Tucker Carlson devoted much of his program Tuesday night to holding a decidedly anti-Chauvin position, complaining that former police officer Derek Chauvin was only convicted of murder because jurors feared Black Lives Matter and suggest that the ruling shows that the US ‘already given up on civilization. ”
At the same time, the far-right primetime star melted down when a former New York government official described Chauvin’s actions against George Floyd as ‘excessive’ and ‘cruel’, emitting a disturbing laugh in the face of his guest while he cuts him off middle sentence.
In an interview with Ed Gavin, a former deputy sheriff at the Sheriff’s Department in New York, Carlson asked if anyone would like to become a police officer in a post-Chauvin neighborhood. Gavin, in turn, said he believes “people will still become police officers” before drawing attention to Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd.
“It’s really a learning experience for everyone,” Gavin said. “Let’s be honest, what we saw in the video was pure cruelty.”
He continued: ‘I mean, the documentary evidence showed that the police officer put his knee on the offender’s neck while he was handcuffed behind and his stomach was on the ground, causing asphyxia. What I would like to see, Tucker, I would like to see more police training. I would like to see the police trained like EMTs like the fire department. ‘
Gavin applauded the jury’s ruling, pointing out that he had personally used violence against literally more than 500 people in my 21-year career as an officer and that no one was ever unconscious.
“It was clearly an excessive, unjustified use of force,” he added. ‘I think the verdict was fair, we had documentary evidence, testimony, and it was an open and closed case. To move forward, we must … ”
Carlson paused and shouted, “How about the law, should we do it? Delay us, do we apply the law? Suppose people go through the window at Macy’s and the police are just standing there, thank you? ‘
The Fox News star also wondered aloud when the police “would protect everyone else, not just George Floyd.”
Gavin argued that he also wants the police to protect people, and that it is specifically about law enforcement dealing with someone who is already handcuffed and subdued. The police must take a different approach “in that situation, he insisted.
Gavin called on law enforcement to read previous studies on ‘positional asphyxia and sudden death’, saying they were talking about the ‘physiology of a struggle’.
‘Well, yes, but the man who did it looks like he’s going to spend the rest of his life in jail, so I’m more worried about the rest of the country, which is due to the inaction of the police, if you’ve noticed, it’s like being on board, ”Carlson knelt down and suppressed with a bizarre, loud laugh.
‘So it’s more my concern. But I appreciate it, Gavin, thank you, ”Carlson added quickly.
“Look, look,” Gavin tries to respond before his feed is cut off and he is removed from the screen.
“Nope. Done!” Carlson exclaimed before moving on.