Everything bad that happens isn’t because of “race”, yet you’re all in a race to be the first to say it is.
I watched the video and was sick to my stomach. There is nothing good about seeing a man, made in the image of God, lose his life as officers argue with bystanders. The police officer so casually restrained this man with his knee at his neck as he lay there pleading with him for air; the restrainer dismissing his pleas and showing such negligence and eery calm, he may as well been eating a sandwich as this man took his final breaths. It made me sick to my stomach to see. The officer didn’t think this man was telling the truth. He was wrong and he appears to be negligent in his restraint seeing that the man was already handcuffed.
I don’t know what happened before the video started recording or what led to this. I don’t know what it’s like to be a police office day after day in Minneapolis. I’ve never been trained as a police officer in restraining people. There’s a lot I don’t know or understand. All I do know is I didn’t like what I saw and it made me sick. I wish it never happened. I wish I could turn back time and I could go tell this officer the morning before he left for work that using his knee as a restraint would lead to negligent manslaughter and change his life forever because he was about to end a mans life...a man that had friends and family and people who loved him. I wish I could turn back time and go to George Floyd’s house and just tell him to stay inside for the day so he could continue to live and breathe and do life.
A few years ago, one of my neighbors was intoxicated and broke into another neighbors house. He fled when the cops showed up and ended up getting wrestled to the ground in our front yard. We heard the man going on and on about how he couldn’t breathe ( this wasn’t long after the death of Eric garner in nyc and “I can’t breathe” became the leading mantra) he yelled that he would sue him, did he know who he was and on and on and on this restrained neighbor went. The cop kept him restrained until backup arrived and he had help to get him in a squad car.
YEARS ago, circa 1997, I was driving through Milwaukee with a friend when we got pulled over. He had an outstanding warrant in Wisconsin and they hauled him off to jail. While in jail that night, he witnessed a diabetic man die. Guy was arrested for being unruly at his own house, he was in fact having a medical episode ..this continued as he sat in his jail cell untreated asking for medical attention until he eventually died. My friend watched them carry his dead body out. He was ignored for so long, Rigamortis actually had set in as they carried him out of his cell. It never made national news, it never caused riots, it never made us all jump on the internet and talk about racial motives, the man was white. It was negligence. The family sued and won their lawsuit.
This is a broken world and bad things happen, negligence happens and injustice happens.
It is NOT always racially motivated, as a matter of fact, I believe it’s usually NOT racially motivated. It’s the nature of the terrible job of policing, and what happens when we use imperfect broken people as police officers to arrest imperfect broken people. I wish we had perfect human beings to replace them...but we don’t because perfect human beings don’t exist.
That situation in Minneapolis is BAD, it’s so so terrible. Seeing people pile on and instantly applying racial motives to the officers is also egregious and frankly opportunistic. You don’t know this was racially motivated...maybe it was? Maybe all four officers are part of some
secret order of KKK members and they got together and decided to kill as many black men as they could before getting caught on camera. I doubt it. Maybe its another case of negligence? I don't know, and you don’t know either. You know who does know?? The Lord.
This actually happens more than you see on tv, but you all see something that happens publicly on your televisions and INSTANTLY apply racial motive without knowing anything. Y’all want so bad to show that you’re not racist because that five letter R-word and accusation flies around so freely these days, we think we have to be the first to say this was racially motivated lest anyone question if we’re one of them. I was sick when I saw George Floyd die, I thought it couldn’t get any worse...then I saw all of you jump on the opportunity to apply motives with no knowledge, and that made me sick too. Today I woke up to news of looting and fires and businesses being destroyed. Cops having rocks and water bottles thrown at them. This is hell. Where is the bottom?
Come, Lord Jesus, I’m ready.
In the meantime, I’m thinking about strapping on a camel hair dress with a leather belt and fleeing to the desert to feast on locusts and honey. Jeff says “make sure you take the kids with you”. 🙂
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