Posted on 04/22/2021 4:59:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
To hear Democrats talk about George Floyd you’d think the greatest father and friend ever to live, which seems like an odd distinction for a drug addicted career criminal who was killed while resisting arrest as he had massive amounts of fentanyl in his system, was murdered in cold blood. I say this as someone not invested in the fate of Derek Chauvin or outraged by the verdict, just simply as an observer of the last year and an avid consumer of media coverage and political commentary of everything surrounding it. George Floyd should not have died, but he did just about everything possible wrong in the lead-up to his death, which he could have prevented had he simply complied. No honest person can deny that, but a lot of dishonest people are.
Floyd was going to be arrested, it’s as simple as that. He’d tried to pass off a phony $20 bill. If you did that, you’d be arrested too. And you should be.
But George, like everyone else, didn’t want to go to jail. Only he fought police to try to prevent it. Why can’t we call that the “stupid” that it was? The vast majority of the tiny minority of “police brutality” cases the media obsessively reports on have that as a common denominator.
Daunte Wright was getting arrested for an outstanding warrant and decided to fight with police in an attempt to get away, for example. It’s incredibly stupid and self-defeating – and was ultimately fatal for Wright – to think even if he’d escaped at that moment that he’d gotten away with something. Police had his name, they were arresting him after all, if somehow he’d fought his way out of that moment he would’ve been arrested in the future and faced his original charges and new ones like resisting arrest.
The police officer in that case made the stupid, and quite possibly criminal, mistake of pulling her gun rather than her Taser and killing Daunte Wright. In the heat of the moment and in the middle of the fight, that mistake is understandable but still likely inexcusable. But it’s not murder. Manslaughter, at best.
Still, these deaths could have been avoided, and been avoided by the people who died. It’s probably dangerous to say, but it needs to be said anyway because it’s true.
It’s true and important to say so people know not to fight with police officers, not to resist arrest. You will lose, either at that moment or eventually. It’s really that simple.
When I was a kid in Detroit, a crack user named Malice Green died after fighting with two police officers who had him on a drug possession rap. Did the cops use excessive force? The jury said they did, but Green was already dead so it didn’t really matter to him.
All these men, and a lot more that you never hear about because their deaths can’t be weaponized by the left for whatever reason, more often than not it’s that they’re white, would still be alive today if they simply did not start a fight with police. That should be the message.
That should be the message but it’s not because it’s not helpful to the progressive cause. It’s not because it doesn’t divide people, and Democrats need to be able to pit American against American to win. It’s not the message because black lives don’t matter to Democrats, but the loss of them is useful.
Not the loss of any black lives, in fact it’s very few. But those few give Democrats a lot of mileage. All they have to do is ignore murders like that of 7-year-old Jasyln Adams in Chicago Sunday, sitting in the drive-thru at a McDonald’s looking forward to a Happy Meal with her dad. Her life didn’t matter because her life couldn’t be used to fundraise.
And that’s the real reason complying with police officers and resisting arrest isn’t the message from Democrats, the media, and so-called community leaders – you can’t rake in the cash without the outrage. Al Sharpton would have to fly commercial without those bodies. Ben Crump might have to do more than swoop in, hold a press conference and hammer giant checks without that outrage. And Democrats might have to explain the thousands of murders and generational economic despair residing exclusively where they’ve had monopolistic control for almost a century.
Democrats love these deaths, they raise a fortune off of them.
If Democrats cared about George Floyd they would’ve done something to help him get off drugs while he was alive. They would support getting the dealers who sold him his poison in prison, so they couldn’t create a new generation of addicts or the violence that surrounds them. They would be encouraging civilians to cooperate with police to bring murderers to justice and get them off the streets.
They do none of these things. They simply chant, march, destroy, and get more money and power for themselves. Ask yourself this: how many people like George Floyd, addicts in semi-conscious stupors on the sidewalk, did these mobs step over while marching through the streets in the name of “justice”? How many children like Jasyln Adams have not gotten a march or even had their names pass the lips of the president or vice president of the United States?
A Google search for “Jaslyn Adams” and NAACP or Black Lives Matter or Joe Biden on Tuesday night, two full days after her murder, returned zero results. That tells you everything you need to know about Democrats.
This guy already had his 15 minutes of fame when he appeared on the national TV show “Judge Judy” at the tender age of 16. He had the sad “need” to do a car jacking in order to not have to walk home from his girlfriend’s house in the cold weather. The poor woman he assaulted in order to steal her car, wanted poor little George to pay for the damage to her car. George could not understand why he should have to pay.
Tried to pass a obvious fake 20 to a young black kid. And the kid was scared to confront him but he told him it was going to come out of his paycheck. Floyd bullied him. He was yelling he couldn’t breath while being cuffed in the back of the car. Cops should have taken him to hospital instead of letting him out. Was obvious he was messed up on drugs. He couldn’t breath because he was dying. The over dose was happening and would have happened. That cop held him down for to long but didn’t kill him. Floyd was a lifetime criminal.
Link to TV show no longer works...hmmmmm
“But George, like everyone else, didn’t want to go to jail. Only he fought police to try to prevent it.”
Trial by combat. Seems to happen a lot.
Lebron James made it perfectly clear that he and Progressive Socialists/Communists like him are okay with blacks killing blacks!
A cop shot a black girl to keep her from stabbing another black girl, and Lebron derided the cop for STOPPING AN ATTEMPTED MURDER!
Unfortunately, most black lives are worth nothing more than collateral damage in a political war!
The author of the article needs to get the starch out of his shirt.
The Left doesn't give a shiite about George Floyd.
George Floyd was a freedom fighter. He only has value when dead.
The best article on Dem hypocrisy I have read.
I’m tired of being told we should all just come together...how if this is the other side?
They don’t think they should be accountable. They don’t think they should pay because in their minds, whites don’t have to pay, or get arrested or be mistreated. They think those kind of things don’t happen to white people. We know otherwise, of course. People are discriminated against for a host of reasons, and it’s not just race. Democrats don’t have solutions. All they have is grievances. They won’t fix anything. What’s missing in all of this is the truth, and we won’t get it from the government.
The coroners report should have been enough to exonerate the police. He died of heart failure resulting from drug overdose, high blood pressure and stress. Only the stress can be blames on the police.
Trying to understand or apply reason to these things that are happening is useless. Our Democrat leaders are driving this madness to use it for their power, the great American Middle Class be damned they want us down. Urban folks are being lied to thinking they will be in a better position when this gets settled. The worst thing is police will stop going into urban centers, it could very well cost them their life one way or the other.
Celebrating MLK’s birthday is a travesty because of his quote, ‘judge not by skin color but by content of character’. This nation does dishonor to his memory because that is exactly what is happening in reverse. Bad content of character is killing and destroying many black people and not racial injustice but the white leftist liars have been haranguing the culture with their incessant focus on ‘racism’. Now it’s All about skin color and zero importance placed on having good character. This is utter evil to the core.
A racist with dementia as head puppet, an enterprising fellatist for veep, a scowling harridan as Speaker, several self indulgent squad members as shouting machines, and now a fentanyl freak can be their hero, why the Eff not?
“A racist....”.
For the rhetorical question, forgot to add the /s tag for those outliers reading this.
Sorry , kaslin. Not directed at you!
I thought that was debunked and that a different George Floyd other than Saint George Floyd was on Judge Judy?
In a word, NO
I encourage all to reiterate the following sentence as much as possible...
“Regardless of the Floyd Verdict, I will not turn a blind eye to the amount of crimes comiited by the black community.”
Because I truly believe this is the True Reason for all this bullshit. They want a free pass to be animals and I for one refuse to give em that free pass...
If anyone really wants honesty about Floyd, they can listen to Candace Owens
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