Dear white people: We need to talk about the Rittenhouse verdict

We need a little nuance in our approach to criminal justice that I don’t think we apply often enough. While this verdict had nothing to do with race, many do. Our lack of support for victims of our “justice” system, makes us no better than those who perpetrated the action in the first place. Most of the time when a shooting occurs which attracts national attention, we all look to our corners to see how they are reacting before we decide how we may feel about it. We need no reminding that we are told what to be outraged about by our media, and when we react the way we do, we need to be mindful of how much of that emotion and that reaction is manufactured by that media influence. Take George Floyd for instance… You can think whatever you want about Floyd. He could be a drug addict and a crappy person all day long, and you can think he is a problematic poster child for the left’s crusade against police. Those things, however, do not justify killing him. Yes, I have heard the tired arguments about fentanyl in his system, and certainly, that may have been a contributing (or even a primary) factor that caused his death. However, It is kind of hard to talk about that when there is a video of a police officer, stepping wildly outside protocol or necessity, to kneel on the neck of a man for more than eight and a half minutes. In fact, most of you were more outraged about Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the National Anthem than you were about Derek Chauvin kneeling on the neck of George Floyd. Had Chauvin followed policy and treated Floyd with professional respect, there’s no guarantee that Floyd would still be alive, but one thing is for certain: Chauvin would have never been suspected of killing him and the left wouldn’t have another log on their narrative fire.

On Breonna Taylor, many of you were more concerned about who her boyfriend was than you were with what actually happened that night. Nothing, and I repeat… nothing, that Breonna Taylor did justified police beating down her door in the middle of the night and killing her. Not… A…Thing… Yes, I know there are conflicting statements regarding whether or not the police announced their intent. Announcement or not, what required that officers do it in the middle of the night wearing plain clothes and vests without any identifying characteristics on them? Why were they not wearing their issued body cams? I can tell you one thing is for certain: If my door was kicked down by people with guns, who didn’t identify themselves, in the middle of the night, I too would be shooting.