Derek Chauvin was tried in a Minneapolis courthouse surrounded by barbed wire, concrete block, two armored personnel carriers, and a squad of national guard troops, with <a href="https://www.startribune.com/chauvin-trial-cost-hennepin-county-3-7-million-for-security-other-expenses/600078744/." target="_blank" rel="noopener">hundreds of additional troops</a> stationed throughout Minneapolis, all of which were there for one reason — to quell a riot if the jury acquitted him.  
Would you want to be tried before a jury bracing for a riot if it acquitted you? No one would and the Bill of Rights Sixth Amendment guarantee to a “fair trial” should prevent such a spectacle. However, that did not happen in Derek Chauvin’s case. Chauvin is now seeking to have the Supreme Court find his trial violated the Sixth Amendment and order that Chauvin be re-tried in a community which would not break out into riots if the jury acquitted Chauvin.  
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd died while Chauvin and three other Minneapolis police officers attempted to arrest him. Presumably everyone reading this article knows who Derek Chauvin is and what happened on May 25, 2020. As one juror testified, “you have to live in cave not to know what happened.” However, there are details of what happened that were not widely reported in the media. For instance, the Minneapolis Police Department trained its officers to use the restraint technique Derek Chauvin and the other officers used in restraining Floyd. Below is a photograph of the technique from the Minneapolis police training manual:
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When Derek Chauvin’s attorney tried to introduce this photograph into evidence, the state objected arguing there was no evidence Chauvin was trained on this technique and the court sustained the objection. However, whether Chauvin was trained on this technique was irrelevant – the issue was whether the technique is an acceptable use of police technique to restrain a suspect and it is.  
Virtually the day after Floyd’s death, the slogan “Get off our necks” went viral creating the narrative that Chauvin placed his knee on Floyd’s neck with such force that Chauvin’s knee choked off Floyd’s trachea causing Floyd to die of suffocation. That narrative is false and the state admitted it at trial. The state’s medical expert – and Chauvin’s medical expert – agreed: Floyd died of a cardiac arrhythmia – his heart was beating so irregularly that he could not get sufficient blood pumping in his body. The state’s medical expert testified the cardiac arrhythmia was caused by “positional asphyxia” – the weight of Chauvin’s knee on Floyd’s back, not neck – restricted Floyd’s chest from expanding sufficiently for Floyd to breathe in enough oxygen. However, whether police officers placing their weight on a suspect’s back while handcuffed can cause someone to die from positional asphyxia has been refuted by numerous academic studies. A 2017 study — ironically co-authored by a University of Minnesota professor — concluded that scientific studies have “<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313205063_Positional_Compression_and_Restraint_Asphyxia_A_Brief_Review." target="_blank" rel="noopener">thoroughly debunked</a>” this theory.
Individuals die of positional asphyxia when they have 1,000 pounds on their back — not Derek Chauvin’s 145 pounds.  
So what else can cause a <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heart-arrhythmia/symptoms-causes/syc-20350668." target="_blank" rel="noopener">cardiac arrhythmia</a>? High blood pressure, 75% &#8211; 90% blockage in coronary arteries, enlarged heart, recent use of fentanyl and methamphetamine, and stress — all of which the state’s medical experts admitted Floyd exhibited when he died.
In order to convict Derek Chauvin, the jury had to believe two expert opinions the state offered: (i) Chauvin used force unreasonable for a police officer in restraining Floyd and (ii) that this unreasonable force was a substantial cause in Floyd’s death. As set forth above, these expert opinions were heavily contested at trial. Despite this, the jury returned a guilty verdict after deliberating for only a day. This is why the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a trial before an impartial jury is so important.
The Supreme Court has held in numerous cases that excessive pre-trial publicity can violate a defendant’s right to a fair trial. The court’s concern is that the potential juror’s exposure to pre-trial publicity — and its effects in the community — will cause the jurors to conclude the defendant is guilty before the trial even begins. Usually, the trial court will be able to ferret out such bias by questioning the potential jurors prior to trial. However, the Supreme Court has held that in some cases the pre-trial publicity — and its effects in the community — will be so overwhelming that the court must presume that the jurors will be irrevocably prejudiced against the defendant. If the court finds such a presumption exists, the court must move the case to be tried in a location which has not suffered from the effects of the alleged crime or been exposed to such massive pre-trial publicity. This is what happened with Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh — his trial <a href="https://famous-trials.com/oklacity/730-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was moved</a> from Oklahoma City to Denver, Colorado.
It is unquestionable that Floyd’s death, the riots in Minneapolis, and the state charging Chauvin arguably generated the most <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/06/george-floyd-protests-generated-more-media-coverage-than-any-protest-50-years/." target="_blank" rel="noopener">pre-trial publicity</a> in American history. Everyone saw the viral video of Chauvin and the other officers using the restraint technique pictured above. Everyone knew of the riots in the Minneapolis metropolitan area which lasted for six days and caused over <a href="https://www.startribune.com/twin-cities-rebuilding-begins-with-donations-pressure-on-government/571075592/.">$500,000,000 in damage</a> — the second-worst riots in American history.
Media in the Minneapolis metropolitan area covered Floyd’s death and Chauvin literally every day from May 25, 2020, through the April 19, 2021, guilty verdict.  More importantly, the coverage continued the false “get off our neck” theme and demonized Derek Chauvin. Thus, all of the potential jurors examined for the Chauvin trial — 131 potential jurors — said that they had been exposed to this pre-trial publicity. Many potential jurors were removed because the pre-trial publicity caused such jurors to be prejudiced against Chauvin. Ultimately, despite exposure to this pre-trial publicity, the trial court seated 13 jurors to try Chauvin. 
The pre-trial publicity made it impossible for Chauvin to get a fair trial in Minneapolis. The Sixth Amendment required the trial be moved out of Minneapolis. However, that is not the principal problem. The principal problem is that the jurors knew that their own — and their family’s &#8211; personal safety was at risk if they acquitted Chauvin. Unlike the pre-trial publicity which the jurors read about the incident, the Chauvin jurors experienced the riots because they lived in the rioted communities. The rioters’ message was clear — <a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/05/29/george-floyd." target="_blank" rel="noopener">convict Chauvin or else</a>.
As a result, the potential jurors and seated jurors expressed concerns for their personal security if they acquitted Chauvin. The state knew this threat was not theoretical. The state deployed soldiers – not police – soldiers to protect the courthouse during the entire trial and deployed soldiers throughout the city prior to the verdict. Moreover, the threats continued after the rioting ended. Prior to trial, “protestors” <a href="https://www.startribune.com/defense-attorney-in-george-floyd-case-renews-callto-move-trial-after-protester-arrests/572774111/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assaulted attorneys</a> representing the other officers after a pre-trial hearing.
During the trial, another police incident sparked another set of riots in a Minneapolis suburb, Brooklyn Center, leading to another deployment of soldiers to quell the riots. One of Chauvin’s jurors certainly experienced this second set of riots when she returned home in the evening from the Chauvin trial because she lived in Brooklyn Center. California Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) spoke to the Brooklyn Center rioters telling them to get “<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/19/politics/maxine-waters-derek-chauvin-trial/index.html." target="_blank" rel="noopener">more confrontational</a>” if the jury acquitted Chauvin. One wonders how active rioters would interpret a lawmaker telling them to get more confrontational when they are already rioting.
Despite the fact that the court attempted to maintain the jurors’ anonymity during trial, one juror’s identity was exposed and he requested the court excuse him due to concerns for his safety. The court refused despite telling the juror “your concerns [with safety] are perfectly understandable. All of us on this case whose names are out in the public understand the concerns.”
The Sixth Amendment prohibits trying a criminal defendant before a jury who has such a personal stake in the outcome of trial – if you acquit, your community will be burned and your personal safety may be at risk. While the overwhelming pre-trial publicity justified moving Chauvin’s trial out of Minneapolis under the Sixth Amendment, the riots and threats of implicit and explicit violence to the jurors and the community they lived in demanded it.
William F. Mohrman is an attorney practicing in Minneapolis. Mr. Mohrman is representing Derek Chauvin on his appeal.  
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Attorneys representing former Minneapolis police officer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/derek-chauvin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Derek Chauvin</a> plan to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review his second-degree murder charge in the death of George Floyd in 2020.
Chauvin is currently serving a 22.5-year prison sentence he received in June 2021 after a jury found him guilty on charges of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in the death of Floyd that sparked months of civil unrest resulting in 25 additional deaths and billions of dollars of property damage in cities nationwide.
The Minnesota Supreme Court declined to hear the case on Tuesday that lawyers argued deprived their client of the right to a fair trial by holding the proceedings in Minneapolis, according to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/george-floyd-derek-chauvin-minneapolis-minnesota-3fc979708c2db136df8c3054d754c359" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Associated Press</a>, leaving Chauvin&#8217;s legal team &#8220;obviously disappointed.&#8221;
Attorney William Morhman argued that Chauvin&#8217;s criminal trial generated the most pretrial publicity in history.
&#8220;More concerning are the riots which occurred after George Floyd&#8217;s death (and) led the jurors to all express concerns for their safety in the event they acquitted Mr. Chauvin — safety concerns which were fully evidenced by surrounding the courthouse in barbed wire and National Guard troops during the trial and deploying the National Guard throughout Minneapolis prior to jury deliberations,&#8221; he said, according to <a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4107930-chauvin-to-ask-supreme-court-to-review-conviction-in-george-floyd-murder/#:~:text=Judge%20Peter%20Cahill%20wrote%20in,owed%20to%20all%20human%20beings.%E2%80%9D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hill</a>.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said that denial from the state&#8217;s highest court &#8220;means that the Court of Appeals was correct in finding that his trial was properly conducted and he was properly convicted under the law.&#8221;
&#8220;This development definitively holds Chauvin accountable and closes this chapter of the murder of George Floyd,&#8221; he added.
In the time since his conviction, Chauvin&#8217;s legal team has now been denied by the state&#8217;s top court and the Minnesota Court of Appeals to hear the appeal. Mohrman called Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill&#8217;s decision to hold the trial in Minneapolis &#8220;pervasive&#8221; because of the pretrial publicity, which put courthouse security at risk of pretrial effects.
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Cahill criticized Chauvin in his ruling, writing in a memorandum the former police officer &#8220;abused his position of trust and authority&#8221; and treated Floyd &#8220;without respect and denied him the dignity owed to all human beings.&#8221;
Video of the arrest showed Floyd resisting officers&#8217; commands until they subdued him on the ground moments before he died after Chauvin kneeled on Floyd&#8217;s shoulders and neck for roughly nine minutes.
The Hennepin Medical County Examiner ruled Floyd&#8217;s death a homicide caused by &#8220;cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-minneapolis-police-autopsy-idUKKBN2383JU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a>. The report also noted methamphetamine and fentanyl in his system at the time of his death, along with hypertension and coronary artery disease.
Floyd&#8217;s family commissioned a separate autopsy report that ruled his death as a homicide by asphyxia due to neck and back compression, ruling out any other medical issues noted by the county coroner.
The U.S. Supreme Court only hears approximately 150 of the 7,000 requested appeals annually.
Chauvin, who is currently serving his two-decade sentence in Arizona, is one of four other officers involved in the case.
Former Minneapolis Police Officer Thomas Lane was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-minneapolis-police-officer-sentenced-to-2-and-a-half-years-in-prison-for-violating-george-floyds-civil-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found guilty</a> and sentenced to two and a half years in prison by a federal jury last year for depriving Floyd of his constitutional right by his &#8220;deliberate indifference to serious medical needs&#8221; when he saw Chauvin kneeling on Floyd&#8217;s back. Lane later pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter and was sentenced to three years in prison, according to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/09/21/1124247012/george-floyd-thomas-lane-sentenced-three-years-minneapolis-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NPR</a>.
Former officers J. Alexander Kueng, who knelt on Floyd&#8217;s back, and Tou Thao, who kept bystanders from intervening during the restraint, were also convicted on federal civil rights charges, including depriving Floyd of his right to medical care and failing to intervene, according to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/george-floyd-minneapolis-officer-tou-thao-841814b3f2d4258b79f3ae408ba11fac" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Associated Press</a>. Kueng was sentenced to three and a half years in prison, while Thao awaits sentencing in a state court.

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Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin asked a Minnesota appeals court on Wednesday to throw out his conviction over the death of George Floyd.
Chauvin is currently serving a 22.5-year prison sentence that he received in June 2021 after a jury found him guilty on charges of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. Chauvin&#8217;s attorney, William Mohrman, told the court that his client&#8217;s trial should not have been held in Minneapolis.
&#8220;Our primary argument here is that this case could not be tried in Minneapolis because of the pretrial publicity which was pervasive &#8230; and also just the physical pressure on the courthouse,&#8221; Mohrman said, according to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/01/18/1149726017/derek-chauvin-appeal-murder-george-floyd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NPR</a>.
The attorney wrote in a brief filed to the Minnesota Court of Appeals that the trial&#8217;s intense publicity, the public unrest and riots surrounding Floyd&#8217;s death, a $27 million settlement paid by the city of Minneapolis to Floyd&#8217;s family, and other factors justified moving the trial. Mohrman also accused prosecutors of misconduct, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/derek-chauvin-appeals-conviction-in-george-floyd-murder-arguing-trial-wasnt-fair" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>.
Attorney for Minnesota Neal Katyal said Chauvin&#8217;s trial was &#8220;one of the most transparent and thorough &#8230; in our nation&#8217;s history.&#8221; He said that Mohrman’s arguments &#8220;do not come close&#8221; to justifying tossing Chauvin’s convictions. &#8220;The evidence of Chauvin&#8217;s guilt was captured on video for the world to see,&#8221; he said, according to NPR.
Chauvin has also been sentenced to 21 years in prison for violating Floyd&#8217;s civil rights. If he were to appeal his convictions over Floyd&#8217;s death successfully, the former officer would remain in prison under the civil rights charge. Chauvin is serving each sentence concurrently at a federal prison in Arizona.
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The former officer is <a href="https://apnews.com/article/death-of-george-floyd-prisons-minnesota-minneapolis-d067afde1589c5175a7b553b68f7eef0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">barred</a> from appealing the federal conviction under a plea agreement he struck with prosecutors. The agreement allowed him to avoid the life sentence he was facing if convicted. It also allowed him to move out of a Minnesota state prison where he may have been at increased risk and transfer to a federal lockup.
Chauvin was convicted of murdering Floyd as Chauvin and several other officers attempted to arrest Floyd in May 2020. Video of the arrest showed Floyd resisting officers&#8217; commands until they subdued him on the ground. Chauvin then kneeled on Floyd&#8217;s shoulders and neck for roughly nine minutes. Video of the arrest sparked unrest and riots across major American cities.

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The mother of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/live-pd-is-back-after-being-canceled-in-2020-following-death-of-george-floyd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Floyd</a>’s daughter plans to sue <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kanye-west-responds-to-getting-canceled-by-jpmorgan-chase/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ye West</a> for $250 million following the rap and fashion mogul&#8217;s alleged claim that Floyd’s death in 2020 was caused by a fentanyl overdose, her lawyers announced Tuesday. West made the claim after watching The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/the-greatest-lie/subscribe-today?utm_campaign=greatestlie&amp;utm_medium=paid&amp;utm_source=bing&amp;utm_content=na_subscriptions&amp;cid=greatestlie&amp;mid=b&amp;xid=0&amp;utm_term=the%20greatest%20lie%20ever%20told&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;utm_source=bing&amp;utm_medium=ppc&amp;hsa_acc=6411461344&amp;hsa_cam=686367422&amp;hsa_grp=1321614520723848&amp;hsa_ad=&amp;hsa_src=o&amp;hsa_tgt=kwd-82601746142130:aud-808681081:loc-190&amp;hsa_kw=the%20greatest%20lie%20ever%20told&amp;hsa_mt=e&amp;hsa_net=adwords&amp;hsa_ver=3&amp;msclkid=e6c01285a038134278e371ca9840ba74" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new documentary</a> on Black Lives Matter.
Roxie Washington said she is suing on behalf of herself and Gianna Floyd, the daughter she had with Floyd. West, who recently changed his first name from Kanye, implied in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ye-west-turns-latest-interview-into-disturbing-anti-semitic-rant/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an interview</a> that first aired Sunday that the 46-year-old Floyd died from an overdose and not at the hands of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, who was later convicted of murder.
“I watched the George Floyd documentary that Candace Owens put out,&#8221; West said in the interview. &#8220;One of the things that his two roommates said was they want a tall guy like me, and the day that he died, he said a prayer for eight minutes.
“They hit him with the fentanyl,” West continued. “If you look, the guy’s knee wasn’t even on his neck like that,” Ye insisted of Chauvin.
West was referring to “<a href="https://get.dailywire.com/the-greatest-lie/subscribe-today?utm_campaign=greatestlie&amp;utm_medium=paid&amp;utm_source=bing&amp;utm_content=na_subscriptions&amp;cid=greatestlie&amp;mid=b&amp;xid=0&amp;utm_term=the%20greatest%20lie%20ever%20told&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;utm_source=bing&amp;utm_medium=ppc&amp;hsa_acc=6411461344&amp;hsa_cam=686367422&amp;hsa_grp=1321614520723848&amp;hsa_ad=&amp;hsa_src=o&amp;hsa_tgt=kwd-82601746142130:aud-808681081:loc-190&amp;hsa_kw=the%20greatest%20lie%20ever%20told&amp;hsa_mt=e&amp;hsa_net=adwords&amp;hsa_ver=3&amp;msclkid=e6c01285a038134278e371ca9840ba74" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Greatest Lie Ever Sold</a>,” a documentary by Owens that explored Floyd’s death, Chauvin’s conviction and the rise of Black Lives Matter, the protest group that raised tens of millions of dollars in the wake of Floyd’s death.
The lawsuit will accuse West of making the comments “to promote his brands, and increase marketing value and revenue for himself, his business partners and associates,” the Witherspoon Law Group and Dixon &amp; Dixon Attorneys at Law said in a statement.
“While one cannot defame the dead, the family of George Floyd is considering suit for Kanye’s false statements about the manner of his death,” attorney Lee Merritt said Sunday. “Claiming Floyd died from fentanyl and not the brutality established criminally and civilly undermines and diminishes the Floyd family’s fight.”
The law firm sent West a cease-and-desist letter Tuesday saying he has “maliciously made statements that are inaccurate and unfounded, causing damage to Mr. Floyd’s estate and family.”
“George Floyd’s daughter is being re-traumatized by Kanye West’s comments and he’s creating an unsafe and unhealthy environment for her,” Witherspoon said in the statement.

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A federal judge sentenced one of the four <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/minneapolis">Minneapolis</a> police officers Thursday charged in connection with the murder of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/george-floyd">George Floyd</a> in May 2020 to two and half years in prison for depriving Floyd of his civil rights.
Former Minneapolis Police Officer Thomas Lane was found guilty by a federal jury earlier this year for depriving Floyd of his constitutional right that would have allowed him to be free from a &#8220;police officer&#8217;s deliberate indifference to serious medical needs&#8221; when he saw Officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd&#8217;s neck.
The jury found that Lane&#8217;s failure to aid Floyd led to his death. Lane also pleaded guilty in May to one charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter of George Floyd.
&#8220;The tragic death of George Floyd makes clear the fatal consequences that can result from a police officer&#8217;s failure to intervene to protect people in their custody,&#8221; Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department&#8217;s Civil Rights Division, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-minneapolis-police-officer-thomas-lane-sentenced-30-months-prison-depriving-george">said</a>. &#8220;Had this defendant and other officers on the scene with Derek Chauvin taken simple steps, George Floyd would be alive today.”
Clarke said Lane&#8217;s sentence should serve as a reminder that every law enforcement authority has a duty and obligation to protect people in custody.
U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger for the District of Minnesota said Lane knew that Floyd needed medical aid, but chose passivity rather than action.
&#8220;As a sworn law enforcement officer, he failed to uphold his duty to step in and save a man&#8217;s life,&#8221; Luger said.
While prosecutors initially requested Lane at least get just over five years in prison, Floyd&#8217;s family asked for the harshest possible sentence. However, the officer&#8217;s punishment falls on the lower end of federal guidelines.
The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/death-of-george-floyd-police-minneapolis-thomas-lane-ffc19860301d277a32a18e1067bc4d4e">reports</a> Floyd&#8217;s brother, Philonise, called Lane &#8220;an accessory to murder&#8221; and the sentencing &#8220;insulting.&#8221;
Judge Paul Magnuson of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, who sentenced Lane, told him he violated the law because he didn&#8217;t get up and remove Officer Chauvin from an unconscious Floyd.
The jury also convicted the other former officers, Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng, of an additional charge of failing to intervene to stop former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Authorities said sentencing has not yet been scheduled for Thao, who held back onlookers during Floyd&#8217;s arrest, and Kueng, who pinned Floyd&#8217;s back during the restraint.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">President Biden</a> nominated one of the prosecutors of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/derek-chauvin">Derek Chauvin</a>, the Minnesota police officer convicted of murdering <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/george-floyd">George Floyd</a>, for a federal court position in Minnesota. 
Jerry W. Blackwell, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/minnesota">Minnesota</a> lawyer who made the opening and closing rebuttal statements in the Floyd case, was <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/15/nominations-sent-to-the-senate-71/">nominated </a>by Biden this week to be United States District Judge for the District of Minnesota. 
Blackwell’s nomination was praised by Minnesota Democrats including Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN), and state Attorney General Keith Ellison (D-MN). 
“Jerry Blackwell is widely respected and loved within the Minnesota legal community,&#8221; Klobuchar <a href="https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ID=AB9D7DD2-A147-4D38-A646-D183D05E0708">said</a>. “His extensive trial experience — including the successful prosecution of the murder of George Floyd — makes him an excellent choice to be a U.S. District Court Judge. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to confirm him.&#8221;
Smith praised Blackwell’s “experience and commitment to equal justice will make him an excellent federal judge.” If confirmed, this would be Blackwell’s first stint as a judge, the Star Tribune <a href="https://www.startribune.com/president-biden-nominates-jerry-blackwell-for-federal-judge-in-minnesota/600182301/?refresh=true">noted</a>.
The lawyer was assigned to the team prosecuting Derek Chauvin by Ellison, who was effusive in his praise of Blackwell, describing him as a “one-in-a-million lawyer.”
&#8220;He&#8217;s brilliant, thoughtful and fair, not to mention a pioneer among African American attorneys,&#8221; Ellison stated. &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to imagine how anyone could be better qualified for the federal bench.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/al-sharpton">Al Sharpton</a> also praised Biden for the nomination of Blackwell.
In recent years, Blackwell appears to have made several large political donations to Minnesota Democrats. A Jerry Blackwell in Minneapolis made a pair of $1,000 donations to Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) in 2018 and 2019, according to <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=jerry+blackwell&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=D">data</a> from Open Secrets. A Jerry Blackwell in Minneapolis also gave donations of $1,500 and $2,500 to Keith Ellison. 
The Daily Wire reached out to Blackwell’s law firm to confirm whether he made the donations or not. 
The lawyer <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/us/jerry-w-blackwell-prosecutor-derek-chauvin-trial.html">has</a> also done legal work for large corporations like Walmart and General Mills.
 Blackwell could be a key figure in the court, as three judges currently serving had been nominated by Republican presidents and three by Democratic presidents. Blackwell would be the seventh seat on the court. 
Biden has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/progressive-groups-celebrate-nomination-of-former-biden-harris-campaign-counsel-to-conservative-leaning-court">continued</a> to make key judicial appointments throughout his presidency. Last month he nominated Rachel Bloomekatz, a Biden-Harris campaign state counsel, to the conservative-leaning United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Bloomekatz’s bio says that she “represented progressive candidates in Ohio, including serving as Senator Sherrod Brown’s legal director for his 2012 reelection campaign.”
After news of her nomination broke, progressive groups like Demand Justice, Earthjustice, and the Alliance for Justice all praised her nomination by Biden.

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The Washington Post deleted a tweet and corrected a reader submission form on their website after falsely claiming that George Floyd had been shot by police officers.
The now-deleted tweet included a link to the submission form in question along with the following text: &#8220;On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was shot and killed in police custody. His death sparked outrage, wide-scaled protests and calls to change policing. Two years later, what has — or hasn&#8217;t changed?&#8221;
The outlet posted another tweet explaining that the previous one had been deleted. &#8220;We&#8217;ve deleted a previous tweet for this form that included language that was changed after publish,&#8221; the new tweet read.
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The <a href="https://hosted-washpost.submissionplatform.com/sub/hosted/628bb83844f54e002f9f1b5f?utm_campaign=wp_main&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">updated reader submission form</a> reads, &#8220;On May 25, 2020, George Floyd died in police custody. His death sparked outrage, wide scale protests and calls to change policing. Two years later, what has — or hasn&#8217;t changed?&#8221;
Newsbusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck shared screenshots of the tweet and the original reader submission form, along with his own comments.
&#8220;Mannnn you guys just barely escaped the wrath of Nina Jankowicz and her Ministry of Truth,&#8221; he tweeted, adding, &#8220;Not only did The Washington Post mess this up in their tweet (left) about how George Floyd died, they did the same thing on their own website (right).&#8221;
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&#8220;Washington Post, which wants to restrict free speech to combat disinformation, can’t even get this well-known event right,&#8221; Max Abrahms <a href="https://twitter.com/MaxAbrahms/status/1528919457845895169">added</a>.
Tim Swain commented, &#8220;You may have deleted the tweet but the internet is forever @washingtonpost.&#8221;
&#8220;I can&#8217;t wait for next year&#8217;s @washingtonpost exposé on what George Floyd&#8217;s suicide tells us about ourselves,&#8221; Derek Hunter <a href="https://twitter.com/derekahunter/status/1528922429229346818">said</a>.
George Floyd was killed while in the custody of Minneapolis Police officers, but he was not shot. He died after former police officer Derek Chauvin <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/just-in-derek-chauvin-appealing-murder-conviction-in-george-floyd-case/">knelt on his neck</a> and remained there for over nine minutes.
Chauvin was convicted in April of 2021 of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd’s death — and sentenced to 22.5 years behind bars — but he has since made it clear that he would appeal that conviction.
&#8220;The former officer is arguing that the judge &#8216;improperly denied requests to grant him a new trial, sequester the jury during trial and disqualify ‘clearly biased’ potential jurors during jury selection,&#8217; adding that Judge Peter Cahill &#8216;erred in permitting prosecutors to add a third-degree murder charge shortly before trial and in concluding that the man who had been with Floyd on the day of his arrest could not be forced to testify,'&#8221; The Daily Wire previously reported.

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The Daily Wire&#8217;s Candace Owens released a new trailer on Tuesday, teasing her upcoming documentary, titled &#8220;The Greatest Lie Ever Told: George Floyd And The Rise Of BLM.&#8221;
The trailer shows a sneak peek of Owens&#8217; look behind the curtain in Minneapolis, Minnesota — where George Floyd&#8217;s death at the hands of police officer Derek Chauvin sparked a firestorm of protests and riots across the nation — on the two-year anniversary of his death.
WATCH:
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&#8220;Get a look at the fiery new documentary that only Candace Owens and The Daily Wire would dare bring you. On the 2-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death, Candace revisits Minneapolis and the violent, racially-divided aftermath that fueled BLM’s global rise—and filled its coffers. Tune in May 23 for the global premiere event,&#8221; the website <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/the-greatest-lie-ever-told-george-floyd-and-the-rise-of-blm-official-trailer">added to the tease</a>.
Owens has been <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/candace-owens-i-do-not-support-george-floyd-and-the-media-depiction-of-him-as-a-martyr-for-black-america/">critical of Floyd</a> from the beginning, and of the political Left for rushing him to sainthood. In an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/candace-owens-the-media-is-lying-to-you-about-george-floyd-and-makhia-bryant">opinion piece</a> for The Daily Wire, Owens mocked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for claiming that Floyd&#8217;s name would &#8220;always be synonymous with justice.&#8221;
&#8220;George Floyd’s name will always be synonymous with justice? You’ve got to be kidding me,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I am not an intellectual coward who will simply accept the lie about George Floyd and the way that he lived as the truth just because the mob demands it. And believe me, it’s a lie.&#8221;
Owens then went on to detail Floyd&#8217;s extensive criminal history — and the Left’s rush to grant him absolution because he fit the narrative they wanted to push. That narrative, in turn, fueled the further meteoric rise of Black Lives Matter, opening a virtual firehose of money and political influence.
In the documentary, Owens reveals what she learned when she sat down with the people who knew Floyd best — and how a carefully crafted lie quickly swept across the globe.

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WATCH: Candace Owens Drops New Trailer For ‘The Greatest Lie Ever Told: George Floyd And The Rise Of BLM’

Candace Owens Drops New Trailer For Documentary On George Floyd And Black Lives Matter

The federal trial began Monday for three former police officers accused in the killing of George Floyd.
Former Minneapolis Police Department officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas K. Lane, and Tou Thao were all present during Floyd&#8217;s arrest on May 25, 2020, after which he died in police custody.
Floyd, a black man, told former cop Derek Chauvin that he was in pain and could not breathe as Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes, even after Floyd passed out. Video of the arrest taken by bystanders went viral.
Floyd&#8217;s death sparked nationwide racial justice and anti-police brutality protests as well as violent riots in major cities.
Chauvin, who was the senior officer on the scene, was convicted in April of murdering Floyd. A state jury found Chauvin guilty on charges of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter.
He was sentenced in June to 22 and a half years in prison.
Chauvin also pled guilty in December to federal charges of violating Floyd&#8217;s civil rights. He is still awaiting sentencing in that trial.
Kueng, Lane, and Thao face charges of aiding and abetting, and all three have all pled not guilty to federal and state charges. All three of the former officers have been charged with failing to give Floyd medical aid. Additionally, Kueng and Thao were also charged with violating Floyd&#8217;s right to be free from unreasonable seizure by failing to intervene and stop Chauvin as he knelt on Floyd&#8217;s neck.
“For second after second, minute after minute, these three CPR-trained defendants stood or knelt next to officer Chauvin as he slowly killed George Floyd right in front of them,” prosecutor Samantha Trepel told the jury during the government&#8217;s opening statement.
Kueng&#8217;s defense attorney, Tom Plunkett, argued that both Kueng and fellow officer Lane were junior to Chauvin and deferred to him. Kueng and Lane were serving only their third and fourth shifts as full-time officers during Floyd&#8217;s arrest.
“You’ll see and hear officer Chauvin call all of the shots,” the defense lawyer told the jury during his opening statement.
“They chose not to protect George Floyd, the man they had handcuffed and placed in their custody,” she said.
The three former cops are expected to place the blame on Chauvin alone for Floyd&#8217;s death.
During jury selection, the judge in the federal case warned potential jurors that Chauvin is no longer on trial, telling them they must consider only the crimes alleged against the three other officers.
“The crimes that Mr. Chauvin pled guilty to are totally separate to those at issue here,” Judge Peter Magnuson stressed to potential jurors.
Chauvin claimed in his federal plea agreement that he was “aided and abetted by other officers.”
Chauvin could potentially be called to testify in the trial, but his participation appears unlikely.
Kueng, Lane, and Thao will also face a separate state trial on charges that they aided and abetted murder and manslaughter. That trial is set to begin in June.

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Three Cops Accused In George Floyd’s Death Begin Their Federal Trial

A Texas board that unanimously supported a posthumous pardon for George Floyd over a 2004 drug arrest has reversed its decision, according to a letter made public by Texas Governor Greg Abbott Thursday.
The Texas Board of Pardon and Paroles voted unanimously in October to request that <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/new-poll-shows-beto-down-15-to-texas-governor-greg-abbott/">Abbott</a> pardon Floyd over a 2004 drug charge over concerns about the police officer involved in Floyd’s arrest. The board backtracked in a December 16 letter to Abbott citing “procedural errors” made in the board’s suggestion. The board’s presiding officer, David Gutierrez, <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/BPP_Withdrawal.pdf">wrote</a>:
<blockquote>During 2021, the Texas Board of Pardon and Paroles has sent Governor Abbott a total of 67 clemency recommendations. This unusually high number, not seen in almost two decades, is more than twice the average number of recommendations Governor Abbott has received in any year since taking office. As the Presiding Officer of the Board, I instructed the staff to carefully examine its practices and procedures in an effort to explain this aberration.
The results of the examination has revealed that the Board made a number of unexplained departures from its own rules in issuing many of its 2021 recommendations, e.g., Board Rule sections 143.2, 143.6, 143.10. I understand the importance of following the Board’s rules, and will ensure that the board takes greater care to do so in 2022 and beyond. If it is determined that any of those rules need to be improved, they will be revised and amended rather than failing to comply.
To ensure the 2021 applicants are not prejudiced by the Board’s procedural errors, the Board respectfully requests Governor Abbott allow the Board to withdraw and reconsider its clemency recommendations for the following individuals:</blockquote>
The board went on to name 25 people improperly nominated for clemency or a pardon to Abbott. Floyd’s name is the sixth on the list.
A jury <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-derek-chauvin-sentenced-for-murder-of-george-floyd">ruled</a> in June that former police officer <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/derek-chauvin-closing-in-on-plea-deal-with-fed-prosecutors-could-include-public-explanation-of-george-floyd-arrest/">Derek Chauvin</a> murdered Floyd while attempting to arrest him last year. Police moved to take Floyd into custody for allegedly using counterfeit currency at a convenience store. An autopsy after Floyd’s death <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/medical-examiner-concluded-george-floyd-likely-died-of-fentanyl-overdose-court-docs-reveal">found</a> potentially fatal levels of fentanyl in his system at the time of his death.
Floyd had a lengthy history of run-ins with police, being <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/george-floyd-america/policing/">charged</a> at least 19 times throughout his life. In 2009, Floyd <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/george-floyd-mural-blown-apart-by-lightning-strike-officials-say">pleaded</a> guilty to armed robbery after he and several other men robbed a home while the family was inside. During the robbery, Floyd held a woman at gunpoint while his accomplices ransacked the house, according to police.
The board’s recommendation came after one of the arresting officers in Floyd’s 2004 drug charge was accused of falsifying evidence for a raid warrant in 2019. As <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-board-withdraws-recommended-pardon-george-floyd-citing-procedura-rcna9885?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma">NBC News</a> reported:
<blockquote>In February 2004, Floyd was arrested in Houston for selling $10 worth of crack in a police sting, and later pleaded guilty to a drug charge and served 10 months in prison. But the global spotlight on the death of Floyd in police custody 16 years later is not why prosecutors revisited his Houston case. Instead, it was prompted by <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/least-3-houston-police-officers-shot-suspect-down-n963756">a deadly Houston drug raid in 2019</a> that involved the same officer who arrested Floyd.
Prosecutors say that officer, Gerald Goines, lied to obtain the search warrant for the raid that killed a husband and wife. Goines, who is no longer on the Houston force and <a href="https://apnews.com/article/6df6a7a55ad444beb62d9b0b397708ce">faces murder charges</a>, has denied wrongdoing. More than 160 drug convictions tied to him over the years have since been dismissed by prosecutors due to concerns about his casework.</blockquote>

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A statue that featured a bronze bust of George Floyd was defaced Sunday morning with a gray, water-based paint.
CNN <a href="https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/10/03/us/george-floyd-bust-defaced-confront-art/index.html">reported</a> that the statue was part of Confront Art’s “SEEINJUSTICE” exhibition, which also featured two other statues, all of which were opened to the public last Friday evening. The Floyd statue was defaced with paint around 10 a.m. Sunday morning, according to the New York Police Department.
&#8220;There&#8217;s video footage police were able to ascertain,&#8221; detective Frances Sammon told CNN. &#8220;They show a male ducking down under one of the statues. He then mixes something together, and, as he skates away, he throws a container of paint at the statue.&#8221;
Volunteers quickly gathered to remove the paint. Andrew Cohen, co-founder of Confront Art, said the statue was already being cleaned by the time he arrived.
&#8220;They went to the hardware and bought supplies out of their own pockets,&#8221; he told CNN. &#8220;This is inspiring teamwork and support from the community.&#8221;
One of those volunteers, Harmony Seaburg, told the outlet that cleaning the statue was “very emotional” for her.
&#8220;It was really hard to see this larger-than-life man like this,&#8221; Seaburg said. &#8220;We&#8217;re trying to get all the paint off his face, but it&#8217;s very emotional.&#8221;
Floyd became a household name on May 25, 2020, after he died following an attempted arrest by Minneapolis police officers. Ex-police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22.5 years for the murder of Floyd. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/just-in-derek-chauvin-appealing-murder-conviction-in-george-floyd-case">reported</a>, Chauvin is appealing his conviction:
<blockquote>Chauvin’s attorney filed a notice of appeal on Friday morning, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/derek-chauvin-appeal-his-conviction-sentencing-death-george-floyd-2021-09-24/">reported</a>, “arguing that the judge in his case abused his discretion and made multiple errors during the trial.”
“In his appeal, Chauvin plans to raise 14 separate issues, including Judge Peter Cahill’s decision to deny Chauvin’s request to move the trial out of Hennepin County, which includes Minneapolis, because of the intense pretrial publicity,” the report noted.
The former officer is arguing that the judge “improperly denied requests to grant him a new trial, sequester the jury during trial and disqualify ‘clearly biased’ potential jurors during jury selection,” adding that Judge Peter Cahill “erred in permitting prosecutors to add a third-degree murder charge shortly before trial and in concluding that the man who had been with Floyd on the day of his arrest could not be forced to testify.”</blockquote>
At trial, Chauvin&#8217;s attorney also argued that “Floyd’s drug use and bad heart were crucial factors in his death and that Chauvin used reasonable force through an authorized prone hold,” The Daily Wire reported. “The Hennepin County <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/medical-examiner-concluded-george-floyd-likely-died-of-fentanyl-overdose-court-docs-reveal">medical examiner</a> revealed that Floyd’s autopsy showed the deceased had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/george-floyds-girlfriend-floyd-hospitalized-for-overdose-months-earlier-drug-dealer-with-him-during-arrest">potentially lethal</a> levels of drugs in his system.”
Chris Carnabuci, the artist behind the Confront Art statues, applauded the volunteers who cleaned up the statue and mentioned another Floyd statue that was defaced in Brooklyn in June. As for his own statue getting defaced, Carnabuci condemned the perpetrator.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not shocked, but I&#8217;m still pissed,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a very counterproductive thing to do, and it&#8217;s not the kind of civil discourse &#8212; the keyword being civil &#8212; I wanted.&#8221;
A previous version of this article misstated who argued that Floyd&#8217;s drug use and bad heart were crucial factors in his death. It was Chauvin&#8217;s attorney, not Floyd&#8217;s attorney.

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Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is moving forward to appeal his conviction and sentence in the murder case of George Floyd.
Chauvin&#8217;s attorney filed a notice of appeal on Friday morning, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/derek-chauvin-appeal-his-conviction-sentencing-death-george-floyd-2021-09-24/">reported</a>, &#8220;arguing that the judge in his case abused his discretion and made multiple errors during the trial.&#8221;
&#8220;In his appeal, Chauvin plans to raise 14 separate issues, including Judge Peter Cahill&#8217;s decision to deny Chauvin&#8217;s request to move the trial out of Hennepin County, which includes Minneapolis, because of the intense pretrial publicity,&#8221; the report noted.
The former officer is arguing that the judge &#8220;improperly denied requests to grant him a new trial, sequester the jury during trial and disqualify &#8216;clearly biased&#8217; potential jurors during jury selection,&#8221; adding that Judge Peter Cahill &#8220;erred in permitting prosecutors to add a third-degree murder charge shortly before trial and in concluding that the man who had been with Floyd on the day of his arrest could not be forced to testify.&#8221;
Judge Cahill this summer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-derek-chauvin-sentenced-for-murder-of-george-floyd">sentenced</a> Chauvin to 22.5 years – 270 months — behind bars for the murder of Floyd. Chauvin was facing up to 40 years after he was convicted in April of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd’s death.
As <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/25/derek-chauvin-sentencing-george-floyd/">highlighted</a> by The Washington Post, under typical circumstances, Chauvin should have been facing 11 to 12 years behind bars per state sentencing guidelines for someone with no criminal history. However, Judge Cahill ruled last month that “prosecutors had proven there were aggravating factors in the case that called for a tougher sentence.”
The prosecution asked for Chauvin to serve 30 years behind bars, while Chauvin attorney Eric Nelson argued his client should be placed on probation and time-served.
“Mr. Chauvin is not the average offender,” Nelson argued before sentencing. “Prior to this incident, Mr. Chauvin led a hard-working, law-abiding life and has experienced no legal issues until the point of his arrest.”
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“Mr. Chauvin was unaware he was even committing a crime,” the attorney added. “In fact, in his mind, he was simply performing his lawful duty assisting other officers in the arrest of George Floyd.”
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Nelson formally filed for a new trial on May 4, but his motion was rejected by Judge Cahill one day before sentencing.
In the court <a href="https://www.mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases/27-CR-20-12646/Notice-of-Motion-and-Motion.pdf">filing</a>, Nelson said the “court violated Chauvin’s right to due process and fair trial when the court decided against sequestering the jury and granting a venue change,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/derek-chauvins-attorney-files-motion-for-new-trial">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
As highlighted by Reuters, &#8220;Chauvin separately filed a request to put his appeal on hold until Minnesota&#8217;s Supreme Court reviews an earlier decision to deny him a public defender to represent him in his appeal.&#8221;
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&#8220;In an affidavit, Chauvin said he has no income aside from &#8216;nominal prison wages&#8217; and no assets other than two retirement accounts,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;The Minneapolis Peace and Police Officers Association, which funded his defense, stopped paying for his legal representation after his conviction and sentencing.&#8221;
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-gives-weak-response-after-chauvin-attorney-complains-jury-not-sequestered">Judge Gives Weak Response After Chauvin Attorney Complains Jury Not Sequestered</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-doj-was-going-to-arrest-derek-chauvin-in-court-if-jury-found-him-innocent-report">Biden DOJ Was Going To Arrest Derek Chauvin In Court If Jury Found Him Innocent: Report</a>

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