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Elon Musk Calls on Trump to Pardon Ex-Cop Derek Chauvin, Who Murdered George Floyd

www.democracynow.org Elon Musk Calls on Trump to Pardon Ex-Cop Derek Chauvin, Who Murdered George Floyd

Elon Musk has joined calls for President Trump to pardon ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of murdering George Floyd in 2020. A Trump pardon would end Chauvin’s 20-year sentence on federal convictions for violating Floyd’s civil rights, but Trump does not have the power ...

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Nazi child of apartheid encourages elevated racial tensions, more at 11.
- I mean the plan was always to annihilate people of color like my wife and I. This country has treated our people like shit for centuries and the rest of the world wants us to stay and fight to fix our country. I say fuck that. That's like saying the German Jews should have stayed to fix Germany and should have started committing acts of violence to fix their country. That was never going to work last century what the fuck makes anyone think it would this century. No the fact is racist whites enabled and did this, we aren't at fault and we are not responsible to fix it for them. We are going to be part of the brain drain of this country. Leave the whites to sort out their own fucking mess for once.
  
  They'll beat the drums of nationalism, and try to guilt you. If you flee now, the hundreds of years of oppression will have been in vain. You dare turn your back on the failed revolutions of MLK? Malcolm X? Coward, they'll say. But I say fuck that noise. You owe them nothing. Get out, before it gets worse. You owe it to you and yours to try and find happiness, if you can.
  Edit: This is my 666th comment. I meant to drop it in a christian thread, but I thought I had at least one more. Oh well.
  
  Sorry you are being forced out
- Really, really nasty move.

Do you want riots? Because that's how you get riots.
- actually, yes. I think they do.
  
  Not saying you're wrong just want to understand youre thinking why would they want riots? Isnt that the only real threat to them?
  
  Huh. Makes sense then, the pardon. Jesus Christ.
- I wouldn't be surprised if that is not the point.
- Dude will still spend 22.5 years in prison even with a pardon.
  
  Non American here, how does that work?

They just want to cause riots. Trump and Elon are agitators.
- This. I'm convinced at this point they're attempting to instigate riots so they can declare material law and seize full control over the US government.
  
  I know it a typo, but declaring it, would be the last step of making material law the ultimate authority. Taking Capitalist Fromm late stage to endgame.
- I agree. This is just intended to cause civil unrest to distract from everything else they’re doing to tear America apart.
  But also, Musk is a Nazi.
- That implies either of them have any intelligence.
  
  No, but they've got people working for them that you never hear about that do
  
  They are the clowns of the circus. Half the US is trying to figure out who the ring master of the circus is ... instead of looking for the guy who owns it.

I think the ultimate goal is martial law, and I think he is unconcerned about what triggers his ability to declare it.

If Trump pardons him he still has 20+years of state sentence to finish, this is a distraction….
They are about to do the biggest grift ever with the tax cuts for the rich.
All of this is a distraction
- Yup, same with the tariffs. Drop the stock market by two percent and as the richest person in the world you’ve just invested billions

A possible motive is to push the power of the executive. If Trump can somehow seize this power, there's nothing that can stop him.
That or just trying to embolden the police, but I'm guessing it's even worse than that.
- I'd say it's to embolden police and violent racists, in hope of helping encouraging their race war to destabilize the country so that they can divy it up.
  The interesting lack of forethought from the oligarchic billionaires is that their billions mean nothing without the US dollar and NYSE. The majority of their hoards of wealth are not backed by anything tangible that could be of use in the event that the US dollar ceases to be relevant. I suppose that this kind of thought isn't likely to occur to sociopaths that were born with platinum spoons in their mouths.
  
  Yes - just as with the DEI controversy, the main point is just to fan the flames of racism.
  The 1% understand that the US is approaching a breaking point. Things are going to shit, and people are going to start looking for someone to blame for the ugliness and horror and death to come.
  And the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of the 1%.
  And of course, they don't want us to see that. So they're doing everything they can to divide us against ourselves.

This is the sleight of hand they want you paying attention to. Instead, keep an eye on the other hand;
Because that is the one doing the damage.
- The real trick is the fact that both of these do damage, and you can't afford to ignore either.
  Signaling to the police that the executive branch has your back and will support you when you kill poor black men is going to get people straight up murdered.
  
  He also has people's back when they murder/injure police. So, if you're a cop, do not take it as a show of support.
- It kinda feels like both hands are doing a lot of damage....
- Elon trying to use this to distract from all the federal firings he's done

Gotta throw red meat to the racist AF base to distract from how fElon and his Incel Clown Posse is stealing from the American people...
- Literally Orcs.
  
  "But of those hapless who were snared by Melkor little is known of a certainty. [...] Yet this is held true by the wise of Eressëa: that all those of the Quendi that came into the hands of Melkor, ere Utumno was broken, were put there in prison, and by slow arts of cruelty and wickedness were corrupted and enslaved. Thus did Melkor breed the hideous race of the Orkor in envy and mockery of the Eldar, of whom they were afterwards the bitterest foes. For the Orkor had life and multiplied after the manner of the Children of Ilúvatar; and naught that had life of its own, nor the semblance thereof, could ever Melkor make since his rebellion in the Ainulindalë before the Beginning: so say the wise. And deep in their dark hearts the Orkor loathed the Master whom they served in fear, the maker only of their misery. This maybe was the vilest deed of Melkor and the most hateful to Eru"

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/03/05/there-are-calls-to-pardon-chauvin-heres-why-it-wouldnt-get-him-out-of-prison
Not gonna happen, he can cry about the federal charges but MN has him owing 22 years.
- That's encouraging. Thanks!

They reeaally doing anything they can to get that martial law step started from their project 2025 handbook

Couldn't he only be pardoned for the federal level conviction and not the state? Looking at his Wikipedia article, he has a 21 year fed sentence and a 22.5 state.
But yeah, this is a way to force violent protests and eventually martial law.
- Maybe it won't be protests this time and just 30,000 people turning his body into something that doesn't resemble a human.
- IIRC, Chauvin made the plea deal on federal charges so that he would do his time in the relative safety of a federal prison.
  Which would mean that if he gets pardoned on federal charges, then he would have to serve out his remaining state time in a state pen... the very thing he wanted to avoid. He would probably be dead in under a month unless he spent the next decade or more in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day (like he did in his pre-trial detention).
  Which would be a crying shame, of course...

So which company building we burning down first? I vote for Wal-Mart.
- How about a Tesla building? Or a government building?
  
  Tesla do that on their own. If we did their building, people will think it was the same way.
  Government build hurts the people. We will have to rebuild it again. Plus I want a building that will improve the community and a Wal-Mart building will accomplish that.

I scrolled all the way to the bottom of these comments, then breathed a sigh of relief.
Because the comments that I'd see on reddit, the ones all the way at the bottom that show up every time George Floyd is mentioned, weren't there. I hadn't even thought about those comments until I got to the end.
- How bad?
  
  what

Elon's brain got damaged by ketamine usage. At his level of power and wealth, he basically runs the planet and the drugs embolden him to shamelessly call for whatever shits he believes
- He's basically Baron Harkonnen with a broken dick.
- Yeah, but the drugs didn't make him a racist

Nazi Musk does nazi things.

The fact that Elon Musk is for pardoning someone who murdered an innocent person speaks volumes. Also, I can't see how this wouldn't lead to riots.
- They want riots so they have a reason to put troops on the streets and “come down hard” to please their base.
- Why haven't there already been riots? Of all the reasons to start widespread riots, hasn't the last 2 months given enough of them?
  
  Americans are capable of riots, but it seems to require so marination before some trigger event happens on their soil that causes emotions to suddenly spark.
  
  The tech oligarchy as a tight grip on the population. They control the narrative.

Presidential pardons are one of the dumbest powers. Change my mind.
(Plenty of more stable countries get on fine without it, and don't have to deal with this nonsense to boot)
- People lose their shit over jury nullification, yet somehow pardons are A-OK
  Pardons should not be a thing, in my lifetime its pretty much only been used for scummy shit.
  
  Shout outs to pardoning Ross Ulbricht, while blaming Canada for fent
  
  Didn't Biden pardon everyone who was arrested for marijuana possession?
  
  Chelsea Manning tho. Only non-scummy instance I can think of right now

They're trying to Reichstag fire up their own Reichstag fire. Martial law in America as a toe dip for their invasion of Canada.

Elon knows millions of Americans hate him and are coming for him so he wants every single super-villain free to team up together.
- No. He wants a racial war and Chauvin walking free is a surefire way to start one.
  
  This whole thing is giving Manson Family

If he gets pardoned I hope that will push the Americans harder to overthrow these sycophants. On the other hand it could be to try to trigger something so Cheeto Mussolini can crack down on the protests with violence.
- There will be mass protests, looters will take advantage of these times. Martial law will be declared in those places and never given back. Nothing would make them happier
  
  If the United States commits their military to enforcing martial law on their own soil then it'll be more difficult for them to escalate their current economic wars into actual wars.

Hell yes! Get Chauvin out of Club Fed and right into GenPop of the nearest state prison. That'll work out GREAT for everyone. Except Chauvin.

Honestly, a part of me wants this to happen because I believe it would cause some serious protests.
- Call me a conspiracy theorist but i believe that is the point.
  
  I think it's a reasonable assessment of the current situation. He wants/they want to put us in a situation where our military must or can be used to restore order. They want to normalize military use against US citizens.
  
  You conspiracy theorist!

Getting classier by the day. Fucking embarrassing

elon can fuck right off with this bullshit

Yeah that tracks with this timeline.

"How can we cause larger riots than what happened after a George Floyd was murdered?"

I find it funny how people on the right want the cop who shot that lady during the Jan 6 riot to be punished, yet think Chauvin was in the right....like how can you be so stupid....then again they probably don't care the cop shot her they care cuz he's black.
- One cop shot a minority. One cop shot a Republican. To them one one of the victims is considered human. Take a guess as to which.
  
  I kind of wish Chauvin shot Floyd instead of the TORTURE he put that man through. Slowly choking the life out of him as he begged for his life.

Was he convicted federally, or is Musk just generating distractions for the news media?
- He has a federal conviction for 20 years and a state conviction for 22.5 years
  
  Good, so not going anywhere.

Oh boy. I mean sure, pardon the federal charges.
He's still got time he owes Minnesota about 20 years yet. I don't know what the laws about where he serves are, but I don't imagine he'll be placed somewhere better.
- Prisons in Minnesota are much more likely to have inmates that he personally arrested, so moving from federal to state prison would be significantlyworse for him

But that guy was convicted of murder wasnt he? Is Felon now doubting a jugdes decision? I really think he is losing his shit. Did for sometime but now its getting obvious.

Why not give Zimmerman a Presidential Medal of Freedom while you're at it?
- Ever see the south park episode on that?
  
  Actually, no haha

Can someone kick off from ketamine? Cos I really hope he just does a little too much one night
- Not really. And I wouldn’t pin this behavior on something that has therapeutic use anyway, ketamine deserves better.
  
  Yeah, Ketamine doesn't cause racism
  
  I never pinned this on k, it’s just an avenue for him to kick off on

That should go over well.

Chauvin would join Kash Himmler's near future SA or NKVD private security detail. The single finger salute goes out to the neo-Nazis and their Government of Putin supporters.

Of course he would. Pigs of a leather grunt together.

Well it’s pretty clear musk is a piece of shit like trump

You wanna really turn up the Lonnie hate, don't you Lonnie?

Frankly, I'm surprised he hasn't already.

Flyod's toxicology report says otherwise. Dude had lethal limits of opitates in his system. He was going through fore-boding immediately when they got him out of the squad car. It is hard to watch a person die, but he was having issues a couple of minutes they got his out of his vehicle.
- He had lethal limits of pig pressing down on his wind pipe.
  
  I watched the footage. I disagree.
- Sure, can we see the toxicology report showing the lethal levels?

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