A week and a half after the protests started in Minneapolis, it occurred to me that I hadn't seen any proof that race or racism had anything to do with the George Floyd killing. I mentally went through the facts instead of the emotions, and everything pointed away from racism and toward ordinary police brutality. As brutal as the video was, it didn't show racism. Racism is in the mind and heart. The video didn't show those. It only showed physical actions.
The chain of evidence leading away from racism and toward police brutality now has a bombshell link. According to this article, Derek Chauvin has been married to a Hmong refugee woman for ten years. After the killing she filed for divorce, but they're still presently married. If Chauvin was a racist, why would he marry a foreign-born, brown-skinned, minority woman? Oh, he's not a racist. The George Floyd death was about something else, perhaps a personal feud from when Chauvin and Floyd worked security in the same building.
The false racism narrative is over. It's time to put people who are committing criminal acts in jail and restore law and order.
Have a great weekend.
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