Sen. Amy Klobuchar Previously Declined to Prosecute Officer Involved in George Floyd’s Death

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Klobuchar Previously Declined to Prosecute Officer Involved in George Floyd’s Death

Breitbart, May 2020:

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), as a Minnesota county prosecutor in the early 2000s, refused to prosecute the police officer now at the center of the controversy surrounding the death of George Floyd.

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Klobuchar, who served as the chief legal officer of Hennepin County, Minnesota, before ascending to the United States Senate, declined to charge Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for his role in the shooting death of Wayne Reyes in October 2006.

Reyes allegedly “stabbed his girlfriend and a male friend,” before fleeing in his vehicle and setting off a chase by law enforcement, according to a report on police brutality from the Minneapolis-based Communities United Against Police Brutality.

Chauvin, who at the time had been on the Minneapolis police force since 1999, was one of six officers involved in the pursuit. When Reyes was eventually stopped, Chauvin and the other officers claimed he aimed a shotgun towards them in a threatening manner. Reyes’s alleged burnishing of the weapon resulted in all six officers opening fire and killing him.

The incident, which was reported by The Guardian on Thursday, elicited widespread concern among Minneapolis residents at the time of Reyes’s death for what was seen as too strong a use of force. As such, Klobuchar, who was running for the U.S. Senate at the time of the shooting, was pressured by the local black community in Minneapolis to prosecute the officers involved.

In the weeks following the shooting, however, Klobuchar declined to act on the matter. Instead, having won her Senate race, she spent the remaining three months of her tenure between November 2006 and January 2007 planning for her transition to Washington, DC. The case eventually went to a grand jury in 2008, which opted not to charge the officers with any wrongdoing for their conduct.

Chauvin would continue to serve on the Minneapolis police force for the next decade and a half. It would not, though, be his last brush with controversy. In 2011, Chauvin would be placed on temporary leave after he and four other officers shot a Native American man, who was later charged with felony second-degree assault. Overall, Chauvin would face at least ten civilian complaints throughout his tenure with the force. Three of those, which arose because of his use of “derogatory language” and “demeaning tone” towards suspects, would result in oral reprimands.

His career officially came to an end earlier this week when he was fired for his involvement in Floyd’s death. The firing came after a video went viral showing Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck while attempting to arrest the man for alleged forgery. In the video, Floyd is heard pleading for help, claiming he cannot breathe, as Chauvin stands over him. Tou Thao, Chauvin’s partner who also has a record of police brutality complaints, is seen in the video refusing to intervene.

Since the video went viral, protests have arisen across Minnesota and other parts of the country from activists hoping to shine a light on what they see as the failures and inequities of the criminal justice system. Although most of the protests have been non-violent, several riots broke out in Minneapolis and neighboring Saint Paul on Wednesday and Thursday.

The attention drawn by both the protests and the riots has brought Klobuchar’s 2006 decision to not prosecute Chauvin back into the spotlight. Such scrutiny, however, comes at an inopportune moment for the senator, who leads the short-list to be former Vice President Joe Biden’s running mate this November.

Even though Klobuchar was always going to face criticism for the law and order image she cultivated as a county prosecutor, the current situation in Minnesota disqualifies her in the eyes of many black Democrats and activists. The sentiment was perhaps best summed up by Sunny Hostin during an episode of ABC’s The View on Wednesday.

“We’re seeing that black people in Minneapolis are arrested at nine times the rate of a white person for nonviolent offenses,” Hostin said. She added “that this is why the black community has said that Amy Klobuchar is a nonstarter for them, because … she declined to prosecute over two dozen cases involving police killings of unarmed people.”

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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

ONE GOOD WAY to conceal your racism is to call everyone else a racist.
Then you can shout them down before they figure you out.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Those ‘liberals’ would NEVER live in a black neighborhood. Too ‘icky’, too dangerous.
When the Obamas visited Nigeria, their kids were afraid. The people were ‘too black’. President Lyndon Johnson, a white southerner from the confederate slave state of Texas, declared a “War On Poverty” but he didn’t actually bomb the slums. Instead, commie minions burned a lot of the ghettos. That caused massive and enduring black poverty and misery for 20+ years, and the poverty helped cement the Democrat base. The Democrats promised to ‘fix’ poverty [but they never did].
Johnson often used the N word in his office conversations, and these are preserved in his presidential recordings.
How the 1960s’ Riots Hurt African-Americans
The National Bureau of Economic Research
https://www.nber.org/digest/sep04/w10243.html

FemaleTRUMPFan
FemaleTRUMPFan
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

LBJ was a THUG in a suit who worsened race relations between Americans. THAT DESCRIBES EVERY DEMOCRAT POLITICIAN TODAY. Oh, they SAY THEY AREN’T RACIST, but look into their previous history. YOU WILL FIND RACISM.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  FemaleTRUMPFan

Yes, the goal is to wreck black lives by making them poor, sick, ignorant and hopeless, to facilitate their subjugation. Then the Dems promise to ‘fix poverty’ and they never actually do that, but it keeps people voting Democrat. For Democrats, that is complete success [e.g., Detroit, Baltimore].

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

I doubt that Maxine Waters would be caught dead in the district she represents and I believe she is supposed to live there. She lives in a 4.3 million dollar house. She is a classic example of a racist poverty pimp. She doesn’ t care about black people and they keep voting her back in! Eye roll.

You already know how she affords that – illegal Russia payoffs and she had the biggest mouth about the Russia hoax and Trump. DEMS still want to go after Trump for Russian money laundering. Sigh. It is consistent. They accuse you of what they are guilty of. It’s a distraction and puts you on the defensive and works every time.

She represents the 43rd district in California.comment image

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

The Watts Riots 1965 wrecked that district, and it never recovered. Maxine won’t fix it, she benefits from keeping them subjugated and voting Democrat.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Neither has Newark NJ or Trenton NJ. They remain shittttholes.
No one rational goes to Newark, unless you need to go to Newark Liberty International Airport and you do not deviate into the jungle. A wrong turn can cost you your life.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Yes, Felix, and the tyrant Democrats want it that way. The district votes Democrat, and that’s all the Dems need, to suck on society.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

It is misused and over used so often it becomes meaningless.
Impeachment is another word that falls into that category.

Bill Kay
Bill Kay
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Nothing new about that a normal operating procedure for the left do rotten s–t then blame the other side of doing it . Right out of rules for radical libtards book .

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  Bill Kay

Yes, and hate is really a commie thing. The research shows the left as being less tolerant, and quicker to hate.

spfoam1
spfoam1
3 years ago

An accusation of racism has been elevated to a crime above treason and mass murder. This is insanity.

The riots are politically motivated and timed like magic before the 2020 election. The people behind this couldn’t care less about one man’s death or 10 million deaths.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

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FemaleTRUMPFan
FemaleTRUMPFan
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

LET’S DEFUND DESTRUCTIVE AND RIOTOUS AMERICANS.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  FemaleTRUMPFan

Thomas Sowell is a famous black economist and author.
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Thomas Sowell has more brain cells than some entire countries

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

He hates Trump. He put down his pen when Trump won and made it clear he retired because Trump won. He fed us what he thought we wanted to hear just like other establishment Republicans. That was disappointing. Many have fooled us over the years….

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

felix, yes Sowell opposed Trump in 2016, he felt threatened by us, Trump’s supporters. He feared that we might be zealots who could wreck the Constitution. I don’t know his current opinions. His current retirement may relate to the fact that he is about 90 now.

Politicos usually disagree eventually. There is an unavoidable statistical reason why this occurs in human thought, and we just have to live with dissent and disagreement. The philosopher John Locke [1680] didn’t know about the stats, but he knew that political disagreement was inevitable, and it could be managed to strengthen the state [“Essay On Tolerance,” Amazon, and free online]. The Founders were very much influenced by Locke, as is Trump. [E.g., Trump says things like, “I like president Xi”, even though the guy is a horrible tyrant.]

Madison, the father of the Constitution, ripped his fellow Founders limb from limb in his writings. They just DID NOT GET IT, in his opinion. Still, we ignore the Founders’ disagreements, because things came out right in the end.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

You want to see what happens when you defund and disarm the police? Do an online search for “North Hollywood shootout”.

It happened in February of ’97. I watched the whole thing in real time. LA began re-arming their cops afterward.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

Hey Drew… Yes Dems are poor at consequential thinking. If they de-fund and disarm the police, others will de-fund and disarm the politicians. And the politicos will not be able to prevent that, they would have no cops. And that would end the cycle for the Dems.
And we would be the ones to rebuild it.

DaveM12
DaveM12
3 years ago

I remember that and the weapons they had just like a real war zone.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
3 years ago
Reply to  DaveM12

Yeah, they had illegally modified two AK variants to be fully automatic and all the cops had were minimal 9mm handguns.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

A black kid noticed that too. He filmed it on twitter and stated,
we’re being set up. He was right. You had a mixture or peaceful ones and violent ones at the protest.

Peter mohan
Peter mohan
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Feds investigating Antifa is comparable to the Keystone cops responding to a bank robbery

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  Peter mohan

Exactly, why would the FBI help Trump by fixing the riot problem? They are still trying to ‘get Trump’. Wray, the FBI head, is a total jerk who is obviously a Deep State minion, and helps the criminals still inside his department.

Worsethanitlooks
Worsethanitlooks
3 years ago
Reply to  spfoam1

Could not agree more. It all reeks of selective morality and hypocrisy. The NFL players ganging up on Drew Brees, is beyond the pale. Where were these players when their team mates were caught ON VIDEO slugging and assaulting women half their size. I recall deafening silence. They closed ranks and protected their union brothers just like cops do. The NFL is chock full of thugs and felons. They are the last people who should be lecturing anyone about racism.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
3 years ago

Agreed. Did you hear about Ray Rice’s old lady? She is going to enroll in college and major in astronomy. All she sees is stars.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  spfoam1

The death of George wasn’t planned but –

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spfoam1
spfoam1
3 years ago

The next thing you know Minneapolis will disband the police department. They’re actually considering it….at this point in time. Think about how absolutely insane that is.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  spfoam1

They are demanding that.

spfoam1
spfoam1
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

These criminally insane freaks in the Democrat Party are willing to murder half the nation to take power, and eager to murder the other half once they get power. I’m not exaggerating.

dapto
dapto
3 years ago
Reply to  spfoam1

I think the police in Minneapolis should just walk off the job and say the these democrat Nazi nut jobs fend for yourselves.

spfoam1
spfoam1
3 years ago
Reply to  dapto

The police need to decide if they are on the side of the Constitutional Republic of the USA or a bunch of traitors and Mohammedans who want to destroy it. They should arrest the treasonous political leadership that won’t allow them to restore order.

Worsethanitlooks
Worsethanitlooks
3 years ago

We were inching but now sprinting towards a dystopian society with lawless “Blue” cities ruled by armed gangs and factions, with everyone else living in safer Red territories with restricted migration in and out. Smells like a shrewd investment opportunity in red territory real estate.

I wish I was kidding. It’s getting scary.

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
3 years ago

libtards really do think folks are deaf dumb and blind

FemaleTRUMPFan
FemaleTRUMPFan
3 years ago

DemonRATS and LIBERALS are all insane people.

Just remember children, when the Dems tell you one thing, they actually mean another.

I REFUSE TO GIVE UP ON AMERICA(NS). I know the majority of them, who voted for Trump, are good and decent people. And, they will continue being so when we all re-elect President Trump and watch from a distance, the insanity of the left. In the meantime, I WILL NOT COMPLY TO ANY LIBERAL ORDER. I will obey RIGHTEOUS laws, but none other!

Philip
Philip
3 years ago
Reply to  FemaleTRUMPFan

Well said! I’m afraid they are still planning on mass vaccinations. Fake Media is a very real ongoing threat. In a way, they’ve become easier to follow though. Instead of going to Drudge and then checking on what nonsense they are spewing at Huffinglue Post, all one has to do now, is simply go to Fake Drudge to see their party line. Whoever is running it, isn’t Drudge anymore.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

Chauvin has troubled history as a police man. He has gotten away with it till now.
Chauvin has a short fuse and over reacts. He is finished.

Officer who knelt on George Floyd had
17 previous internal complaints filed with Minneapolis police

By Spencer Neale
5/28/20

The officer at the center of George Floyd’s death has a history of poor behavior.

Documents from the Minneapolis Police Department released Thursday reveal that officer Derek Chauvin, who was videotaped kneeling on Floyd’s neck for more than five minutes as onlookers begged him to stop, was internally reviewed 17 times for complaints lodged against him during his 19 years serving as an officer.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/officer-who-knelt-on-george-floyd-had-17-previous-internal-complaints-with-minneapolis-police

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Anthony Silvio
Anthony Silvio
3 years ago

—– PLEASE PRINT FOR UP COMING PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES AND PLAY ALONG ——–
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Philip
Philip
3 years ago

Watching what the Muslims do next in NY and elsewhere will be very instructive. When they argue for “defunding the police” I don’t think they mean getting rid of the Muslim ‘Police’ Forces. In fact, I’ll bet they aim to expand Muslim policing everywhere.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

Whoa! I can hardly take this in! It makes sense. Obama was setting us up for this too!
If you read this and live in NY, Cuomo and DeBlazio are already using “community policing” We have community organizing, community standards and now community policing!.

Going All-In: Minneapolis City Council Considers Disbanding Entire Police Force…
Posted on June 4, 2020 by sundance

Once you understand the larger objectives, everything becomes a sequence of predictable events. The term “community policing” has been used for several years by groups advocating for radical changes to law enforcement; however, behind the innocuous phrase is really a much more serious agenda.

If each community can determine the enforcement of law, then essentially all communities can eliminate the underlying law itself. Remove local enforcement of law and the local community can independently assemble a social structure separate from all other binding contracts that frame a larger societal compact.

This “community policing” process is already taking place in many European communities the results create what are known as “no go zones.” Neighborhoods, and entire parts of cities, where local Sharia compliance enforcement officers have replaced the police force; and the rules, regulations and enforcement are detached from the larger social compact. Considering that Minneapolis has a large concentration of Somali Muslims within the local population, it makes sense this approach is now discussed for their city.

More here –
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/06/04/going-all-in-minneapolis-city-council-considers-disbanding-entire-police-force/#more-193496
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felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  Philip

The game plan is to have this implemented nationally as people lose confidence in the police even though they are being told to stand down. Destroy the system and then you have the excuse to replace it.

Brooklyn welcome Sharia Law! They want Community Policing replacing our rule of law policing. Imagine how that will work out with already lawless third world people ominating cities or other areas.
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Philip
Philip
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Police Academy X: Mulsims Cop Patrol? Hollywood loves them another sequel. Idk if Steve Guttenburg could star in this one though- btw, what ever happened to that guy? After Cocoon, he just simply vanished.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

Minneapolis City Council president, Dem Jeremiah Ellison claim
they’ll ‘dismantle’ police

By Louis Casiano Fox News 6/4/20

(Jeremiah is Muslim Minnesota A.G. Keith Ellison’s son.)

Jeremiah Ellison, a Minneapolis city councilman and son of state Attorney General Keith Ellison, is calling for the “dismantling” of the Minneapolis Police Department following days of nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd — and he soon got the support of the City Council’s president.

Jeremiah Ellison tweet –

“We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department,” Jeremiah Ellison tweeted Thursday. And when we’re done, we’re not simply gonna glue it back together. We are going to dramatically rethink how we approach public safety and emergency response. It’s really past due.”

City Council President Lisa Bender, a fellow Democrat, later replied, “Yes. We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department and replace it with a transformative new model of public safety.”

Jeremiah Ellsion tweeted this to President Trump on 5/31/20 after Trump announced he will be designanting ANTIFA as a terrorist organization.

“I hereby declare, officially, my support for ANTIFA,” Jeremiah Ellison tweeted May 31. “Unless someone can prove to me ANTIFA is behind the burning of black and immigrant-owned businesses in my ward, I’ll keep focusing on stopping the white power terrorist THE ARE ACTUALLY ATTACKING US!”

President Trump, what are you waiting for? Get the National Guard in there or the military. Talk is cheap. Action is needed! Are you going to let a Muslim punk challenge you like this? Declare it a terrorist organization, no more waffling, no more endless investigations and get SOROS. SOROS funds BLM and ANTIFA! Stop listening to airheads Javanka and the the other clown, Secretary Esper.

http://www.americanpolicenews.com/uploads/8/3/4/4/83441690/george-soros-create-antifa-and-isis-terrorism_3_orig.jpg

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dapto
dapto
3 years ago

Defund Democrat cities

D A
D A
3 years ago

That picture is so disturbing. They say sexual predators can not be rehabilitated. Quid Pro-Ukraine Joe looks like he wants to insert his finger into Klobuchar !! You can see it in his eyes .

Disgusting !

prodigal son
prodigal son
3 years ago

I don’t think you can blame Klobuchar for not prosecuting Chauvin. That was a justified shooting if there ever was one.

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