George Floyd: System, Mike Freeman looking for a way to clear his murderers
That’s right don’t be fooled, they- the power structure- are not asking for time to make sure the charges stick as Freeman contends, they are buying time to find a way to help the cops get away with murder.
Even the decision to charge the psychopathic cop Derek Chauvin who had his knee on George Floyd is calculated. If you or I were with a group of three other people and committed murder we would all be charged with felony murder.
The county prosecutor said it’s a time consuming process, but the truth is even with little to no evidence his office charges Black people every day. And just as importantly they find ways to make the charge stick.
Freeman told the truth in his press conference in Minneapolis on Thursday when he said that “there is other evidence that does not support a criminal charge. We need to weigh through all of that evidence to come through with a meaningful determination. Evidence not favorable to our case needs to be carefully examined to understand the full picture of what actually happened.”
“Other evidence?” “A meaningful determination?” Freeman and the system are looking at evidence that does not support the criminal charge for one reason and one reason alone: to justify Floyd’s murder. And what case is he referring to when he said evidence not favorable to “our” case needs to be examined?
And while he later tried to say that he didn’t mean to say what he said, even his explanation reinforces the suspicion that he and therefore the system he represents, is searching for ways to clear the cops who murdered George Floyd.
Freeman has done it before. More recently he cleared cops of the murder of Terrence Franklin and Jamar Clarke. And he was the same prosecutor who helped justify the cops murder of Tycel Nelson in 1990. In the Clarke case he made his DNA magically appear on the handle of the gun of the cops Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze who killed him. He made the handcuffs that cops put on him– which a six year old up way past his bedtime testified that he saw– magically disappear. The cops murdered Clarke but Freeman let them off. He even taunted the Black community while doing it, in his press conference he basically said, ‘ yall should have known you had nothing coming from this office’.
Freeman might as well be a southern Cracker. The only difference is he does his dirt with a smile and hides behind a liberal veneer.
His office wrote the following in an attempt to cover up the fact that he exposed his hand. “Mike Freeman made a comment about evidence in the George Floyd case that is being misinterpreted. To clarify, County Attorney Freeman was saying that it is critical to review all the evidence because at the time of trial, invariably, all that information will be used.”
They couldn’t help themselves even in their denial, they give away the fact that they are looking at ALL the information.
Moreover Freeman, nor Senator Amy Klobuchar, nor has any other Hennepin County prosecutor ever charged a White cop with killing a Black person. But Freeman tells half-truths to the public saying his office has indicted cops. No, they have indicted Black cops, namely Mohamed Noor a year or so ago for killing Justine Damond. And they indicted a Black cop for shooting at some Black folks in downtown Minneapolis.Incidentally the jury in that case refused to charge the Black cop. After all you can’t really harm Black folks if the cops do something to them they surely must have been doing something to deserve it.
Some folks still believe that Floyd did something to bring on us fate. And they would be right: HE WAS BREATHING!
Consequently, no one should assume that this is a done deal and that killer cop Chauvin will actually be convicted. While the prosecutors don’t decide guilt or innocence they control the narrative. And only the naïve believes that the prosecutor’s office that has a cozy almost incestuous relationship with the cops and depend on them to keep the jails full of Black and Brown people, are suddenly going to turn on them with the vigor needed to send them to jail.
Freeman tried to say he was taking his time because he doesn’t want his case to wind up like Freddie Gray’s when all of the cops who killed him got off. But they got off because the prosecutor’s office helped let them off. In the case of Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman went free because the state of Florida “threw” the case. At the time, practically every trial lawyer in the US agreed that the prosecution presented a sloppy case and in essence allowed Zimmerman to get away with murder. The state of Florida decided that White Supremacy is still the order of the day.
And the decision to just try one of them is not motivated by the desire to protect its own. The system does not care about cops. They are simply their foot soldiers, cannon fodder; in the eyes of the power structure they are a dime a dozen.
However in this case, the system is protecting the cops as a way of letting you and I know that we still don’t have power, in other words to use a Star Trek analogy they have the “conn.” What appears to be a stand -off is just the system demonstrating that it has the power to decide who will be prosecuted and who will not.
Ultimately if we really want the cops to stop killing us we will have to decide to replace this power structure with a humane one which won’t have the need to kill Black folks or anybody else because it will be one of the people, by the people and for the people.
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