Law enforcement, state leaders coordinate contingency plans as speculation grows…
State and local officials in Minnesota are quietly preparing for potential civil unrest amid growing speculation that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin could receive a federal pardon.
Governor Tim Walz, along with the Minnesota National Guard, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt, has reportedly been briefed on security measures and contingency planning, according to multiple sources cited by Minneapolis’ 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS:
Sharing the latest, Walz told reporters that there’s “no indication whether they’re going to do it, or not, but I think it behooves us to be prepared for it. With this presidency, it seems like something they would do.”
The city’s Community Safety Commissioner Toddrick Barnette sent KSTP the following statement:
“We’ve heard the same rumors as everyone else – but the bottom line is that Derek Chauvin would remain behind bars serving his state sentence even if his federal charges are pardoned. To be clear, we have no credible intelligence about any pardon or planned disruptions here in Minneapolis. Since 2020, we’ve overhauled our emergency management plans and out of an abundance of caution are planning for any eventuality.”
Sources also said the city of Minneapolis is almost certain that next week, the U.S. Department of Justice will file a petition with the court to end the consent decree over reform at MPD.
If that happens, sources said the city would file a brief challenging the DOJ’s filing, and it could then take up to six weeks to get a ruling from the judge.
Federal Pardon Wouldn’t Free Chauvin — But It Could Ignite Protests
Chauvin is currently serving concurrent sentences — 22.5 years at the state level for second-degree murder and 20 years federally for civil rights violations stemming from the 2020 death of George Floyd. A federal pardon from President Donald Trump (who has not commented publicly on the matter) would apply only to the federal conviction.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison emphasized that even if the federal sentence were erased, the state penalty remains. “He still owes Minnesota 22-and-a-half years. And he’s going to do it either in Minnesota or somewhere, but he’s not getting out,” Ellison said in a recent MSNBC interview.
Minneapolis Still Scarred by 2020 Riots
Floyd’s death in May 2020 triggered protests and riots across the country, with Minneapolis sustaining over $500 million in damages and more than 600 arrests. The trauma of that summer remains fresh in the Twin Cities, where officials are on edge over unconfirmed reports of a potential pardon.
Though no White House statement has been made, the mere circulation of the possibility has already stirred concerns among law enforcement and community leaders, who are preparing for a worst-case scenario.
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We have sufficient reason to incarcerate walz, ellison, and everyone else involved in the persecution of Derek Chauvin.
Let the idiots burn the state down…NO great loss for the rest of our USA!
He never should have been charged.
George Floyd autopsy – Partial excerpts
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III. No life-threatening injuries identified
A. No facial, oral mucosal, or conjunctival petechiae
B. No injuries of anterior muscles of neck or laryngeal
structures
C. No scalp soft tissue, skull, or brain injuries
D. No chest wall soft tissue injuries, rib fractures (other
than a single rib fracture from CPR), vertebral column
injuries, or visceral injuries
E. Incision and subcutaneous dissection of posterior and
lateral neck, shoulders, back, flanks, and buttocks
negative for occult trauma
IV. Viral testing (Minnesota Department of Health, postmortem nasal
swab collected 5/26/2020): positive for 2019-nCoV RNA by PCR
(see ‘Comments,’ below)
V. Hemoglobin S quantitation (postmortem femoral blood, HHC
Laboratory): 38% (see ‘Comments,’ below)
VI. Toxicology (see attached report for full details; testing
performed on antemortem blood specimens collected 5/25/20 at
9:00 p.m. at HHC and on postmortem urine)
A. Blood drug and novel psychoactive substances screens:
1. Fentanyl 11 ng/mL
2. Norfentanyl 5.6 ng/mL
3. 4-ANPP 0.65 ng/mL
4. Methamphetamine 19 ng/mL
5. 11-Hydroxy Delta-9 THC 1.2 ng/mL;
Delta-9 Carboxy THC 42 ng/mL; Delta-9 THC 2.9 ng/mL
6. Cotinine positive
7. Caffeine positive
Andrew M. Baker, M.D.
Chief Medical Examiner
Signed by: Andrew M. Baker MD
In accordance with HCME policy, this report was
reviewed by another board-certified forensic
pathologist prior to release.
Talk about a political prisoner – Derek was railroaded. He was doing exactly what he was trained to do. The conviction should be set aside.
Absolutely right; He should be released or at least get a new trial.
He was definitely railroaded into that long sentence – According to two separate Autopsy Reports, he OFFED himself off with a MASSIVE dose of Fentanyl, a large volume of alcohol and other assorted street drugs., including amphetamines.
As a Podcaster stated last week, Floyd had enough Fentanyl in his system to KILL FOUR HEALTHY HORSES.
It’s disgraceful that Minnesota cop Derek Chauvin was sentenced to prison when it’s clear from both the initial autopsy & toxicology reports that violent felon George Floyd died from a massive Chinese fentanyl overdose. Matt Walsh recently did a podcast about how the prosecutor in Chauvin’s case deliberately misrepresented evidence of Floyd’s massive OD to jurors. There was no suffocation or asphyxiation– Chauvin is a smallish cop- 5 ft 8, 140 lbs. It was evident from the videotape that he wasn’t bearing down on Floyd. There’s no reason why the longer arrest video took so long to surface (suppressed by authorities)? It showed Floyd asking to get out of the squad car so he could lie on the ground because he claimed he was having trouble breathing. The police kindly indulged his request and with difficulty, got him out of the vehicle. When he was first approached still in his car, he seemed disoriented and tearful. A cop asked if he was “on something” but he didn’t reply, yet he was having trouble standing up. There were flecks of foam or spittle on his mouth. If Floyd had admitted that he’d used drugs, he could have been rushed to the nearest ER & his life might have been saved. Floyd’s death should have been a teaching moment for dangers of fentanyl — not unlike how the death of young basketball star athlete Len Bias from cocaine sparked a huge public reaction to the dangers of drug abuse decades ago. Tens of thousands of Americans die every year from fentanyl ODs, yet leftists and our corrupt MSM lied about Floyd, turning his death into a racial (and anti-cop) incident, which resulted in the radical org.,, Black Lives Matter, being showered with donations (its scandalized Marxist co-founder allegedly squandered millions of dollars on luxury real estate purchases). Statues of Floyd erected in the rush to make a martyr out of this career criminal, who was trying to pass counterfeit currency when police were called, need to have plaques added for context: Dead from a lethal dose of Chinese fentanyl. Please warn your children of the dangers of illegal drug abuse.
Street punks act up they did in 2020 and they’ll find out quickly that the Dems call none of the shots now. Good people are sick of their BS.