Was it possible, he wondered, that Floyd had actually died of a drug overdose? Floyd's death had ignited protests nationwide and spurred a passionate national debate about racism ... left Loury, a prominent Black conservative, at odds with many other Black intellectuals and with much of the American left.
Really, you're going to take Chauvin's side? friends emailed Loury. Commenters on his newsletter and social media also took issue. Then Radley Balko, an independent journalist, published a lengthy and meticulous critique of the film, calling it all nonsense.
I pride myself on remaining open to evidence and reason, even if they disconfirm something I had formerly thought to be true, Loury wrote in a mea culpa for his Substack, calling his error egregious.
That weekend, he had Minnesota's attorney general, Keith Ellison, who oversaw the prosecution of Chauvin in the Floyd case, on his podcast, to hear the other side of the story.
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