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The Anniversary the Media Would Prefer You Forget
Town Hall ^ | 31 May 2023 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 05/31/2023 4:28:26 PM PDT by Rummyfan

How did I miss the third anniversary of George Floyd's death? Were the media caught sleeping? Three years ago, Floyd was given funerals in three states, carried in a gold casket and driven to his final resting place in a horse-drawn carriage. It was like the funeral for a pharaoh.

From Floyd's death on May 25, 2020, to the end of the year, The New York Times alone ran more than 4,000 articles about him. But exactly three years later, Floyd's name made it into only three Times items -- fleetingly and barely.

Are the media (and Democrats, and Hollywood, and corporate America, and the universities and grade schools, and hospitals and military and President Biden) hoping we'll forget about their weird campaign to make black Americans even angrier?

Since May 25, 2020, the single-minded message delivered to black people, without interruption or contradiction, has been that they live in a country steeped in white supremacy, anything bad that happens to them is proof of racism, and oh by the way, the police are trying to kill them.

The You Are a Victim! message is unlikely to produce stellar behavior in anyone. Directed at a group that already had a pretty high rate of criminal offending, it nearly destroyed our country.

By the end of 2020, the national homicide rate had shot up an unprecedented 30% and has continued to climb since then.

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St George Floyd was just a step above a feral animal. If that is whom the black community wants to get behind, well....
1 posted on 05/31/2023 4:28:26 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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It’s sickening how the lefties lionized George Floyd! He was no saint, he was a criminal!


2 posted on 05/31/2023 4:29:42 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Although the hourly "racism updates" have ended, BLM's lies have calcified into received wisdom. It is still a matter of doctrine that black people are victims of systemically racist police.

In fact, as Mac Donald has been documenting for years, police are 400 times as likely to be killed by a black person as unarmed blacks are to be killed by cops.

3 posted on 05/31/2023 4:31:25 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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One person too full of her own self-righteousness to notice that the rest of her party had decided to keep mum about the "racial reckoning" was Rep. Ilhan Omar. She marked the occasion by regurgitating the exact same boilerplate about racist cops and "black bodies."

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(What I admire most about third-world immigrants is their realization that their ancestors were people utterly incapable of building a functioning society, and therefore, if they happened to find themselves in a successful country, like the U.S., they should shut up, listen and learn.)

LOL! Good one.

4 posted on 05/31/2023 4:33:53 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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True.
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RE: The New York Times alone ran more than 4,000 articles about him.
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This explains why they didn’t have room for one about the brutality and withholding of rights to an attorney and phone access for the Jan.6th prisoners held without charges, often in long term solitary confinement. No room for such articles.


WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday held top officials at the Washington, D.C., Department of Corrections in civil contempt, after ruling they violated the civil rights of a U.S. Capitol riot defendant by impeding his access to medical care.

“It is more than just inept and bureaucratic shuffling of papers,” U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said.

“I find that the civil rights of the defendant have been abridged. I don’t know if it’s because he is a Jan. 6 defendant or not, but I find that this matter should be referred to the attorney general of the United States ... for a civil rights investigation.”
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https://time.com/6107063/january-6-prisoners-alleged-mistreatment/

excerpt:Roughly 40 suspects are now in jail in D.C. awaiting trial for charges stemming from that day, and their lawyers say their rights are being denied. Some, they say, have been denied access to food and showers....


5 posted on 05/31/2023 4:41:48 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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The truth was all in the autopsy report, but the media and the pols were not interested in the true facts.


6 posted on 05/31/2023 4:43:05 PM PDT by PBRCat
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“In 2007, Floyd faced charges for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon; according to investigators, he had entered an apartment by impersonating a water department worker and barging in with five other men, then held a pistol to a woman’s stomach and searched for items to steal.”
Pregnant woman.


“Between 1997 and 2005, Floyd served eight jail terms on various charges, including drug possession, theft, and trespass.”

Then became a saint to the woke America he helped drag down into the mire.


7 posted on 05/31/2023 4:45:06 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Rummyfan

George Floyd is 3 years clean and sober


8 posted on 05/31/2023 4:47:17 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (The best slaves put their own chains on )
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I knew he could do it.


9 posted on 05/31/2023 4:47:31 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Rummyfan

St. George of Fentanyl: Funeral Fit for a Pharoah.


10 posted on 05/31/2023 4:49:42 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trintarian. Deal with it!)
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The Democrats and the deep state through their media allies stripped the carcass pretty “clean” years back. Not much PR left on the bones. So, “different squirrel!”
11 posted on 05/31/2023 4:51:40 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: PBRCat

Didn’t George Floyd die because he swallowed fentanyl? And didn’t he swallow fentanyl because he didn’t want the police to know he had it? George Floyd was a dead man walking for a time.


12 posted on 05/31/2023 4:55:52 PM PDT by Stepan12 ("...To the American gulag with this guy.and with the beasts of the earth.")
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To: Rummyfan

The left is a dangerous bunch. They’ve decimated whole swaths of our country since the 60s.


13 posted on 05/31/2023 5:02:08 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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“The truth was all in the autopsy report, but the media and the pols were not interested in the true facts.”

Yep. Autopsy report...pulmonary edema caused by a fentanyl O.D. No neck damage.

We are now living in a Pravda controlled nation.


14 posted on 05/31/2023 5:21:16 PM PDT by lizma2
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Whatever advances The Revolution.


15 posted on 05/31/2023 5:22:30 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Rummyfan

George Floyd brought this all on himself...it was he who began the confrontation with police by trying to pass counterfeit money.


16 posted on 05/31/2023 5:27:03 PM PDT by rottndog (What comes after America?)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Yup, and hasn’t committed a single parole violation in all that time!


17 posted on 05/31/2023 5:27:10 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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"It’s sickening how the lefties lionized George Floyd! He was no saint, he was a criminal!"

I figure that's the main reason why they lionize the scum-bum. He was a criminal!

Birds of a feather, and all that stuff....

18 posted on 05/31/2023 5:30:06 PM PDT by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: No name given

Even in Europe I saw murals dedicated to George Floyd.


19 posted on 05/31/2023 5:31:09 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: frank ballenger

t”...his matter should be referred to the attorney general of the United States...”

He’s a white equivalent of a black hole for these matters.


20 posted on 05/31/2023 5:31:15 PM PDT by Paladin2
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