Welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight a lot of things going on in the world right now, but we thought this was significant. Barrier to jury selection has just begun in the mentor trial of he is one of the officers who has been accused of murdering George Floyd in Minneapolis last Memorial day on one level. This trial is a local crime story. Come up one of many unfolding right now, but of course, its also an calculi. More than that the death of George Floyd Change, the United States profoundly and forever George Floyd, we were told wasnt an individual. He was every african American in the country he wasnt just a cop. He was the physical embodiment of Americas institutions when he murdered George Floyd. He was doing to one man what our country has done to all African Americans. Many people told us this, including Joe Biden. I just want to say a few

words about the horrific killing of George Floyd in Minnesota, but it sends a clear message to the black community black lives that are under threat every single day. They speak to a nation where too often just the color of your skin put your life at risk. George Floyds last words spoke to a nation, were the color of your skin, dictates the safety and your future? I am a white man, I think I understand, but I cant feel it George Floyd murdered because he was black thats, what they told us. They demanded that we believe that and if you doubted it in anyway, if you had any questions about the facts of the case, you were effectively as guilty as the racist cop who killed George Floyd, one theology teacher learned what that lesson. The hard way during a virtual class teacher noted that the cause of George

Floyds death was disputed. That is literally true. The trial hadnt even begun. Yet the dispute is at the core of every trial for the crime of observing the truth. The catholic diocese of Columbus fired her according to the diocese had made unsupported personal assertions and opinions about the death of George Floyd tonight were going to do what youre not allowed to do in catholic high schools in Columbus or anywhere else in America were going to assess calmly and and honestly as we can. What happened to George Floyd on Memorial Day, George Floyds death was sad. Every death is sad as we point out, but the question is: was it murder that matters deeply because his death has been used to reshape how we live in this country because he died? We have something called equity and, under the pretext of equity, our leaders have been trained and open racism in nearly all of our institutions. You see it

everywhere from corporate hiring quotas. Americans have been told that George Floyds death was a racist murder and they are responsible for its. It is not incumbent upon black people to stop racism to stop this. It is incumbent on people that hold the power and society to help to do that. To do the heavy lifting and guess who that is. Who is that Chris White people, white people are responsible, CNN said that out loud, but many others joined them. Now that assertion led to rioting that killed at least nineteen people and may kill more it destroyed. Hundreds of businesses commit Minneapolis were all of this began may never return to normal. This is what

return to normal. This is what the city looked like last year, that was last summer before that was last summer before the City Council in Minneapolis cut the funding for police in the first weeks, and generally this year, Minneapolis eight thousand two hundred and fifty percent increase in gunshot victims compared to last year. The neighborhood, where George Floyd died, is now more dangerous than ever. Businesses reported up residents, called it George Floyd Square. We visited that neighborhood a few weeks ago and walked around to see what it was like. The whole place was awful. It was not improved. It was much worse. Nothing at that Blm has done in the city of Minneapolis, has improved the lives of the people who live there.

On Saturday night, a man was shot to death in that neighborhood reporter for the Washington examiner tried to get to George Floyd Square to find out what happened. He couldnt he was informed. No white people were allowed in, so that is a snapshot of the equity that George Floyds death has been used to. This second reason were going to assess what exactly happened to George Floyd is that its likely that Derek Chauvin wont receive a fair trial? You not, you may not care, but you should care that should matter to you. Every American deserves a fair trial. That is the whole point of this country, equal justice. Under the law. There is no other point, but will Chauvin have a fair trial. Hundreds of activists have been steering down National Guard troops outside the courthouse in Minneapolis all week they shut down streets outside the courthouse. On Monday,

we need justice justice by any means necessary. In other words, if you vote to acquit, the community will burn because we will burn its its like something from Mississippi in the 1920s. Where is the justice department? And all of this, where is the so called civil rights division to protect the civil rights of Derek Chauvin even accused cops, have the right to a fair trial. Youre civil rights are not suspended when youre accused. This is America, of course, the civil rights Division is nowhere to be found there doing nothing, not surprisingly during jury, not surprisingly, during jury selection. Yesterday jurors had a reluctance to want anything to do with the case. One prospective juror explained the threats he would face. Can you tell us why you werent sure its more from a safety security standpoint? As far as im concerned, I feel

comfortable to say, but I wouldnt want issues or harm to come to my wife or my family, and there are certain individuals that were out to intimidate or cause harm if they knew where I lived its potential ththat, they could do damage to the house or spray paint, the house or garage door or break a window, so they jurors are intimidated. That is the point of mob justice. Its the point of mob justice. One hundred years ago, in the south, the thugs outside the courthouse dont want jurors to focus on the evidence, for the no evidence might not help their case. Much of the evidence hasnt been seen by much of the american population. The effort began to happen immediate after George Floyd died, everybody has seen the footage

of Derek Chauvin on his neck, its also confusing. Why would he ask like that bright? It must be illegal bird. No one in the media thought to tell is that in fact, using a need to restrain and uncooperative suspect is the official policy of the Minneapolis Police Department. It is taught at the police academy using a slide from training from the academy on your screen. Right now that you didnt see that slight last summer our media were building a murder case and using it to transform this country, which they successfully have. Nor did anyone in the press thing to report what happened before Derek Chauvin put his neck on George Floyds neck. They made sure that nobody could see the body Cambridge footage body cams exist. We can know what happen, but they had this footage and we only sought because the daily mail, which is from great Britain and slightly less terrified and then our own media, are the body cam showed officers working for about twenty minutes,

trying to detain a man who they believed had just committed a crime passing a of a twenty dollars bill and man who clearly had lost all sense of reality. The footage showed George Floyd begging officers to stay with him. He was clearly suffering the tape is wrenching to watch it is and by the end, you are filled with sympathy for George Floyd, but its not the picture of a murder. The incident began at 800 p, DOT M on May 24th when a grocery store clerk called police to report that George Floyd had used a counterfeit bill officers found Floyd in a car near boy immediately. It was obvious that something was very wrong with George Floyd hands on top of your head, stepped out of the vehicle and step away from it step out and face away, step out and face away im not going to shoot you step out and face away.

Please dont shoot me man step out and face away step out and face away. Please dont shoot me please step out and face away step out and face away. Please man, I didnt know it man, so George Floyd was so George Floyd was emotionally out of control and thats what you feel so deeply for George Floyd as you watch that video hes panicked, he is terrified and hysterical. The question is why the Minneapolis Police Department does not have some fabled history of police brutality, it just doesnt, and this certainly wasnt his first encounter with law enforcement in 1997 2007 police arrested him a total of nine times on charges ranging from drug possession to theft. In August, ninth of two thousand and seven he barged into a womans home and holding a gun to her abdomen in front of her toddler in a home invasion

into got five years in prison for participating in it. So hed been in custody before. Why was George Floyd on the verge of hysteria? The police officers wondered the same thing. You got foam around your mouth said one cop, a bystander looking on site youre, going to die of a heart attack police then asked Floyd if he had taken drugs. Are you on something right now cute lets go lets. Go. Are you on something right now the police officer asked no stage, George Floyd, but that wasnt close two true. According to the medical examiners office, he wasnt simply high. He had a lethal dose of fennel in his system. He also had methamphetamine. The autopsy report showed he had eleven nanograms of sentinel for millimeter of blood in his system when he was tested at the hospital more than three times the amount of fentanyl required to kill a

healthy person again thats, not our judgment, thats directly from the autopsy report, the one that people didnt see it until after the riots signs associated with that not include eggs. Respiratory repression, seizures coma and death fatalities from blood concentrations are variable and has been reported as low as three nanograms per milliliter of blood. Nobody is denying this. The Floyd families own lawyer admits that its true quote its true that the Hennepin County medical examiners autopsy showed that Floyd had fentanyl in his system, but then he insisted that George Floyd was killed by racism. In fact, the medical examiner- and you can read this online, found that George Floyd Hite was indeed on memorial day finally gave way according to a press release from the Medical examiners office, his close cause of death was pulmonary arrest,

complicating restraint and net conditions, contributing factors, arthroscopic and hypertensive heart disease, fennel intoxication recent methamphetamine use, including he was also infected with Covid bird thats alive in August. After months of writing, documents related to the autopsy were finally released in court. One was detailing a conversation with prosecutors Office had with Andrew Baker. Baker was the chief end up in county medical, examiner, Brad Baker told prosecutors that Mister Floyd had if he had been found dead in his home or anywhere else, and there were no other contribute impactors. We would conclude it was an overdose death. The memo noted that Baker said that if Aetna levels were pretty high and that it is a fatal level of fentanyl under normal circumstances, in a separate memo, Baker announced the autopsy revealed. No physical evidence suggesting that Mister Floyd died of is

Fixie. Asian Mister Floyd was having trouble breathing. Of course, the most noted part of the tape. What explains that, where I was George Floyd telling officers I cant breathe here is one possible explanation. One of the primary symptoms of Sentinel overdose is slowed or stopped, breathing leading to unconsciousness and death. That might also explain why George Floyd was saying I cant breathe long before any police officers knew was anywhere near him. In fact, George Floyd was complaining. He couldnt breathe is cops, tried to get him in a police car as he resisted roll the windows down. You gotta believe me im, not that kind of guy im, not that kind of guy im gonna die

im, not a bad guy man im, not a bad guy. Please please, take a seat. I cant breathe. Please please again. No one can watch that footage without feeling sympathy for the man in handcuffs. He is terrified, but does that footage amount to a murder? No, it doesnt it so clearly doesnt. The problem is that nobody saw that footage during the riots last summer or before them. They werent allowed to see it. That could be why it last June, sixty percent of respondents to the USA today described his death as a murder. That was then more facts have emerged from behind the media blackout, including the tape we just showed you, and that

perception has changed accordingly and its changed dramatically per the percentage of Americans who believe George Floyd was murdered. House now dropped by double digits and is down to thirty six percent. In other words, the question of whether George Floyd was murdered is in fact disputed by.