It’s sad when you have to keep repeating an obvious point.
It is also sad when you have to keep pointing out that the knee in the neck isn't what killed Mr. Floyd. It was his heart condition along with a mixture of meth and fentanyl that killed Floyd.
All the protests are based on a deliberate distortion of the relevant facts. Same thing with Michael Brown. Same thing with Traevon Martin. Same thing with many of these cases.
On the bright side, there will be no more talk of “reparations”...
It is.
Look at Dubya....he was a Republican wartime president and did pretty well in handling 9/11 and Afghanistan. Then he went after Iraq; the left went bat guano crazy against that war. Many Republicans defended the President AND that war effort, reflexively. Only years later did many of us retract our knee-jerk defense of the President, but the reality is we defended him (in large part) because we didn't want to give the left an edge. It is arguable that HAD we called balls and strikes in Iraq that Lurch would have won, and thus that makes defending Dubya a political decision. And that's ok, but let's be honest about it.
We just saw this with Coronavirus. Many people debated cogently the merits of partial shut downs - but shut downs spawned draconian statism. While it's hard to remember, but things weren't exactly clear as day three months ago - Wayne Allen Root put it best:
I have many great friends and guests on my national TV and radio shows who are medical experts. Half believe this is the pandemic to end all pandemics. They quote Centers for Disease Control and Prevention models that report as many as 1.7 million Americans could die. So people are rightfully scared out of their minds. American business is shutting down. But the other half of my medical friends and expert guests say this is an overreaction. They predict fewer Americans will die than during the flu season of 2017-18 that killed about 80,000 people. They don't believe we need to close down American business and lock ourselves in our homes. The problem is we won't know who's right until it's over.
I suspect many people talked down any technical merits of even a risk-based shut down because that seemed to make them philosophical allies of the leftist scum who shut down the nation out of political desires and didn't give a rip about commerce or health.
So yea, George Floyd wasn't a great dude. He was intoxicated with fentanyl when he died. But that doesn't excuse his death at the hands of Derek Chauvin. Protesting peacefully is Constituionally-guaranteed right. The rioters and arsonists are criminals and many people of good will undoubtedly smiled when they heard that a rioter trying to blow up an ATM became a Darwin Award recipient.
It's a mad, mad state of affairs. May God have mercy on us.
Once again, it doesn’t matter what Mr. Floyd did before he was killed.
An obese ma a with a serious heart condition and on a meth/fentanyl good ball should not be tussling with cops for 3 min round..It could kill him
“Once again, it doesn’t matter what Mr. Floyd did before he was killed. It does not excuse what the police officers did.”
Agreed but what it does show is this case is not about police targeted racism.
This was a combative suspect and if he got in the car upon arrest he likely would continue to be alive.
The officer, who actually knew this man on a personal basis was trying to make the suspect comply by holding him down. The officer made a horrible mistake and killed the man but it does not seem to be race related.
This case is not a reason to vilify police officers and claim there is a terrible problem with racist police in this country.
That’s Obama talking.