Elon Musk, the self-proclaimed free-speech absolutist and owner of X has once again waded into controversy by amplifying a plea from conservative commentator Ben Shapiro for President Donald Trump to pardon Derek Chauvin, the disgraced former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd.
Shapiro, in a podcast clip Musk retweeted March 4, argued that prosecutors and law enforcement were “railroading” Chauvin and framed the officer’s conviction as the “defining achievement of the Woke movement.”
“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 in the video.
Musk’s response? A casual, “Something to think about” as if the murder of a Black man under Chauvin’s knee for nine minutes and 29 seconds—a killing that ignited a global racial justice movement—was merely fodder for debate.
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Something to think about https://t.co/KbZQEMpFXP— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 4, 2025 <
The Tesla maker’s decision to amplify Shapiro’s inflammatory rhetoric drew immediate support from right-leaning clowns on X.
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