Hinderaker: All In A Lather — As White Privilege Seems To Be Inexorably On The Wane… Except As To Cops.

In a post ostensibly to complain about the unfair treatment of a town that keeps racist symbols on its official local police patch to this day (in Gettysburg), John finds time to ignore the well-settled law of police arrest responsibilities… the history of the US, and the idea than never in the last century of the recorded history of the United States (and certainly not before then) has a black homicide defendant been granted bail, and allowed to relocate anonymously, out of state — to await trial in comfort of a warm home — to, in short, pretend he isn’t a murderer, until time for trial. As though it all… never happened.

That, my friends… is white [Police version] privilege.

But no — rather than dig through all of that — I’ll address the only Hinderaker lie I really care about this late Sunday morning (as John presumably leaves his house of worship — hypocrite!): John would imply that some form of qualified immunity exists for a police officer, on a scene, who has already subdued someone (Mr. Floyd) he has placed in custody — under arrest, in hand-cuffs, unarmed, on the pavement, face down, with the officer’s knee on the neck of the arrestee.

That is not the law. There is no immunity to act recklessly in this situation, as there is literally no conceivable danger left, to the officer — with three fellow officers standing guard around him. Yet as we well-know, from video evidence, Chauvin does not get up — does not get off the cut-off airway of Mr. Floyd for over eight minutes — all while Mr. Floyd is pleading for his life. It is well-settled law is that once the officer has the arrestee in this posture, he becomes absolutely responsible for the safe transport of said person.

This is so, because the person cannot do anything to help themselves in this position. So what if Mr. Floyd had a quantity of fentanyl in his system, John? It. Is. Irrelevant. Officer Chauvin was required to be at least reasonably careful, and to keep him alive, at a minimum, for transport. Mr. Floyd was pleading for his life. Chauvin ignored these documented pleas, for over eight minutes — (in a reckless form of depravity, at a minimum) thereby “executing” a defenseless man, on the spot.

[BTW, John — who might have posted that $1 million bail for Chauvin? Is that relevant? Your rich white supremacist friends, perhaps?! We know he doesn’t have that kind of scratch unless he is a dirty cop, from the go. And while we are at it, why don’t you mention that Chauvin clearly had prior dealings with / knew Mr. Floyd, and likely, the evidence will show, had a grudge against him from prior off-duty security work, at a south Minneapolis nightclub? If the fentanyl is relevant, then Officer Chauvin’s use of force to collect a likely gambling or drug debt from Mr. Floyd… is likewise relevant.]

But I’ll simply end where I began: John is, without serious doubt, a full-on hood wearing racist, here.

Out.