Trial
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Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
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On Monday, Derek Chauvin's trial will begin.
He is, of course, the Minneapolis policeman who held George Floyd down with his knee.
Every moment of the trial will be televised, which is a first for Minnesota.
I don't think Mr. Chauvin can get a fair trial.
The media already found him guilty.
And the country erupted in violence.
All the jurors know that if they vote to acquit, there will be more rioting, probably worse than before.
The U.S. system is set up to avoid convicting innocent people.
The prosecution has to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt, and the jury has to be unanimous.
If even one juror out of the 14 has a reasonable doubt, it's a hung jury, and the case would be retried.
But is there anyone in the entire state of Minnesota who could hold out against the tremendous pressure to convict?
It looks as though there will be nine white jurors, four black, and one mixed race.
Their identities are being kept secret precisely because anyone who votes the wrong way will be, at least for a while, the most hated person in America.
That is why during jury selection, which was also televised, the camera never showed the jurors.
That's why they will enter the courthouse through an obscure passage with no public access.
But what are the chances of the jurors'names staying secret during a month-long trial?
I bet the doctors are already hard at work.
So I would say that for fear of starting more riots and for fear of reprisals, the chance of even a single holdout for an acquittal is tremendous.
No matter what the evidence shows.
The trial itself.
Isn't a fair fight.
The state's number one prosecutor, Matthew Frank, is leading the team against Derek Chauvin.
And Minnesota's Attorney General, Keith Ellison, has promised all the money and people it will take to get a conviction.
The prosecution also has the help of high-profile private sector lawyers, including Neil Katyal, a former acting Solicitor General.
There are more hotshot lawyers who will be helping out pro bono.
Mr. Chauvin is represented by Eric Nelson.
He is one of a dozen Minnesota lawyers who take turns representing police officers, and it was his turn.
He is a specialist in drunk driving cases.
He'll get some help behind the scenes, but he will be in the courtroom all alone.
And the judge?
Peter Kale was appointed to the bench in 2007.
Before that, he spent 10 years as a prosecutor.
Derek Chauvin faces three charges.
If he is convicted of more than one, he will be sentenced only to the most serious.
Not one of the charges requires that the jury find he intended to kill Floyd.
The most serious is second-degree unintentional murder.
It's used when a defendant unintentionally kills someone while committing a separate felony.
That's two different acts.
For example, if you're robbing a bank, And accidentally knock someone over and he dies.
That could be second-degree unintentional murder.
But Minnesota is one of very few places that doesn't require two separate actions.
The prosecution says that the felony is the assault on Floyd, the very same act that is supposed to have killed him.
A lot of people think a charge like that is illegitimate and that a conviction could be overturned on appeal.
Maximum sentence, 40 years.
But the sentencing guidelines for first offense call for 12 and a half years.
The next most serious charge is third-degree murder, which is, in the language of the law, perpetrating an act eminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved mind without regard for human life.
That would typically be a drug dealer who knowingly sells Poisonous drugs, or someone who fires wildly into a crowd.
That is a whole lot more depraved than anything Derek Chauvin did.
But the prosecutors seem to think that they could get the jury to compromise on this, that is to say, third-degree murder, if they don't get a conviction on second-degree murder.
Maximum sentence, 25 years.
But the guidelines again call for 12 and a half.
The third charge is second-degree manslaughter.
Mr. Chauvin would have to be culpably negligent and have taken unreasonable risks with Floyd.
Maximum sentence is 10 years, but the guidelines call for four years, nine months.
My guess is if Mr. Chauvin gets less than five years, there'll be riots.
Could the jurors defy the lynch mob and vote to quit?
There are reasons to.
Floyd had a lethal dose of fentanyl in his body, along with meth and cannabis, and was positive for COVID.
He had heart disease, high blood pressure, and sickle cell disease.
His lungs were so full of liquid, they weighed two and a half times their normal weight.
That is why he said he couldn't breathe many times before Mr. Chauvin put his knee on his neck.
The defense will probably argue that when police showed up, Floyd swallowed drugs to hide them, just as he did during a 2019 crime.
And here is a record of a conversation with county medical examiner Andrew Baker.
a b said that if mr floyd had been found dead in his home or anywhere else and there were no other contributing factors he would conclude that it was an overdose death the media have been very quiet about this
Floyd was what the police call an eggshell case.
Anything could have finished him.
And so, in a fair trial, an acquittal would not be out of the question.
George Zimmerman was acquitted in the death of Trayvon Martin in 2013.
And there was fury all over the country.
And that was the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement.
In 2014, a grand jury found no grounds to indict the white policeman, Darren Wilson, who shot the black criminal, Michael Brown.
And there were riots.
In 1992, when a jury acquitted the policeman in the Rodney King case, the Los Angeles riots were the worst since the Civil War and killed 63 people.
It's an American tradition.
The media tell the world.
That the white defendant is guilty.
When it turns out he isn't, people riot because they know better than the jurors.
The jurors who saw all the evidence, including the stuff the media didn't talk about.
And that's why Minneapolis is taking no chances.
The courthouse is surrounded by barriers and razor wire.
Stores in the area are boarded up.
There are a hundred National Guardsmen patrolling the courthouse every day, and when the trial starts, there will be two hundred.
And you know how many will be out with their rifles when the jury starts deliberating, just in case they get it wrong?
Two thousand Guardsmen, along with one thousand one hundred police officers.
A coalition of seventeen activist groups has promised to have lots of people outside the courthouse every day demonstrating.
They claim to be calling for justice.
What they're really doing is intimidating the jurors, warning them what to expect if they get the verdict wrong.
That's the way justice works in America.
Yeah, you get a fair trial.
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