Elon Musk floats possible pardon of ex-cop Derek Chauvin for being 'unjustly convicted' in George Fl

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Elon Musk floats possible pardon of ex-cop Derek Chauvin for being 'unjustly convicted' in George Floyd case

Daily Mail
By STEPHEN M. LEPORE
4 March 2025



Elon Musk weighed on a movement to pardon former police officer Derek Chauvin, saying the controversial action was 'something to think about.'

Chauvin, the disgraced Minneapolis cop convicted of murdering George Floyd back in 2020, is currently serving concurrent state and federal sentences in a federal prison in Arizona.

Ben Shapiro's The Daily Wire has begun an effort to pardon Chauvin with an open letter to Donald Trump, calling his conviction 'the defining achievement of the Woke movement in American politics.'

The letter claims that Chauvin did not murder Floyd because he was 'high on fentanyl' and 'had a significant pre-existing heart condition,' complaining of trouble breathing before the incident that ended his life.

Shapiro also cites that Chauvin was never accused of targeting Floyd for his race and that 'for large segments' of the video showing the encounter, his knee was on Floyd's shoulder or back, not his neck.

'Perhaps most significantly, there was massive overt pressure on the jury to return a guilty verdict regardless of the evidence or any semblance of impartial deliberation,' Shapiro said.

Musk reposted a video of Shapiro arguing for Chauvin to be pardoned by the president and commented: 'Something to think about.'

Shapiro added that the incident would allow the country to 'turn the page' on the 'Woke' era and end 'the weaponization of the American justice system.'

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[jafo2010]

I believe he should never have been indicted.  But I do not know that this moment in time is right to pardon him.  The politics of it will be one more reason to lose votes in 2026.  Do it in December, 2026.