Read for yourself and then venture a guess as to what's missing.
At the exact same time the verdict of Derek Chauvin was being read for murdering George Floyd, police wasted no time in senselessly taking another Black child.
Ma’Khia Bryant. We say her name.
Ma’Khia Bryant called the police for help.
Columbus police officer Nicholas Reardon showed up and shot this 16-year-old child point blank within a matter of seconds.
Another Black life stolen with no regard.
Together, we’re going to uplift, center, and honor this Black child for what she loved — doing her hair, making TikToks, and being a teenager. Her account is currently deactivated, but we’ve compiled a few of her TikToks on social media so we can all remember her joy.
Ma’Khia Bryant’s life mattered.
If you were to read this without knowing any of the basic facts of that awful incident in Columbus, you would gather that a cop just rolled up and opened fire on a girl as she awaited police to help with her plight.
BLM has so beclowned itself over the past couple of years that one could easily ascertain that black lives are not being improved one iota by this organization (well.....we know of at least one black life livin' good because of BLM). If only there was a collective in America committed to presenting unvarnished reporting of facts in response to dubious statements emitted by a major social justice organization.
Hey, speaking of inconvenient narratives, did ya see the response of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison when asked if Derek Chauvin's killing of George Floyd was a hate crime?
“I wouldn't call it that because hate crimes are crimes where there's an explicit motive, and of bias,” Ellison said. “We don't have any evidence that Derek Chauvin factored in George Floyd's race as he did what he did.”
True, yet it didn't stop President Joe Biden from implying that "systemic racism" was the catalyst for Chauvin's actions.
Andrew McCarthy at National Review suggests that the Chauvin-Floyd saga flies in the face of a such contrived narratives.
George Floyd should not have died. The jury was fully justified in determining, as prosecutors forcefully argued, that in that encounter with police on May 25, he would not have died if it were not for the restraint tactics used by Chauvin, and that those tactics constituted excessive force.
Nevertheless, the case does not stand as a totem of systemic racism. To the contrary, the evidence proves that Chauvin was individually culpable. Far from being emblematic of an inherently racist law-enforcement agency, Chauvin’s actions grossly violated the standards of a police department that is committed to even-handed enforcement of the law and, from the top down, to diversity and amicable relations with the community.
The Biden administration and congressional Democrats are using the Chauvin murder conviction as the premise for claiming that policing in America must be transformed — by legislation and Justice Department monitoring — because it smacks of white racism against black people. This transformation, we are told, must begin with such steps as an official government assumption that racism explains why blacks are arrested at a disproportionately high rate (compared with their share of the overall population), and a categorical ban on choke holds.
And yet these are the facts: George Floyd was arrested not based on a police assumption but in response to a credible citizen complaint that he committed a crime, coupled with obvious evidence that he was high on drugs while operating a car. The police never choked him. And there is no evidence that racism motivated the police to mistreat him.
This isn't to suggest that there are not some proverbial "bad apples" (a description which causes anti-police progs to froth) within U.S. police departments. Of course there are. But to concede that not even close to a majority are infected with systemic racism would puncture the prog chanting points of de-funding and/or abolishing police. Yeah, there are way too many people getting rich (or being re-elected) to allow that stance to go gently into that good night.
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I always want to ask in these situations, "What color was the KNIFE the assailant was using?" If the knife had been white, would the killing have been justified?
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