Now that a New York Jury has proven that Justice still exists in The Big Apple with its exoneration of former U.S. Marine and subway passenger defender Daniel Penny last week, the nation and the justice system should turn their attention to freeing another captive of the nation’s race-extorted urban judicial mechanics.
Derek Chauvin, the former police officer in whose custody the now-Leftist canonized and then-fentanyl-steeped George Floyd died in Minneapolis back in 2020, may not live to see an exoneration. A year ago this month Chauvin was stabbed 22 times when another inmate shivved him In the Arizona prison that has been his home for the last several years. Chauvin barely survived the assault.
Chauvin’s case should be reopened not because of any material change or introduction of new facts or evidence – a legitimate and non-inflamed review of those facts alone would result in his freedom or a lowered sentence – but because public sentiment in the crime-ravaged subsequent four years along with the revelation of the corruption apparent in urban courts has dawned a new era for justice.
That revelation was indicated by Daniel Penny’s exoneration. Penny acted to protect passengers in a New York subway car in May 2023 when doped-up schizophrenic thug Jordan Neely entered the car and began threatening people. Penny, with the assistance of other passengers, subdued and restrained Neely until cops arrived. Neely, 30 years old, later died.
But New Yorkers have had a belly full of unrestrained, essentially unprosecuted criminals running roughshod across the city ever since George Soros-backed prosecutors won office and set up gauntlets of protection favoring non-white criminals in cities across the country. Urban dwellers are tired of being victimized by multiple repeat offenders and tired of the lack of accountability of those operating the duty dodging, corrupt system.
Through it all, a quintessential moral can’t be denied: America used to give heroes who protected common folk against bad guys – drugged up thugs bent on robbing, raping or murdering them– medals for their selfless, heroic actions. In the urban slimepots where the justice system has been turned on its head, those heroes now get character assassination and jail bars.
The facts of Chauvin’s case, taken on the whole, would never have resulted in the 22-year sentence he received. Floyd had a long-term heart condition that never dissuaded him from habitual consumption of illegal drugs. On his last day he topped it all off with a mix of methamphetamine and a “dangerous level” of fentanyl according to a medical examiner’s report, that left his body begging for cardiac arrest even before he tried to pass a fake $20 at a Minneapolis convenience store that spawned his frantic contact with law officers. Instead of getting in the police car upon multiple requests from the police that day, Floyd chose to struggle with cops and act out his drug-wrought delirium. Under an otherwise low pressure immobilization restraint by Chauvin, Floyd’s damaged, drug-spiked heart gave out.
The days of society accepting responsibility for the seemingly unending quest of criminals to ravage their own bodies with chemicals are nearing an end. The figurative Get Out Of Jail Free race card which so many criminals believe provides them unending immunity against the efforts of law enforcement charged to protect the decent public should be revoked. The justice system should be freed of race-based intimidation and re-inspired by an indelible sense of right, no matter one’s color. Hopefully Penny’s exoneration is an omen of things to come.
Derek Chauvin should be the beneficiary of this Renaissance of justice. Let’s hope he lives long enough to realize it.
Dane Hicks is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and the United States Marine Corps Officer Candidate School at Quantico, VA. He is the author of novels "The Skinning Tree" and "A Whisper For Help." As publisher of the Anderson County Review in Garnett, KS., he is a recipient of the Kansas Press Association's Boyd Community Service Award as well as more than 60 awards for excellence in news, editorial and photography.
