Right-Wing Media Disgusted By Chauvin's Guilty Verdict

While a lot of the country reacted with relief after the guilty verdict of Derek Chauvin was delivered, some right wing pundits were sickened by it and claimed that the deck was stacked against Chauvin from the beginning. There's only so much you can do when a video exists of a human being kneeling on the neck of another until the victim dies, and Chauvin's verdict was not because of political interference, it was because he was caught on tape. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Yesterday, a jury in Minneapolis found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all three counts, which means once the sentencing takes place, which will happen sometime in the near future, Chauvin could possibly spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder of George Floyd. Now, the evidence in this particular homicide was overwhelming. I mean, there was video evidence. There was video evidence from multiple different angles. Okay. The defense was absolutely horrific trying to excuse what Chauvin did. And so it's not surprising in the least that the jury was able to come to this conclusion. It's, it's, it's, it's surprising that they did go with a conviction since there's only been, I think five or six police officers convicted of killing somebody in the last 15 years. So yes, that is quite remarkable. But it's a good thing, right? This was accountability. Here's the thing. Immediately after this verdict came out, right-wing pundits, right-wing talking heads and right-wing media figures immediately lost their collective minds, freaking out because Chauvin was guilty. Here is Newsmax, and this is what Newsmax had to say about this conviction. Take a look.

What, what happens tonight? We don't know. I mean, obviously right now it's still light outside. There's a lot of security around there. You've got a group of people. I would assume that's some members of the family of Floyd or friends and Floyd they're celebrating. We don't know what this turns into as night falls. Again is sometimes there's no appeasing of mob in a situation like that. We don't. We have three guilty counts. The first thing that I thought of in my head was, you know, and we, we talked a lot about this with, uh, with Dershowitz, Alan Dershowitz. Uh, how on earth was he expecting to get a, a fair trial in this thing? There was a tremendous amount of pressure on that jury. I mean, you would have had to have been out of your mind to vote to acquit this man, knowing full well that everybody is going to figure out who you are.

And you're going to have the likes of BLM and Antifa protesters coming after you with everything they got. If you're the one person that says, oh no, I think he was innocent. I think George Floyd probably ate a pocket full of drugs when the cops came up to him, he had a bad heart. They put them on the ground. If he hadn't done those things, he might've had a stiff neck the next day, but he died instead. Uh, nobody's going to say that. So I think that the case for an appeal here, and even the judge said this, I think yesterday, the case for the appeal is very, very strong.

You know, it appears that every single person on the right is basically operating off the exact same set of talking points. And that is of course, that oh, they only convicted him because of the political pressure, because they didn't want the riots. They didn't want to be, oh no, we're going to be targeted because we found him not guilty. Later on in the day and other Newsmax host, um, by the name of Rob Schmidt said this, I think you have political pressure. I think you have pressure from all these activist groups into all of this. And I think at the end of the day, people say, you know what, if we acquit this guy, the city's going to burn to the ground. So you had a jury that said, you know what?