Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) acknowledged during an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” Sunday that there is no evidence race was a motivating factor in the killing of George Floyd.
The progressive attorney general made the stunning admission when fielding a question from interviewer Scott Pelley on why the prosecution didn’t pursue a hate crime charge against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who knelt on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes during an arrest last May.
“I wouldn’t call it that because hate crimes are crimes where there’s an explicit motive and of bias,” Ellison said. “We don’t have any evidence that Derek Chauvin factored in George Floyd’s race as he did what he did.”
