Derek Chauvin is a White police officer convicted for killing George Floyd, a Black man. The unnamed Capitol police officer is a Black man who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt, a White woman. Both deaths were widely considered to be unwarranted use of force against victims who were not legitimate threats to the officers or anyone else at the time of their deaths. Both were suspected of committing crimes before their killings. Both victims were killed on camera.
Based on the similarities, we should expect in a fair justice system that if one was convicted, the other should at least be charged. But it’s in the differences that we see the real obliteration of truth in America. One notable difference is that Capitol police participated in allowing and even encouraging entry into the Capitol Building in the first place. Many conspiracy theorists have given credible evidence that it was not only planned but potentially staged to yield exactly the results that have happened to those involved on January 6th.
The real difference, of course, is the manifestation of outrage. Those who want Ashli Babbitt’s killer to be identified, charged, and tried are just as adamant about it as the Black Lives Matter “activists” who have been looting businesses, burning down buildings, tearing down statues, intimidating random people, and committing assaults and even murders for over a year. But instead of lashing out with violence against innocent people, those who want justice for Ashli Babbitt have been peaceful.
As my good friend “Col. Mike” often says, if we don’t march and protest we will never get anything done. The criminal justice and judiciary systems are our last line of defense against, well, every domestic foe. If we lose this battle, one whose importance should be so blatantly obvious to all patriotic Americans, then how can we expect to keep the republic?