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In which Mike Freeman drops a banana peel in front of Keith Ellison while saying “Hey, join the team,” and chuckles as Ellison eagerly rushes in.
https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/news\/2020\/05\/31\/keith-ellison-prosecutions-george-floyd<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Freeman is a jerk but he’s also an experienced prosecutor.\u00a0 Remember the Somali cop who shot the little White woman in the alley?\u00a0 He got convicted of 3rd degree and got 12 years, nothing close to what the mob wanted. Freeman survived that fiasco and he intends\u00a0to survive this one.\u00a0\u00a0
He’s read the autopsy report.\u00a0 He knows Floyd didn’t die from lack of air (obviously not, or he couldn’t have been talking).\u00a0 Freeman knows the victim was stoned and had other medical issues that may have been exacerbated by the arrest, which might possibly make the officer careless or negligent, but Freeman knows there’s no way to make Murder 1 stick and that’s the only thing that will satisfy the mob.
So how’s he get the mob off his back?\u00a0 He asks Keith Ellison for help.\u00a0 Ellison – who has no prosecution experience – will now “take the lead.”\u00a0 Which means whatever goes wrong with the case from here on out, Freeman points at Ellison and says “Don’t ask me, he’s in charge.”
Early in my career, I spent a few years as a prosecutor.\u00a0 A criminal case isn’t won by clever speeches or Twitter comments, it’s a s***load of hard work.\u00a0 Ellison has no idea.\u00a0 He’s being set up to take the fall when the cop walks.\u00a0 Freeman will shrug and carry on.\u00a0 Walz will remind us what a great job he’s done on Covid.\u00a0 Charlie Foxtrot all around.
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

More on this later today. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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