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Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro has called for President Trump to pardon former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
Derek Chauvin was previously convicted in the 2020 murder of George Floyd.
In a petition, Shapiro wrote, “We write to urge you to immediately issue a pardon for Officer Derek Chauvin, who was unjustly convicted and is currently serving a 22-and-a-half year sentence for the murder of George Floyd and associated federal charges.”
Shapiro added, “massive overt pressure on the jury to return a guilty verdict regardless of the evidence or any semblance of impartial deliberation.”
Take a look:
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— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) March 4, 2025
Per The Hill:
Conservative media figure Ben Shapiro launched a petition calling on President Trump to pardon former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted in the 2020 murder of George Floyd.
“We write to urge you to immediately issue a pardon for Officer Derek Chauvin, who was unjustly convicted and is currently serving a 22-and-a-half year sentence for the murder of George Floyd and associated federal charges,” Shapiro wrote in a letter addressed to the president.
Floyd’s death ignited nationwide protests in 2020, after video footage was widely circulated showing Floyd pleading, “I can’t breathe,” as the then-Minneapolis police officer kneeled on Floyd’s neck for nearly ten minutes
The episode led to months of protests and coincided with the rise of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.
Shapiro, in the letter, described the death as “the inciting event for the BLM riots,” which he noted caused significant property damaged and “set America’s race relations on their worst footing in recent memory.”He also pointed to what he viewed as gaps in the evidence presented at trial.
But most importantly, Shapiro said in the letter, was the “massive overt pressure on the jury to return a guilty verdict regardless of the evidence or any semblance of impartial deliberation,” noting even elected lawmakers “pre-judged the outcome of the trial and took to national media to create pressure on the jury to go along with their preferred narrative.”
Ben Shapiro calls on Trump to pardon ex-Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin of federal crimes in George Floyd case https://t.co/DQvTf9wOGx pic.twitter.com/IjlV78Biw1
— New York Post (@nypost) March 4, 2025
Per The New York Post:
Conservative pundit Ben Shapiro announced Tuesday that he wants President Trump to pardon former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin of all federal crimes in the May 2020 death of George Floyd.
“The Ben Shapiro Show” host has launched a petition backing a public letter to Trump, 78, contending that Chauvin, now 48, was “unjustly convicted” of Floyd’s killing, which led to riots in cities across the US and a national reckoning on the issues of race and policing.
A local jury in Minnesota found Chauvin guilty of unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in April 2021 and later sentenced him to 22.5 years in prison.
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