Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin remains incarcerated, potentially for life, yet debate lingers over his role in George Floyd’s 2020 death. Recent political maneuvers by Minnesota’s leaders have cast doubt on his conviction and highlight their unsuitability in probing the demise of Renee Good.
Following Wednesday’s tragic incident, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, known for his support of the Black Lives Matter movement, hastily labeled the event as murder. Without awaiting the emergence of substantial evidence, much of which has been captured on video, Frey quickly condemned the federal ICE agent involved, seemingly catering to the progressive sentiments prevalent in Minnesota.
Juxtaposed image of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. (Getty Images) (Getty Images)
Governor Tim Walz, reeling from the embarrassment of ending his reelection bid due to his administration’s oversight in managing significant fraud involving Somali migrants under federal scrutiny, criticized President Trump and the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Minneapolis city council members, known for their progressive stances, swiftly denounced the ICE agent, labeling what appears to be a defendable act as a deliberate murder. Their reactions suggest an extreme ideological position.
In response, Minneapolis residents took to the streets, venting their frustration by hurling snowballs at local law enforcement. Meanwhile, businesses in the area showed solidarity by displaying window signs instructing how to use whistles to resist ICE actions.
In this abjectly insane political environment that Minnesotans have created for themselves, the federal agent has about as much chance of a fair trial as the Vikings have of winning this year’s Super Bowl, which is to say, none.
I was talking to a fellow journalist who I respect a lot this week who, somewhat defeatedly, said, “Next week we move on to the next thing,” and yes, that is true for us, but it is not true for the latest person whose life hangs in the balance here, the ICE agent who shot and killed a Minneapolis woman who tried to run him over with her Honda Pilot.
I feel ashamed as a journalist of how I handled the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. Whatever doubts I then had about Derek Chauvin’s criminal culpability, especially when a toxicology report showed Floyd had dangerous levels of fentanyl and methamphetamine in his body when he died, were overwhelmed by my genuflection to the “profound national reckoning.”
Renee Nicole Good moments before she was shot and killed by federal agent in Minneapolis. (Obtained by Fox News)
Chauvin and his family didn’t matter at all in those heady days of cities ablaze and Tim Walz’s wife thrilling in the smell of fire in Minneapolis, when former Vice President Kamala Harris was fundraising to get the criminals back on the streets.
We all knew Chauvin was toast. The guy had no chance in that environment, but like cowards, we pretended the broader principle was more important than this one man’s life.
Not anymore.
Conservatives in America are done playing this game. We defended Daniel Penny for his act of bravery in a New York City subway car, we defended Kyle Rittenhouse when he used lethal force defensively, and today, we will defend an ICE agent who acted lawfully when lives were in danger.
Director Kash Patel and his FBI would be lunatics to invite the Minnesota law enforcement officials who watched their own police station be burned to the ground in the Floyd riots anywhere near the current investigation.
It has been heartening to see the Department of Homeland Security and Vice President JD Vance come out in full support of the ICE agent. Just as a good mayor backs his cops, a good veep backs federal agents when they are clearly in the right.
Here is a short list of the lies the liberal media and Democrat politicians told in just two days about the shooting:
The car never hit him
She wasn’t blocking traffic
She was just dropping her kid off
She’s not a leftist agitator
She was given conflicting orders
Most of the jury pool in Minneapolis already believes these abject lies, because Democrats and the liberal media want to maintain their threadbare, tissue paper credibility, and if that means an innocent man gets raped in prison, well, at least they still have their podcasts on which to laugh about it.
Unfortunately, the Trump administration has no power to invoke a pardon for Derek Chauvin, or even reopen his state level case, but they can learn from it, they can protect a man who has spent 10 years as an ICE agent protecting you and me.
This ICE agent must not be thrown to the radical left wolves of Minneapolis, even if it is too late to save Derek Chauvin and his family from that fate.
