DEFENDING THE INDEFENSIBLE.

Today it begins: The Trial of Derek Chauvin. It promises to be a long trail though it shouldn't be. The defense needs time to say George Floyd died from having taken drugs, from a weak heart, and any other human failing they can drum up. But he didn't. Those other problems may have killed him later or at another time, but not the day he died. This trial can be summed up in three words. The reason George Floyd died is contained in three words. Not in drugs. Not in a weak heart. In these three words:"I can't breathe."And the reason he couldn't breath was that Derek Chauvin was pressing his knee on George Floyd's neck. Not innocently because George said, "I can't breathe." repeatedly and pathetically. But Derek kept his knee there for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. (Time it on your watch.) Witnesses told Chauvin to remove his knee, but the arrogant Chauvin kept it there. So for a week or two we can expect to hear the defense vilify George Floyd with all kinds of cleverly phrased excuses why he died and why Derek Chauvin should not be punished. But Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd and the proof of that is in the three terrifying words, "I can't breathe."