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May 29, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
Daniel Horowitz writes: The act of the officer who placed his knee on George Floyd’s neck for several minutes after he was completely neutralized and couldn’t move is obviously indefensible. As with every criminal act that leads to murder, he should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. But why is it we never heard on the news about the endless trend of cop ambushes and executions at
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March 24, 2023 — Steven Hayward
Has anything harmed the conditions and prospects of black America more than the white liberal reaction to George Floyd’s death in 2020? Take in the breaks in the trend lines for homicide and vehicle deaths by race in the aftermath of that awful incident in the chart below. The “Floyd Effect” is the “Ferguson Effect” (as Heather Mac Donald labeled it) on steroids.
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February 28, 2022 — Scott Johnson
Last week the jury returned guilty verdicts in the federal trial of the three former Minneapolis police officers — the officers other than Derek Chauvin, who pleaded guilty — charged with violating the civil rights of George Floyd in the arrest that resulted in his death. The jury found Tou Thao and Alexander Kueng guilty on each of the two counts against them and found Thomas Lane guilty on the
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May 20, 2021 — Scott Johnson
Jack Cashill asks in a May 18 American Spectator column “Why Has the Right Let the Floyd Cops Fry?” Subhead: “If they don’t speak up, no one will.” I want to respond briefly in this post for readers who may be interested in the specific subject Cashill takes up. Cashill’s column is based on the May 12 motion filed by counsel for Tou Thao (one of the four officers charged
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September 21, 2020 — Scott Johnson
Roshini Rajkumar invited former prosecutor George Parry to discuss Parry’s take on the case of the four former Minneapolis police officers charged with the murder of George Floyd on WCCO News Talk’s Facebook page yesterday (video below). Roshini’s interview follows up on Parry’s American Spectator columns “Who killed George Floyd?” (August 7) and “The George Floyd fall guys” (August 13). The links go to Parry’s columns posted at Knowledge is
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September 14, 2020 — Scott Johnson
Is it possible for any of the four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd to receive a fair trial? In Minneapolis? If not in Minneapolis, anywhere else in Minnesota? Is it possible that a Hennepin County jury won’t have the external effects of not guilty verdicts in mind when they retire to deliberate? I’ve had those questions in mind since expedited criminal charges were filed
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August 3, 2020 — John Hinderaker
Someone leaked police body cam footage of George Floyd’s arrest to the Daily Mail. There are two videos, embedded below. Make of them what you will. To me, what is most striking is how crazy Floyd was from the beginning. The officers tried to get him out of the vehicle in which he was parked and into their squad car so they could take him to a police station and
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July 9, 2020 — Scott Johnson
Thanks to the death of George Floyd in police custody on May 25, Minneapolis has served as ground zero in the cultural revolution. All four officers on the scene have been terminated from the force and charged in Floyd’s death. Former Nation of Islam hustler and current Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has been assigned the lead in the prosecution of the officers. Yesterday one of the charged officers —
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April 14, 2024 — John Hinderaker
We have written a number of times about Mary Moriarty, the leftist who now serves as County Attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota. Moriarty is a former public defender who thinks her job as prosecutor is to take the side of criminals. When she was sworn in as county attorney, did she put her hand on the Bible or perhaps a copy of the Constitution? No: she rested it on a
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April 6, 2024 — John Hinderaker
On Thursday evening, a malevolent crowd at a public forum at Rutgers threatened Jewish students and drove the university’s president from the room. The Free Beacon reports: A Rutgers University town hall descended into anarchy Thursday evening as anti-Israel students chanted demands to “globalize the intifada”… “Globalize the intifada” means that no Jew should ever be able to live in safety, anywhere in the world. …hurled anti-Semitic insults at Jewish
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February 21, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Leftists love to make up categories of people to hate, whether those categories have any basis in reality or not. Lately, “Christian nationalism” has become an obsession of the left. But who are these people? I am a Christian and a nationalist, so am I a “Christian nationalist?” If not me, then who? I am personally acquainted with a great many conservatives, and a great many Christians, and I have
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February 14, 2024 — Steven Hayward
By now it shouldn’t be necessary to point out that the liberal response to the death of George Floyd in 2020 has been a disaster for the very people whom liberals claim they champion: low income minorities. The mindless embrace of the “defund the police” and reduction of enforcement of traffic stops has led to a significant increase in black mortality especially. Nice going liberals.
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February 2, 2024 — Scott Johnson
John Hinderaker wrote here about the apparent arson at the offices of the Center of the American Experiment and other conservative organizations in suburban Minneapolis over this past weekend. The Star Tribune hasn’t gotten around to covering the story yet. Someday soon, but not yet. In the meantime, Alpha News is doing the job that the local mainstream media natives won’t do. Alpha News posted its story here yesterday afternoon.
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February 1, 2024 — Steven Hayward
I’m just catching up with a 2022 article in the Southern Economic Journal on “The impact of chief diversity officers on diverse faculty hiring,” by four economists from Baylor University. The article analyzes the growth and results of the explosion of hiring of DEI administrators on college campuses from 2001 to 2019, and makes some judgments about the results. The first most useful thing about the study is quantifying the
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January 30, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Minnesota was famously the scene of George Floyd’s death and the subsequent criminal prosecution of four police officers, most notably Derek Chauvin. Chauvin was convicted of second degree murder and is currently in prison, having survived an attack on his life. In my opinion, Chauvin’s conviction was wrong on both legal and factual grounds. His case was tried in an atmosphere of anti-police hysteria and threats of violence, so that
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January 28, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The low point of the George Floyd riots in Minneapolis was the takeover and destruction of the MPD’s 3rd precinct station. It has never been rebuilt. Libs of TikTok reports: Producing more news than can be consumed locally. https://t.co/ajbFBzCU2D — Bill Glahn (@billglahn) January 28, 2024 These are truly awful people, but in the City of Minneapolis they may well be a majority.
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January 15, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Nikki Haley did a good job as Governor of South Carolina, and an excellent job as Donald Trump’s UN Ambassador. That was where she became a favorite of many conservatives. At the same time, there is legitimate doubt about how conservative she really is. Several times, her first reaction to events has been misguided and not at all conservative–among others, after George Floyd’s death she tweeted about the need for
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