At their state convention, Minnesota Republicans held a moment of silence for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

Like many other GOP state chapters, the Minnesota Republican Party has been unabashed about flaunting its extremism in recent years.

One of the clearest examples of this has been in the party’s promotion of far-right figures like Royce White, who rode the Minnesota GOP’s endorsement in his 2024 Senate race to a shellacking in the general election.

But even so, a moment of silence the party held for Derek Chauvin over the weekend — that is, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd — underscores a uniquely sadistic strain of racial bigotry within the state Republican Party.

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    We may not know who got kirk. That case is fucked. There’s no smoking gun but it seems like movie level forshadowing of a frame up

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      It makes me feel like the crazy guy in the room, but it’s either multiple of the most blatant “false flag” stuff we’ve ever been shown or the FBI, DOJ, DHS, and intelligence agency are all still trying to bury their mass surveillance apparatus that barely works but still tracks every single one of us.

      We already know police, immigration officers and other government officials and some private corporations/businesses set up cameras everywhere & use computer programs to scan your face and put it in a database.

      Either it doesn’t work very well in the way that it’s near impossible to identify every single human correctly based on their face being on cameras (using technology we have now) or it works well enough to identify criminals/enemies of the state no matter where they go as long as they end up in front of a surveillance camera somewhere at some point, and that information is too dangerous to release. There is also a possibility that cops and other officials still use it even though it’s very inaccurate and more often matches people’s faces who aren’t the same people, especially non white people and/or people who aren’t in “the system” yet.