george floyd

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Some additional notions that I have been pondering, though I said earlier that there would probably be nothing more that would be remarked upon:

1.  The death of George Floyd was a tragedy, make no mistake about it.  But it was not necessarily a racially-motivated death.  It is now coming out that the officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck already had an established history of troubling behavior in his role as a law enforcement agent.  It is altogether possible that Mr. Floyd’s ethnicity didn’t even figure as a consideration in the officer’s mind, as well as that of the other officers involved.

Not everything is about race.  Or needs to be.
2.  The handling of George Floyd’s death was a matter germane to local jurisdiction and that’s ALL as far as it should have gotten.  There should have been proper investigation, including objective autopsy (there are now two
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Some are seriously suggesting that the looting taking place in the
“protests” (note: they are not protests, they are bouts of purposeless
violence) are justified because “white people looted” for thousands of
years and that’s “loot” that now fills the museums.

Which is the most ridiculous thing that I’ve heard all month and believe me, I heard ridiculous this past month.

99.99% of the inventory of museums has been found in archaeological expeditions, or donated, or otherwise legally
obtained. In the vast majority of these there was no present legal
owner of the property, because said owners were long dead without any
identification.


What is
happening now however, across America, is outright theft of private
property, whether it belongs to a store or to individuals or is in the
custody of legitimate government. It is being done by people who have
no respect toward the notion of ownership.

Others with

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