Tucker Carlson spent much of his Tuesday night program betting on a decidedly anti-Chauvin stance, complaining that former police officer Derek Chauvin was only found guilty of murder because the jurors had fear of Black Lives Matter and suggesting that the verdict proves that the US “already renounced civilization“.
At the same time, the far-right star of the first hour melted away when a former New York corrections officer described Chauvin’s actions against George Floyd as “excessive” and “savage,” letting out a creepy laughter on his guest’s face as he cut him. out of the middle sentence.
While interviewing Ed Gavin, a former deputy sheriff in the New York City sheriff’s department, Carlson asked if anyone would like to become a police officer in a post-Chauvin setting. Gavin, meanwhile, said he believed “people will still become police officers” before focusing on Chauvin’s assassination of George Floyd.
“This is really a learning experience for everyone,” Gavin said. “Let’s be honest, what we saw in that video was pure wild.”
He continued: “I mean, the documentary evidence showed that the police officer was kneeling on the author’s neck while he was being handled in the back and with his stomach on the ground, causing suffocation. What I would like to see, Tucker, I would like to see more training for the police. I would like to see police training as EMT as firefighters. “
Gavin applauded the jury’s verdict, noting that he has personally used force “on literally more than 500 people in my 21-year career” as an officer and that one person was never knocked unconscious.
“It was clearly an excessive and unjustified use of force,” he added. “I think the verdict was fair, we had documentary evidence, testimonial evidence, and it was an open and closed case. To move forward, we must … ”
Interrupting Gavin, Carlson shouted, “How about enforcing the law, should we? Slow down, enforce the law? Let’s say people walk through Macy’s window and the cops are just there, they give up?”
The Fox News star also wondered out loud when police “would protect everyone, not just George Floyd.”
Claiming that he also wants “the police to protect the people,” Gavin explained that his point was specifically about law enforcement dealing with someone already handcuffed and subdued. Police should “take a different approach” in this situation, he insisted.
Calling on law enforcement to read previous Justice Department studies on “positional suffocation and sudden death,” saying they talk about the “physiology of a fight,” Gavin re-described Chauvin’s actions. as excessive, which caused Carlson to interrupt one last time.
“Well, yes, but the guy who did it looks like he’s going to spend the rest of his life in jail, so I’m more concerned about the rest of the country, which is thanks to the inaction of the police, just in case. you did “I didn’t notice, it’s, like, hooked,” Carlson mocked, marked by a bizarre sharp laugh.
“It simply came to our notice then. But thank you, Gavin, thank you, ”Carlson added quickly.
“Look, look,” Gavin tried to answer before his feed was cut off and removed from the screen.
“No. Fet! Carlson exclaimed before continuing.