by Selwyn Duke
“[W]hat 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.”
So lamented Hennepin County, Minnesota, medical examiner Dr. Andrew Baker after autopsying George Floyd’s body, according to new witness testimony. This is significant, of course, as Baker’s “findings” were used to help put a man in prison for 40 years — and for something else as well.
Floyd’s case was made a pretext for a further left-wing transformation of our whole country.
Commentator Tucker Carlson covered the story Friday on X, providing perspective and saying:
Now that we know that it was not in fact a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” now that we know that Ukraine is not actually winning the war against Russia, it could be time to revisit some of the other slogans we’ve been assured are true and ordered to repeat.
… For example, a racist white cop actually murder[ed] a man called George Floyd, a “civil rights leader,” in Minneapolis on Memorial Day of 2020. Now we’ve been told that … relentlessly for more than three years; so at this point we’ve been told it so much that pretty much everybody seems to believe it, and because everyone does kind of believe it, a small group of people has been allowed to make massive changes to American society. They include but are not limited to decriminalizing stealing; defunding the police; adding a new federal holiday to the calendar called Juneteenth; the ceasing of hiring all white men in corporate America; and, of course, significantly, they also sent a cop called Derek Chauvin to prison from more than 40 years. He would be the racist white devil who murdered George Floyd. But the question is: Did he actually murder George Floyd?
The “answer is,” Carlson continued, “well, no, he didn’t murder George Floyd.”
The pundit draws this conclusion — one already suggested by prior evidence — from sworn testimony in a sexual-harassment lawsuit filed by Hennepin County prosecutor Amy Sweasy against her employer. AlphaNews reports on the testimony:
During her deposition, Sweasy also discussed a revealing conversation she said she had the day after Floyd’s death when she asked … Baker about the autopsy.
“I called Dr. Baker early that morning to tell him about the case and to ask him if he would perform the autopsy on Mr. Floyd,” she explained.
“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,” Sweasy said, according to the transcript.
“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.’”
Does this sound like a man seeking the Truth without fear or favor?
Again, though, the Floyd narrative has long appeared a lie. In fact, practically “from the beginning, John Dale Dunn, M.D. wrote here that (a) none of the coroner’s information showed death from asphyxia or any other type of strangulation injury and (b) that what killed Floyd was his heart: He had severe heart disease,” American Thinker (AT) pointed out Saturday. “The disease, combined with stress, killed him.”
What’s more, “the Hennepin County prosecutors knew this all along,” AT added. (Emphasis in original.)
Yet that’s not all. AT continues:
The other depositions from attorneys in the office show that the decision to prosecute Chauvin was purely political. The prosecutors feared the mob and were happy to go after the police.
The politics behind the prosecution ratcheted up even further when Minnesota’s governor, Tim Waltz, asked his Attorney General, Keith Ellison, to take over the case as special prosecutor. Once in place, while Hennepin County had only charged Chauvin with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter (despite knowing he was innocent), Ellison increased the charge to second-degree murder — again, knowing Chauvin was innocent. Sadly, prosecutorial immunity means that the corrupt individuals who put Chauvin behind bars for the rest of his life will face no consequences for their evil act.
In reality, however, the Floyd case was misrepresented from soup to nuts. It was portrayed as a racial incident, even though race did not appear a factor at all. It was also portrayed as an example of a supposed “police war on blacks” even though law enforcement shootings of black suspects have declined 75 percent in the last several decades, and cops appear more willing to pull the trigger on whites.
But did any of this matter? The Floyd affair wasn’t just an example of the Emanuelesque principle, “Never let a serious crisis go to waste,” but was actually the manufacturing of a serious crisis — which was then used to leverage social change. Moreover, the very people who complain incessantly about “lynching” essentially engaged in a mob-justice-driven lynching of Chauvin.
For those interested, the Tucker Carlson X segment is below. As an added bonus, it features a striking interview with Project 21’s Vince Everett Ellison. A son of Tennessee sharecroppers who made good, Ellison excoriates the Democratic Party for using and abusing blacks. What’s more, he even implicates Martin Luther King in helping to cultivate a victim mentality in blacks.
