May 25, 2020, Minneapolis. George Floyd, an addict and violent felon who once put a gun to a pregnant woman’s stomach during a home invasion robbery, was arrested by police after trying to pass a counterfeit bill. He died while resisting arrest with enough illicit drugs in his system to kill several people. A Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, used a restraint technique taught and sanctioned by the police force, and local politicians saw an opportunity for virtue signaling.
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The local coroner was pressured to change his initial findings that Floyd’s death was caused by his drug-induced medical complications, and MPD brass lied, claiming the restraint technique wasn’t taught and sanctioned, despite clear evidence in MPD training manuals it was. Chauvin was convicted, as were three other officers who assisted in his arrest, mainly by keeping back a hostile crowd. Chauvin, who was nearly killed in prison, remains there.
Floyd’s death, with the help of the Democrat Party, set off the “Summer of Love,” which resulted in around $2 billion dollars in nationwide damage. Minneapolis has never recovered from the damage and loss of businesses.
Since then, statues of Floyd have been erected, shrines have been maintained, and Floyd has been secularly canonized. Floyd was, of course, black, and his adulation has contributed to the continuing racial division turbocharged by Barack Obama, which continues to roil America.
Another consequence of the very secular canonization of George Floyd was the “Defund the Police” mania that has only somewhat abated. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey led that madness, and the MPD remains around 40% understaffed. In 2020, the officer/resident ratio was 2.04 to 1000. It’s currently 1.4 to 1000. Overtime rates are through the roof, response times—when officers can respond at all—have dramatically lengthened, and major crime closure rates have equally dramatically declined. The word is out, and qualified candidates want nothing to do with the MPD.
With the arrival of yet another Memorial Day, Mayor Frey issued a generic Memorial Day message:
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But because Frey, the City Council, and much of Minneapolis are true-believing leftists, within 90 minutes, Frey issued a long X thread commemorating the true—to their way of communistic, globalist thinking—message of the day:
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Not quite. Minneapolis has been forever changed because of the city’s leaders’ elevation of a violent, addicted felon to secular sainthood, its disdain for the rule of law and the destruction of its police force:
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If by “proof,” Frey means allowing arson, looting, wholesale destruction of property, rampant lawlessness, and suppression of pro-active policing, then yes, he’s proved it and induced continuing pain for honest, non-leftist citizens. So busy has Frey been in that endeavor, fraud has flourished. Quite the legacy for Saint Floyd:
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Note the communistic language, which continued in the following post:
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“A memorial with global significance?!” To a violent felon who killed himself with drugs while resisting arrest? That says pretty much all one needs to know about the priorities and self-aggrandizement of Frey and the Minneapolis City Council.
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Riiiiiight. They’ve moved forward by continuing violence against federal immigration enforcement, against local churches, and against the rule of law in general. Sadly, the Minneapolis Frey is building isn’t safer for the honest and law-abiding, but it is arguably “more worthy of the people who call it home.” In any case, it appears to be exactly what they want and deserve.
On Memorial Day, sane Americans remember the sacrifices of men and women who gave all their tomorrows for the liberty and bounty we enjoy that day. The anti-American leftists in charge of Minneapolis honor instead a drug-addicted, violent felon who, like so many others, destroyed and never built.
One wonders how many Minneapolis parents and teachers encourage their young to emulate Saint Floyd. One need not wonder about the consequences of that kind of child abuse.
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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, life-long athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.
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