Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sharply criticized Minnesota Democratic Governor and failed vice president candidate Tim Walz for his handling of the 2020 Minneapolis riots while defending the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-sends-another-2000-national-guard-troops-to-l-a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deployment</a> of National Guardsmen and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles to protect against violent anti-ICE protests.
In a hearing on Capitol Hill, Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) noted how both she and Hegseth are from Minnesota and claimed President Donald Trump’s deployment of troops to Los Angeles was “premature and escalatory,&#8221; insisting the situation in 2020 was &#8220;more volatile&#8221; when Walz called in the National Guard. Hegseth fired back after the congresswoman got to asking how the deployment in L.A. affected the defense budget and duties.
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🔥 WATCH: <a href="https://twitter.com/SecDef?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecDef</a> calmly dismantles Minnesota Rep. <a href="https://twitter.com/BettyMcCollum04?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BettyMcCollum04</a> when she tries to grill him on the cost of deploying National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles:
&#8220;I recall 2020 quite well when <a href="https://twitter.com/GovTimWalz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovTimWalz</a> abandoned a police precinct and allowed it to be burned to the ground&#8230;… <a href="https://t.co/tltKWcgBEQ">pic.twitter.com/tltKWcgBEQ</a>
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&#8220;You are right, we are both originally from Minnesota. Which is why I recall 2020 quite well, when Governor Walz abandoned a police precinct and allowed it to be burned to the ground — and also allowed five days of chaos to occur inside the streets of Minneapolis,&#8221; Hegseth said.
Hegseth took a swipe at California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-sues-trump-over-national-guard-deployment-says-president-manufactured-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> Trump, Hegseth, and the Department of Defense <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/06/09/governor-newsom-suing-president-trump-and-department-of-defense-for-illegal-takeover-of-calguard-unit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">over</a> the National Guard deployment in Los Angeles because he did not request it.
&#8220;The police precinct, ma&#8217;am, was abandoned and burned to the ground. And because of that, the National Guard was eventually — far too late — mobilized. And President Trump recognizes a situation like that improperly handled by a governor — like it was by Governor Walz — if it gets out of control, is a bad situation for the citizens of any location,&#8221; Hegseth said.
He added, &#8220;So in Los Angeles, we believe that ICE, which is a federal law enforcement agency, has the right to safely conduct operations in any state and any jurisdiction in the country, especially after 21 million illegals have crossed into our country in the previous administration. ICE ought to be able to do its job whether it&#8217;s Minneapolis or Los Angeles.&#8221;
McCollum tried stopping Hegseth, complaining that she had limited time and wanted to keep the focus on the budget — even though she had been the one to bring up the priority of the troop deployment to Los Angeles and Walz&#8217;s response to the Minneapolis riots.
&#8220;You asked about the situation in Los Angeles, and we believe ICE agents should be allowed to be safe in doing their operations,&#8221; Hegseth said. &#8220;And we have deployed National Guard and the Marines to protect them in the execution of their duties, because we ought [to] be able to enforce immigration law in this country, unlike Governor Walz did in 2020.&#8221;

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On Wednesday, the Trump administration’s Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division said lawsuits against the Louisville, Kentucky, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, police departments would be dismissed.
The DOJ countered the lawsuits filed by the Biden administration in the waning moments of Biden’s presidency.
Those lawsuits accused the police departments of &#8220;unconstitutional policing practices by wrongly equating statistical disparities with intentional discrimination and heavily relying on flawed methodologies and incomplete data,” the DOJ <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-department-justices-civil-rights-division-dismisses-biden-era-police-investigations-and" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>. “They also sought to subject the Louisville and Minneapolis police departments to sweeping consent decrees that went far beyond the Biden administration’s accusations of unconstitutional conduct.”
The Minneapolis and Louisville investigations followed the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in 2020.
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In April 2021, then-Attorney General Merrick B. Garland <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/us/politics/justice-department-minneapolis-police.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> an investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department and whether it had used excessive force or treated minorities unfairly. In 2023, Biden’s DOJ <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3889776-doj-issues-scathing-civil-rights-report-on-louisville-police/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> results of its investigation into the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD), saying it had acted with discriminatory behavior against black people. Both police departments reached consent decrees with the Biden administration.
The consent decree with Minneapolis <a href="https://mn.gov/mdhr/mpd/agreement/terms.jsp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">enjoined</a> the police department to:
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The consent decree’s demands of the Louisville police are listed <a href="https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-secures-agreement-louisville-metro-government-reform-louisville-metros">here</a>.
“The decrees would have governed many aspects of those police departments, including their management, supervision, training, performance evaluations, discipline, staffing, recruitment, and hiring,” the DOJ continued. “In short, these sweeping consent decrees would have imposed years of micromanagement of local police departments by federal courts and expensive independent monitors, and potentially hundreds of millions of dollars of compliance costs, without a legally or factually adequate basis for doing so.”
“Overbroad police consent decrees divest local control of policing from communities where it belongs, turning that power over to unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats, often with an anti-police agenda,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department&#8217;s Civil Rights Division declared. “Today, we are ending the Biden Civil Rights Division’s failed experiment of handcuffing local leaders and police departments with factually unjustified consent decrees.”
In addition, the Civil Rights Division “will also be closing its investigations into, and retracting the Biden administration’s findings of constitutional violations” on the part of the police departments of Phoenix, Arizona; Trenton, New Jersey; Memphis, Tennessee; Mount Vernon, New York; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and the Louisiana State Police.

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A Minnesota state fiscal policy analyst who <a href="https://www.startribune.com/suspect-in-tesla-vandalizing-spree-in-minneapolis-to-be-entered-into-diversion-and-not-charged/601334027">reportedly</a> admitted to vandalizing six Teslas, causing a reputed $21,000 in damages, will not be charged with criminal conduct by the local Democrat county attorney.
Dylan Bryan Adams, 33, who <a href="https://x.com/CrimeWatchMpls/status/1913268726813827421" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes himself</a> as a fiscal policy analyst for the state Department of Human Services on social media, was caught on video keying different Teslas in the Minneapolis area. One owner of a victimized Tesla told the <a href="https://www.startribune.com/suspect-in-tesla-vandalizing-spree-in-minneapolis-to-be-entered-into-diversion-and-not-charged/601334027" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minnesota Star Tribune</a> that the marks on her car appeared to be a failed attempt to carve a swastika.
“Our main priorities are to secure restitution for the victims and hold Mr. Adams accountable,” Hennepin County Attorney&#8217;s Office spokesman Daniel Borgertpoepping stated. “As a result, we will file for pre-charge diversion to best facilitate both of those goals. This is an approach taken in many property crime cases and helps to ensure the individual keeps their job and can pay restitution, as well as reducing the likelihood of repeat offenses. Criminal prosecution remains a possibility should unlawful behavior continue.”
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4/ Let&#39;s take a look at the mindset of Gov. Tim Walz&#39;s state employee Dylan Bryan Adams, who is suspected of damaging several Teslas in the heart of MAGA Country in downtown Minneapolis. <a href="https://t.co/bJtqeTCMMB">pic.twitter.com/bJtqeTCMMB</a>
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“Participants in the county attorney’s diversion program are expected to sign a contract which could include conditions like community service and restitution payments,” the Star Tribune noted.
“The Minneapolis Police Department did its job,” Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara reacted. “It identified and investigated a crime trend, identified and arrested a suspect, and presented a case file to the Hennepin County Attorney&#8217;s Office for consideration of charges. This case impacted at least six victims and totaled over $20,000 in damages. Any frustration related to the charging decision of the Hennepin County Attorney should be directed solely at her office. Our investigators are always frustrated when the cases they poured their hearts into are declined. In my experience, the victims in these cases often feel the same.”
“We are reviewing the matter at this time,” Minnesota DHS stated to the Star Tribune. “State employees are expected to follow our code of conduct and hold themselves to the highest ethical standards through their words and actions.”
Mary Moriarty, the Hennepin County Attorney, was a former public defender who became Hennepin County Attorney in January 2023. “She vowed to make police more accountable and change the culture of an office she believes had long overemphasized punishment without addressing the root causes of crime,” KFGO <a href="https://kfgo.com/2024/07/30/hennepin-county-prosecutor-facing-backlash-but-vows-to-endure/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in July 2024.
Attorney Gretchen Gray-Larson, who retired in July 2023 from the county attorney’s office after 33 years, said colleagues of hers who kept working in the office were not happy, adding, “People are afraid to talk. The morale is horrible.”

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In the third episode of his groundbreaking series “The Case for Derek Chauvin,” Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro revealed how the politically-connected former Chief Medical Examiner of Washington, D.C., dramatically influenced the Hennepin County Medical Examiner to add &#8220;neck compression&#8221; to George Floyd&#8217;s autopsy report despite initial findings that showed &#8220;no physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of asphyxiation.&#8221;
“The facts are straightforward: Baker’s initial <a href="https://www.hennepin.us/-/media/hennepinus/residents/public-safety/medical-examiner/floyd-autopsy-6-3-20.pdf">autopsy</a> was conducted on May 26th, 2020, and his subsequent draft autopsy report found ‘no physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of asphyxiation’ and ‘no medical indications of asphyxia or strangulation,’” Shapiro said.
“Then, Roger Mitchell enters the picture.”
Mitchell, a Democrat activist who also served as a D.C. deputy mayor, <a href="https://spectator.org/chauvin-did-not-murder-george-floyd/">called</a> Baker twice following the initial autopsy findings, according to <a href="https://www.mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases/27-CR-20-12949-TT/Exhibit105122021.pdf">documents</a> filed in the case of Tou Thao, a former Minneapolis police officer and Chauvin&#8217;s colleague.
During these calls, Mitchell allegedly told Baker, &#8220;You don&#8217;t want to be the medical examiner who tells everyone they didn&#8217;t see what they saw. You don&#8217;t want to be the smartest person in the room and be wrong.&#8221;
The pressure campaign intensified when Mitchell threatened to publish an op-ed in The Washington Post critical of Baker&#8217;s findings.
&#8220;[Mitchell] said there was a way to articulate the cause and manner of death that ensures you are telling the truth about what you are observing on the body and via all of the investigation. Mitchell said neck compression has to be in the diagnosis,&#8221; the memorandum states.
By June 1, 2020, Baker had added &#8220;neck compression&#8221; to his official diagnosis, transforming the case against the officers. This revised finding enabled Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, assigned to the case by Governor Tim Walz just one day earlier, to bring an additional second-degree murder charge against Chauvin.
Dr. Baker&#8217;s private concerns about external pressure were revealed in former prosecutor Amy Sweasy&#8217;s sexual harassment <a href="https://mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases/27-CR-20-12949-TT/TT-SweasyDiscriminationCharge.pdf">lawsuit</a> deposition, where she detailed conversations with Baker in which he expressed anxiety about the case. According to Shapiro, this information further confirms the political nature of the prosecution.
As Shapiro notes, “Dr. Baker confided to Hennepin prosecutor Amy Sweasy, ‘What happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on? This is the kind of case that ends careers.’”
The appearance of blackmail aside, Shapiro continues, “Worse yet, the Hennepin County prosecutors met with Dr. Baker to review his draft autopsy report without detectives or special agents present, violating protocol.”
“After being assigned to Chauvin&#8217;s case by Governor Tim Walz one day prior, Minnesota AG Keith Ellison utilized the revised autopsy report to bring an additional second-degree murder charge against Chauvin,&#8221; Shapiro adds. &#8220;All of these revelations, despite qualifying as Brady material, were buried at trial and were never properly disclosed to Chauvin’s defense.”
In the episode, Shapiro explores how “the detailed autopsy findings provide significant reasons to determine that Derek Chauvin did not receive a fair trial, and his conviction for murder was not supported by the medical evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Watch the full episode <a href="https://youtu.be/4KrY4XR88Ws?si=eiI7O3suA_jFK5n7">here.</a>

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The Chauvin Trial’s Dirty Secret: Shapiro Exposes D.C. Influence On Floyd Autopsy

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What if everything you were told about the trial of Derek Chauvin was a lie?
Like everyone else in America, I first saw the tape of Derek Chauvin and George Floyd on May 25, 2020, what appeared at the time to be nine minutes of a police officer&#8217;s knee on Floyd&#8217;s neck.
Given the tape alone, I drew the same conclusions as most Americans. I tweeted that the police officer&#8217;s behavior was abhorrent. I called for his prosecution. I said that nobody is defending the actions we all witness.
So, it&#8217;s not as though I was initially a believer in Chauvin&#8217;s innocence. But over time, new evidence emerged. A lot of new evidence. And I realized I had done something absolutely wrong. I had rushed to judgment as new information was released: the full body camera footage, the complete autopsy findings, the Minneapolis Police Department training materials.
My viewpoint changed, and it changed dramatically. But for most Americans, their only opinion on the case was formed in the hours after the original tape broke. They didn&#8217;t know about the new evidence, or they didn&#8217;t care. The legacy media were deeply complicit in this. They didn&#8217;t cover the details of the autopsy, the details of the complete body camera footage, and the defense presentation at trial.
They let that original impression sit in the minds of the American people for years, and they did that for a reason. They had a predetermined narrative of the race-based guilt of Chauvin and, according to the Left, of white people everywhere.
Taking stock of these larger forces at play helps to make sense of the bias that continues to this day. The George Floyd narrative was set.
A racist white police officer murdered a black man in cold blood? Case closed. Evidence to the contrary? Irrelevant. MPD training protocols dismissed? Toxicology report ignored? Medical examiner&#8217;s findings about contributing factors? Conspiracy theories.
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/bss-ep-2160" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: Episode 1 of &#8220;The Case for Derek Chauvin&#8221; on The Ben Shapiro Show</a></h3>
Consider, for example, ESPN&#8217;s Stephen A. Smith, who last week dismissed my call to revisit the Chauvin trial by declaring on his show that he “doesn&#8217;t care about the autopsy,” effectively admitting he doesn&#8217;t care about the facts or the truth.
This cavalier dismissal of medical evidence perfectly encapsulates how much of America approaches this case.
“See, you&#8217;re trying to go down the lane I wasn&#8217;t trying to go down,” Smith declared. “I&#8217;m not going to let you take me there, which is why I turned down your invitation to appear on your show. We&#8217;re not getting into all of the science and what the doctor said and an autopsy report, even though I just read it to you to some degree. We don&#8217;t have to go there.”
A proper analysis of any case requires examining all the available evidence, not just the parts that confirm preexisting narratives based on the first available information. The media, the politicians, and the prosecutors had no interest in presenting the complete picture. Judging by their reaction to the announcement of this series, they still don&#8217;t.
You&#8217;re not going to hear it from CNN. You&#8217;re not going to hear it from MSNBC. You certainly won&#8217;t hear it from politicians who built their careers on the back of this case. But you&#8217;ll hear it here, because unlike those who rendered judgment and moved on, I believe truth emerges when we&#8217;re willing to revise our positions in light of new information.
On March 4, 2025, I launched a petition called <a href="http://pardonderek.com">pardonderek.com</a>, calling on President Trump to exercise his constitutional authority to pardon former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin from his federal convictions in the death of George Floyd.
This isn&#8217;t just about one man, though the unjust conviction of one man should be enough. This is also about restoring the rule of law after a disgraceful period of politically motivated race and identity obsessed weaponization of the justice system.
Since returning to office, President Trump has been taking historic action to dismantle the radical ideological framework infecting our institutions. In just six weeks, he has signed nearly 100 executive orders and taken over 400 executive actions, declaring that America will be woke no longer. He&#8217;s systematically dismantling DEI programs across the federal government. He&#8217;s targeting what he calls the tyranny of diversity and forced so-called inclusion in our institutions. He has banned men from women&#8217;s sports, returning education to a merit-based system, and declared there are only two genders in America.
But all of this will remain incomplete if we don&#8217;t address the original sin that kickstarted the entire woke revolution, the match that lit the powder keg of woke insanity and then spread through every American institution like wildfire.
President Trump&#8217;s war on wokeness cannot be considered complete unless he addresses the fundamental injustice that started it all. Pardoning Chauvin is about making a definitive statement that the rule of law matters more than mob justice — that America is finally ready to correct the catastrophic error that sent our country spiraling into years of racial division and leftist cultural supremacy.
Of course, I understand that this is politically radioactive. I get it. I understand the entire American Left will completely melt down if President Trump were to do this. I get that the media will lose their collective minds.
But frankly, I don&#8217;t care, because justice should matter more than political expediency.

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A lot of people have been asking why I’ve focused on the pardon of Derek Chauvin. After all, he&#8217;s convicted on both federal charges as well as state charges.
There are a few reasons. 
The first and most obvious reason is that there is a likelihood he serves less time if the federal charges are relieved because federal inmates can&#8217;t earn good-time credit that reduces sentences. That happens at a much lower rate at the federal level than it happens at the state level. With Chauvin&#8217;s concurrent sentences, he has roughly a 22.5-year sentence on state charges and 21 years on federal charges.
But under Minnesota state sentencing structure, inmates usually serve about two-thirds of their sentence behind bars and one third under supervised release. So he would serve roughly 15 years of the 22.5-year state sentence in actual confinement under the state charges, thus less time in jail.
But the second reason I have focused on pardoning Chauvin is that when someone believed to be not guilty is languishing in prison, that is the time when the President of the United States ought to either commute his sentence or pardon him. 
Chauvin is the perfect example. It is immoral to allow a person whom you believe is innocent to languish in prison just because that person was made into the face of American racism. With no evidence of such a claim, Chauvin was made the face of American racism before his trial. Every media outlet in the country decided he was guilty. 
The governor of Minnesota decided he was guilty. The mayor of Minneapolis decided he was guilty. The presidential candidates on the Left side of the aisle at that time, including Joe Biden, decided he was guilty. Thus, it was necessary for the jury to convict him in order for an entire narrative structure to be created.
That was wrong.
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/bss-ep-2154-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></h3>
There are many people who object to all of this. One of those people is Steven A. Smith, a loud-mouth on ESPN. When I say loud-mouth, I mean the man does not have a volume that goes below eight on the spinal tap scale. I&#8217;m not sure that there is such a thing as a normal Stephen A. Smith voice, and I say this as a long-time viewer of ESPN. Every time Smith comes on the TV, you have to turn down your volume significantly.
Smith is very angry that I have suggested that Chauvin ought to be pardoned. He <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5EhE8LcwNU">said</a> on his show, “Would you have taken that position if George Floyd was a Jewish person? A white Jewish person? If a black cop had his knee on a white Jewish person for over nine minutes, Ben Shapiro, would you have called for that individual to be pardoned?” 
First, let&#8217;s start with this: I don&#8217;t know why he believes that it would be important, even in his stupid example, for it to be a “white Jewish person” as opposed to just a Jewish person.
His claim is that I am a tribal identitarian; thus, I would be just fine with the wrongful prosecution of a cop if a Jew died under the knee of that cop — even if the cop was not responsible and the fact patterns were exactly the same — and George Floyd’s name had been Harold Bernstein (or something equivalent), and the cop had been named George Floyd, a black man.
That is intensely stupid. It&#8217;s intensely stupid for a variety of reasons. Why don&#8217;t we begin with the first? This would not have been a national news story if that were the case. The reason this entire story was national news is because of the race of the people involved. In fact, when black people were routinely beating up Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, it was covered up by the New York Times. It was not a national story. 
The reality is that this was made a national story specifically because the media had a preexisting narrative of race in America, and this fulfilled their narrative, even if the facts didn&#8217;t match.
Second, if, in fact, the facts had matched, and this was a Jewish person who had been arrested for counterfeiting (for passing counterfeit bills), had been high on fentanyl with a preexisting heart condition, and then had died under the knee of a cop, would I have said that the cop was innocent?
Yes, because if the cop is innocent, the cop is innocent. That&#8217;s the way this works.
The race or religion of the pseudo-victim is irrelevant to the question of whether this person was in fact murdered or not.
Stephen A. Smith is one of the deepest racial identitarians in our society. He does it all the time. All the time. He does it when he talks about sports — all the time. If you&#8217;re talking about Nikola Jokić, the greatest basketball center of our generation, he&#8217;ll talk about how Jokić should not be included in conversations for MVP specifically because of his race.
The reason Smith makes these kinds of statements is because he is projecting. He is projecting a racial conversation where none exists. I’m a Boston Celtics fan, so the following example with Smith from just a couple of years ago springs to mind.
Danny Ainge was the chief of basketball operations for the Boston Celtics; then, Brad Stevens was elevated to fill his position. Stevens is a really good president of basketball operations. How do we know this? The Celtics won an NBA championship last year, and he&#8217;s been one of the most successful NBA executives in all the NBA over the course of his tenure.
But Smith was firmly convinced the only reason Stevens was elevated was because of his race, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ESPN/comments/1dk2a26/from_3_years_ago_how_does_anyone_like_or_respect/">saying</a>, “It&#8217;s moments like this where I get on people&#8217;s nerves, particularly white America and the NBA community specifically, because I point out it&#8217;s beautiful to be a white guy. It&#8217;s just beautiful. You know, you&#8217;re a question mark as a coach in some people&#8217;s eyes, including in Boston. But somehow, someway, you’re moving upstairs.”
It’s worth noting that “it&#8217;s beautiful to be a white guy in America” has not precluded Smith from a five-year $100 million contract for ESPN, a failing network with plummeting ratings.
The reason that Smith is exercised over the George Floyd situation is specifically because of a racial narrative that is not predicated on facts. Now, he&#8217;s projecting that onto me as being some sort of racist for suggesting the racial narrative should not predominate. This is the whole reason that Black Lives Matter was such a mistake and failure, because it was racializing of a question that was not, in fact, racial.
This is just more evidence that what I&#8217;m saying about Chauvin is true, that the reason that Chauvin is in prison right now is because he was the wrong race and George Floyd was the wrong race. Because of that, Chauvin is in prison.
Here&#8217;s the dirty little secret: It never would have been a national news story if the races had been reversed, or if both people had been white or both people had been black.
And that means the officer would have been assessed on the facts of the situation rather than the racial narrative that people like Stephen Smith were propagating.

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Don’t Listen To The Emotional Blackmail Arguments Against Pardoning Derek Chauvin

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There is one person that President Trump should pardon from federal charges forthwith. It would be incredibly controversial, but I think it is absolutely necessary.
That person is Derek Chauvin. President Trump should pardon Chauvin of federal charges. If we are talking about reversing the evils of the last several years in American life, COVID and its handling was obviously a massive evil; it destroyed the economy, set us on a path to fiscal insanity, disrupted children’s education and lives, and led to massive health-related cover-ups. It was horrifying all the way around.
But when it came to Black Lives Matter, the inciting event for the BLM riots that <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/">caused</a> $2 billion in property damage in the United States and set America&#8217;s race relations on their worst footing in my lifetime was the railroading of Chauvin in the death of George Floyd.
The evidence demonstrates that Chauvin did not, in fact, commit murder of Floyd. Floyd was high on fentanyl and had a significant preexisting heart condition. Floyd began saying he could not breathe while still in the car. Chauvin, for a large segment of the tape footage of the incident, had his knee on Floyd&#8217;s shoulder or back, not on his neck.
The autopsy of Floyd showed that he had no damage to his trachea, and he likely died of excited delirium. Even at trial, there were no accusations that Chauvin had committed a hate crime against or targeted Floyd because of his race.
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Nonetheless, on the basis of extraordinarily scanty evidence and while there was massive pressure on the jury, the mayor of Minneapolis paid a settlement to the Floyd family. Jurors were being openly threatened and admitted as much. In the end, Chauvin was convicted on federal charges, pleading guilty to federal charges. 
Chauvin should be pardoned on those federal charges. It is worthwhile to remember that there is a man who is rotting in prison because the media decided — in the middle of 2020 — to turn a tragic law enforcement stop that ended with the death of a man (who had a significant problem with drugs and preexisting health problems) into the raison d’être of the entire 2020 election.
It led to vast chaos. It led to the destruction of racial comity in the United States, $2 billion in property damage, and a man rotting in prison who, the evidence demonstrates, certainly was not guilty beyond reasonable doubt in that case.
President Trump should really seriously consider pardoning Chauvin from federal charges.

Minneapolis, Minnesota. People gather at the government center to wait for the verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd.

President Trump Should Pardon Derek Chauvin

Below is my letter to President Trump urging him to pardon Derek Chauvin. You can join the effort by signing the petition at: <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/pardon-derek/?_gl=1*rr7jnp*_gcl_au*OTE0NjE0NDkwLjE3MzcwNTE1NjU.*_ga*NDc2ODcwMzI0LjE3MjM1NTkzNzA.*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTc0MTExMjYxMy4zMjIuMS4xNzQxMTEyNjE4LjU1LjAuMA.." target="_blank" rel="noopener">pardonderek.com.</a>
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Dear President Trump,
We write to urge you to immediately issue a pardon for Officer Derek Chauvin, who was unjustly convicted and is currently serving a 22-and-a-half year sentence for the murder of George Floyd and associated federal charges.
As you know, this was the inciting event for the BLM riots that caused $2 billion in property damage in cities across the United States and set America’s race relations on their worst footing in recent memory. Yet the evidence demonstrates that Derek Chauvin did not murder George Floyd.
George Floyd was high on fentanyl. He had a significant pre-existing heart condition. He was saying he could not breathe before he was even out of the car. Derek Chauvin, for large segments of the widely circulated video of the encounter, had his knee on George Floyd’s shoulder or back, not on his neck; this was confirmed by the autopsy, which showed no damage to George Floyd’s trachea. There was no accusation at trial that Derek Chauvin targeted George Floyd for his race.
Perhaps most significantly, there was massive overt pressure on the jury to return a guilty verdict regardless of the evidence or any semblance of impartial deliberation. This pressure took the form of threats, coercion, and intimidation. The Mayor of Minneapolis pre-judged the outcome of the trial and immediately issued a large settlement to the Floyd family. Then-President Biden, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, and others pre-judged the outcome of the trial and took to national media to create pressure on the jury to go along with their preferred narrative.
Under these circumstances, there was no opportunity for blind justice to work, and a man is now rotting in prison because of it.
Make no mistake—the Derek Chauvin conviction represents the defining achievement of the Woke movement in American politics. The country cannot turn the page on that dark, divisive, and racist era without righting this terrible wrong.
Thank you for your commitment to ending the weaponization of the American justice system.
Sincerely,
Ben Shapiro

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin Arrested For George Floyd Death

Pardon Derek Chauvin: My Letter To Donald Trump

With the acquittal of Daniel Penny in Manhattan, it&#8217;s clear that Democrats are going to have some difficulty rounding up political prisoners for the next few years. As that trial demonstrated, they can&#8217;t even sell a BLM narrative to a jury full of liberal women (and a guy wearing a COVID mask). People are more skeptical of race hysteria now, across party lines. They understand when they&#8217;re being manipulated. They care more about facts, instead of whatever the corporate press is saying. And that&#8217;s all very bad news for Democrat prosecutors who are looking to collect a scalp.
But this development is obviously small comfort to the many victims of these prosecutors who are still languishing away in prison, after being convicted in show trials to appease the mob. And of course, maybe the single most prominent of those victims is a man named Derek Chauvin. Chauvin was a police officer in Minneapolis who went to work in May of 2020 with the goal of protecting his community from violent felons — people like George Floyd. He&#8217;s been sentenced to more than two decades in prison because Floyd, who had a recent history of overdoses, died in his custody while high on fatal levels of fentanyl.
The issue of &#8220;causation&#8221; was the single most important issue of the trial — that is, the question of whether Chauvin actually killed Floyd. If Chauvin&#8217;s actions weren&#8217;t a &#8220;substantial factor&#8221; in Floyd&#8217;s death, then under Minnesota law, he&#8217;s innocent. That pretty much sums up the entire case.
But after the trial was over, the jury came out and publicly admitted that they didn&#8217;t really care about this issue at all. &#8220;Causation&#8221; just didn&#8217;t matter to them. They gave an interview with CNN where they explained that, in their view, Chauvin&#8217;s actions didn&#8217;t matter at all. Instead, they determined that Chauvin was guilty because of what he didn&#8217;t do. They didn&#8217;t convict him for murdering Floyd. They didn&#8217;t convict him because his actions caused Floyd&#8217;s death. Instead, they convicted him for failing to &#8220;care&#8221; for George Floyd in some unspecified way.
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It&#8217;s an incredible piece of footage. First of all, there&#8217;s no reason for a jury to be looking for a &#8220;light bulb moment&#8221; which allows them to rationalize a guilty verdict — unless they were looking for some pretext to convict Chauvin (which they obviously were). The jury shouldn&#8217;t be trying to find a way to get a conviction. They should be looking at whether the prosecution proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt. And if they find themselves doubting that the prosecution proved its case, they don&#8217;t get to rewrite the law to help the prosecution out.
But in this case, that&#8217;s exactly what the jury did. They ultimately decided to hold Chauvin accountable for things he didn&#8217;t do. He didn&#8217;t respond compassionately enough to George Floyd&#8217;s overdose, or live up to the police department&#8217;s motto, I guess — even though none of those things, even if they were true, would make Chauvin a murderer. The new rule, according to this jury, is that police officers have an obligation to perform CPR on violent suspects the moment they say they can&#8217;t breathe — even though Floyd was claiming that he couldn&#8217;t breathe just a few minutes earlier, when he was resisting arrest and struggling with the officers in the back of a patrol car. And if police officers don&#8217;t administer CPR, and someone dies, then we&#8217;ll just assume that the officer killed them. We&#8217;ll just make that leap of logic, because why not?
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But just because the jury didn&#8217;t consider the issue of causation to be relevant, that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s not relevant. From a legal perspective, on appeal, it&#8217;s still very important. And that&#8217;s why a federal judge in Minnesota named Paul Magnuson, who was appointed by Ronald Reagan, has just issued a ruling that could ultimately lead to a new trial in this case. This is a decision that&#8217;s worth dissecting at length, because it highlights what a farce the trial of Derek Chauvin really was. No matter how corrupt you think this trial was, it was actually a lot worse than that.
The decision came in response to a motion filed by Chauvin&#8217;s new lawyer in federal court. Chauvin&#8217;s legal team is seeking to have his conviction overturned, in part, because his previous lawyer was ineffective — to the point that he denied Chauvin his constitutional right to a fair trial. There are other objections too — including that many of the jurors said they felt threatened by the mob, so Chauvin couldn&#8217;t get a fair trial.  
But there are two central claims in the motion arguing that Chauvin received &#8220;ineffective assistance of counsel.&#8221; The first is that Chauvin&#8217;s lawyer, during the trial, failed to tell Chauvin that a doctor had determined that George Floyd died due to acute heart failure, resulting in pulmonary edema and death. There were indications that Floyd had a heart tumor that could&#8217;ve caused sudden cardiac death, and Chauvin was never told about it — nor was it brought up at trial. 
The second claim is that Chauvin&#8217;s lawyer should have listened to the doctor, and ordered tests on samples that were preserved from George Floyd&#8217;s body. Those tests could have determined whether Floyd died of a type of myocarditis, or some other heart ailment. And now, several years later, the federal judge has finally allowed Chauvin&#8217;s new legal team to conduct those tests. Depending on what they show, they could completely undermine the prosecution&#8217;s argument that Chauvin caused the death of George Floyd. And that, in turn, could lead to the conviction being thrown out — and potentially a new trial, if prosecutors decide to pursue it.
One of the reasons this is such an important ruling is that, in Chauvin&#8217;s trial, there was clear evidence that the prosecution lied about the concentration of fentanyl in George Floyd&#8217;s system when he died. And if this case is tried again, this is going to be a major issue. You might remember that, in the initial autopsy report, the medical examiner determined that Floyd had lethal levels of fentanyl in his system. He said that there were no physical signs of strangulation, and that it looked like a textbook overdose. But shortly afterwards, his assessment changed.
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The threats and the political pressure, we&#8217;re supposed to conclude, didn&#8217;t influence the medical examiner. We&#8217;re supposed to pretend that he somehow wasn&#8217;t bothered by the mob that was threatening to destroy the entire city of Minneapolis when he changed his determination about the cause of George Floyd&#8217;s death.
We&#8217;re also supposed to think that Democrats in Minneapolis didn&#8217;t exert any political pressure at all. But as the reporter Liz Collin found, there was even more pressure on the medical examiner than many people realize. 
One <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVdBFkjXkAAb3TA?format=jpg&amp;name=medium" target="_blank" rel="noopener">internal memo</a> from a prosecuting attorney in Minneapolis at the time says that on May 26, 2020, a team of six FBI agents met with medical examiner Andrew Baker to discuss his preliminary findings. And then after this meeting, he changed his conclusions. He decides that Floyd&#8217;s death was a homicide caused by neck compression — and that fentanyl wasn&#8217;t the cause.
A new trial would offer Chauvin&#8217;s new defense team an opportunity to pick this claim apart. This is an opportunity that Chauvin&#8217;s first legal team missed completely, during the first trial. Outside of a few accounts on social media — people like &#8220;Data Hazard&#8221; for example — no one has talked about this. But it&#8217;s an incredible oversight by the defense team, and a remarkable act of corruption by the prosecution. And if anything completely blows apart the case against Derek Chauvin, it&#8217;s this.
Here&#8217;s the moment in the trial that I&#8217;m talking about. This is maybe the single most important testimony in the whole case. The prosecution is questioning a forensic toxicologist about the levels of fentanyl in Floyd&#8217;s blood.
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It&#8217;s a lot to process, with the graphs and the numbers flying around. But the basic idea is that the expert is telling the jury that they collected post-mortem blood samples from George Floyd, meaning the samples were taken after Floyd died. And they compared these samples to other overdose victims, and DUI suspects, after their deaths. And Floyd&#8217;s levels of fentanyl were well below both of those groups, at the post-mortem stage. The conclusion was that Floyd didn&#8217;t overdose on fentanyl.
The fundamental problem here is that Floyd&#8217;s samples, according to the medical examiner&#8217;s records, were not actually conducted post-mortem, or &#8220;after death.&#8221; They&#8217;re comparing Floyd&#8217;s pre-death samples with other people&#8217;s post-death samples.
To restate: There were samples of blood collected from George Floyd before he died in the hospital, according to the government&#8217;s own documents. He wasn&#8217;t actually pronounced dead until an hour after this incident with Derek Chauvin, when he was in the hospital. And while he was in the hospital, his blood was drawn. As the judge put it in his ruling this week, quote, &#8220;the autopsy report shows that ante-mortem blood was collected.&#8221;  And the prosecutors&#8217; own statements from 2020 confirm that. Another <a href="https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1298403284416249856" target="_blank" rel="noopener">internal memo</a> shows what they said at the time. 
 &#8220;Dr. Andrew Baker &#8230; said he had the final toxicology results from Mr. George Floyd&#8217;s samples &#8230; Those samples are from Mr. Floyd&#8217;s hospital admission and were not acquired at autopsy. [Baker] said that these samples are better for determining actual blood toxicity than samples taken at autopsy,&#8221; the memo said. &#8220;Samples taken at autopsy may have undergone &#8216;post mortem distribution.'&#8221; 
So here we have &#8220;ante-mortem&#8221; samples, or pre-death samples of Floyd&#8217;s blood. That means they were taken before the effects of Floyd&#8217;s death could impact the samples.
And the <a href="https://x.com/fentasyl/status/1825656873019650417" target="_blank" rel="noopener">autopsy report</a> also confirms that Floyd&#8217;s samples are &#8220;ante-mortem.&#8221; 
It reads, &#8220;testing performed on antemortem blood specimens collected 5/25/20 at 9:00 p.m. &#8230; Fentanyl 11 nanograms per milliliter.&#8221; This couldn&#8217;t be any more clear. These are pre-mortem samples, according to the prosecution&#8217;s own records.
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Now, you might be asking what&#8217;s the big deal — who cares if Floyd&#8217;s blood was collected before his death, or after it? As it turns out, the distinction is extremely significant. After death, fentanyl concentrations in the bodies of overdose victims are dramatically higher than they are before death. It&#8217;s a difference of up to 900% within eight hours of death. That&#8217;s because when you die, blood stops pumping, so blood concentrations change.
So what the prosecution did, in effect, was compare Floyd&#8217;s fentanyl levels before this massive spike with the fentanyl levels of overdose victims after this massive spike. Of course, Floyd&#8217;s levels were lower. And based on this apples-to-oranges comparison, the prosecutors convinced the jury that Floyd&#8217;s death had nothing to do with fentanyl. 
In other words, when he arrived at the hospital Floyd had a level of fentanyl in his blood that was consistent with an overdose victim, when his pre-mortem blood was tested. In fact, Floyd&#8217;s levels of fentanyl were more than two times the average lethal level that you see in fentanyl overdoses. But the prosecution hid this fact from the jury, by presenting these blood samples as &#8220;post-mortem.&#8221; They compared Floyd&#8217;s numbers with other people who had been dead for several hours. 
It&#8217;s impossible to overstate the significance of this deception. This was the crux of the prosecution&#8217;s entire argument. They hit it again and again, including during closing arguments. 
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Again, he&#8217;s showing the chart with the false information, presenting the numbers as post-mortem. And then at the end of that clip, the prosecutor claims that Floyd had built up a &#8220;tolerance&#8221; to fentanyl — implying that because he had overdosed before, his body could handle a high concentration of the drug.
But that was never proven at trial, either. We know that George Floyd had used fentanyl several times before. He even overdosed just months before his death, resulting in his hospitalization. But that&#8217;s very different from saying that Floyd was somehow immune to the fatal effects of a fentanyl overdose, which was never demonstrated at trial because it&#8217;s impossible. 
The other major problem here is that the prosecution&#8217;s witness testified that Floyd died on the street, which seems incompatible with the idea that pre-death blood samples were later collected in the hospital
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This whole trial was full of incidents like this. There was the fact that Floyd&#8217;s suspected drug dealer wasn&#8217;t prosecuted, which allowed him to take the Fifth and avoid testifying about the drugs in Floyd&#8217;s possession. There was the prosecuting attorney who was allegedly <a href="https://alphanews.org/appeals-court-revises-lawsuit-of-prosecutor-who-objected-to-charging-decisions-in-george-floyd-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatened</a> with professional consequences for refusing to add charges against Chauvin. There was testimony from Andrew Baker, who admitted under cross-examination that Chauvin&#8217;s knee did not cut off Floyd&#8217;s airway. There was that <a href="https://x.com/gregg_re/status/1715582463915733334" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> from the judge in the case, saying every case is about &#8220;racial justice.&#8221; There was the fact that the prosecution tried to hide the tape of George Floyd saying &#8220;I can&#8217;t breathe,&#8221; when he was still in the squad car — and Chauvin&#8217;s knee was nowhere near his neck.
In 2024, there would be a chance that a jury would see through all of this corruption, and vote to acquit Derek Chauvin. But in 2021, Chauvin was never going to receive a fair trial. The threat of violence by BLM was too real. Propaganda from corporate media was still believable to millions of Americans, in part because all social media was censored. And Democrats had far too much political power. 
None of that&#8217;s true anymore. That&#8217;s why Daniel Penny was just acquitted. And it&#8217;s why, if he&#8217;s granted the new trial he clearly deserves, Derek Chauvin will be acquitted too.

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Why Derek Chauvin Deserves A New Trial (And Will Win It)

Daniel Penny

A judge on Monday approved the examination of George Floyd’s heart tissue and bodily fluids, offering a potential legal avenue for appeal in the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/derek-chauvin-stabbed-in-prison-life-saving-measures-administered-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Derek Chauvin</a>.
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.
Chauvin&#8217;s new defense attorney, Robert Meyers, filed a motion last week to explore samples taken during Floyd&#8217;s autopsy on the basis that Chauvin was given &#8220;ineffective assistance of counsel&#8221; under his last attorney, Eric Nelson.
Meyers noted that Dr. William Schaetzel, a Kansas-based forensic pathologist, told Nelson before conviction that he believed Floyd died from heart failure due to an excessive release of catecholamines, not from Chauvin&#8217;s actions, ABC5 <a href="https://kstp.com/kstp-news/local-news/chauvin-appeal-judge-oks-analysis-of-george-floyds-heart-tissue-fluids-in-federal-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. However, Nelson never discussed this with Chauvin.
&#8220;Nelson provided ineffective assistance of counsel to Mr. Chauvin by failing to consult with him on this issue,” Judge Paul Magnuson agreed.
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<a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/7738970/george-floyd-doctor-testimony/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Floyd</a>, who suffered from heart disease and hypertension and had fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system at the time of his death, did not die until he was at a nearby hospital.
Chauvin, who has already been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/derek-chauvin-stabbed-in-prison-life-saving-measures-administered-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stabbed</a> in prison, has been trying to appeal the conviction.
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In 2023, attorney William Mohrman filed an appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing, in part, that Chauvin was denied the right to a fair trial. However, the high court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-rejects-derek-chauvin-appeal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refused</a> to hear the appeal.
“Under the Sixth Amendment of the U. S. Constitution, every criminal defendant is guaranteed a right to a fair trial,” Mohrman told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-rejects-derek-chauvin-appeal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> at the time. “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.”
Mohrman also suggested that jurors were scared not to convict.
“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.”
Chauvin has also been convicted of a federal civil rights violation, for which he is serving over 20 years concurrently with his state sentence.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/derek-chauvin-stabbed-in-prison-life-saving-measures-administered-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Derek Chauvin Stabbed In Prison, ‘Life-Saving Measures’ Administered: Report</a>

Chauvin’s Legal Team Allowed Avenue For Appeal, Will Examine George Floyd’s Heart Tissue

Derek Chauvin’s Legal Team Allowed Avenue For Appeal, Will Test George Floyd’s Heart Tissue 

Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) picked a fight with Senator JD Vance (R-OH) on Monday, and somehow, it was Vice President Kamala Harris who came out the loser.
The confrontation began with a story in the Star Tribune that was promoted on X by the reporter who wrote it, Ryan Faircloth. &#8220;VP nominee JD Vance visited Minneapolis on Monday and portrayed it as a city in decline, echoing Trump’s comments about Detroit,&#8221; Faircloth wrote. &#8220;&#8216;The story of Minneapolis is coming to every community across the [U.S.] if we promote Kamala Harris to president,&#8217; Vance said.&#8221;
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VP nominee JD Vance visited Minneapolis on Monday and portrayed it as a city in decline, echoing Trump’s comments about Detroit. “The story of Minneapolis is coming to every community across the [U.S.] if we promote Kamala Harris to president,” Vance said. <a href="https://t.co/YoZ5olnTt9">https://t.co/YoZ5olnTt9</a>
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Phillips responded to Faircloth&#8217;s post, attacking Vance directly. &#8220;Shame on you @JDVance for coming to our community and calling us a city in decline. George Floyd’s murder and COVID’s destruction occurred under your emperor’s reign, and you’ve done NOTHING to help. Take your fear-mongering freak show back to lovely Cleveland,&#8221; he scolded.
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Shame on you <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JDVance</a> for coming to our community and calling us a city in decline.
George Floyd’s murder and COVID’s destruction occurred under your emperor’s reign, and you’ve done NOTHING to help.
Take your fear-mongering freak show back to lovely Cleveland. <a href="https://t.co/AZswoADoOv">https://t.co/AZswoADoOv</a>
&mdash; Dean Phillips (@deanbphillips) <a href="https://twitter.com/deanbphillips/status/1845946839276622047?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Vance replied to Phillips&#8217; attack, noting first that the Minnesota Congressman was attributing a statement to Vance that was actually said by the journalist.
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&#8220;I never used the phrase &#8216;city in decline.&#8217; It was editorializing from a journalist. What I did say: Minneapolis has suffered greatly,&#8221; Vance clarified, pivoting to turn the attack back on the Minnesota Democrats — up to and including Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) — who had allowed rioters to destroy the city of Minneapolis over the summer of 2020. &#8220;And not because of &#8216;George Floyd&#8217;s murder,&#8217; but because politicians like you allowed rioters to loot and burn, causing $500 million in damage.&#8221;
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If you want to let people burn down cities, harass police officers, and allow violent crime to nearly double, vote for Dean&#39;s buddy Kamala Harris. 
If you want to support our law enforcement and the people who depend on them for safety, vote for Donald J. Trump.
&mdash; JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance/status/1846022517829333258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Vance went on to tie that to Harris, who is currently campaigning to be the next president and chose Walz to be her vice presidential running mate, saying that things would be no different with her in charge.
&#8220;If you want to let people burn down cities, harass police officers, and allow violent crime to nearly double, vote for Dean&#8217;s buddy Kamala Harris. If you want to support our law enforcement and the people who depend on them for safety, vote for Donald J. Trump,&#8221; he said.

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