During another memorial service for Mr. George Floyd – who died after a (now ex) police officer kneeled on his neck for an absurd amount of time – is being memorialized across the country with a series of memorial services, leading up to his funeral.
During the most recent memorial service, you can see a row of police officers lined up, who are saluting his casket as it is carried by the pallbearers.
You can watch the video below:
https://twitter.com/MaybeAmes/status/1270380278033387520
I do not agree with how Mr. Floyd was treated by the police. As a matter of fact, I found the content of the video to be so disturbing that I couldn’t even bring myself to watch it.
I have always been a very “rah-rah” police supporter – however, that changed for me during the COVID mess after watching video after video after video of police overreaching against patriotic Americans and enforcing the unconstitutional power grab that Dems inflicted on all us.
“Just following orders…”
So, I am not opposed to the idea of retraining police to be better community ambassadors and less “community tyrants.” But I do have an issue with memorializing Mr. Floyd into a national hero.
I believe Mr. Floyd and his family deserve justice for this horrible incident that happened, but Mr. Flyod, who has done some very, very bad stuff in his past – like holding a loaded gun against a pregnant woman’s stomach while his friends ransacked and robbed her home, and who was on copious amounts of drugs at the time of his arrest – is not the best example of what a national hero should be.
You can want justice for someone without idolizing or memorializing them. The two do not have to go hand-in-hand.
Was Mr. Floyd trying to do better and improve his life? I sure hope so and again, I hope his family receives justice, but the T-shirts, and phone covers, and murals, and “George Floyd Day,” and kneeling and bowing has completely lost me.
I am a reasonable person. If something is “wrong,” it’s wrong. I don’t take sides on issues based on skin color – and I feel what happened to Mr. Floyd is wrong, even now, after all this political madness I still believe he deserves justice.
However, Democrats are making it really hard for me to stay on board. Now they want to defund police, demonize white people, and force everyone to “kneel” before Black Lives Matter like subservient cult members.
This is all stuff that reasonable people find disturbing and this is why Democrats always lose me.
They start out with a cause I can get on board with and then they go off the rails and turn the whole thing into a crazy, divisive, and hateful circus and I find myself less empathetic and back on the opposite side on the fence fighting against their every move.
This piece was written by Missy Crane on June 9, 2020. It originally appeared in WayneDupree.com and is used by permission.
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