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

Black Lives Matter

Candace Owens

Derek Chauvin

George Floyd

Minneapolis

Riots

The month of May marks many things: Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, warmer weather, and a sense that summer’s right around the corner. Sadly, for many, myself included, May also marks the moment the country’s perception of the police changed overnight — when George Floyd was killed by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. 
Understandably, people were upset with Chauvin’s actions, but the Twin Cities decided to take things to a whole new level by rioting outside the 3rd Precinct on a daily basis after the incident, leading to a chain of events that saw mass destruction to Minneapolis and St. Paul. The rioting and its devastating aftermath were not contained in Minnesota, either. Soon, whole cities were engulfed in riots, with participants justifying their actions because of what happened to Floyd.
It wasn’t just rioters who were trying to claim what they were doing — setting buildings on fire and attacking police officers — was actually a good thing. Media members also downplayed or excused the rioters’ wrath. Many within the mainstream media became the BLM and Antifa rioters’ rapid response team by trying to put the chaotic events in “context.” This grew into a cycle that I became all too familiar with when I went to cover people in the BLM and Antifa movements finding any excuse, no matter how thin, to riot in city after city throughout 2020. 
“It’s not, generally speaking, unruly…” <a href="https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1266222112458629120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1266222112458629120%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.analyzingamerica.org%2F2020%2F05%2F596464%2F">said</a> Ali Velshi of MSNBC. “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protest After Police Shooting,” <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1298863702272344064">read</a> a CNN chyron describing Kenosha, Wisconsin. The media’s rush to defend the rioters was frustrating to see while witnessing the riots firsthand. Oftentimes, it was minority neighborhoods that bore the brunt of the damage caused by “racial justice” actors, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-setting-2-billion-in-damage-new-report-says-here-s-why-the-true-cost-is-even-higher/">totaling</a> at least $2 billion by the third month.
We don’t have to look far to find examples of the BLM and abolish the police movements’ forces trying to glorify riots. The end of this past April marked the 30-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots that broke out in 1992 following the acquittal of city police officers who were caught on film beating Rodney King.
 People’s City Council &#8211; Los Angeles, a popular Twitter account for progressive causes, <a href="https://twitter.com/PplsCityCouncil/status/1520194468409790465">tweeted</a> the following with pictures of the devastation: “TODAY IN HISTORY &#8211;  April 29, 1992. Today marks the 30 year anniversary of the 1992 LA uprisings. The city will never forget this and we shall rise up again. POWER TO LOOTERS. POWER TO RIOTERS.”
Calling the ’92 riots an “uprising” has become a popular tactic with the BLM to abolish the police movements. It seeks to legitimize the destruction of the property of people who had nothing to do with what caused the outrage in the first place, lumping it under the umbrella of the objectively true message that Black lives matter.
I should know. I documented the riots as they were happening during that hectic year and followed up with survivors months later for my <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fiery-But-Mostly-Peaceful-Gaslighting-ebook/dp/B09SJ621YW/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1HT63NBZG01T0&amp;keywords=fiery+but+mostly+peaceful&amp;qid=1651540475&amp;sprefix=fiery+but+mostly+peaceful%2Caps%2C73&amp;sr=8-1">book</a>, “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful.” I wrote the book because I wanted to have a physical record of what occurred in 2020 since, while many things can remain on the internet forever, these days it’s not a guarantee. 
Not only do we have to worry about Big Tech censoring my reporting on the riots because it went against the broader “mostly peaceful” narrative, but now we have to be concerned with the Department of Homeland Security’s “Disinformation Governance Board” created by the Biden administration. The <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/who-nina-jankowicz-head-joe-biden-disinformation-governance-board-1701677">person</a> put in charge of this Ministry of Truth has been revealed to be a hardcore partisan for Democrats. There are a lot of questions over how exactly this board will carry out its mission to combat “disinformation,” but if the riots and the COVID-19 pandemic have taught us anything, it’s that the powers that be — Big Tech, the media, and our government — will lie or gaslight us even about things that can be plainly seen to be the opposite of what they say they are.
This brings us back to what will be retold on the second anniversary of Floyd’s death. His death should not have happened, but neither should the riots that followed. Ordinary Americans’ lives were turned upside down as police were overwhelmed or told to pull away from areas that were controlled by the rioters. 
Over a year later, survivors of the riots told me that the feeling of something like that happening again was very much on their minds. In order to prevent something like that from happening again, we have to accurately remember what transpired. Yes, there were many peaceful BLM protests. But there were also many riots that cost lives and millions of dollars. Two years later, the country is continuing to see a high violent crime rate that was jump-started by the riots and fueled by progressive “racial justice” policies. Two wrongs don’t make a right and the ends certainly didn’t justify the means.
The views expressed in this piece are the author&#8217;s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Don’t Let Them Whitewash The 2020 Riots

Don't Let Them Whitewash The 2020 Riots

2020

Readers Pass

Rioters

The man accused of murdering retired <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/david-dorn">St. Louis police Captain David Dorn</a> as he responded to a pawn shop robbery in the summer of 2020 will stand trial July 15.
Dorn, 77, was killed in the early morning hours of June 2, 2020, after a burglar alarm went off at his friend’s pawn shop, Lee’s Pawn Shop and Jewelry. On the night of Dorn&#8217;s death, four St. Louis officers were shot and dozens of other businesses were damaged or burglarized, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/83b1ecab54f039bbd30346a218a4c994">reported</a>.
“Dave Dorn was a great man. He was fair; the sharpest, cleanest guy,” retired St. Louis police officer David Ellison <a href="https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/beloved-former-st-louis-police-captain-killed-by-looters/">said</a> of Dorn the day of the shooting.
Stephan Cannon, 24, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/st-louis-police-arrest-man-for-allegedly-murdering-retired-black-police-captain-david-dorn">arrested in June 2020</a> and charged with first-degree murder over Dorn’s death. Cannon is also charged with armed robbery, burglary, stealing, and unlawful possession of a weapon.
Back in January, Cannon&#8217;s trial date was scheduled for July 18 but the development received little notice. The updated trial schedule appeared on the court&#8217;s docket on Friday.
Riots rocked St. Louis and a number of other major U.S. cities in 2020 following the death of George Floyd and the outbreak of mass civil unrest. Hundreds of Black Lives Matter protests devolved into riots, <a href="https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a455-4067-b06a-66f9db4cea9c.html">causing</a> hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage to major U.S. cities.
Dorn’s widow <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-relive-that-horror-watch-david-dorns-widow-emotionally-recount-her-husbands-death-plead-for-an-end-to-nightmare-of-riots-and-looting">recounted</a> the night of her husband’s death during a speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention.
“As I slept, looters were ransacking the shop. They shot and killed David in cold blood, and then live-streamed his execution and his last moments on Earth,&#8221; said Ann Dorn in her August 2020 speech. &#8220;David’s grandson was watching the video on Facebook in real time, not realizing he was watching his own grandfather dying on the sidewalk.”
Last June, David Dorn was posthumously awarded the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/david-dorn-retired-police-captain-killed-in-june-burglary-receives-act-of-heroism-award">Congressional Medal of Honor Citizen Award</a> for his performance of an extraordinary act of courage and sacrifice on the night he was killed. Decisions on who receives the award are made by a panel of Medal of Honor recipients each year.
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David Dorn

Man Accused Of Murdering Retired Police Captain David Dorn Gets New Trial Date

David Dorn Murder Trial Rescheduled For July 15

Crime

Law Enforcement

Police

A federal jury on Thursday found three former Minneapolis police officers guilty of violating George Floyd’s civil rights during a May 2020 arrest that ended in Floyd’s death.
Former officers Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng, and Thomas Lane were found guilty of showing deliberate indifference to Floyd’s medical needs during the arrest, according to <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/24/us/george-floyd-federal-civil-rights-trial-jury-thursday/index.html">CNN</a>. The jury convicted Thao and Kueng of an additional charge of failing to intervene to stop former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted in April last year of murdering Floyd, from kneeling on the area of Floyd’s neck and shoulders.
The trio of former officers each face a maximum penalty of life in prison. The three also have yet to face trial in a state case scheduled for June in which the men are charged with aiding and abetting murder and manslaughter in Floyd’s death.
Chauvin was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-derek-chauvin-sentenced-for-murder-of-george-floyd">sentenced</a> to more than 22 years in jail in June of last year after being convicted of murder in his state trial over Floyd’s death. He was facing a maximum penalty of 40 years behind bars after being convicted of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter.
Prosecutors hammered Thao, Keung, and Lane during closing arguments of the case, accusing the former officers of not intervening in Floyd’s murder. As <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jury-reaches-verdict-federal-trial-3-officers-george-floyds-killing-rcna17237">NBC News</a> reports:
<blockquote>In closing arguments, prosecutors said the defendants had “front-row seats” to Floyd’s murder and “chose to do nothing” to help him while Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for 9 ½ minutes.
“They chose not to aid George Floyd, as the window into which Mr. Floyd’s life could have been saved slammed shut,” prosecutor Manda Sertich said Tuesday.</blockquote>
The attorneys of the defendants called Floyd’s death a tragedy, but argued that it’s not criminal in their case. They also stated that Chauvin was trained and that the officers had no reason to believe that Chauvin was mishandling the arrest. NBC News reported:
<blockquote>During closing arguments, Robert Paule, a defense attorney for Thao, said Floyd’s death was a tragedy, but “just because something has a tragic ending does not mean it’s a crime.”
Kueng&#8217;s attorney, Thomas Plunkett, said his client was confident in Chauvin and had received training from the police department that &#8220;was inadequate to help him see, perceive and understand what was happening here.”
An attorney for Lane, the only one of the three officers not charged with failing to intervene to stop Chauvin from using excessive force, said the former officer was “concerned” for Floyd and suggested turning him on his side, but was ignored by Chauvin. Lane also assisted paramedics, Earl Gray told jurors during his closing argument.</blockquote>
Police officers were called on Floyd in May 2020 after he attempted to pass fake currency at a convenience store. As officers tried to take Floyd into custody, he resisted getting into a police cruiser and ended up on the ground with multiple officers pinning him down.
The Hennepin County medical examiner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/medical-examiner-concluded-george-floyd-likely-died-of-fentanyl-overdose-court-docs-reveal">said</a> after an autopsy that Floyd, who had a history of addiction, had a potentially &#8220;fatal level&#8221; of fentanyl in his body. The medical examiner ultimately ruled Floyd’s death a homicide, however, <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/09/985722945/live-video-medical-examiner-to-testify-about-george-floyds-death">concluding</a> the cause was &#8220;cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.&#8221;
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George Floyd Sculpture

Ex-Minneapolis Police Officers Found Guilty Of Violating George Floyd’s Civil Rights

On Wednesday, Ben Crump, famed attorney in several cases involving race relations and interactions with law enforcement, wrote an op-ed calling on President Joe Biden to nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
Crump <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/595482-why-the-supreme-court-needs-ketanji-brown-jackson">wrote</a>, “There should be, and someday will be, no limit on the number of African American women sitting on this important court, at once, as has been the status quo for white men for centuries,” adding, “But for today’s pick, that African American woman, that attorney and judge and mother, and daughter should be Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.”
He said she “is perhaps the most experienced judge to be considered in recent memory, in that she has been a District Court and Circuit Court judge for nine years. There will be no learning curve for Jackson; she knows the law, has adjudicated it well and is battle-tested.”
Crump continued, stating the importance of race in the pick, writing, “My standards for this nominee go beyond integrity, brilliance and fairness. I carry the additional purchase that this justice must represent African Americans in a way that has cultural competency, forcefulness and instills deep pride.”
He discussed other justices, noting, “Justice Sotomayor clearly inspires and provides vision to America’s Hispanic community. Justices O’Connor and Ginsburg are heroes for women across the ideological spectrum. We African Americans eagerly await and demand that model: a talented African American woman who not only acts justly and upholds our Constitution but is rooted in an experience that so many of us share.”
“That person is Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson,” he stated.
Crump discussed how he knows Jackson because they taught and mentored alongside one another. They also taught a seminar at Harvard’s Trial Advocacy Workshop twice. He also wrote about her career and family history.
He thanked “Biden and Harris for this important decision, and Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) and his late wife Emily for pressing the president to commit to this historic move.”
However, as The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/595501-ben-crump-calls-on-biden-to-pick-jackson-as-supreme-court">pointed</a> out, Clyburn has pushed for South Carolina federal district court Judge J. Michelle Childs for the selection.
Crump concluded, “For the combination of brilliance, integrity, experience and assurance that African Americans will hold this choice as we do the memory of Thurgood Marshall and Constance Baker Motley, I overwhelmingly support the historic choice of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.”
Crump has taken part in representing several families in high profile cases that have not only gained national attention but have been the center of widespread protests and riots across the country, including the families of Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin, Martin Lee Anderson, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd.
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-says-biden-will-announce-supreme-court-nominee-by-monday-meets-with-three-finalists">reported</a> on Wednesday, “President Joe Biden has interviewed three women as potential nominees to be his Supreme Court justice pick, with the White House announcing he will share his decision by Monday.”
Biden’s three potential nominees are all black women, as he made a promise to nominate the first black woman to the Supreme Court. They include federal judges Ketanji Brown Jackson, J. Michelle Childs, and California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger. The new justice will replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, who stated that he is planning to retire this year.
NBC News reported on Tuesday that Biden “continues to evaluate eminently qualified individuals in the mold of Justice Breyer who have the strongest records, intellect, character, and dedication to the rule of law that anyone could ask for,” <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/biden-interviews-three-finalists-supreme-court-vacancy-deadline-looms-rcna17290?icid=canonical_related">according to</a> Deputy White House Press Secretary Andrew Bates.
All three potential picks are “deserving of bipartisan support,” Bates added.
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George Floyd Family Lawyer Supports Jackson For SCOTUS Pick

Supreme Court

Congressional Republicans are demanding answers after the Department of Justice (DOJ) argued for a lenient sentence for a convicted arsonist that set a building on fire and killed a man during the 2020 George Floyd riots.
A judge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-who-burned-down-pawnshop-during-george-floyd-riots-killing-1-escapes-murder-charge">sentenced</a> Montez Terriel Lee, 26, to 10 years in prison last month after Lee pleaded guilty to burning down the Max It Pawn Shop in May of 2020. Lee evaded murder charges over the death of Oscar Stewart, a father of five who died in the pawn shop fire.
Federal sentencing guidelines suggest that Lee should have been locked up for closer to 20 years, according to <a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/house-republicans-press-biden-doj-on-soft-sentence-for-floyd-arsonist/">The Washington Free Beacon</a>. DOJ prosecutors argued in a memo prior to his sentencing that he deserved no more than 12 years, however, because his reckless actions were inspired by feelings of frustration and anger at the treatment of black people by police.
“This is an extraordinary case. The United States therefore seeks a downward variance, and a sentence of 144 months,” the <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/557917106/U-S-v-Terriel-Lee-government-sentencing-memo">memo</a> says. “Mr. Lee’s motive for setting the fire is a foremost issue. Mr. Lee credibly states that he was in the streets to protest unlawful police violence against black men, and there is no basis to disbelieve this statement.”
“There appear to have been many people in those days looking only to exploit the chaos and disorder in the interests of personal gain or random violence. There appear also to have been many people who felt angry, frustrated, and disenfranchised, and who were attempting, in many cases in an unacceptably reckless and dangerous manner, to give voice to those feelings. Mr. Lee appears to be squarely in this latter category,” the prosecutors argued, before quoting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that rioting “is the language of the unheard.”
The judge appeared to favor the prosecutors’ argument and sentenced Lee to 10 years in prison. Lee burned down the pawn shop on May 28, 2020, while wearing a mask. Video of the act caught the 26 year old explaining his actions, saying, “F*** this place. We’re going to burn this b**** down!”
Congressional Republicans have hammered the DOJ over the sentencing memo in recent days. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell blasted the Biden administration in a Tuesday letter to the department.
“But in the case of Mr. Lee, the acting U.S. attorney in Minnesota seems to have reached the bizarre conclusion that his radical political motives somehow excuse, rather than exacerbate, his wrongdoing,” McConnell wrote, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mcconnell-doj-lenient-sentence-minnesota-arsonist">Fox News</a>. “It is critically important for lawful authority to deter those who would intimidate their political opponents through violence or its threats. It is therefore shocking that the former acting U.S. attorney in Minnesota saw things differently, presumably because he bears some sympathy for the cause Mr. Lee violently supported. That is unacceptable.”
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/02/07/tom-cotton-calls-on-merrick-garland-for-longer-sentence-for-blm-arsonist/">wrote</a> his own scathing critique of the Justice Department: “Showing leniency toward a career criminal who committed murder is bad enough. But justifying the murder because the career criminal shares the Biden administration’s politics is beyond the pale. The American people deserve to know whether leniency for left-wing murderers is the official policy of the Biden Department of Justice, or whether this travesty was a one-off.”
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) joined the backlash in a Wednesday letter to the DOJ. “It would appear that Mr. Lee is enjoying the benefits of kid-gloved, preferential treatment in this case because he committed violence in furtherance of the preferred political views of your office and the current administration,” Roy wrote, according to The Free Beacon.
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Republicans Demand Answers After DOJ Recommends Soft Sentence For Arsonist Who Killed Father Of 5

After federal prosecutors requested a less harsh sentence for a man in Minneapolis who set a pawn shop afire during the George Floyd riots in 2020, causing one man to die, the fire-setter escaped a murder charge.
“Montez Terriel Lee, 26, pleaded guilty to a single count of arson and was sentenced earlier this month to 10 years in federal prison — much less than the 16 1/2 to 20-year punishment outlined in the sentencing guidelines,” <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/prosecutors-win-light-sentence-for-man-who-set-deadly-fire-during-floyd-riots">The Washington Examiner</a> noted.
On May 28, 2020, Lee, wearing a mask, burned down the Max It Pawn Shop. Video showed him dousing the store by pouring liquid out from a metal container, then later holding up his fist as the person videotaping him says, “Oh s***, you really did it!”
A second video showed Lee standing in front of the burning pawnshop as someone asks him,  “What you do, Tez?” Lee chortles, “F*** this place. We&#8217;re going to burn this b**** down!”
The prosecutor’s <a href="https://alphanews.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Montez-Lee-Sentencing-Opinion.pdf">sentencing documents</a> state, “On June 5, 2020, a man named Oscar Lee Stewart, 30, was reported missing to the Burnsville Police Department by his mother. Mr. Stewart’s mother reported that she had not seen her son since May 28, 2020. Investigators learned that Mr. Stewart’s vehicle had been found near the Max It Pawn. On July 20, 2020, authorities located Mr. Stewart’s body in the rubble of the Max It Pawn.”
The Examiner pointed out. “The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office attributed O.S.’s death to ‘probable inhalation of products of combustion and thermal injury (building fire),’” The U.S. Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/rochester-man-sentenced-10-years-prison-arson-minneapolis-pawn-shop-resulted-death-man">stated</a>.
Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told the Examiner, “It could have been tried as a capital case. Even if conduct isn&#8217;t charged under the sentencing guidelines, any relevant conduct can be considered by the sentencing judge in fashioning an appropriate sentence. Any time there is a felony committed — and arson is a felony — and a death ensues, that&#8217;s homicide. &#8230; It doesn&#8217;t matter that just the arson was charged because someone died as a result. It&#8217;s a murder case.”
Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk and Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Calhoun-Lopez signed a sentencing memo in which Lee was lauded for his “candor.” The prosecutors contended that Lee did not commit the act for personal gain and it was a commercial building, thus his sentence should be gentler.  They called his raising of his fist “terribly misguided” and labeled his actions as having tragic, unthinkable consequences,” but cited Dr. Martin Luther King, saying Lee “[appeared] to believe that he was, in Dr. King&#8217;s eloquent words, engaging in ‘the language of the unheard.’”
Judge Wilhelmina Wright told Lee, according to the <a href="https://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/rochester-man-sentenced-to-federal-prison-for-minneapolis-arson-that-killed-another-man">Post Bulletin</a>:
<blockquote>You are more than the person who celebrated your actions on social media as if there was anything worth celebrating. You are more than the person that destroyed that business by fire. You are more than the person who set that fire that killed a man. And no matter how upset you may have been and you may currently be, you are alive today. You have a future. The victim of that fire does not. So while there are no excuses for your actions on May 28, 2020, you have a chance to move forward and live a productive life. You have a chance to move forward and contribute to a better life for yourself, to a better life for those that you love and to a better life for others. I hope that you use your prison term to address the struggles that you have, Mr. Lee, and to commit to treating and working through your depression, your anxiety, your PTSD and I hope that you also realize how your actions impact others.</blockquote>
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Aftermath of the death of George Floyd

Man Who Burned Down Pawnshop During George Floyd Riots, Killing 1, Escapes Murder Charge

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

On Monday, Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s birthday, remarks President Joe Biden made about MLK and George Floyd in June 2020 made the rounds online. Biden, who was running for president at the time, said that George Floyd&#8217;s death in the custody of former Minneapolis police officers had a greater &#8220;worldwide impact&#8221; than the assassination of the civil rights icon.
&#8220;Even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd’s death did,&#8221; <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biden-black-entrepreneurs-just-as-capable-as-whites-but-they-dont-have-lawyers-or-accountants/">Biden</a> said.
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Biden made the comments during an economic roundtable discussion in Philadelphia on June 11, 2020 – just weeks after Floyd was killed when former Minneapolis police officer <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/guilty-on-all-charges-the-sports-world-reacts-to-the-derek-chauvin-verdict/">Derek Chauvin</a> held him on the ground by kneeling on his neck area for over nine minutes.
Biden explained that what he meant when he said &#8220;worldwide impact&#8221; was the speed at which such stories could cover massive distances, in large part due to the prevalence of mobile phones and social media.
Biden went on to add that mobile phones and social media were changing the way people saw major issues — like police brutality — by giving them full and immediate access to view and then share videos like the one that showed Floyd&#8217;s death. He then compared that to the way that television had changed the way many viewed the Civil Rights movement and other issues, taking what was happening in the world and bringing it into living rooms all across the country.
&#8220;It&#8217;s just like television changed the civil rights movement for the better when they saw Bull Connor and his dogs ripping the clothes off of elderly black women going to church and fire hoses ripping the skin off of young kids,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What happened to George Floyd … now you got how many people around the country, millions of cellphones. It’s changed the way everybody’s looking at this. Look at the millions of people marching around the world.&#8221;
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/squad-member-ayanna-pressley-mlk-will-be-weaponized-for-legislated-white-supremacy/">King&#8217;s assassination</a>, though not publicized in the way that can only be accomplished by the immediate and global reach of social media, did spur a renewed push for action from then-President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Amid riots in dozens of cities following King&#8217;s death, Johnson encouraged Americans to embrace instead King&#8217;s methods of peaceful protesting, referring to the late activist as an &#8220;apostle of nonviolence.&#8221;
He also called for Congress to debate and then pass the <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fair-housing-act">Fair Housing Act</a>. The FHA of 1968, which passed a short time later, banned discrimination based on race, sex, religion, or national origin in the sale or rental of property — in addition to loans taken out for those purposes — and has long been considered a necessary follow-up to 1964&#8217;s Civil Rights Act.
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Flashback: Biden Compared George Floyd’s Death To MLK Jr.’s Assassination

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The Associated Press this week ran a 49-paragraph story some online have likened to a &#8220;smear&#8221; piece on Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old U.S. military veteran who was fatally shot by police in the Capitol during the January 6 riot.
&#8220;Ex-President Donald Trump and his supporters have sought to portray Ashli Babbitt as a righteous martyr. But the life of the Air Force veteran from California was more complicated than the heroic portrait presented by Trump and his allies,&#8221; AP reporter Michael Biesecker captioned his story on Babbitt.
The piece outlines, in painstaking fashion, an account from a woman who claims Babbitt harassed her and had an affair with her boyfriend. Babbitt was hit with criminal charges from slamming into the woman&#8217;s SUV. Readers only find out that the criminal charges were dropped against Babbitt, who claimed the crash was an accident, about three-quarters of the way into the piece; here&#8217;s the sum of that clarification: &#8220;A judge acquitted Babbitt on the criminal charges.&#8221;
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Ex-President Donald Trump and his supporters have sought to portray Ashli Babbitt as a righteous martyr. But the life of the Air Force veteran from California was more complicated than the heroic portrait presented by Trump and his allies.
My latest <a href="https://twitter.com/AP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AP</a>: <a href="https://t.co/Sly7HyPrjj">https://t.co/Sly7HyPrjj</a>
&mdash; Michael Biesecker (@mbieseck) <a href="https://twitter.com/mbieseck/status/1477908312670846980?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Reporters and politicos online were quick to highlight the obvious media double-standard when covering unarmed fatalities with police involvement.
&#8220;This [Associated Press] article about <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AshliBabbitt?src=hashtag_click">#AshliBabbitt</a>, a rioter killed by Capitol police on Jan. 6, is a remarkable act of victim-blaming,&#8221; posted Nick Gillespie. &#8220;Babbitt is neither a martyr nor a sinner and her messy personal life shouldn&#8217;t be used to imply she got what was coming.&#8221;
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This <a href="https://twitter.com/AP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AP</a> article about <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AshliBabbitt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AshliBabbitt</a>, a rioter killed by Capitol police on Jan. 6, is a remarkable act of victim-blaming. Babbitt is neither a martyr nor a sinner and her messy personal life shouldn&#39;t be used to imply she got what was coming. <a href="https://t.co/Lu1SiBMKpL">https://t.co/Lu1SiBMKpL</a>
&mdash; Nick Gillespie (@nickgillespie) <a href="https://twitter.com/nickgillespie/status/1478016579434688518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;There is a reason the regime will smear Ashli Babbitt over her &#8216;past&#8217; and promotes George Floyd as a martyr of excessive force,&#8221; Jack Posobiec wrote.
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There is a reason the regime will smear Ashli Babbitt over her &#8216;past&#8217; and promotes George Floyd as a martyr of excessive force
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&#8220;Liberals get enraged when news outlets dig up dirt on the past of unarmed victims of police shootings in order to show they were &#8216;no angels&#8217;: i.e. to justify the shooting,&#8221; highlighted Glenn Greenwald. &#8220;Apparently it&#8217;s OK sometimes: here&#8217;s HuffPost on how Ashli Babbitt was no angel.&#8221;
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Liberals get enraged when news outlets dig up dirt on the past of unarmed victims of police shootings in order to show they were &#8220;no angels&#8221;: i.e. to justify the shooting.
Apparently it&#8217;s OK sometimes: here&#8217;s HuffPost on how Ashli Babbitt was no angel:<a href="https://t.co/S88SyDthiw">https://t.co/S88SyDthiw</a>
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1478084512701722627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>&#8220;Why is the media obsessed with smearing Ashli Babbitt’s name almost a year after her passing?&#8221; questioned Brigitte Gabriel.
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Why is the media obsessed with smearing Ashli Babbitt’s name almost a year after her passing?
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Notably, the officer who fatally shot Babbitt, who stood at 5 feet, 2 inches, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ashli-babbitt-investigation-no-charges-for-officer/">never had any charges brought against him</a>. When the AP covered the death of <a href="https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-us-news-ap-top-news-hip-hop-and-rap-houston-a55d2662f200ead0da4fed9e923b60a7">George Floyd</a>, the outlet ran a 55 paragraph story underscoring Floyd&#8217;s upbringing in poverty, his athletic talent, and how much he was beloved in his hometown. The AP notedly glossed over Floyd&#8217;s lengthy rap sheet &#8212; which totaled five sentences:
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Between 1997 and 2005, Floyd was arrested several times on drug and theft charges, spending months in jail. &#8230; In August 2007, Floyd was arrested and charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. Investigators said he and five other men barged into a woman’s apartment, and Floyd pushed a pistol into her abdomen before searching for items to steal. Floyd pleaded guilty in 2009 and was sentenced to five years in prison. By the time he was paroled, in January 2013, he was nearing 40.
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The AP coverage on Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;complicated life&#8221; opened with the following anecdote:
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Years before a bystander’s video of George Floyd’s last moments turned his name into a global cry for justice, Floyd trained a camera on himself.
“I just want to speak to you all real quick,” Floyd says in one video, addressing the young men in his neighborhood who looked up to him. His 6-foot-7 frame crowds the picture.
“I’ve got my shortcomings and my flaws and I ain’t better than nobody else,” he says. “But, man, the shootings that’s going on, I don’t care what ’hood you’re from, where you’re at, man. I love you and God loves you. Put them guns down.”
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Here&#8217;s how Babbitt&#8217;s &#8220;complex&#8221; story opened:
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The first time Celeste Norris laid eyes on Ashli Babbitt, the future insurrectionist had just rammed her vehicle three times with an SUV and was pounding on the window, challenging her to a fight.
Norris says the bad blood between them began in 2015, when Babbitt engaged in a monthslong extramarital affair with Norris’ longtime live-in boyfriend. When she learned of the relationship, Norris called Babbitt’s husband and told him she was cheating.
“She pulls up yelling and screaming,” Norris said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, recounting the July 29, 2016, road-rage incident in Prince Frederick, Maryland. “It took me a good 30 seconds to figure out who she was. … Just all sorts of expletives, telling me to get out of the car, that she was going to beat my ass.”
Terrified and confused, Norris dialed 911 and waited for law enforcement. Babbitt was later charged with numerous misdemeanors.
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‘Remarkable Act Of Victim-Blaming’: AP Slammed For Running ‘Smear’ Piece On Ashli Babbitt. That’s Not What They Did For George Floyd.

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Journalist Glenn Greenwald said in a Tuesday Twitter thread that there was one single moment that changed media coverage of the coronavirus pandemic — and that when it &#8220;flipped overnight,&#8221; it destroyed trust in media.
The death of <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biography-of-george-floyd-to-be-published-next-year-highlighting-his-relentless-struggle-to-survive-as-a-black-man-in-america/">George Floyd</a> — at the hands of former Minneapolis 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> — and the massive protests it inspired prompted a near-180 turn from multiple media outlets that had just spent the previous weeks telling Americans that the only patriotic thing to do was stay home to stop the spread of the virus.
&#8220;This was a pivotal moment in the pandemic&#8217;s history,&#8221; Greenwald began. &#8220;For 4 months, the message was clear and unrelenting: everyone must stay home. Those who leave &#8211; even to go to a deserted beach &#8211; are reckless sociopaths. It flipped overnight to endorse a mass protest movement liberals liked.&#8221;
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This was a pivotal moment in the pandemic&#8217;s history:
For 4 months, the message was clear and unrelenting: everyone must stay home. Those who leave &#8211; even to go to a deserted beach &#8211; are reckless sociopaths.
It flipped overnight to endorse a mass protest movement liberals liked: <a href="https://t.co/SJUIz0dbOw">https://t.co/SJUIz0dbOw</a>
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1475825263732834306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 28, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Greenwald shared a tweet from June of 2020, just days after video of Floyd&#8217;s arrest and subsequent murder went viral, showing the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-declares-racism-a-public-health-crisis-diverts-10m-in-covid-funding/">media pivot</a>: &#8220;Now some public health experts are broadcasting a new message: It’s time to get out of the house and join the mass protests against racism,&#8221; Politico reported at the time.
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Now some public health experts are broadcasting a new message: It’s time to get out of the house and join the mass protests against racism <a href="https://t.co/RNPChRWCku">https://t.co/RNPChRWCku</a>
— POLITICO (@politico) <a href="https://twitter.com/politico/status/1269449023649452032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;That episode single-handedly destroyed trust in public health officials, proving they&#8217;d politicize their expertise when convenient,&#8221; Greenwald continued, referencing experts who had joined media broadcasts to argue that systemic racism and police brutality posed greater health risks than the rapidly-spreading virus. &#8220;Corporate media celebrated a douchebag-lawyer shaming families at deserted beaches, then &#8212; overnight! &#8212; cheered densely packed street protests.&#8221;
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That episode single-handedly destroyed trust in public health officials, proving they&#8217;d politicize their expertise when convenient.
Corporate media celebrated a douchebag-lawyer shaming families at deserted beaches, then &#8212; overnight! &#8212; cheered densely packed street protests. <a href="https://t.co/DvOzIr5JX8">pic.twitter.com/DvOzIr5JX8</a>
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1475826586423369743?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 28, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Multiple outlets ran with the narrative that &#8220;<a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/08/27/906002043/racial-inequality-may-be-as-deadly-as-covid-19-analysis-finds">structural racism</a>&#8221; was more deadly to black Americans than COVID could ever be — even as others continued to complain that COVID appeared to impact <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/health/racial-inequality-death-rate-covid-19-wellness/index.html">communities of color</a> more than it did primarily white communities.
And that, according to Greenwald, was precisely the narrative he was asked to support even as he was writing a breakdown of the media&#8217;s reversal on the issue.
&#8220;In June, I was drafting an article on this flagrantly politicized reversal of COVID messaging. When @theintercept editors learned this, they commissioned an article &#8212; for the same day &#8212; to argue racism, not COVID, was the greatest health crisis, so everyone *should* go protest,&#8221; he said.
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In June, I was drafting an article on this flagrantly politicized reversal of COVID messaging. When <a href="https://twitter.com/theintercept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@theintercept</a> editors learned this, they commissioned an article &#8212; for the same day &#8212; to argue racism, not COVID, was the greatest health crisis, so everyone *should* go protest. <a href="https://t.co/22RjUrlVK2">pic.twitter.com/22RjUrlVK2</a>
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1475827520914268161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 28, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;As usual, elite institutions &#8212; media, government, public health authorities &#8212; love to whine about the refusal of the public to trust their pronouncements, complaining people turn to other less credentialed and worthy sources,&#8221; Greenwald concluded. &#8220;But they *never* ask what they did to cause this.&#8221;
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As usual, elite institutions &#8212; media, government, public health authorities &#8212; love to whine about the refusal of the public to trust their pronouncements, complaining people turn to other less credentialed and worthy sources.
But they *never* ask what they did to cause this.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1475827865409183748?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 28, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Greenwald ultimately left <a href="https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept">The Intercept</a> — which he cofounded in 2013 — several months after the George Floyd protests began, saying that the outlet had censored his articles about Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden, and the president&#8217;s past dealings with China and Ukraine.
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‘It Flipped Overnight’: Glenn Greenwald Points To The One Moment That Changed The Pandemic And Destroyed Trust In Media

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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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