{"id":200405,"date":"2021-04-20T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/04\/20\/never-happier-to-be-wrong\/"},"modified":"2021-04-20T17:51:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T22:51:00","slug":"never-happier-to-be-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/04\/20\/never-happier-to-be-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Happier to be Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chauvin Upset He Isn\u2019t Able to Properly Celebrate Hitler\u2019s Birthday Thanks to Guilty Verdict https:\/\/t.co\/6PmmnYQw7b<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/TKZzmtkmK7<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Hard Times (@REALpunknews) April 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, Pretty Much<\/i><\/div>\n

<\/a>I have not been commenting on the Derek Chauvin trial, because I found it too depressing.<\/p>\n

I figured that in Minneapolis a city legendary both for antisemitism and for its completely dysfunctional police force, that at most Chauvin would get was a conviction for 2nd<\/sup> degree manslaughter, be sentenced to less than 5 years, and be out in less than 2 years, particularly after the jury deliberated about 10 hours.<\/p>\n

I was completely wrong<\/a>, and I am elated to be wrong.  The now-convicted murderer was convicted on all three counts, and, assuming that the judge is not completely in the tank for the malefactors in Minneapolis law enforcement, is facing decades in prison:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Derek Chauvin has been convicted of murder<\/a> for killing George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes, a crime that prompted waves of protests in support of racial justice in the US and across the world.<\/p>\n

The jury swiftly and unanimously convicted Chauvin of all the charges he faced \u2013 second- and third-degree murder, and manslaughter \u2013 after concluding that the white former Minneapolis<\/a> police officer killed the 46-year-old Black man in May through a criminal assault, by pinning him to the ground so he could not breathe.<\/p>\n

Huge cheers immediately went up among a crowd of several hundred people outside the heavily fortified courthouse with people chanting \u201cAll three counts\u201d and \u201cWhose victory? Our victory!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And then things went back to normal, when a cop in Columbus pumped 4 rounds into the chest of a 15 year old girl. <\/p>\n

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However, a fatal police shooting<\/a> in Ohio of a 15-year-old girl, which took place just moments before the verdict was read, unleashed a sense of fury and frustration among protesters who gathered at the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t get to celebrate nothing,\u201d said one protester, KC Taynor, according<\/a> to the Columbus Dispatch. \u201cIn the end, you know what, you can\u2019t be Black.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Chauvin, who showed little emotion as the verdicts were read, was immediately taken into custody to await sentencing. He faces up to 40 years in prison but is likely to receive a shorter sentence, according to legal guidelines.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/p>\n

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What happened in Minneapolis is not just about one specific violent incident. It\u2019s about systemic violence as well. This absurd headline from the Minneapolis Police Dept. drives that home. In a better world it would read \u201cMinneapolis cop kills resident in broad daylight.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/6mrL3rBTCi<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Josh Skolnick (@JoshDSkolnick) May 26, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Police lie confirmed on Snopes<\/i><\/a><\/i><\/div>\n

It should be noted that if not for a teenage girl capturing the video of George Floyd’s murder, the police department lies about this incident would have meant that Chauvin would still be out on the streets, free to kill again.<\/p>\n

In a related note, Nancy Pelosi needs to resign, because she is suffering from what can only be described as senile wokeness.<\/p>\n

When she literally said that she thanked George Floyd for his sacrifice in the cause of civil rights<\/a>, she was so clueless and so offensive that she needs to be removed from her position as speaker of the house.<\/p>\n

This is even more racist and more clueless than Trent Lott’s endorsement of Strom Thurmond’s segregationist 1948 Presidential campaign in 2002.<\/p>\n

It’s even worse because she did this at a Congressional Black Caucus press conference.<\/p>\n

Sorry Madam Speaker, but as much as you love the limelight, this was a time for members of the CBC to take center stage, not you. <\/p>\n

Also, Floyd was not a civil rights activist, he was a victim of a murder by a corrupt and evil police officer:<\/p>\n

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was condemned on Tuesday saying that George Floyd, a Minneapolis man murdered by a police officer in 2020, “sacrificed his life” for racial justice, a statement some critics called “ignorant” and “tone deaf.” <\/p>\n

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“Thank you George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice. For being there to call out to your mom, how heartbreaking was that, call out for you mom, ‘I can’t breathe,'” Pelosi said at a press conference hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus following the verdict. “But because of you and because of thousands, millions of people around the world who came out for justice, your name will always be synonymous with justice.” <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What a f%$#ing clueless narcissist. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chauvin Upset He Isn\u2019t Able to Properly Celebrate Hitler\u2019s Birthday Thanks to Guilty Verdict https:\/\/t.co\/6PmmnYQw7b pic.twitter.com\/TKZzmtkmK7 \u2014 The Hard Times (@REALpunknews) April 20, 2021 Yeah, Pretty Much I have not been commenting on the Derek Chauvin trial, because I found it too depressing. I figured that in Minneapolis a city legendary both for antisemitism and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,972,1041,978,982,1059,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-justice","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-politics","category-stupid","category-violence","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}