“Police Officer Derek Chauvin Should Be Freed” – Elon Musk
PJ Media reports:
Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin says that the charges against him were “illegal” and that his trial was a “fraud.” The now-imprisoned cop and his lawyer are calling for the verdict to be thrown out because of civil rights violations so severe that the trial became a “one-year-long due process violation.”
Minnesota, though a basket case, may have one judge left who knows what justice is supposed to look like.
Chauvin, who used a knee hold to keep a resisting George Floyd on the ground while awaiting backup and an ambulance, was found guilty of murdering the drugged-out fentanyl user who had just taken a deadly overdose to hide the drugs from the Minneapolis Police Department. See more in Officer Chauvin’s Knee Was NOT on George Floyd’s ‘Neck’ and 8 Other Things You Didn’t Know About This Case.
The cops were called because Floyd, his previous girlfriend, and their drug dealer were passing fake $20 bills at a small store. The drug dealer, who could have been an exonerating witness for Chauvin was allowed not to testify.
Liz Collin of Minneapolis’s Alpha News first reported that “a new bombshell court filing alleg[es] ‘illegal’ and ‘fraudulent’ conduct by Governor Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office.” These are allegations that few will have trouble believing if they’ve paid attention to the news out of Minnesota during the last five years.
She reported that Chauvin’s attorney, Greg Joseph, contends that there were “structural issues” that were fundamentally wrong in the zeal to get someone behind bars in the wake of the George Floyd riots.
Elon Musk shared on Wednesday that Chauvin should be freed.
Derek Chauvin was unjustly convicted of murder, therefore he should be freed.
The facts show that he was not the cause of death, nor did he at any time intend for a death to occur. Whatever else he may be, he is not a murderer.
That is the truth.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 19, 2026
There's also the fact that MPD handbook said at the time of George Floyd that a knee to the back on the neck was a legal choke hold. Someone removed it when Derek went to trial. I know for a fact the handbook said it because I read the one they had online, before it was changed. Now if anyone had a physical copy from 2019 and prior would see how it was written, it said arm or knee to the back of the neck. That means even if the choke hold contributed in any way, Derek Chauvin was doing as he was trained and was inline with MPD policy and handbook.
The whole thing turned into a race hunt after 2014 Ferguson, MO lie about hands up. Don't shoot.
First autopsy issued by the Coroner listed Overdose as the primary cause of death. He was threatened multiple times and issued a second report listing strangulation. The Coroner was bullied by Blacks about a violent criminal who had enough Fentanyl and Meth in his system to kill 4 adult males. If you can make a sound, you ARE breathing! Derek Chauvin was railroaded and is innocent in Floyd's self-induced death.