On Wednesday, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the nominee for the Vice President of the Democratic Party in 2024, turned to a conservative cause Célèbre, which has been polluting online for months: the desire to cause President Trump to reconcile Derek, police Floyd almost five years ago.
There is no “no indication as to whether [Trump is] I will do it or not, but I think we are prepared to be prepared for him, “Walz said in response to questions from reporters.” With this Presidency, it seems that this may be something they would do. “
Why do Maga leaders want the president to pardon Chavin? Is there a reason to think Trump will actually go with him? And what would happen if he did it? Here’s all you need to know about the debate about Chavin’s future.
Why is Chavin in prison?
Chavin serves two simultaneous sentences. First, in April 2021, the jury of the state of Minnesota found Chavin guilty of all three accusations facing him after he kneeling his neck and back on Floyd for more than nine minutes: second -degree murder, and second -degree murder.
Chauvin was among the police who responded to a call last spring, accusing the 46 -year -old Floyd of using a fake $ 20 bill in a corner shop of Minneapolis. After Floyd was handcuffed, Chavin kept him face on the street while Floyd repeatedly prayed: “I can’t breathe.”
A medical examination of Henepin County has ruled Floyd’s death for murder due to “cardiopulmonary arrest” occurring during “subordinate, restraint and compression of the neck”.
Two months later, in June 2021, Chavin pleaded guilty – in Federal Court-to deprive Floyd of his civil rights (and do the same to a 14-year-old in a separate case for 2017, where he also uses “excessive power”).
“I really don’t know why you did what you did,” Federal Judge told Chavin in 2022, “to put your knee on a person’s neck until they run out, it’s just wrong.”
Chavin was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison for his state sentence and 21 years for his federal sentence. He is currently imprisoned at a federal facility in Texas. It is expected to be released in November 2037.
In November 2023, the US Supreme Court rejected Chavin’s efforts to appeal his sentence to the state.
Where did this pardon come from?
In May 2023, a page of Floyd’s autopsy report on social media began to be distributed. Consumers claim that it is “new” and that it reveals the real cause of Floyd’s death: drugs.
“Breaking News: A full autopsy of George Floyd,” read one publication. “He says, ‘no life -threatening injuries are not identified and reveal high levels of many additional toxic drugs at the top of the fentanyl, which was originally reported.”
Another publication claims that “the corona report is said to have died of drugs – not cops.”
According to a thorough check of the facts in the Associated Press, these publications were false. “The image, which is shared online, simply shows the second page of the autopsy report published three years ago by Hunepin County,” AP reports. “This does not prove anything new to Floyd’s death and ignores that the previous page concludes that it was a murder because of” cardiopulmonary arrest “from” subordinate to order, restraint and compression of the neck. “
Independent experts added that Floyd’s main medical problems and drug use simply made it “more likely he wouldn’t do well [the] Stress “kneeling for more than nine minutes-and that the lack of” life-threatening injuries “in his neck” does not mean that asphyxia did not appear “, but rather that it did not leave behind” big bruises or damage to the muscles, cartilage or bones. “
A second autopsy ordered by Floyd’s family at the same time identifies a “suffocation of prolonged pressure” as a cause of death.
Nevertheless, conservative media figures such as Tucker Carlson took advantage of the idea that Floyd is guilty of his own death – and therefore Chavin is innocent. “Derek Chavin is serving 21 years in prison for a crime he has not committed,” Carlson published in December 2023 “If they do so, they will do it to you.”
“George Floyd has died of drug overdose,” Georgia reporter Marjorie Taylor Green agreed. “Derek Chavin must be released from prison and his recording must be cleaned.”
In March this year, two months after Trump returned to the Oval Cabinet, conservative scout Ben Shapiro released a petition to pardon Chauvin – and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who serves as a factual director of the Ministry of Government Efficiency of Trump, said “something to think.”
In his podcast, Shapiro claims that Chavin did not receive a fair process because the movement of the Black Lives Matter turned out to be “huge pressure on the jurors” – and that Chavin “was not guilty of reason” because Floyd was “high on fentanyl and had a significant pre -heart disease”.
Then Shapiro speculates that Floyd died of a “excited delirium” – a “fully fabricated state”, according to Scientific American.
Is Trump considering pardon?
In March, White House reporters asked Trump about Chavin’s pardon. “No, I didn’t even hear about it,” he said.
Since then, there has been no indications that the president plans to go on it. As the five-year anniversary of the Floyd-Crocagaline Murder approaches, which in theory could cause a pardon-as the Minnesota Police Association, as well as the World Officers, as well as the Ministry of Corrections in Minessota, which they did not hear anything to the status of the status of the status of the status of Minessota, that they did not hear anything to submit nothing to submit nothing to submit nothing to submit nothing to submit nothing to submit nothing to submit nothing to under Minneapolis is quietly preparing quietly, only in case).
When Walz said earlier this week that the pardon “looks like … something they would do”, he probably refers to the fact that Trump was not ashamed of using his presidential powers to issue conflicting pardons (including 1500 of them for a bunch of January. White Africans such as reflection or distribute civil rights prioritizing with various rights, for example, such as its destinists that were charged with the January 6 attack on US capitol) or stirring the Civil Rights (White AF Priority) and the inclusion programs.
Can Trump actually pardon Chavin? And what would happen if he did it?
According to Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the US Constitution, Trump has the power to pardon Chavin’s federal sentence – but he cannot do anything for Chavin’s state sentence.
As Walz pointed on Wednesday, it means that if Trump deleted Chavin’s federal sentence [state sentence of] 22 and a half years in prison in Minnesota. “
Minnesota Prosecutor General Keith Ellison, whose service was heading Chavin’s state prosecution, echoed Waltz in a statement.