A Black man named George Floyd was killed in Minnnneeappollis by a policeman on Memorial Day.
Apparently, Floyd tried to buy a pack of cigarettes with a phony $20 bill, and was arrested, handcuffed and thrown to the ground.
He was asphyxiated and died when a cop named Chauvin knelt on his neck for 8 minutes and 47 seconds.
There's no doubt the cop killed Floyd, as it's all on video. It was a tragic, excessive and avoidable act, and just one more example of police abuse. But the jury will decide whether it was murder in the 3rd degree, as that is his charge.
But what happened next is the subject of this little rant. One could expect that there might have been protesting, especially considering the egregious manner of Floyd's death. But lawful protesting does not include arson, battery, thievery, domestic terrorism and even murder, which have all occurred during the past three days.
So far there's been rioting, full-on RIOTING, in 30 American cities. These include Minnnneaapolliss, Atlanta, New York City, Denver, Lost Angeles, St. Louis, Oakland, Baltimore, Portland and Kansas City. Widespread looting occurred in Minnneeapules, as did the systematic burning of an Autozone, a CVS, an Arby's, a Lowes' and at least one neighborhood liquor store. The anarchists even torched a 189-unit low-income apartment building. 170 businesses in all, with many, if not most, Black owned. Stark videos of thieves liberating TVs and cases of booze and everything else not nailed down from a dozen stores there are circulating the Internet.
CNN's World Headquarters was attacked in Atlanta and seriously damaged. Dozens of police cars were torched and destroyed. American flags were burned. Barclay's Center in Brooklyn was attacked and its doors and windows broken, and more than 200 rioters were arrested. The national guard was deployed, bottles and rocks were thrown, shots were fired, people were killed.
Perhaps most alarming, hundreds of rioters attacked the White House grounds in D.C., injuring numerous Secret Service agents in the process.
And all this occurred last night in America.
As I said, protesting because a rogue cop killed a Black man is not new. Nor should it be. But to those who chose to protest Floyd's killing, I would ask: "Did you also protest the killing of the 10 Black men, women and children murdered by gunfire in Chicago this past weekend?" No? Why not?
There's an average of 30 shot and 8 Black folks murdered in Chicago every weekend. Where are the protests? Are they not worthy of your attention? Or are you only interested in Blacks killed by police officers? And if so, why?
And what exactly caused all of this shooting, looting, burning and killing? I would offer up that it was the exact moment when the boy mayor of Minnneeeappalous ordered his police to evacuate their 3rd Precinct Headquarters, and retreat. He did, and they did. Full retreat. And the moment they did, the rioters, the anarchists, knew they had won; they immediately burned it down. They knew they could get away with anything.
And they did. All night long. The mayor of this major American city abandoned it and its citizens to the rioters. Why? I can only assume it's because he's a coward. He was too afraid of being labeled politically incorrect. So he abandoned his city. To the thieves. To the criminals. That alone was enough for the members of Antifa, and Black Lives Matter, and other anarchic organizations all across America, to start rioting.
They'd been schooled over the past few years in far-left cities like Portland and Seattle. They'd been permitted to get away with arson and robbery and battery and pillaging and burning buildings and cars for all this time. So they were waiting for a time when they could bring their fearsome and loathsome anti-American activities to other cities. To almost all the big cities.
To all the Democrat-controlled cities. As all the cities they attacked had something important in common; they are all run by Democrats, and have been for decades. Doesn't that tell you something? It does me...
Oh yeah, and Chauvin's wife has now filed for divorce, making this no doubt his - and Mr. Floyd's - very worst week ever.
So as I mentioned on the way in the rhetorical door, "As ye sow, so shall ye reap (Gallations, 6:7)." Or put another way, what goes around, comes around. If you let anarchist Antifa and Black Lies Matters terrorists hone their skills on this streets of your liberal city, pretty soon they'll take their show on the road.
And they just did...
Thank you for a well-written overview of this incident. I recently protested Ohio NOT being open, along with many others. There was no violence. There was not even littering or swear words. We stood on a public sidewalk and held signs. I have been part of pro-life protests for decades. Again, I've never been a part of any violence. We hold signs, sing, and pray on a sidewalk, not blocking any cars or people. These protests are NOT in keeping with Martin Luther King Jr's ideals and he would be appalled by them. These are free passes at looting, destruction, and destroying neighborhoods of people who are already struggling to make it. Protesters may get media fame, acquire stolen goods and get free license to destroy, but the cost to the neighborhood, businesses, insurance premiums, police wages and government all far outweigh their night of anarchy. As was so eloquently put by my son: 'Up until the riots there was widespread agreement that what the cop did was wrong and that he should go to prison.'
ReplyDeleteNow, people are trying to clean up, rebuild and go on. Hopefully, they can. More than likely, not all can. One eyewitness said, "Did you know half of the people who are responsible cleaning up this mess are people of color, elderly men and women... people who we were supposed to be protecting during this pandemic... " No matter what, things will never be the same, and each violent protest only makes things worse for our neighborhoods, neighbors, and nation. And each increase the chances it will happen again, and again. Here's a link to go with what I said:
gobankingrates.com/taxes/refunds/economics-protest/