Last summer I was saddened to attend a memorial service for a fallen officer, Tara O’ Sullivan, in Sacramento, CA. She was young; it was very sad and support was shown throughout the nation. An innocent person was (1/10)

murdered without cause. Similarly, an innocent man was murdered without cause this week in Minneapolis. Yet another black man was killed with the excessive use of police force this past Monday, George Floyd. There won’t be a service for him near anything like the officer (2/10)

memorial though, despite the similarities of wrongful and innocent death of the CA officer, and Floyd. This man, while he was still and not resisting, was continued for an extended length of time to be pinned to the ground by an officer, with the officer’s knee in his (3/10)

neck hard enough to cause a nosebleed, despite pleas by himself and bystanders that he couldn’t breathe. The four officers involved have been fired, which is a good step, unlike the officers who shot Breonna Taylor to death, in case you’ve kept up with that case. Those (4/10)

officers have been placed on administrative reassignment instead. There’s a long growing list of unjust murders at the hands of police officers. While the problem may just be about a “few bad apples”, the full idiom says, “one bad apple spoils the bunch”. This is an (5/10)

institutional problem. I have a lot of friends and family who back the blue. If you’re one of them I beg you to consider if I were the one in the situation. Perhaps it’s easier to compare to Breonna. I have experienced a violent mid-night break in. It was terrifying. (6/10)

Unfortunately, or fortunately since no one was hurt, I didn’t have my gun on me. But I am a gun owner. If someone breaks down my door, I have been taught to aim to kill to save my own life. If a plain clothes person broke down my door, I would shoot in defense. This might (7/10)

sound reasonable. But this is what Breonna’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, is being charged with attempted murder for.
If you see a difference between me and them, you are part of the problem. Please consider this. And consider the fact that aggression killing like what (8/10)

happened to George Floyd is encroaching on citizens’ rights. It is violating the police’s oath to protect and serve.
This is an issue that needs to be dealt with, and dealt with yesterday. If you find yourself scoffing at this... please tell me why, here on this thread. (9/10)

Let’s have some conversation, in public. I can’t continue to stand by as this injustice keeps happening. Source for George Lloyd (there are many but this is fairly comprehensive) (10/10) https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/26/minneapolis-police-death-custody-fbi/