I have to say this---knowing full well the response---but so be it.
There is a pattern here of "shaming" the recent victims of Police confrontation. Somehow it seems that if you can discredit the "victim" they become sub-human and in doing that their death has no value or importance. George Floyd might have been on drugs, he might have done bad things in his life---but he was handcuffed---and he died. Nothing he had ever done or was doing at the time would be considered a capital offense---but it turned out to be one.
The same is true with many of these victims---you might not want to invite them to your table for dinner---but that doesn't mean they should now be dead.
If you think their deaths were justified then argue that based on the merits of the event---not nonmaterial trappings that are dug up or made up in an effort to divert the real issue.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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