Ben Shapiro is host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" and editor emeritus of The Daily Wire. A graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, he is a New York Times bestselling author whose latest book is "The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent."

The billionaire responded to the conservative commentator's proposal to pardon the officer who killed George Floyd, saying it was "Something to think about."

American political commentator Ben Shapiro has called on Donald Trump to pardon Officer Derek Chauvin, who is serving a sentence for the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Trump, however, did not indicate any likelihood of granting the pardon.

“The Ben Shapiro Show” host has launched a petition backing a public letter to Trump, 78, contending that Chauvin, now 48, was “unjustly convicted” of Floyd’s killing, which led to riots in cities across the US and a national reckoning on the issues of race and policing.

Elon Musk and Ben Shapiro are pushing a pardon for Derek Chauvin and exposing deep-rooted denialism on X about George Floyd’s murder.

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