‘Haunting and emotional’ film ‘raises disturbing questions’ about the Floyd incident, per AMAC

By David P. Deavel

As riots again fill the news, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is in the news as well. Chauvin’s appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court to grant him a new trial based upon the denial by the Minnesota judge who oversaw his trial to change the venue and sequester the jury has been rejected. He is currently appealing yet again on the basis that his attorney did not inform him of a Kansas doctor’s theory about the cause of George Floyd’s death. Many Americans who watched the viral footage of Chauvin kneeling for nine minutes on top of Floyd have assumed that it was obvious that Chauvin was the cause of his death based on what they saw and what the jury decided in the case. Revelations that Chauvin did have a record of misconduct in the past involving excessive force (he was given two reprimands) made it seem obvious that the story Americans were told about this incident had to be true.