Viewed from another planet, the unknowing alien might wonder why Chauvin is even on trial. Calm and dispassionate, the forty-something Nelson has been quietly picking the prosecution case apart these last three weeks.
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Although he has backstage help from the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association, Nelson has been arguing solo against the snarky Mod Squad of a prosecution team. To his good fortune, Chauvin has found his Atticus in defense attorney Eric Nelson. To them, it mattered not a whit that veteran Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, officer Kim Potter clearly showed no racial malice in her accidental shooting of Duante Wright, a troubled archetype from a subculture slowly being crushed under the weight of rigidly enforced dishonesty. This time, the mobs have shown no scruple about sating themselves on a female officer.
Like the fictional Robinson, the real-life Chauvin represents one of a long and growing line of sacrificial lambs offered on the altar of racial “justice” to expiate the nation’s imagined sins.Įver impatient, the mobs from the very same liberal metro could not wait for Chauvin’s official immolation to demand the sacrifice of a new lamb. Hell, as even Snopes had to concede Vice President Kamala Harris “encouraged her supporters to donate” to a nonprofit called the Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF) that was bailing out members of the mob arrested for rioting after George Floyd’s death.Ĭhauvin’s crime, like Robinson’s, was being of a certain race in a society that increasingly sees justice only through the prism of race.
As Chauvin learned quickly, if he did not know it beforehand, today’s vestigial liberals identify not with Atticus but with the mob. The unlikely mockingbird today is former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. He stared down the mobs intent on extra-legal justice and protected his ”mockingbird” as best he could. In his defense of Tom Robinson, a black man accused of rape in 1930s Alabama, Atticus ignored public opinion. The other is Juror #8 in the 1957 film, 12 Angry Men. Today, each is an endangered species. One is attorney Atticus Finch of To Kill a Mockingbird fame. In the archives of legal fiction, two characters best embody historic liberal self-perception.