Posted on 10/15/2023 5:22:01 AM PDT by RandFan
President Biden on Saturday reiterated his commitment to fighting gun violence on what would have been the late George Floyd’s 50th birthday.
“George Floyd should be alive. He should be celebrating his 50th birthday with his young daughter Gianna, family, and friends,” Biden wrote in a statement. “He deserved so much more.”
“Today, we join his family to honor his life and legacy,” he added. “And we remember the tragedy and injustice of his death that sparked one of the largest civil rights movements in our nation’s history and inspired the world.”
Legislation with his namesake — the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act — is currently stalled in the House, as Republicans and Democrats struggle to agree on some components, including the end to no-knock warrants and qualified immunity.
The bill was introduced in 2021 after Floyd was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis.
“George Floyd’s murder exposed for many what Black and Brown communities have long known and experienced — that our nation has never fully lived up to its highest ideal of fair and impartial justice for all under the law,” he argued on Saturday.
Biden signed an executive order with some elements from the bill: including a chokehold ban, restrictions on no-knock warrants and establishing a police misconduct database. The order also reallocated the use of federal resources to state and local agencies.
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If we had gotten rid of all the guns, he couldn’t have pointed one at a pregnant lady’s belly.
OMG.
“injustice of his death that sparked one of the largest civil rights movements in our nation’s history and inspired the world”
Is that what you call all that rioting, vandalism, and looting?
They honor this piece of shit more than they honor any American service personnel. We are in serious deep shit.
He certainly deserved a long prison sentence. And we deserve to never hear the name of this lifelong criminal again.
Jao Bai-din, bought and paid for by Communist China, won’t call for Fentanyl Reform.
And what the heck does gun reform have to do with George Floyd?!
-——largest civil rights movements ——
Thus began the Black Ass Kissing on a Grand Canyon scale
Facts….Floyd had a high level of fentanyl in his bloodstream. Maybe he’d had tapped out from that. Of course many rock stars have had “lethal” levels of drugs but they live to write books about it.
Floyd was no saint. But we will never know if he’d have died from an OD or if he had a Nikki Sixx-level of tolerance, because some bush-league incompetent policeman who was in over his head killed his client.
Every day in America, untold numbers of police deal with drugged up perps. Somehow, they subdue them without incident. Any NYC cop would have Floyd cuffed and neutralized in the back of the cruiser in record time.
You can be against riots and against the wanton destruction of property, you can detest CNN and “mostly peaceful” lies before your eyes, and watch the video and tell the truth.
“George Floyd should be alive. He should be celebrating his 50th birthday”
I agree. He should be alive, happily continuing his thug life, high on fentanyl, passing counterfeit money, and threatening those around him, but I don’t agree with the name of the bill. It should be the “Saint George Floyd Act”.
(sarc)
Nothing to do with floyd, everything to do with control of an unarmed population by global government.
Satan: George, happy birthday. Here is a birthday cake with 50 candles on them. Enjoy...
Police killed Floyd!
Disarm all police (and military too while you’re at it...)
That will create peace and end crime!
Yo!
Yeah, I’m thinking about placing an order for a new one.
While they're at it they should also toss the entire Patriot Act in the crapper and flush it away!
No bias here with this wording - right?
This sort of writing was once called yellow journalism.
Now it is the standard taught in the most expensive universities.
This “statement” is such a bunch of malarkey!!
Honoring the “life & legacy” of what?? A career petty criminal, druggie and lowlife thug???
It’s much more likely that “St, George” would be celebrating his birthday getting high, drinking and hooping, maybe picking up a “date”. Seriously doubt he’d be spending quality time with Giana & family.
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