“What lynching?” you ask.
Why, the lynching of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, of course.
It seems as if every maggot-bait national and syndicated radio and television talk show host and pundit and every television and NPR network skews reader who has watched the eight-minute video of Chauvin with his knee on the side of the neck of George Floyd has already publicly convicted former Officer Chauvin of first or second degree murder. No presumption of innocence, no indictment, no trial by jury of his peers based on admissible evidence. Just lynch him in public for all to see.
Hiding under their desks, Minnesota Governor Walz, his Antifa-friendly Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey seem to desperately hope that maybe rushing to lynch Chauvin will stop the anarchists populating those two highly respected civil rights organizations, Black Lives Matter and Antifa, from burning and looting Minneapolis in memory of George Floyd. And if using Chauvin’s lynching to sate the blood lust of public officials, anarchists, and entertainers isn’t enough, Walz, Ellison, and Frey might be persuaded to use the same gallows and drop the door from beneath former officers Lane, Kueng, and Thoa for good measure. Serial lynchings!
No need to bother with a complete and impartial investigation. Don’t bother with an evidence-supportable charge. Isn’t the video enough evidence? And certainly don’t bother with a trial based on a presumption of innocence. Just march Chauvin out to the gallows, fit the noose over his neck, pull the lever, listen for the neck snap, and wait for any neural post-mortem twitching to stop. Justice will have been done, won’t it?
Before you start ordering pizza for snacking while watching the lynching, though, please humor me. I have a few questions. (more…)