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0:00: Intro from Glenn
2:15: Cops and Race – May 29, 2020
10:09: The Viruses – June 9, 2020
16:39: A Uniquely Potentially Calamitous Situation – June 3, 2020
21:14: The Slippery Slope to Hell – April 23, 2021
27:10: What Made George Floyd? – June 23, 2022
34:21: The Uncomfortable Truth Behind Economic Inequality – April 18, 2022
41:38: The Truth about George Floyd’s Death – December 4, 2023
55:51: Filmmakers Reveal the Truth about George Floyd – December 18, 2023
1:10:29: What the Controversial George Floyd Doc Didn’t Show Us – February 16, 2024
1:24:13: Minneapolis after George Floyd – March 1, 2024
1:27:34: Prosecuting Derek Chauvin – April 5, 2024
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Good look back. Appreciate the info on the dates and who was being interviewed, etc.
Good review of everything.
The guys kind of rolled over and played dead, in the segment with Keith Ellison.
In particular, the judge’s argument for refusing Derek Chauvin a change of venue was very, very weak. Yes, the trial had to be in Minnesota, but it didn’t have to be in Minneapolis, with the scent of burning buildings in the air, and the courthouse surrounded by thousands of angry activists.
Both judge and jury knew that an acquittal on any charge could put their lives, and their families’ lives, at risk; not to mention the risk of renewed rioting and burning. It was like a Klan trial from the old days, in reverse.
Also, the fact that a particular pulmonologist can come up with a plausible hypothesis, that the peculiar geometry of the way George Floyd was being held at a particular moment could have made it difficult for him to breathe doesn’t prove that actually happened. If anything, this hypothesis tends to exculpate Derek Chauvin, because there is no possible way he, not a pulmonologist, could have predicted such a dire outcome.
In the French legal system, I’m told, the defendant is presumed guilty until proven innocent. By that standard, it is arguably the case that this documentary failed to prove Derek Chauvin innocent.
However, in our system, the defendant is presumed innocent, and it is the job of the State to prove him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. It seems unquestionable that reasonable doubt of Derek Chauvin’s guilt exists, and that a fair trial would have acquitted him.
But the judge and jury were both biased by the certain knowledge that, at the very least, the riots would have started again.