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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott remains silent on posthumous pardon for George Floyd

The state's parole board recommended in October that Floyd, murdered by a Minneapolis police officer, be pardoned for a minor 2004 drug conviction in Houston. The governor hasn't acted, and isn't answering questions about what he will do.

BY JOLIE MCCULLOUGH NOV. 29, 2021

It’s been nearly two months since the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, in a surprising, unanimous decision, recommended that George Floyd be pardoned for a problematic 2004 drug conviction in Houston. Gov. Greg Abbott, who has the final say, has been sitting on the recommendation largely without public comment since.

For those hoping the pardon will be granted, the governor’s silence has been deafening.

“I just don’t want it to die on his desk,” said Allison Mathis, the Houston public defender who put the request before the parole board. “Up or down, one way or another, just give us an answer.”

Days after the board's recommendation, Abbott briefly told reporters at an unrelated event that his office would analyze Floyd’s case. The governor has since been quiet on the matter.

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https://www.texastribune.org/2021/11/29/texas-greg-abbott-george-floyd-pardon/
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Abbott should just let it die on his desk.

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I can't think of any subject less consequential than this. The guy is dead. This pardon means nothing to anyone except possibly some die hard fanatics. And even THOSE people have better things to worry about.

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I can't think of any subject less consequential than this. The guy is dead. This pardon means nothing to anyone except possibly some die hard fanatics. And even THOSE people have better things to worry about.

I agree. The one who needs to be released is DERECK CHAUVIN.  And all our veterans from Jan.6th in solitary confinement for a year...yet no charges or convictions. JUST ROTTING IN JAIL AS POLITICAL PRISONERS.

Floyd died from overdose of Fentanyl and enlarged heart, from years of taking drugs.  He is a FELON...has rap sheet. Why should anything be pardoned for this thug?   PORN STAR, dealing with child sex trafficking.

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The left simply wants to erase the thug's history like it never happened.

F' the left.

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The left simply wants to erase the thug's history like it never happened.

F' the left.

Now, you are talking !    :thumbsup:

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George Floyd wasn't murdered.
(but he WAS a criminal with a record, and that record should remain...)

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Anyone who has time or the inclination to care about this has entirely too much free time on their hands.

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Floyd pled guilty.  No pardon.  If they want to toss his conviction on a technicality, then that is up to Harris County.
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Abbott has had a decent history of not pandering to wokeness.

He'll lose some respect if he does on this pointless issue.
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Re: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott remains silent on posthumous pardon for George Floyd
« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2021, 05:47:23 am »
George Floyd wasn't murdered.
(but he WAS a criminal with a record, and that record should remain...)

 Yes, not a child.
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Additionally, the toxicology report on Floyd emerged.  We learned that, in addition to severe heart disease, Floyd had massive amounts of fentanyl and methamphetamines in his body, as well as pot.  (Regarding that heart disease, to the extent Floyd claimed recently to have had the Wuhan virus, that too could have affected his heart.)

The final piece of evidence in George Floyd's death was full footage from one of the arresting officers' body cameras.  It shows Floyd resisting the police, complaining from the beginning about an inability to breathe (so that the police called an ambulance), and foaming at the mouth.

Former federal and state prosecutor George Parry looked at all the evidence about Floyd's arrest and wrote a must-read article explaining that, whatever else the police did that fateful night, they didn't kill George Floyd.

 George Floyd killed himself with an accidental overdose, (NOPE; he swallowed fentanyl to hide it from cops=L.A.)  something no doubt made worse because of his chronic heart disease:

[T]he evidence proves that, when he first encountered the police, George Floyd was well on his way to dying from a self-administered drug overdose. Moreover, far from publicly, brazenly, and against their own self-interest slowly and sadistically killing Floyd in broad daylight before civilian witnesses with video cameras, the evidence proves that the defendants exhibited concern for Floyd's condition and twice called for emergency medical services to render aid to him. Strange behavior, indeed, for supposedly brutal law officers allegedly intent on causing him harm.

Similarly, the evidence recorded by the body cameras worn by the police conclusively establishes that Floyd repeatedly complained that he couldn't breathe before the police restrained him on the ground.

As documented by Floyd's autopsy and toxicology reports, his breathing difficulty was caused not by a knee on his neck or pressure on his back, but by the fact that he had in his bloodstream over three times the potentially lethal limit of fentanyl, a powerful and dangerous pain medication known to shut down the respiratory system and cause coma and death.

 He also had in his system a lesser dose of methamphetamine, which can cause paranoia, respiratory distress, coma, and death. ( And pot and alcohol=L.A.)


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