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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Mar 5, 2025, 02:29 AM Mar 5

Elon Musk doubles down on Ben Shapiro's plea for Trump to pardon Derek Chauvin [View all]

Source: New York Daily News

Elon Musk amplified controversial podcaster Ben Shapiro’s plea for President Donald Trump to pardon former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chavin for the 2020 murder of George Floyd.

Shapiro on Tuesday suggested that “if we are issuing pardons … there is one person that President Trump should pardon from federal charges forthwith.”

“The inciting event for the BLM riots that caused $2 billion in property damage in the United States and set America’s race relations on their worst footing in my lifetime was, in fact, the railroading of Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd,” Shapiro claimed.

He added that Chauvin — who’s concurrently serving a federal sentence of 21 years and 22 1/2 years on state charges after pleading guilty to depriving Floyd of his civil rights and being convicted by a jury of murder and manslaughter in 2021 — is actually innocent.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-doubles-down-ben-001700961.html



Everyone saw what he did. Even some of his fellow officers testified against him. What else do you expect from a racist South African?
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