A George Floyd memorial scholarship open only to “Black or African American, that is, a person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa,” students violates the Civil Rights Act, a federal complaint says.
North Central University in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has offered the scholarship since June 2020, and says on its <a href="https://www.northcentral.edu/george-floyd-scholarship-fund/george-floyd-memorial-scholarship-application/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> that the memorial scholarship “is a four-year, full-tuition scholarship awarded to one student each year based on two community recommendations and a written essay.”
William Jacobson, a Cornell Law professor who runs the conservative website Legal Insurrection and founded the Equal Protection Project, filed <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/717276341/Equal-Protection-Project-OCR-complaint-against-North-Central-University" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a complaint</a> with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights in Chicago, alleging the scholarship violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits schools from discriminating based on race.
“The George Floyd Scholarship eligibility requirements are openly racially discriminatory,” Jacobson <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/george-floyd-scholarship-violates-civil-rights-law-federal-complaint/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told </a>The College Fix. “Regardless of the purpose of the racial discrimination, it is wrong and unlawful.”
“NCU needs to come up with a remedial plan to compensate students shut out of the George Floyd Scholarship due to discrimination,” Jacobson added.
In addition to violating the federal Civil Rights Act, the scholarship also violates Minnesota’s Human Rights Act, Jacobson’s complaint alleges.
“Similarly, the [scholarship] defies the civil rights protections of Minnesota’s Human Rights Act, which makes it a criminal offense for an educational institution to limit access to any educational program on the basis of race,” a footnote in the complaint says.
Jacobson also told The College Fix that the Supreme Court’s decision last year on affirmative action should make clear that discriminating based on race is illegal.
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“After the Supreme Court’s decision in [Students For Fair Admissions], it is clear that discriminating on the basis of race to achieve diversity is not lawful,” Jacobson told the Fix. “As Chief Justice Roberts wrote in the majority opinion, ‘[e]liminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.’”
In Justice Neil Gorsuch’s concurring opinion on the affirmative action ruling, he stated that it doesn’t “matter if the recipient discriminates against an individual member of a protected class with the idea that doing so might favor the interests of that class as a whole or otherwise promote equality at the group level.”
The Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-issues-landmark-ruling-on-affirmative-action-at-universities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruling</a> was based on allegations that Harvard discriminated against Asian and white students by enrolling students of other races over them, even when the Asian and white students had better test scores.

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One pattern that has emerged over the past four presidential elections — ever since Barack Obama — is that the national conversation, as directed by the media, shifts back to race right around the time that the primaries are wrapping up. 
Of course, the primaries are technically still happening on the GOP side if you count Nikki Haley as a real presidential candidate. When you realize that she is, at this point, simply running to be the next overpaid CNN contributor, you understand the primaries ended weeks ago, which means it is now time for the race cycle to begin anew.
Right on cue, MSNBC released a new special this month called “Black Men In America: The Road to 2024.” Now, based on the title, based on the timing, based on the fact that it’s MSNBC, you might assume that the show automatically is going to consist of a bunch of mindless race-baiting. You might make that presumption without seeing a single second of it. You might write it off, without giving it a chance, under the assumption that it’s going to be nothing but idiotic, dim-witted racial grievance mongering. You might assume all of that. And you would of course be entirely correct.
Yet, as you’ll see in the clip I’m about to show you, it still manages to limbo its way under the incredibly low bar that you have set for it in your mind. Watch:
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As you could see, that’s Ben Crump pretending to shoot pool with Al Sharpton. In other words, it’s neo-Al Sharpton with old Al Sharpton. It’s broadband Al Sharpton with Dial-Up Al Sharpton. Ben Crump is what happens if you clone Al Sharpton but you remove his hair and his three brain cells. Because that’s the thing you notice about Crump. He is, objectively speaking — and I say this in a medical sense, and not as an insult — a moron. In fact, his very existence single-handedly, and ironically, disproves systemic racism. There is simply no way that a black guy this aggressively mediocre, this consistently unimpressive, this simple-minded and ridiculous, could ever achieve the success he has achieved in a country that was systemically racist against black guys.
Sure, even in a country with systemic racism you could still end up with brilliant and innovative people who manage to succeed in spite of it. The existence of successful black people doesn’t in and of itself disprove systemic racism. A million other things disprove it, but not that. But Ben Crump, specifically? This guy? You want to tell me this guy rose to the top despite having the entire system arrayed against him?
No, the truth is obviously quite the opposite. The system favors guys like Crump, which is the only reason anyone knows his name. By all rights the pinnacle of this dude’s career should be a position no higher than shift manager at Wendy’s — with no disrespect intended to shift managers at Wendy’s. The point is that his wealth and success is entirely a product of a system designed to move mediocre half-wits like himself to the front.
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As if to prove my point, what does he say? What’s the great insight he offers the world? Well, he says that we can get rid of all the crime in America overnight by changing the definition of crime. He’s right, of course. “Crime” is a legal designation. If you stop applying that legal designation to things, then it will not be applied to thing, and therefore you have gotten rid of the designation. Stop calling murder, robbery, and rape “crimes,” and — just like that, presto chango — the crimes of murder, robbery, and rape have disappeared. This is evidently what Crump, a guy who somehow earned a law degree, wants to see happen.
Of course, the problem is that by getting rid of the crimes of murder, robbery, and rape, you have not gotten rid of the actions of murder, robbery and rape. People are still being murdered, robbed, and raped — at what seems to be an even higher rate now — but it doesn’t count in the books. The assailants aren’t being brought to justice. The victims have nowhere to turn for redress. All the bad things are still happening, but the law is covering its eyes and plugging its ears and pretending that it’s not. That’s what happens when you “get rid of crime,” as Crump suggests.
In fact every major city in America has adopted a strategy like this, to one degree or another. Every major city, thanks in large part to Soros-funded Marxist DAs, has decided to reduce crime by not fighting it. They’ve decided to create fewer criminals by not calling the criminals “criminals.” As a result, most of these places are unlivable hellscapes. Which is not a problem for Crump, whose firm rakes in tens of millions of dollars a year. He’s not living in these crime-infested sewers that ambulance-chasing con artists like himself have helped to create.
Crump then goes on to claim that laws have the effect of “criminalizing black culture.” He gives the example of Eric Garner, who died while police attempted to take him into custody for selling loose cigarettes. Now, the law against loose cigarettes isn’t as important or essential as laws against murder and robbery, but the policy does make perfect sense. You aren’t allowed to buy a pack of cigarettes from the convenience store and then stand outside the convenience store selling each individual cigarette to people walking by on the street. Why? Well, that’s not very fair to the convenience store, for one thing. For another, there are all kinds of additional laws governing the sale of tobacco products — laws that cannot be enforced if people are allowed to walk around hawking individual cigarettes on the street corner.
It’s not the most important law, but it is a law, and it’s one that makes plenty of sense. The question in this case is why Eric Garner couldn’t just follow the law. Is it “black culture” to simply disregard whatever law you personally find inconvenient? That seems to be the claim Crump is making. But all of that is irrelevant anyway. Garner didn’t die because he sold loose cigarettes. Cops didn’t show up and stage a public execution as a penalty for selling loosies, as they’re called. No, they tried to arrest him, he resisted, and in the struggle he lost his life. Why resist? What is that going to achieve? What possible good can come from it? Even if you disagree with the law you broke. Even if you didn’t break a law at all. Even if you’re being falsely accused. Even if you’re innocent. No matter the situation, how does resisting arrest help your case at all? What good will it do you? What is the plan? Walk me through the steps: Step 1) Resist arrest. Step 2) Unknown. Step 3) You get to go home and have a pleasant day.
What happens in that second step? What did Eric Garner, or any of these BLM martyrs, think that second step would be? Did he think that if he declined to be arrested, the cops would just say, “Oh, you don’t want to be arrested? You’d prefer not to be arrested this particular afternoon? Well, never mind then, good sir. Please be on your way. Our apologies.” Was that the idea?
Well, we know the answer. There was no thought process behind it. He didn’t have any ideas at all. He was acting in a totally thoughtless, self-destructive manner, and responding to a situation in a way that was guaranteed to make the situation worse, no matter what. Is that black culture, according to Crump?
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Crump also mentions George Floyd. He says Floyd was another man arrested for participating in black culture. What was the culture in that case? Floyd was trying to pass off a forged $20 bill. Is that black culture? He was overdosing on fentanyl. Is that black culture? I’m not asking these questions rhetorically. I would really like to hear Crump answer. I would like to know what he considers “black culture” to be. I would not personally call any of that black culture, but I will say that if it was black culture, then the culture needs to change. If your culture — as Crump seems to think — involves disregarding the law, being self-destructive, making decisions that are guaranteed to introduce more chaos and violence into your life and your community, then your culture is deeply flawed, terminally sick, and needs to change. 
The law doesn’t need to accommodate your culture. Your culture needs to accommodate the fact that it exists in a civilized society with laws.
Naturally, Crump only talks about the laws against loose cigarettes and milk cartons and baggy pants — as if anyone is actually being arrested for having baggy pants. He completely ignores the obvious fact that black men are arrested every day, in every city in America, for committing actual violent crimes. Young black men aren’t landing in prison because of their milk cartons and ill-fitting pants. But Crump, of course, doesn’t want to acknowledge that. Because he is a liar, and he’s evil, and he doesn’t care how many people die, or how many black men get themselves killed by making the worst possible decisions, as long as he can personally profit off of it.
I began this by saying that Crump is stupid. And he certainly is. You can’t listen to him for more than five seconds without arriving at that conclusion. But like any other race baiter, he also knows exactly what he’s doing. He pretends to speak up for “black culture” — whatever he thinks that is — while at the same time doing everything he can to make black communities more dangerous, poorer, bleaker, more miserable. 
It’s not the white man keeping black communities down. It’s men like Ben Crump. And he deserves to be held accountable for it.

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The mother of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin said federal authorities updated her about her son’s condition on Monday, three days after another inmate stabbed him in prison.
Chauvin, who is currently serving a 20-plus year sentence for second-degree murder in connection with the death of George Floyd, was stabbed at Federal Correctional Institution, Tucson — a medium-security prison — on Friday, resulting in serious injury.
His mother, Carolyn Pawlenty, reportedly <a href="https://alphanews.org/derek-chauvins-family-finally-contacted-about-prison-stabbing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Alpha News that someone from the Bureau of Prisons gave little to no information about the extent of her son’s injuries, saying Chauvin was “stable and has protection” in an unnamed medical facility. The person reportedly said she would hear from him “as soon as he’s able to” give her a call.
According to Pawlenty, authorities said they did not contact her sooner because they “didn’t want to give her false information and had to get the situation under control.”
The update comes after Chauvin’s attorney, Gregory M. Erickson, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-authorities-havent-updated-derek-chauvins-family-following-prison-stabbing-attorney-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slammed</a> the bureau in a statement following the attack, claiming the law enforcement agency has provided no updates on Chauvin’s condition or current location.
Erickson alleged the prison lacks “institutional control” and offered dismal communication to the law firm and Chauvin’s family.
“As an outsider, I view this lack of communication with his attorneys and family members as completely outrageous,” Erickson reportedly said. “It appears to be indicative of a poorly run facility and indicates how Derek’s assault was allowed to happen.”
Erickson said the third-party reporting appeared to be the only source of information Chauvin’s family has received to assume he is stable, but they remain “understandably doubtful because of the lack of transparency that has permeated this ordeal.”
Pawlenty also reportedly expressed her frustration that the media and the attorney general of Minnesota knew about her son’s condition before her, claiming she reached out to every agency involved dozens of times in the last three days seeking information.
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“Every five minutes, I was on the phone,” Pawlenty reportedly said. “I haven’t slept in three days. It’s ridiculous.”
The latest incident in the federal prison system marks the latest high-profile attack on a prisoner in the last five months, according to The Associated Press.
Federal Correctional Institution, Tucson has also has a recent history of attempted violence. In November 2022, an inmate reportedly accessed a firearm and attempted to shoot a visitor in the head. No injuries were reported.
Attorney William Mohrman filed an appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court on Chauvin’s behalf earlier this year, arguing, in part, that his client was denied the right to a fair trial. However, the high court declined to hear the appeal last week.

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin Arrested For George Floyd Death

Derek Chauvin’s Family Updated After Prison Stabbing: Report

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An attorney for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin criticized the federal prison system over the weekend, alleging a &#8220;lack of institutional control&#8221; and dismal communication with his client&#8217;s family after another inmate stabbed Chauvin in prison last week.
Chauvin, who is currently serving a 20-plus year sentence for second-degree murder after he was found guilty in the highly-publicized case concerning the death of George Floyd, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/derek-chauvin-stabbed-in-prison-life-saving-measures-administered-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stabbed</a> at Federal Correctional Institution, Tucson — a medium-security prison — on Friday, resulting in serious injury.
Gregory M. Erickson, the lawyer, slammed the Federal Bureau of Prisons in a <a href="https://www.kgun9.com/news/community-inspired-journalism/southside-news/civil-attorney-for-derek-chauvin-releases-statement-following-prison-stabbing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> following the attack, claiming the law enforcement agency has neither provided any updates on Chauvin&#8217;s condition or current location.
&#8220;As an outsider, I view this lack of communication with his attorneys and family members as completely outrageous,&#8221; Erickson reportedly said. &#8220;It appears to be indicative of a poorly run facility and indicates how Derek&#8217;s assault was allowed to happen.&#8221;
&#8220;How the family members who are in charge of Derek&#8217;s decisions regarding his personal medical care and his emergency contact were not informed after his stabbing further indicates the institution&#8217;s poor procedures and lack of institutional control,&#8221; he added.
Federal authorities confirmed that an inmate was assaulted at the correctional institution in Arizona at 12:30 p.m. on Friday. Responding employees at the prison &#8220;contained the incident and performed &#8216;life-saving measures'&#8221; before the inmate was transferred to a local hospital for further treatment and evaluation, the Associated Press reported. The bureau did not name the inmate in the incident, but a source told The Associated Press that Chauvin was the victim in the attack, adding that he was stabbed during the assault. The outlet later noted that a Minnesota attorney general&#8217;s spokesperson said they &#8220;heard&#8221; Chauvin was expected to survive.
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Carolyn Pawlenty, Chauvin&#8217;s mother, reportedly <a href="https://alphanews.org/derek-chauvins-family-attorney-say-theyve-been-kept-in-dark-about-prison-stabbing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Alpha News that she was &#8220;worried and scared,&#8221; claiming the prison had not contacted her following the attack.
&#8220;How the hell do these news agencies know, and his own mother doesn&#8217;t even know?&#8221; she reportedly asked. &#8220;And that [prison] has an emergency contact number [for me].&#8221;
Erickson said the third-party reporting appeared to be the only source of information Chauvin&#8217;s family has received to assume he is stable, but they remain &#8220;understandably doubtful because of the lack of transparency that has permeated this ordeal.&#8221;
&#8220;I hope you all find it strange and troubling, as we do, that the media has been provided more information than Derek&#8217;s attorneys or immediate family,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I would like you all to imagine how you would feel if this was your son, brother, or father who was stabbed and forced to suffer alone, his location concealed from you.&#8221;
&#8220;This is completely unacceptable,&#8221; Erickson added. &#8220;If this is standard procedure, the procedure must be changed.&#8221;
The latest incident in the federal prison system marks the latest high-profile attack on a prisoner in the last five months and another attack on an inmate in the Tuscon facility in the previous year, according to The Associated Press.
In November 2022, an inmate <a href="https://apnews.com/article/prosecutors-say-derek-chauvin-may-survive-stabbing-23c704a8cd441d270b7b542e835b69fa">reportedly</a> accessed a firearm and attempted to shoot a visitor in the head. No injuries were reported.
Erickson noted that after reading the report, he &#8220;concluded that this institution is suffering from a complete lack of institutional control.&#8221;
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O&#8217;Hara told an ABC affiliate that all prisoners serving time deserve safe conditions, regardless of their accusations.
&#8220;Anyone who&#8217;s assaulted like this, regardless of what they&#8217;ve been accused of, deserves to be safe, and that&#8217;s certainly not cause for any celebration,&#8221; O&#8217;Hara said.
In the aftermath of the attack on Chauvin, the prison stopped visitations to the facility, which staffing shortages and security lapses have reportedly plagued.
Eric Nelson, another attorney for Chauvin, argued last year that his client &#8220;spends much of his time in solitary confinement, largely for his own protection,&#8221; suspecting Chauvin would be a target due to the &#8220;intense publicity surrounding his case.&#8221;
Attorney William Mohrman filed an appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court on Chauvin&#8217;s behalf earlier this year, arguing, in part, that his client was denied the right to a fair trial. However, the high court declined to hear the appeal last week.
Amanda Prestigiacomo contributed to this report.

Federal Authorities Haven’t Updated Derek Chauvin’s Family Following Prison Stabbing, Attorney Says

Federal Authorities Haven't Updated Derek Chauvin's Family Following Prison Stabbing, Attorney Says

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Former Minneapolis Police officer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-derek-chauvin-sentenced-for-murder-of-george-floyd">Derek Chauvin</a> was reportedly stabbed in prison by another inmate on Friday, resulting in serious injury.
Chauvin was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/derek-chauvin-attorney-talks-u-s-supreme-court-appeal-every-juror-had-a-stake-in-outcome-of-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found guilty</a> in the contentious and highly-publicized case concerning the death of George Floyd and is currently serving a 20-plus year sentence for second-degree murder.
The Bureau of Prisons confirmed that an inmate was assaulted at Federal Correctional Institution, Tucson — a medium-security prison — at 12:30 p.m. on Friday. Responding employees at the prison &#8220;contained the incident and performed &#8216;life-saving measures'&#8221; before the inmate was transferred to a local hospital for further treatment and evaluation, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/derek-chauvin-george-floyd-prison-stabbing-f24cde6aa28877d034530c2dc40ef7ea" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Friday.
The bureau did not name the inmate in the incident, but a source told the AP that Chauvin was the victim in the attack, adding that he was stabbed during the assault.
In the aftermath of the attack, the prison has stopped visitations to the facility, which has <a href="https://apnews.com/article/derek-chauvin-george-floyd-prison-stabbing-f24cde6aa28877d034530c2dc40ef7ea" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> been plagued by staffing shortages and security lapses.
Eric Nelson, Chauvin&#8217;s attorney, <a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/chauvin-faces-future-in-federal-prison-for-floyd-s-death-1.5977035" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> last year that his client &#8220;spends much of his time in solitary confinement, largely for his own protection,&#8221; suspecting Chauvin would be a target due to the &#8220;intense publicity surrounding his case.&#8221;
Earlier this year, attorney William Mohrman filed an appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Chauvin, arguing, in part, that his client was denied the right to a fair trial. However, last week, the high court decided to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-rejects-derek-chauvin-appeal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decline</a> to hear the appeal.
Videos of Floyd’s detainment on the ground by Chauvin went viral in 2020, sparking protests and riots across the U.S. and even Europe. Mohrman argued that holding the trial in Minneapolis, where the incident occurred, effectively guaranteed Chauvin an unfair trial.
“Under the Sixth Amendment of the U. S. Constitution, every criminal defendant is guaranteed a right to a fair trial,” the attorney told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-rejects-derek-chauvin-appeal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> via a phone interview. “And part of that fair trial-right is not to be tried in a location where the jurors have either been exposed to extensive pre-trial publicity, or there has been such community outrage and the like that the jurors, before they even were impaneled before the trial, would have concluded the defendant’s guilty, or would have been pressured into rendering a guilty verdict.”
“When that happens,” Mohrman said, “the Supreme Court precedents require that the case be moved to another location or venue, as the law puts it.” But this is not what happened in Chauvin’s case.
“During the questioning, I would say the vast majority — not only the vast majority, probably 75 to 80 percent of the jurors — expressed concerns for their own personal safety as a result of being impaneled on the jury,” he said. “Virtually every juror had obviously heard about the case, knew about the riots, had seen the videos that were taken when George Floyd was arrested; virtually all the jurors have seen that, so it’s difficult in a case like that to impanel the jury where the jurors haven’t formed firm conclusions before the trial even starts.”
Mohrman noted that the legal team’s “primary argument” is that “due to the riots that took place in Minneapolis, every juror who was impaneled had a stake in the outcome of the trial, because no juror would want to see their communities burned again in riots.”
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There is also a Federal Civil Rights conviction against Chauvin, for which he is serving over 20 years concurrently with his state sentence. Challenging that conviction is a separate legal action.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-rejects-derek-chauvin-appeal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court Rejects Derek Chauvin Appeal</a>

Derek Chauvin Stabbed In Prison, ‘Life-Saving Measures’ Administered: Report

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from former Minneapolis Police officer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-derek-chauvin-sentenced-for-murder-of-george-floyd">Derek Chauvin</a>, who was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/derek-chauvin-attorney-talks-u-s-supreme-court-appeal-every-juror-had-a-stake-in-outcome-of-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found guilty</a> in the contentious and highly-publicized case concerning the death George Floyd.
Chauvin was found guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter, and the former officer was sentenced to 20 years behind bars in 2021.
The Supreme Court did not specify why it would not take up the case. Notably, the high court only hears about 100 appeals of the 7,000 or so cases it’s asked to review annually.
Attorney William Mohrman filed an appeal on behalf of Chauvin, arguing, in part, that his client was denied the right to a fair trial.
Videos of Floyd’s detainment on the ground by Chauvin went viral in 2020, sparking protests and riots across the U.S. and even Europe. Mohrman argued that holding the trial in Minneapolis, where the incident occurred, effectively guaranteed Chauvin an unfair trial.
“Under the Sixth Amendment of the U. S. Constitution, every criminal defendant is guaranteed a right to a fair trial,” the attorney told The Daily Wire via a phone interview. “And part of that fair trial-right is not to be tried in a location where the jurors have either been exposed to extensive pre-trial publicity, or there has been such community outrage and the like that the jurors, before they even were impaneled before the trial, would have concluded the defendant’s guilty, or would have been pressured into rendering a guilty verdict.”
“When that happens,” Mohrman said, “the Supreme Court precedents require that the case be moved to another location or venue, as the law puts it.&#8221; However, that’s not what happened with Chauvin’s case.
“During the questioning, I would say the vast majority — not only the vast majority, probably 75 to 80 percent of the jurors — expressed concerns for their own personal safety as a result of being impaneled on the jury,” he said. “Virtually every juror had obviously heard about the case, knew about the riots, had seen the videos that were taken when George Floyd was arrested; virtually all the jurors have seen that, so it’s difficult in a case like that to impanel the jury where the jurors haven’t formed firm conclusions before the trial even starts.”
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Mohrman noted that the legal team&#8217;s “primary argument” is that “due to the riots that took place in Minneapolis, every juror who was impaneled had a stake in the outcome of the trial, because no juror would want to see their communities burned again in riots.”
There is also a Federal Civil Rights conviction against Chauvin, for which he is serving over 20 years concurrently with his state sentence. Challenging that conviction is a separate legal action.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/derek-chauvin-attorney-talks-u-s-supreme-court-appeal-every-juror-had-a-stake-in-outcome-of-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Derek Chauvin Attorney Talks U.S. Supreme Court Appeal: ‘Every Juror’ Had ‘A Stake’ In Outcome Of Trial</a>

Supreme Court Rejects Derek Chauvin Appeal

Attorneys for former Minneapolis Police officer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-derek-chauvin-sentenced-for-murder-of-george-floyd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Derek Chauvin</a> have filed a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal to the contentious and highly-publicized case concerning the death of George Floyd. The Minnesota state Supreme Court this past summer declined to hear the case.
Chauvin was sentenced by Judge Peter Cahill back in 2021 to 22.5 years –270 months — after a jury found the former officer guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd’s death.
One of Chauvin&#8217;s attorneys, William Mohrman, <a href="https://alphanews.org/derek-chauvins-attorneys-file-petition-asking-u-s-supreme-court-to-review-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Alpha News the appeal is of &#8220;nationwide significance,&#8221; noting several reasons why he believes his client was not given a fair trial.
“Specifically, we argued the Minnesota Courts violated Mr. Chauvin’s right to a fair trial under the Sixth Amendment by refusing to transfer his trial to a location in Minnesota which was not affected by the George Floyd riots,&#8221; Mohrman said.
Black Lives Matter protests and riots broke out nationwide in 2020, with damages <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/riots-looting-that-followed-george-floyds-death-could-cost-2-billion-most-expensive-incident-in-insurance-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">costing</a> insurance companies up to an estimated $2 Billion — the most expensive incident in insurance history.
&#8220;If the jurors acquitted Mr. Chauvin, they would have been bracing for a resumption of riots in their own community and possible threats to their own personal safety — which virtually all the jurors expressed when questioned by the attorneys prior to trial,” Mohrman explained. “Supreme Court precedent provides that such cases should presumptively be transferred without any finding of actual juror bias — in the other words, the bias is presumed.&#8221;
Mohrman also argued that the apparent wrongful conviction of Chauvin has made it nearly impossible for police departments to maintain or recruit good officers.
&#8220;Finally, the Sixth Amendment issue is now of nationwide significance as police departments are either losing officers or are unable to recruit new officers because of those officers’ fears that they could become caught up in a criminal trial in front of a jury which would likewise be reluctant to fairly decide the case because of the threat of riots in the event of an acquittal,” he said.
During the trial, Chauvin attorney Eric Nelson 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 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.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-revelations-prove-yet-again-that-derek-chauvin-was-an-innocent-man-railroaded-in-the-name-of-racial-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Revelations Prove Yet Again That Derek Chauvin Was An Innocent Man Railroaded In The Name Of ‘Racial Justice’</a>

Derek Chauvin Attorney Breaks Down Conviction Appeal To Supreme Court: ‘Nationwide Significance’

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There was a moment early on in the George Floyd trial where the entire thing should have been over. The judge should have dismissed the case with prejudice, admonished the prosecutors, and apologized profusely to Derek Chauvin, on behalf of the state of Minnesota, for this coordinated effort to destroy his life.
I&#8217;m talking about testimony from the chief medical examiner in Minneapolis, a man named Andrew Baker. A little over a week into the trial, he was called by the state to make the claim that Derek Chauvin had committed a homicide by placing his knee on Floyd&#8217;s neck for several minutes. And that&#8217;s exactly what Andrew Baker did, on direct examination. Then, when Derek Chauvin&#8217;s defense lawyer cross-examined Andrew Baker, it all fell apart.
Over the course of more than an hour, Chauvin&#8217;s lawyer got Baker to admit a series of facts that, taken together, undermined the prosecution&#8217;s entire theory of the case. For one thing, Baker admitted that just days after Floyd&#8217;s death, he <a href="https://www.mncourts.gov/getattachment/Media/StateofMinnesotavTouThao/Container-Documents/Content-Documents/Exhibit-4.pdf.aspx?lang=en-US" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told prosecutors</a> that Floyd had a lethal level of fentanyl in his system under normal circumstances. Baker also acknowledged that Floyd had a severely enlarged heart, and that the autopsy showed no physical signs of neck injury or strangulation. The medical examiner went on to admit that, if Floyd had been found alone in an apartment building, his death would be certified as an overdose without a second thought.
Then, Chauvin&#8217;s lawyer delivered what should have been the kill shot. He asked Andrew Baker whether Derek Chauvin&#8217;s knee had ever obstructed Floyd&#8217;s airway. Here was the medical examiner&#8217;s response:
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Well, that seems relevant. The entire narrative surrounding the death of George Floyd, up to this point, was that Chauvin&#8217;s knee blocked Floyd’s airway. That was supposedly why he ran out of oxygen and stopped breathing. Now, an expert witness — a prosecution witness, for that matter — was admitting under oath that Chauvin&#8217;s knee was not affecting Floyd&#8217;s airway at all.
This cross-examination received precisely zero media attention at the time. No one seemed to notice it. But more than two years later, Andrew Baker is finally getting some scrutiny now, because of a lawsuit filed by a former Minneapolis prosecutor named Amy Sweasy. As reported by Alpha News late last week and discussed on Friday by Tucker Carlson, Sweasy just claimed in a deposition that Baker privately <a href="https://alphanews.org/court-docs-reveal-extreme-public-pressure-on-prosecutors-in-george-floyd-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acknowledged</a> that there were &#8220;no medical indications of asphyxia or strangulation&#8221; in Floyd&#8217;s death. As she states in her deposition: “He called me later in the day on that Tuesday and he told me that there were no medical findings that showed any injury to the vital structures of Mr. Floyd’s neck. There were no medical indications of asphyxia or strangulation.&#8221;
According to Sweasy, “[Dr. Baker] said that if Mr. Floyd had been found dead in his home (or anywhere else) and there were no other contributing factors he would conclude that it was an overdose death.&#8221; For that reason, Sweasy said in her new deposition, Baker seemingly suggested to his colleagues that they needed to lie about Floyd&#8217;s death, due to public pressure. Quoting again from the deposition: “He said to me, ‘Amy, what happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on?’ And then he said, ‘This is the kind of case that ends careers.’&#8221;
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At the time of Derek Chauvin&#8217;s trial, we didn&#8217;t know all of these details. But honestly we didn&#8217;t need them. They&#8217;re just confirmation of what any reasonable person should have figured out, which is that all these &#8220;experts&#8221; were lying about George Floyd. There was the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkEGGLu_fNU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">body camera footage</a> of George Floyd saying &#8220;I can&#8217;t breathe,&#8221; several times, before he was ever on the ground. He&#8217;s fighting with the officers in the back of the squad car. And then he begs them to put him on the ground, because he doesn&#8217;t want to be in the car. The jury saw all of this.
There was also the testimony from the doctor who treated Floyd in the emergency room, who <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdP9gKF5K-A" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> under cross-examination that Floyd&#8217;s symptoms — specifically the lack of oxygen to his brain — were consistent with a fentanyl overdose. 
By the end of the proceedings, even the jury that convicted Chauvin was obviously aware of what a farce this whole trial was. Shortly after they voted to convict, several of the jurors gave an interview with CNN. Listen to their reasoning:
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It&#8217;s not what Derek Chauvin did, says the jury. It&#8217;s what he didn&#8217;t do. He didn&#8217;t live up to the police department&#8217;s motto of &#8220;caring.&#8221; He didn&#8217;t, I don&#8217;t know, start mouth-to-mouth CPR on George Floyd. Therefore, he&#8217;s a killer. He&#8217;s guilty of second-degree murder.
A couple of things about that clip. First of all, you can tell from how they&#8217;re talking about their &#8220;lightbulb moment&#8221; that they were trying to find an excuse to convict Derek Chauvin from the beginning. They knew Chauvin didn&#8217;t actually kill George Floyd, and that caused some cognitive dissonance. But they also knew that they had to convict him, or the city would burn down and they&#8217;d be racists. That&#8217;s why they were so relieved when this woman says, actually, it doesn&#8217;t matter that Chauvin didn&#8217;t kill Floyd. It was totally wrong and nonsensical, but it gave them an out. The jury went into the trial determined to find Chauvin guilty. The only thing they needed to figure out was why they’d convict him. 
This is exactly the opposite of how jury deliberations are supposed to work. What a jury is supposed to do is look at the evidence, and then see if under the law, a crime has occurred. And in this case, the law requires that the state prove — beyond a reasonable doubt — that Derek Chauvin&#8217;s actions caused George Floyd&#8217;s death. That should have been the entire focus of the jury. But the jury didn&#8217;t bother with that, because the state never proved that anything like that had occurred. There was nothing that proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Derek Chauvin killed Floyd, or that he could have saved Floyd, for that matter. 
To give you an idea of how corrupted the judicial system is, Chauvin didn&#8217;t have any obvious alternative to this outcome. If he had chosen a bench trial, he still would have been convicted. That&#8217;s because the judge was Peter Cahill. He&#8217;s handled the cases of every officer who was involved in detaining George Floyd. Recently he <a href="https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1688754115856289792?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced</a> another one of those officers — Tou Thao — to five years in prison. What was his crime? He held back the crowd that was badgering and threatening officers as Derek Chauvin restrained George Floyd. Tou Thao didn&#8217;t lay a finger on George Floyd. He wasn&#8217;t even looking at the arrest, because he was focused on the crowd. His only crime was being in the general vicinity while a black man overdosed on poison he willfully consumed. But Thao never bent the knee to the mob. He quoted scripture during his sentencing hearing. That infuriated Judge Peter Cahill, so he threw Thao behind bars for five years.
What could explain this judge&#8217;s conduct? As you might have guessed, he&#8217;s a lot like the jurors. He believes that &#8220;equity&#8221; is more important than the law. After the Chauvin case, Peter Cahill gave a lecture to a bunch of other judges. During his remarks, he told his colleagues to &#8220;work for equity.&#8221; He also told them that every case should be about &#8220;racial justice.&#8221; Watch:
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He goes on and on like that. He says it&#8217;s important to work for &#8220;equity.&#8221; He encourages affirmative action hiring. He tells everyone to attend &#8220;implicit bias training.&#8221; It&#8217;s exactly what you&#8217;d expect.
A few moments ago, I mentioned revelations in the legal complaint by former Minneapolis prosecutor Amy Sweasy. There were some other revelations related to these lawsuits. One of them, according to Alpha News, is that multiple employees of the Hennepin County Attorney&#8217;s office withdrew from the prosecutions of the other three officers, besides Chauvin, who were on the scene that day. These prosecutors <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/far-left-pressure-in-george-floyd-case-may-have-influenced-trial-despite-lack-of-strangulation-evidence-court-documents?utm_campaign=64470" target="_blank" rel="noopener">believed</a> that charging these officers violated their professional and ethical obligations. But this judge, Peter Cahill, had no problem sentencing these officers to lengthy prison sentences. He smirked while he was doing it, in fact.
Again, if you&#8217;ve been following the Floyd case for a long time, none of these revelations are probably surprising to you. It&#8217;s been obvious from the beginning that Derek Chauvin was a sacrificial lamb, being offered up to atone for the supposed sins of an entire race. Now we have overwhelming evidence of that, and a lot of people — conservatives anyway — are coming out and saying so.
Speaking of conservatives, one of the things that’s so important about all this new information is that it underscores the cowardly and shameful silence of conservatives when this trial was occurring, and before it occurred. Many right wing politicians and activists did not stand up in defense of Derek Chauvin. In fact, many Republican politicians and outlets explicitly accepted the narrative that George Floyd had been murdered.
All along, it was an obvious scam. And the con artists behind it are now rubbing it in our faces. Patrisse Cullors, one of the founders of BLM, is <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/19/reaction-blm-co-founder-nude-modern-artist/">now embarking</a> on a new career as a &#8220;nude modern artist.&#8221; She&#8217;s transitioned from one absurd form of performance art to another somehow even more grotesque form. This is the Hunter Biden approach, except instead of finger painting, Patrisse Cullors is taking off all her clothes and making tapestries with gold and &#8220;vintage mud cloth from Mali.&#8221; Just like Hunter Biden, the point of this new effort is to hide her own corruption.
As The Independent <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-blm-los-angeles-one-southern-california-b2318673.html">reports</a>, 
<blockquote>Cullors is leaning into her art these days, gaining sustenance and perspective from it. She speaks of it as not just a vocation, but a means of salvation: At one point, the impact of accusations of financial mismanagement at BLM — from which she resigned in 2021 — wounded her so deeply, her mental health was imperiled and she felt her very life was in danger, she says. What has ultimately saved her more than once, she feels, is her art.</blockquote>
There are pictures of her nude performance art, but I’ll spare you. A lot of people reacted to this news with surprise, as if it&#8217;s somehow shocking that a grifter would find a new grift. But it&#8217;s the most natural thing in the world. And at this point, it takes no great strength to mock Patrisse Cullors as a scam artist, just like it takes no courage to admit at this point that Derek Chauvin did not kill George Floyd. The time for conservatives to point all of this out was two or three years ago, when it mattered. That was the time to organize mass demonstrations in support of the rule of law, and to apply maximum political pressure on the corrupt prosecutors in Minnesota. None of that happened. 
Now, barring a miraculous Supreme Court appeal, Derek Chauvin will spend decades in prison. Cities burned and innocent people, like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_David_Dorn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Dorn</a>, died for no reason. And Patrisse Cullors has inspired a generation of race hustlers to rise up, and seize power in virtually every major corporation and university in the country. 
All of this happened because a lot of people lacked the courage to say what they knew was right. Even those prosecutors in the Minneapolis D.A.&#8217;s office — who refused to work on some of these George Floyd cases — kept their opinions private at the time, for the most part. The grifters see all of this happening, and they&#8217;re emboldened by it. The other day, Ben Crump held an <a href="https://x.com/stillgray/status/1716262797984808965?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indignant press conference</a> on behalf of Leonard Cure — the guy who tried to <a href="https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1714873417755770931?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">strangle a cop</a> to death and got himself shot in the process. According to Ben Crump, it&#8217;s white supremacy when police officers shoot people who are trying to kill them, on camera.
At some level, you have to almost admire it. For all his many faults, Ben Crump, like Patrisse Cullors, understands one thing very well, which is that modern conservatives are the most passive political actors on the planet. For decades, universities have been slowly transforming into cesspools of anti-white racism and anti-truth insanity. But many conservatives only went to war against these universities a couple of weeks ago, after Hamas&#8217; attack on Israeli civilians, followed by massive demonstrations on college campuses on behalf of the terrorists. It was <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/21/gop-candidates-defunding-schools-promote-antisemitism-following-hamas-attacks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shocking</a> to Nikki Haley, for example. She&#8217;s now suggesting that some of these universities should lose federal funding, and so are some other candidates. She waited for the safest possible moment to go after the universities. This is the tried and true Republican strategy.
And yes we should go after them. It would be a good place to start, even if it&#8217;s an extraordinarily delayed response. But it&#8217;s not nearly enough. It should be the default response going forward to any corporation or school that discriminates against any religious belief or nationality or skin color.  If the GOP takes this seriously, you&#8217;ll see a lot less open support for terrorism on college campuses. Affirmative action will be dismantled, because there will actually be some teeth behind that Supreme Court decision. Anti-white and anti-Asian racism in admissions and hiring will stop overnight. That means there will be a lot fewer Ben Crumps and Patrisse Cullors in the world. We&#8217;ll lose out on tapestries of mud cloth from Mali. What we&#8217;ll gain is something we haven&#8217;t had in a very long time, even before the rise of BLM. We&#8217;ll have a conservative movement that actually conserves something.
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Minneapolis City Council Announces Support For Dismantling Police Department After Death Of George Floyd

New Revelations Prove Yet Again That Derek Chauvin Was An Innocent Man Railroaded In The Name Of ‘Racial Justice’

New Revelations Prove Yet Again That Derek Chauvin Was An Innocent Man Railroaded In The Name Of 'Racial Justice'

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The Minneapolis Police Department has been hemorrhaging officers ever since George Floyd&#8217;s death in Minneapolis police custody, and the force&#8217;s staffing crisis recently hit a new low.
With just 585 sworn officers, the city&#8217;s police force last month dipped to its lowest staffing level in at least four decades, the Star Tribune <a href="https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-police-staffing-levels-reach-historic-lows-amid-struggle-for-recruitment-retention/600305214/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The city now has one of the lowest ratios of police officers to city residents out of 22 cities the outlet analyzed, with 1.4 officers for every 1,000 residents.
Only Portland had a lower ratio with 1.3 officers for every 1,000 residents, the Star Tribune reported. The national average is 2.4 officers per 1,000 residents.
The result in Minneapolis has been longer police response times and officers who are stretched thin. Sometimes no one is available to man the desks at police stations, the outlet reported, meaning residents who come to file a police report find a locked door and a handmade sign telling them to dial 911 in an emergency.
&#8220;This is absolutely not sustainable,&#8221; Police Chief Brian O&#8217;Hara <a href="https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-police-staffing-levels-reach-historic-lows-amid-struggle-for-recruitment-retention/600305214/?refresh=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;Thank God for all these other agencies that are filling this gap.&#8221;
The Minneapolis police force was thrown into chaos in 2020 after George Floyd&#8217;s police killing when the video of Officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd&#8217;s neck went viral.
Minneapolis along with many other U.S. cities saw months of protests and riots in response to Floyd&#8217;s killing, often involving destruction of property and clashes with police.
Chauvin was ultimately convicted on murder charges in 2021 and sentenced to decades in prison.
Since the upheaval of 2020, the Minneapolis police force has lost officers faster than it can hire new ones, but it is not the only city with a police staffing crisis. The U.S. is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-police-hiring-crisis-is-gripping-u-s-cities-and-towns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">facing a police officer shortage</a> that spans from large cities to small towns across the country.
Many in law enforcement say departments are suffering from flagging morale thanks to a wave of anti-police sentiment that peaked with Floyd&#8217;s police killing. In some cases, city councils slashed police budgets, leaving some police chiefs feeling abandoned as they are stretched thin trying to keep residents safe.
Resignations among cops were up 47% last year over 2019, and retirements were up 19% <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-experiencing-police-hiring-crisis-rcna103600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">among</a> 200 police forces surveyed by the Police Executive Research Forum.
In New York City, the NYPD <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-mayors-nearly-500-million-gun-violence-plan-doesnt-include-more-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has seen</a> an alarming wave of officers resigning.
In January and February, 239 officers resigned, the biggest exodus since 2007, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/10/nypd-cops-resigning-from-force-in-2023-at-record-pace/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to NYPD pension data. Also this year, the NYPD lowered its fitness standards in order to bring more women onto the force, a decision the mayor reportedly had to approve.
“The NYPD staffing emergency is approaching the point of no return,” <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/10/nypd-cops-resigning-from-force-in-2023-at-record-pace/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch in March.
In Los Angeles, the LAPD is <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lapd-shrinks-9000-officers-fewest-cops-generation-rcna98672" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than</a> 300 officers short and down to fewer than 9,000 officers, the fewest since the 1990s.
San Francisco is about 600 officers short, but the city <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/new-san-francisco-police-hires-reach-three-year-18263146.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has been</a> able to attract more recruits lately.
Austin, which is also battling a crime spike, is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/union-says-austin-police-dept-battling-crime-spike-hundreds-of-officers-short-after-defund-the-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than</a> 500 officers short, resulting in 911 callers being put on hold, according to a union representing the cops.
Nashville’s police department is short 170 officers.

Minneapolis Police Staffing Falls To Lowest Level In Four Decades After George Floyd’s Death

Minneapolis Police Staffing Falls To Lowest Level In Four Decades After George Floyd's Death

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Authorities sentenced a Washington man to 40 months in prison on Wednesday for his role in a plot to burn down the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/seattle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Seattle</a> Police Officers Guild building during the Black Lives Matter riots in September 2020.
Justin Christopher Moore, 35, of Renton, created and carried a box of 12 Molotov cocktails during a protest march of over 1,000 people toward the police building in downtown Seattle on Labor Day 2020, according to court documents.
“Moore’s offense was extremely dangerous and created a substantial risk of injury to numerous bystanders,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg for the Western District of Washington said in a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/washington-man-sentenced-bringing-box-molotov-cocktails-protest-march-summer-2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>.
Police reportedly smelled gasoline and became increasingly concerned about the intentions of the so-called protestors. After reviewing nearby video surveillance footage and recorded video from other protests, police identified Moore as the person seen carrying the box of explosives, according to the Justice Department. Nearly a year later, police executed a search warrant in June 2021 at Moore’s home and confiscated numerous items to produce the explosive devices and the clothing Moore was wearing while carrying the Molotov cocktails.
In the weeks after George Floyd’s death in May 2020, cities nationwide descended into chaos after Black Lives Matter protesters and rioters flooded the streets, looted and vandalized private property and businesses across the city.
The riots sparked months of civil unrest, resulting in 25 additional deaths and billions of dollars of property damage in cities nationwide.
Local media <a href="https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/police-several-protesters-arrested-outside-seattle-police-union-building/OOVQU7UJVNHUDMDSULKBIMOIGI/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Seattle police arrested 22 individuals on Labor Day for arson, assault, obstruction, and failure to disperse after a large crowd marched from the International District to the Seattle Police Officers Guild building in SODO.
Police reportedly said they arrested a number of rioters outside the police union building after throwing rocks, bottles, and homemade explosive devices at police and refusing to leave.
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The Seattle Times <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-protest-of-police-budget-and-union-turns-chaotic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> several interactions that day between police and rioters, including one person who deployed a fire extinguisher. Other instances included officers pushing their bikes toward the crowd and using pepper spray and flash-bang grenades.
Last summer, Seattle law enforcement <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/low-morale-from-seattle-police-department-harms-public-safety-mayor-announces-2-million-recruitment-plan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> it lost more than 400 officers while crime surged to its highest level in two decades after city officials voted to defund some police services following the George Floyd riots in 2020.
The department had approximately 1,300 officers patrolling the city right before Black Lives Matter reimagined policing in America. But over the last three years, residents have felt the effects of the BLM narrative, with the number of officers dwindling to just shy of 950.
The staff shortage has limited the number of calls to only life-threatening emergencies, serious crimes in progress, and other circumstances, while limiting their efforts to address “low-priority” calls and conduct follow-up investigations for high-priority calls.

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Man Sentenced To 40 Months In Plot To Burn Down Seattle Police Union Building During 2020 BLM Riots

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New York City police officers must stop kettling protestors and other &#8220;excessive use of force&#8221; practices after reaching a <a href="https://www.nyclu.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/1099-2_settlement_agreement.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">settlement</a> with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who sued authorities for their response to the Black Lives Matter riots in 2020.
The ACLU&#8217;s New York chapter, the Legal Aid Society, and the state Attorney General Letitia James announced the &#8220;landmark agreement&#8221; with the New York City Police Department after they <a href="https://www.nyclu.org/en/cases/payne-et-al-v-de-blasio-et-al" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> Mayor Bill de Blasio, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, Chief of Department Terence Monahan, the City of New York, and several individual police officers for their roles in the protests over three years ago.
&#8220;This landmark settlement holds the NYPD, the nation&#8217;s largest and most influential police force, to its oath to protect New Yorkers&#8217; right to protest,&#8221; Molly Biklen, Deputy Legal Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said in a <a href="https://www.nyclu.org/en/press-releases/nyclu-legal-aid-society-and-attorney-general-james-announce-agreement-nypd-reform" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>. &#8220;The NYPD&#8217;s violent response to protestors during the 2020 demonstrations for Black lives made clear to the world what too many New Yorkers already knew, that the NYPD is unable or unwilling to police itself. Today&#8217;s settlement ensures the NYPD can no longer indiscriminately deploy the notorious Strategic Response Group to protest and no longer escalate force on a whim.&#8221;
In the weeks after George Floyd&#8217;s death in May 2020, New York City descended into complete chaos after Black Lives Matter protesters and rioters flooded the streets, looted and vandalized private property and businesses across the city. In response, NYPD officers allegedly pepper sprayed and struck demonstrators with batons while others ran into pedestrians with bicycles and trapped protestors in closed spaces.
According to the Attorney General&#8217;s office, authorities <a href="https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2020/attorney-general-james-releases-preliminary-report-investigation-nypd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> 2,087 demonstrators between May 28 and June 7, 2020, of which the vast majority were charged with felonies on May 31, when there was widespread plundering of businesses.
But now the city&#8217;s police force must abide by a new four-tiered system to determine how authorities can respond to protests.
“During the summer of 2020, the frustrations of a global pandemic, a tragic killing, and the use of spontaneous demonstrations throughout the city drew people from all over the country — some with good intentions and some with bad,” NYPD Commissioner Caban said in a <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/637-23/mayor-adams-nypd-new-approach-handling-protests-resolve-litigation-stemming-2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>. “This presented many unique challenges for officers, who did their best to protect people’s rights to peaceful expression while addressing acts of lawlessness. Now, the NYPD has re-envisioned its policies for policing protests to deal with these unique scenarios. This agreement represents the department’s commitment to continually improving to ensure the public remains safe and individual rights are protected.”
According to ACLU officials, officers must amend their internal discipline matrix, improve the treatment of members of the press, and cannot deploy the department&#8217;s aviation unit with &#8220;intent of intimidation&#8221; or &#8220;disrupting, interfering with, or dispersing a lawful protest.&#8221; Authorities are also prohibited from using a crowd-control tactic known as &#8220;kettling&#8221; — unless authorities are encircling an individual or individuals within a crowd who are the target of a particular arrest.
NYPD authorities must create a new oversight review committee estimated to cost city taxpayers upward of $1.45 million.
Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry noted “serious concerns about its impact on the safety of police officers and all New Yorkers in future situations involving coordinated violent actions,” according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/05/us/nypd-lawsuit-2020-protests/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>.
“Nearly 400 NYPD members were injured during the summer 2020 protests, but there has been zero accountability for the agitators who used the protests as cover to assault police officers,” Hendry said in his statement. “This settlement does not change that. If anything, it may serve to encourage future violence.”
In July, New York City <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-city-to-pay-13-7-million-to-george-floyd-rioters-for-mass-arrests" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreed</a> to pay $13.7 million to more than 1,000 protesters who took to the streets during the George Floyd protests in 2020. The city&#8217;s huge payout settles a major class-action lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court that claimed police violated protesters&#8217; civil rights.
According to attorneys for the plaintiffs, protesters who are eligible for a payout can receive $9,950 in compensation. Some of the protesters eligible for payouts were arrested, while others were not arrested but had their First Amendment rights infringed by police, their lawsuit claimed.
Protesters who were arrested on charges of violence, including trespassing, property destruction, assaulting an officer, or arson or weapons possession, will not be eligible for a payout, and those who blocked police from arresting other people may also not be eligible.
A judge must still approve the settlement. It would reportedly be one of the most expensive payouts ever over mass arrests if approved.
The lawsuit dealt with clashes between protesters and police at 18 protests that happened the week after George Floyd died in Minneapolis police custody at the end of May, which sparked months of civil unrest and resulted in 25 additional deaths and billions of dollars of property damage in cities nationwide.
 Mairead Elordi contributed to this report.

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NYPD Reaches ‘Landmark Agreement’ Over Responses To Black Lives Matter Riots During Summer 2020

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A federal appeals court issued a major free speech ruling on Tuesday stating Washington, D.C., &#8220;selectively enforced&#8221; defacement ordinances against pro-life advocates while allowing far-Left protestors to graffiti &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/black-lives-matter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Lives Matter</a>&#8221; messaging on city streets during the Summer of 2020.
&#8220;The government may not enforce the laws in a manner that picks winners and losers in public debates,&#8221; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said in its <a href="https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/19D8F951CCCB10F685258A0C0052C071/$file/21-7108-2012552.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">42-page opinion</a>. &#8220;It would undermine the First Amendment&#8217;s protections for free speech if the government could enact a content-neutral law and then discriminate against disfavored viewpoints under the cover of prosecutorial discretion.&#8221;
The appeals court reversed a lower district court&#8217;s decision, which dismissed a First and Fifth Amendments lawsuit filed against the nation&#8217;s Capital by the Frederick Douglass Foundation and Students for Life of America.
The complaint alleged that D.C. authorities violated the constitutional rights of two pro-life activists by arresting them on August 1, 2020, for chalking &#8220;Black Pre-Born Lives Matter&#8221; on a public sidewalk outside of a local Planned Parenthood facility. Although the groups acknowledged the graffiti violated the ordinance, they alleged that authorities mistreated the two activists in comparison to thousands of protestors who were free to deface streets, sidewalks, and storefronts with paint and chalk with anti-police messages and other BLM-related content during the same summer.
&#8220;The markings were ubiquitous and in open violation of the District&#8217;s defacement ordinance, yet none of the protesters were arrested,&#8221; Judge Neomi Rao wrote in the 42-page opinion for the court.
Rao&#8217;s opinion for the court in Frederick Douglass Foundation v. District of Columbia was joined by Judges J. Michelle Childs and Robert L. Wilkins, who concurred in reversing the district court&#8217;s dismissal of the Foundation&#8217;s First Amendment claim, but affirmed the dismissal of an equal protection claim and remanded the case for further proceedings.
&#8220;We affirm the district court&#8217;s dismissal of the Foundation&#8217;s equal protection claim because the Foundation has not plausibly alleged invidious discrimination by District officials,&#8221; the court wrote. &#8220;Discriminatory motive, however, is not an element of a First Amendment free speech selective enforcement claim.&#8221;
&#8220;The First Amendment prohibits discrimination on the basis of viewpoint irrespective of the government&#8217;s motive,&#8221; the opinion continued. &#8220;We hold the Foundation has plausibly alleged the District discriminated on the basis of viewpoint in the selective enforcement of its defacement ordinance.&#8221;
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Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorneys representing members of the Frederick Douglass Foundation and Students for Life of America chalked up the free speech victory at the D.C. Circuit, affirming the group&#8217;s rights to &#8220;exercise their constitutionally protected freedom to peacefully share their views the same as anyone else.&#8221;
&#8220;Washington officials can&#8217;t censor messages they disagree with,&#8221; ADF Senior Counsel Erin Hawley, vice president of the ADF Center for Life and Regulatory Practice, said in a <a href="https://adfmedia.org/press-release/pro-life-groups-chalk-free-speech-victory-dc-circuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>. &#8220;Every American deserves for their voice to be heard as they engage in important cultural and political issues of the day.&#8221;
Frederick Douglass Foundation Virginia Chapter President J.R. Gurley said in a news release that D.C. officials &#8220;shouldn&#8217;t allow some groups to participate in the public forum and shun others from doing so just because city officials disagree with their viewpoint.&#8221;
&#8220;The First Amendment protects our right to peacefully share our pro-life message in Washington, D.C. without fear of unjust government punishment and thankfully, the D.C. Circuit agreed,&#8221; Gurley said.
President of Students for Life of America, Kristan Hawkins, called the court&#8217;s unanimous decision favoring free-speech rights for pro-life students &#8220;very encouraging.&#8221;
&#8220;Viewpoint discrimination is un-American, and as the case proceeds, we look forward to learning more about how D.C. officials picked winners and losers in their enforcement,&#8221; Hawkins said. &#8220;Free speech rights you&#8217;re afraid to use don&#8217;t really exist, and we will keep fighting for the rights of our students to stand up for the preborn and their mothers.&#8221;

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D.C. Authorities 'Selectively Enforced' Defacement Rules Against Pro-Life Groups Over BLM Protestors, Court Rules

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