Nobody is more upset about Derek Chauvin being found guilty of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd than Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
Carlson invited former New York City deputy sheriff and corrections officer Ed Gavin onto his show last night to discuss the guilty verdict in the ex-Minneapolis police officer’s trial.
Related: Twitter reacts to Derek Chauvin being found guilty of murder and manslaughter in George Floyd case
Carlson kicked off the show by saying the jury only voted to convict because they were scared then questioned whether people can “trust the way this decision was made.” Gavin disagreed and praised the verdict.
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And that’s when things went awry.
“That was clearly an excessive, unjustified use of force,” Gavin said. “I think the verdict was just. I think we had documentary evidence, we had testimonial evidence, and it was an open and shut case.”
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What followed were several very tense moments between the two, with Carlson growing increasingly more unhinged every time Gavin offered evidence as to why Chauvin was guilty.
It finally ended with the Fox News host abruptly ending the interview, but not before letting out what can only be described as a shrill racist cackle.
“The guy who did it looks like he’s going to spend the rest of his life in prison, so I’m kind of more worried about the rest of the country, which, thanks to police inaction, in case you haven’t noticed, is, like, boarded up,” Carlson said before laughing like the Joker.
Tucker Carlson had a complete meltdown tonight in response to a former New York corrections officer who criticized Derek Chauvin for using excessive force on George Floyd. Here's how the interview (abruptly) ended. pic.twitter.com/mBOxrsbhaJ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 21, 2021
here you go america pic.twitter.com/56Jsjd2AqH
— Philip Bump (@pbump) April 21, 2021
Earlier in the week, Carlson claimed Chauvin was the victim of a media “lynching” and said that most Americans “still cannot say with any specificity just how” Floyd died.
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The jury unanimously found that Floyd died by homicide as a result of Chauvin kneeling on his neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, as witnessed by millions of people in a widely-shared video.
After last night’s insane blow up, Carlson has been trending all morning on Twitter.
Here’s what folx are saying…
I'm sorry but Tucker Carlson is a fucking racist.
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) April 21, 2021
Did Tucker Carlson have a stroke on Fox News? Wtf was that?
— ????? Anis Jerbi ????? (@ArtistAJ17) April 21, 2021
Tucker Carlson really put his own damn head above this graphic. You can’t make this stuff up. pic.twitter.com/EdMkmywb7L
— M. Scarn (@Sc0ttst0tts) April 21, 2021
What good is a cancel culture if it can’t cancel a racist pig like Tucker Carlson?
— ken olin? (@kenolin1) April 21, 2021
Tucker Carlson has fully leaned into his program being a literal Ku Klux Klan hour.
— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) April 21, 2021
Tucker Carlson has officially lost it
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) April 21, 2021
Cop commits murder.
Cop gets convicted of murder.
Tucker Carlson: pic.twitter.com/eA3EDpLn5b
— Twice-Impeached, One-Term Trumpy (parody) (@outofcontroljb) April 21, 2021
Tucker Carlson is freaking out, that just means the right decision was made.
— Covie (@covie_93) April 21, 2021
Tucker Carlson is mad that a cop murdered someone in broad daylight and got punished for it.
— Santiago Mayer (@santiagomayer_) April 21, 2021
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Cam
Look at how enraged he is, that a white guy, who was filmed with his knee on a black man’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes, killing him, wasn’t allowed to just get away with it.
WashDrySpin
Thank you again Cam…Tucker and many others are seriously demented and racist
Kieran
Love him or hate him, it can’t be denied that Tucker Carlson regularly invites openly gay people on his conservative show as a very conspicuous “in your face” rebuke to any homophobes that might be watching.
Cam
Translation: The right wing troll account is trying to use a completely off topic, and unproven comment to deflect from the fact that Carlson is enraged that a white cop was held responsible for committing murder.
Kieran
@ cam You really need to seek some help for your paranoia. Everybody you disagree with is NOT a “right wing troll account”. Get a grip.
ShiningSex
The only person to like Tucker are racist POS, that’s all
Heywood Jablowme
Kieran is one of the few REAL right-wing commenters here and he’s been bothering us for a long time. Most of the faux right-wing accounts are created by Cam so he can argue with himself.
Vince
You might want to keep ahead of the news stories. “carlson-belonged-fan-club-harvey-milks-assassin”
Hardly an ally.
Kangol2
The same Tucker S. M. Carlson who put on his college yearbook page that he was a member of the Dan White Society? As in the Dan White who murdered Harvey Milk and the then-mayor of SF? Yeah, Kieran, inconvenient facts, again.
Cam
@Kieran
The right wing troll account certainly gets angry when it’s attempt to lie to promote Tucker Carlson got called out.
We get it, you’re here to defend racists and anti-LGBTQ bigots.
Cam
@Heywood Jablowme
Doesn’t matter what screename you’re using, the right wing troll is always obsessed with me.
Heywood Jablowme
QUEERTY, please ban Cam for his incessant violations of the Queerty comment policy. His extreme obsession with “multiple screenames,” with which he hijacks innumerable threads, is projection since he has done that himself and admits it. He routinely accuses progressive commenters of “always” defending anti-LGBT bigots when they haven’t, and when asked for even one example he responds to the effect of “oh you do it under your multiple screenames.” It’s an ad hominem attack without a “hominem.” Queerty must have access to our IP addresses and could confirm that many of these supposed “right-wing accounts” are Cam/DCguy/Sybil arguing with himself. Even a comment thread like this one, where we ALL (except for Kieran) agree with Cam, gets hijacked by Cam so he can insult commenters WHO AGREE WITH HIM.
Mr. Stadnick
If twitter didn’t exist how would this website fill out their “articles”?
Kangol2
They’d rely on Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and numerous other social media sites, as they have in the past and continue to now. And they know that people would reply, as you did, and more page visits is all to their benefit. So they know what they’re doing is working.
DuMaurier
@Kangol2; yeah, it works. But I definitely take it more seriously when the tweets are from tweeters of “substance”, by which I mean prominent persons or ones with significant follower counts (like with this article)
I can’t stand it when an article tries to give the impression an issue is obsessing the nation, and when you actually at the tweets they use to “prove” that it’s people with six followers and the tweet has zero ‘likes’.
Kangol2
Tucker Swanson TV Dinners Heir Carlson has long been a racist and White supremacist, so it’s no surprise he’s having a meltdown. This case was not even debatable; Chauvin killed George Floyd, who was unarmed and restrained, as the cameras recorded the murder. But it’s not just about this murder, but countless ones over the years, and the entire carceral state, prison industrial complex, and deeply flawed and racist system of policing in the US. Carlson knows this too, and is deeply invested in the status quo, which is why he got so overwrought by the verdict. Any cracks in it terrify him.
Heywood Jablowme
I saw Fvcker Tarlson’s show for the first time last night. A friend and I were stoned in honor of 4/20 – we’d waited until the Chauvin verdict – and he was curious how Fvcker would handle the good news. Whoa, I won’t do that again! Fvcker’s “logic” was how the jurors were scared of BLM. The problem with that is only Fox carries Fox’s false BLM bullsh*t, and regular news sites don’t run that since it’s not real. So Fvcker is essentially saying his own network intimidated the jurors!
ShiningSex
The idiot doesn’t even hide his racism. He’s gross. I bet he has a small d*ck and can’t f*ck worth a damn.
Mack
It was the ONLY justifiable verdict. In other news, right wing state Oklahoma yesterday made it illegal to record police while they’re performing their jobs. My question is this: What are they trying to hide?
Vince
Yes and Republicans across the country are proposing laws that make is legal to run over protestors. This is all out war with them.
Mister P
Most cops support the verdict. I don’t see a benefit for Tuck not supporting the verdict other than he’s givin silent shout outs to white suptemacists and other hate groups.
tjack47
Tucker is an enema bucket.
darklight413
Tucker Carlson is human garbage. Anyone who watches him is right there with him. You don’t consume this kind of garbage accidentally. People watch him because they are garbage too and they need to here someone tell them things they agree with. It’s that simple.
Fahd
He may have a substance abuse issue; in any case the cackling is something a mental health professional should assess, because it definitely indicates something’s wrong with the buy. We need to do much, much better selecting and training police – especially in the use of non-lethal force. No matter how well police are trained and selected, however, in a case where a police officer commits second degree murder, the police officer needs to be held accountable – something relatively new. In most cases up at least until now, unqualified, untrained officers have escaped accountability (especially when its white officer/black victim). Let’s hope the Chauvin/Floyd case is just one of many instances of accountability. Moreover the system that put Chauvin on the street can’t just get off by throwing him under the bus as a bad apple. Structural reform is needed. And what about the officers who watched George Floyd be murdered ? When is their day in court?
Heywood Jablowme
Right now they’re scheduled for trial in August.
Reth
Did Tucker just cancel a dissenting voice?
Doug
When is this POS going to finally be pulled off the air? It looks like he originally expected Gavin to agree with him and when he released that wasn’t going to happen he threw a little tantrum and immediately yanked him off the air. This guy is a loser and the epitome of the privileged white conservative. It’s seriously time for him to go away.
BoomerMyles
Tucker Carlson needs to be ended.