In a transparently stupid move tonight, John pretends that the world is learning something new, related to the George Floyd homicide — by cop.

The world is not. This contra- report was known within days, and reported on by the press.

The officer is NOT “a man without a country“, somehow vaguely… wrongly accused, according to Hinderaker.

He is right where he… belongs. And John knows it.

In the law, there is a doctrine as John well knows (or at least… knew, before he went soft in the head) called “proximate cause“. As it applies to the criminal law pertaining to conduct of police officers making a dangerous arrest, if the officer’s kneeling on Mr. Floyd’s neck impeded his breathing in any significant way (especially after he said he could not breathe, repeatedly — and was later… pleading for his life), it is manifestly no excuse that other causes might possibly have exacerbated his condition.

In sum, once the officers arrested Mr. Floyd and took control of his body — they became responsible for his safety — because he could no longer be counted on to be able to protect his own safety. Even if he was swallowing his tongue on the ground, without them touching him, the officers were duty bound to reach in, and try to dislodge his tongue from his throat. That is the law — since once cuffed, he cannot do it for himself. Case citations available on request. But the proximate cause of his death was… impeded airway.

That he died — unless the officers had never touched him, at all — is “on their watch”. Their tab. And as it happens, the officer was putting the full weight of his body down on Mr. Floyd’s neck for over seven minutes. That is not disputed. And the FINAL (not draft) cause of death — from the coroner’s report was… cardiac arrest, from asphyxiation.

That’s official; not some crap John makes up.

John is guilty as charged — he’s a prevaricating racist’s racist. And John knows any reasonable jury will so find. But, like Steve H. this afternoon — these racists… gotta’ racist. In short, to try to defend the indefensible.

Now I will post my prior one from three weeks ago, answering John on this precise topic — thus proving this is no news.

Idiot cannot even keep his dumb lies straight. Charming, John.

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Dateline — August 3, 2020

It was Georg Christoph Litchenberg who said (albeit of books) “[a blog] is like a mirror: if an ass… peers into one, we should not expect that… an apostle will peer back out.” True — in spades, of John Hinderaker — over these last 15 years, to be sure.

Tonight, John joins the chorus of openly gleeful racists — those who offer “truther sh!t” — about their lunatic non-theories on the cause of death of Mr. Floyd.

I guess it is to be expected — as we’ve long established that John is a regular, card-carrying racist. In context then, here is his punchline:

“…Floyd complained of being unable to breathe long before anyone knelt on his neck. (Shortness of breath is a symptom of fentanyl overdose.) He apparently preferred being on the ground to being inside the squad car….

But Floyd’s autopsy found no evidence of physical trauma [Ed. Note: flatly false] in the neck area, and documented no other signs of death by asphyxiation. It may be that what we are actually seeing in the video is one of tens of thousands of deaths due to opioid overdose. Or it may be that Floyd died later, on the way to a hospital.

I am not a doctor and have no opinion on Floyd’s cause of death….”

I guess non-doctor, non-lawyer Hinderaker was also too busy writing about how bad (what he calls) “woke” sports is, to check the actual, final on the record Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office opinion of mid-June 2020, that Mr. Floyd’s death was a homicide. Thus, from one of dozens of news articles, available in a two second Google search:

“…Both the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office and an autopsy commissioned by George Floyd’s family have ruled that the death of Floyd – in an incident that has triggered nationwide unrest – was a homicide and the 46-year-old’s heart stopped beating while police restrained him and compressed his neck….”

So — our central object lesson, re Hinderaker, here? Yawn — a racist… is gonna’… racist. [But Mr. Floyd’s family ought to sue — for libel.]

Out.