Topic: WorldNetDaily
WorldNetDaily columnist Jack Cashill, it seems, can't stop running to the defense of Derek Chauvin as part of his longtime race-baiting defense of white people who kill black men (see: George Zimmerman and a cop in Kansas City). Cashill used a Nov. 1 column to cheer others playing the same game as him on Chauvin:
Giving credit where it's due, popular podcasters Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly recently ignored the media taboo and openly addressed the railroading of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and his three colleagues.
As refreshing as their discussions were, both Carlson and Kelly seemed unaware of a critical bit of exculpatory information that was first revealed more than two years ago.
At that time, no one at their level in the media dared address the obvious injustice unfolding in Minneapolis.
As the world knows, the four officers were imprisoned for their respective roles in the death of chronic felon and drug abuser George Floyd in May of 2020.
Cashill again rehashed his earlier claim that local medical examiner Andrew Baker caved to political pressure to state in an autopsy report that Floyd died of neck compression despite stating that wasn't the case in a preliminary report -- which ignores the fact that Baker testified under oath that he faced no pressure to change anything in Floyd's autopsy report and that the change was due to his learning more about the effects of neck compression -- the method Chauvin used to incapacitate Floyd -- Cashill concluded by huffing: "No justice, no peace."
Cashill hyped a fellow Chauvin defender inhis Nov. 29 column -- after, of course, serving up a llittle performative outrage over Chauvin getting stabbed in prison:
Not satisfied with sentencing an innocent man to prison for 22 years, the federal government has found new ways to punish former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin.
That includes a near fatal stabbing of Chauvin on Friday, Nov. 24, in a federal prison in Arizona and the inexplicable refusal to alert Chauvin's mother about the incident.
There is no evidence that the feds planned this attack or encouraged it, but their failure to anticipate it at the end of a two-week stretch in which Chauvin was continuously in the news raises eyebrows.
On Nov. 13, Chauvin filed a motion in federal court claiming he never would have pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights charges in 2021 if he had been aware of the theories of William Schaetzel, a recently retired Kansas forensic pathologist.
Chauvin is asking Peter Cahill, the judge who presided over his trial, to order a new trial or, at the very least, an evidentiary hearing.
On Nov. 16, producer Liz Collin released a new documentary, "The Fall of Minneapolis," which makes a powerful case for the innocence of Chauvin and his three colleagues.
On Nov. 20, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to entertain a prior appeal on grounds that Chauvin could not get in a fair trial in fear-soaked Minneapolis.
Although the major media blew off Schaetzel's research and Collin's documentary, major figures in the conservative media did not. Megyn Kelly, Jesse Watters, Tucker Carlson and Greg Gutfeld among others paid attention. So did the millions of Americans who have seen the movie.
Meanwhile, one reviewer pointed out that "The Fall of Minneapolis" is about "throwing a lot of victim-blaming, blame-shifting, and other nonsense at the wall to see what sticks" and pushes "the Orwellian notion that what every one of us has seen with our own eyes is not what really happened. Mostly, it makes arguments that have already failed in court, in some cases multiple times"; for example, the film doesn't reference "Chauvin’s extensive history of use-of-force complaints, some of which involved choking."
Cashill again repeated his evidence-free claim that Baker was "under pressure" to change Floyd's autopsy report, which he claimed "gave Minnesota's radical black attorney general, Keith Ellison, the excuse he needed to charge Chauvin with murder." Meanwhile, his new pathologist hero Schaetzel -- who didn't examine Floyd's body but merely read autopsy reports -- is claiming that Floyd may have had a paraganglioma, a tumor that allegedly produced a surge of adrenaline that might have killed Floyd. That sounds a lot like the dubious "excited delirium" defense that officers originally cited as an excuse to subdue Floyd.
Cashill weighed in more on Cashill's prison stabbing in his Dec. 6 column -- and, of course, had a conspiracy theory to spread:
Having long ago decided to ignore all inconvenient news, the major media yielded serious coverage of the prison stabbing of Derek Chauvin to the intrepid independent investigator Maryam Henein.
As Henein reports, the man who stabbed Chauvin 22 times on "Black Friday" in an Arizona prison is a 52-year-old con named John Turscak. Don't let the name fool you.
The half-Croatian Turscak is serving a 30-year sentence for crimes committed while leading a Los Angeles faction of the Mexican Mafia in the 1990s.
As even the major media acknowledge, Turscak was an FBI informant. The intel he provided federal investigators led to the indictments of 40 or so of his former colleagues.
Henein, by the way, is a conspiracy theorist who spread many falsehoods about COVID and promoted fraudulent treatments. Cashill offered no reason why anyone should trust Henein given her track record. Instead, he continued to whine thatothers weren't buying into his own conspiracy theories:
In its scant coverage of the stabbing, the New York Times is quick to remind its readers, "Mr. Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer who is white, murdered Mr. Floyd, who is Black, during an arrest on a South Minneapolis street corner in May 2020."
Although race had nothing to do with Floyd's death, nor for that matter did Chauvin's restraint of Floyd, the Times puts race front and center in its coverage, capitalizing the "B" in Black and lowercasing the "w" in white.
Not surprisingly, the Times has not seen fit to cover the potentially game-changing new documentary on the Chauvin case, "The Fall of Minneapolis." According to Liz Collin, producer of the film, not even the local Minnesota media will review the film or discuss its findings.
Still, Cashill had a conspiracy theory to keep alive:
With only three years left to go before his release, the question remains as to who or what prompted Turscak to attack Chauvin.
According to the document Turscak signed with the FBI, the agreement between the Bureau and him "shall continue as long as the FBI deems that TURSCAK's services are required."
Given the rush of narrative-eroding information released in the month before the stabbing, one has to wonder whether someone in power thought it a useful time to require "TURSCAK's services."
Of course, Cashill never apologizes when his narratives get eroded -- you know, when his conspiracy theories get debunked, which happens a lot.
UPDATE: Cashill also talked about Chauvin on his Nov. 2 podcast, in which he repeated parts of this and complained Chauvin is a victim of "Jacobin justice," huffing that the Floyd case "sent four innocent men to prison" because of "mob fury." Cashill and co-host Loy Edge then manufactured a conspiracy theory that left-wingers want to undermine local police.
