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In 2019, the FBI recorded less than 17,000 homicides. After George Floyd died of a drug overdose while violently resisting arrest, we would not see numbers like that again.
4,870 more people were murdered in 2020. Those excess deaths meant that Floyd and BLM killed nearly as many people that year as AIDS. And those nearly 5,000 deaths were part of a total of nearly 14,000 more excess homicides in the FBI crime database since then. (And those numbers are still incomplete because of reporting changes made by the FBI.)
The anniversary of Floyd’s overdose death on May 25th, 2020 led to an outpouring of political
commemorations of his death and musings about the need for yet more ‘racial justice’, none of which accounted for the 2,000 more black people killed in 2020 than in 2019.
The Floyd reckoning killed more black people than Hurricane Katrina did. The real legacy of the BLM race riots were 2,000 dead black people. The real legacy of the fists and kneelings were entire cemeteries filled with dead black bodies over the course of only one single year.
And coffins being placed in cemeteries across the country, planted there by the ‘reckoning’.
More Americans died in the BLM wars than were killed in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars combined. Or at Pearl Harbor. To find a conflict that was more lethal to Americans, you would have to go back to Vietnam. Far more were killed by the BLM crime wave than perished in Hurricane Katrina, not to mention Sandy, Harvey, Maria, Ike and the California wildfires.
George Floyd’s death was the single deadliest non-drug or disease event of any war or natural disaster in the United States in the last 40 years.
The 14,000 dead, many of them black, are Floyd’s true legacy. Those 14,000 did not tour the nation in golden coffins. There were no multi-million dollar payments to their families. Members of Congress in cheerfully colored outfits did not kneel by their gravesides. Most simply disappeared and became footnotes.
In Floyd’s hometown of Minneapolis, 48 people were murdered in 2019. In the Year of Floyd that shot up to 82, then 94 in 2021, 82 in 2022, 70 in 2023, and 76 in 2024. That adds up to 164 more people murdered in the years since Floyd’s drug overdose. Shootings in Minneapolis increased 105% and the number of gunshot victims nearly doubled in 2020.
Five years later, Minneapolis politicians remember that one accidental death, not the 164 murders that they were complicit in while they promoted a ‘reckoning’ on racial justice.
Murders once again went up in Minneapolis last year even as politicians hail a safer city.
A cottage industry of pro-crime groups has spent the last 5 years denying that there’s a crime wave. The media will periodically run stories accusing the public of falsely believing that crime is a problem even as people are randomly slashed on the New York City subway and dozens of victims die in weekend shootings. The Biden administration tainted the FBI’s data collection so that it can no longer be trusted past a certain point, and yet the bodies do not go away.
The public expresses concern about crime in poll after poll. Voters came out for Trump in 2024 in part because of their worries about crime. The only counter-argument by a party that had told Americans that fighting crime was racist was to tell them that they were imagining the murders.
But no one imagined it when LA and San Francisco booted Soros pro-crime prosecutors.
Five years after their last reckoning killed nearly 14,000 people, caused billions in damage, destroyed small businesses and livelihoods and set back race relations decades, they want another ‘reckoning’.
Americans deserve a reckoning, not with the fictitious claim that racist police officers are roving the streets looking to choke black men to death, but with the forces behind a destructive movement that took a bunch of amateur activists and their hashtag, and used them to destroy the criminal justice system and unleash rioters and criminals on innocent Americans.
A political movement backed by top foundations, including the Ford Foundation, and leading corporations, led to the deaths of the equivalent of the population of St. Augustine, Florida.
That’s the reckoning that should be happening.
If the drug overdose death of one career criminal led to a national reckoning, what should the murders of 14,000 human beings lead to?
We don’t need more racial reckonings, diversity commitments and pledges to end policing that killed 14,000 people. What we need is a reckoning for the reckoning. We need a reckoning with the billionaires and foundations, like Soros and Ford, that led us here. Their radical tax shelters need to be stripped from them, their fortunes garnished to cover the losses suffered by families and shopkeepers across the country. We need a reckoning with every politician that tweeted, attended and enabled the violence that continues to claim lives every single day.
We need a reckoning with the “fiery but mostly peaceful” media that could position a reporter in the middle of a firestorm and still claim that the riots which claimed countless lives were peaceful. And finally we need a reckoning with prosecutors and law enforcement who practiced the two-tier policing that allowed violent criminals to run rampant across entire cities. The ongoing violence by Hamas supporters and whatever shape the riots of tomorrow take are a warning that while the BLM riots have ended for now, they legitimized the idea of rioting.
It will take a comprehensive national legal reckoning to shut down rioting once and for all.
A true reckoning with the 14,000 victims of George Floyd’s legacy will begin with unleashing the police to get back to enforcing the ‘broken windows policing’ and other measures that he[ped make America safe in the 90s, and filling the prisons with career criminals using measures like ‘three strikes’ to end the revolving door crime wave enabled by not only leftists or Democrats, but Republicans who went along with ‘criminal justice reforms’ promoted by the Kochs.
The reckoning of the 14,000 should bury liberal and libertarian pro-crime policies along with those bodies. We should never allow ourselves to be fooled into buying the idea that closing prisons and freeing criminals is a ‘conservative’ policy or good for America. The cost of prisons is cheap compared to the cost of a massive crime wave. The cost of preventing a crime is always cheaper than the crime itself. And when we forget that, criminals will remind us.
May 25th should not be the day we mourn a violent criminal who robbed a pregnant woman at gunpoint, it should be the anniversary of the day we pledge to be merciless to criminals.
Because when we are kind to criminals, we are cruel to their victims. When we kneel at the coffins of criminals, they will bury us in them. Forget George Floyd, remember the 14,000.
This proves one thing. Blacks do not need to live in a civil society.
I think “want” is a better word than “need,” but “want” has complications, too.
Everybody *wants* civilized society, but fewer and fewer are capable of creating and maintaining it. Most people coming from foreign nations and cultures are unable to conform themselves to a life of ordered liberty — the cornerstone of western society created and maintained by Anglo-protestant Christian men. These concepts are unique to western *civilization*.
The governance of these foreign hordes will require a much heavier hand because the idea of ordered liberty is foreign to them or used as a means of our destruction. Their societies do not operate upon and cannot produce social trust. Have you noticed how often lying is the basis upon which these foreign people do everything? Truth telling is a distinctly western thing and very basic to us, but they see us as suckers. And they are right.
We need to deport about 100 million people with their children who have immigrated here, who cannot or will not assimilate. Citizenship should be retroactively revoked when given to the children of foreigners who happened to squat down and have a baby on our propositional magic dirt. There is no national will to accomplish this hard work, but it could be done in one or two generations (20 – 40 years). Like Europe, we are in a death spiral brought about without our consent by feckless governments allowing our replacement through crime, open borders and affirmative action policies – for all of which we pay.
Finally, if “civilization” means a society like those created by Europeans, then I do agree with you – not everyone *needs* it. But if “civilization” is any society living together in some form of cooperation – then I completely agree with you. They “need” the societies uniquely formed and maintained by their ancestors and their people. It is suitable to them. They can shape them, change them and make of them whatever they wish. I say we send them all back to their homelands, their people and families. We have no other homeland to go to. It can be done in a *civilized* way with charity and justice.
“Have you noticed how often lying is the basis upon which these foreign people do everything? Truth telling is a distinctly western thing and very basic to us, but they see us as suckers. And they are right.”
Yes, in our zeal to promote Christian values and “help others”, we are perceived as weak by foreigners and “suckers”, ripe for the picking.
But, the George Floyd worshipping crowd is just as bad, and will use this “Martyr” to justify racial division for generations.
You must be trolling.
Please move on to another venue.
Ken
nothing has changed since the crowds in israel chose barrabas over christ , hamas over the couple murdered in d.c. unfortunately it is only going to get worse not better . all the hand wringing and crying over the ” this is not who we are ” and ” there is no place for hate ” is a hollow load of meaningless drivel . hamas in preference to the victims of oct. 7 is where the west is and we are going to pay a heavy price . the last days are marked by ” lawlessness . ” i have yet to see a concerted effort to reign in the universities and colleges promoting terrorists . a bit like ” all hell will break loose ” and ” the war against terrorism ” both a fiction .
The leftist plan is working. If the BLACK baby wasn’t aborted then killings in the street will eliminate them all eventually.
You are clever, write important stories and are universally admired, but sometimes your advocacy gets the better of you and you slide into lies, slander and innuendo. The, someone has to tug on your leash. I’m going to do that right now.
George Floyd wasn’t a nice man. He was a petty criminal and if the Post is right, not so petty, when he shook down a pregnant woman at gunpoint.
BUT, there’s no reason to believe he died of an overdose,just because a trace of drugs were found in his system. Are you trying to exculpate Chauvin?
I watched the testimony of Dr Tobin, the Scottish pulmonologist and he made a convincing case that George Floyd died by Chauvin’s actions. I am a layman but you appear to know even less than I do. Did you even WATCH Dr Tobin’s testimony?
You then blame 4000 (later 14,000) random nurders on George Floyd, That is like blaming Catastrophes on Comets. Worse, you then blame them on BLM, leaving you open to (justified) charges of racism. That is just STUPID!
This is not the first time you’ve done this, gone down this path. In an earlier post you accused Norman Finkelstein of HOLOCAUST DENIAL. Now, Mr Finkelstein is a self-hating Jew who roots for our enemies, but he’s NOT a holocaust denier. BOTH his parents were in concentration camps. He’s not going to deny them. You later tried to justify your statements but, since you were TOTALLY WRONG, your explanations came off as just lame. DON’T DO THIS ANY MORE! The more you do this type of bullshit, you lose credibility. People have long memories of this and credibility is all journalists have to convince. JUST STOP. Sure, write your insane diatribes but delete them before posting. You write enough good stuff to not sully it with nonsense.
So you disagree and this is insane diatribes. Dr. Tobins testimony was junk science that the jury ate up. The autopsy report did not reveal any evidence that Chauvin killed Flyd. Yes the video looked bad, I am a retired NYPD Detective and when I took a close look at this case I saw this was purely a political prosecution and all officers involved should be pardoned.
Watch the documentary “The Fall of Minneapolis.” Floyd was complaining about not being able to breathe before he was even on the ground, if I remember correctly. Having a cop’s knee on his back as a standard restraining practice certainly did not help, but he simply was not murdered. Yet that has become a part of urban mythology.
Your criticism could be meaningful if you would strongman the points made by Mr. Greenfield and then show their weakness. Instead you attempt to strongman your own side of the issue, but do so badly because there was more than a “trace” of drugs in Floyd’s system and the paid testimony of a foreign expert witness for the defense was not without strong contradiction in both the original autopsy (which was changed under political pressure) and the prosecution’s expert witness testimony.
Mr. Greenfield is writing about a seminal event (Floyd’s death) and how it both affected and reflected the ways our society has changed and is changing. Floyd merely provides a “crystal moment” revealing the societal changes that were and are happening. You argue as though Greenfield says George Floyd was the cause. He was not. Floyd was a symptom. Why do you do this? I am unable to fathom any reasonable answer.
Chickenshit thug Floyd’s death was a useful tool to the left to initiate riots to disrupt the 2020 election. Hence, they needed to manufacture a martyr.
Now the left had a picture along side Covid. (Covid was God’s gift to the left, as Jane Fonda called it.)
Floyd had overdosed before in Chicago, but the cops were able to save him. His 2nd time, he had almost 3 times a lethal dose of fentanyl; just as the autopsy showed.
The 4,000+ is an indirect result. It’s had a name since 2014 when Michael Brown FAFO’ed in Missouri. It’s known as the Ferguson Effect.
Leftists keep making heros out of low-lifes combined with calculated lies. Brazen lying is required, because the Democrat bench is devoid of any real heros.
So, they make do with street-trash that comprises their base.
Wrong on everything, except the fact you are correct on Finklestien not being a holocaust denier. I haven’t seen Greenfield state that, but if anyone did they are flat out lying. Finklestein speaks about the Holocaust and his family.
In addition, only clowns call Finklestein a self hating Jew. A made up derogatory term used for Jews who don’t blindly fall in line with regards to Israel.
Finkelstein calls out Israel for their over the top offensive in Gaza. The atrocities and horror that the Israeli govt and IDF have inflicted on innocent Palestinians is what Finkelstein has an issue with. He’s not siding with his enemies. He’s calling out Israel for what it is. Second, neither Finklestein nor you, are Israeli. Finklestein is an America. And cares about the best interest of America NOT a foreign country like you traitors do. See, how that works, pal?
Sebastion out.
Fuck Gaza. It needs to cleansed from the planet, you Jew hater motherfucker. All Psuedostinians must die. PAINFULLY.
Studying for your Black Studies diploma❔
Floyd died of a Fentaly overdose . The LOWLIFE had three autopsy’s and only the one by his family’s attorneys said otherwise. Naturally. The usual suspects lie by nature.
Fuck you, you piece of shit. You don’t deserve to live in this country.
I’m very disappointed in you, not that you care. The last time you used slander/lies (Norman Finkelstein) you at least had the grace to give a lame excuse. Now you are simply cowardly, avoiding all criticism.
If you keep on this path you will eventually make mistakes so large that your fellow journalists will turn on you like sharks smelling blood. That is how journalists are, look how the Democrats are raking over Biden now and Jill now, remembering how they were before.
Credibility is EVERYTHING to a journalist.
OfficerThao testified that he acted as a “human traffic cone”, holding back bystanders
Judge Cahill assigned him 57 months in prison ruined his life.
The judge thought he should’ve taken an action and stopped the officer who held Floyd down with his knee .he would not apologize for doing his job holding back the crowd..
I hope his Christian values which he professes keepsvhim strong while he serves and unjust penalty
COME ON DANIEL… Those Black Lives DON’T Matter. There’s no Democrat agenda to promote. An investigation into those Deaths, wounded/attacked in the hundreds of thousands, would prove that most were in Democrat-run cities which are lawless. It’s their own fault for promoting Defund the Police while allowing mobs to loot, to burn cities down, and to attack all opponents while the Democrats, and their media, are hiding under their Conspiracy of Silence!
Here in Albuquerque, now #2 in crime, the Communist Governor and Communist Mayor were Defund the Police. When Trump announced Operation Legend, these two called them Storm Troopers. Shouldn’t they have instead welcomed any and all help? GUESS WHAT…. now the Governor and Mayor Keller, whose wife Elizabeth studied in Cuba and Nicaragua, and followed Che’s journey in South America, (and even with that history she passed the FBI background check to work and Sandia and Los Alamos Labs?) HAVE INVITED THE NATIONAL GUARD TO HELP THE POLICE. (The local ACLU is waiting for the first arrest so they can sue.) (When Trump announced the Border Wall, the Commie Governor had an ad showing her crashing through the cardboard wall as she took the National Guard away from the border. The ACLU is suing for the Military Zone at the border now on top of suing on behalf of deportations slowing the process to a trickle.) On an international list, Albuquerque was #23 on the Most Dangerous Cities. SOS! Our whole state is BLUE!
ISN’T IT STRANGE THAT ILLEGALS, fleeing their violent homeland, as per their excuse for seeking Asylum, with ACLU reps teaching them to lie, what to say and what not to say, that they then end up in the most violent cities with more violence and crime than most of their own countries?
SURE ENOUGH, the Floyd anniversary brought out Al Sharpton and Crumb and they still said nothing about all the BLACK LIVES THAT DON’T MATTER! NO TEARS OR RIOTS FOR THEM?
Jackie Mason on Al Sharpton & Don Imus…
Sadly, George Floyd’s sad life will be portrayed in racial terms for many years, perhaps until the Last Day. However, his condition took place in a cultural wasteland engendered less by racial than by social influences.
It has been a century since America was seduced by the folly of big government as an ethical influence in our land. Every step that has devalued the church, the family, and individual responsibility since the time of Woodrow Wilson has made it harder for individuals to grow in a culture of self-reliance and a sense of worth arising from the clear understanding they are made by God in His image.
Mr. Floyd was, of course, responsible for his behavior and brought on his own early death, but he was also a victim of politicians, bankers, charlatan preachers, and governments at all levels that take the place of wholesome families, schools that are real places of learning, and safe communities where social values or respect and responsibility constrain bad behavior.
We will not live in peace again until this awful trend toward big government and little souls is reversed.
satanic islam’s solution to big government is letting the jihadists take Sharia Law into their own hands…
On the front of one of my t-shirts is “Breathe Easy. Don’t Break the Law.” We get lectured about “the talk:” that black parents allegedly give to their children as to how to behave around the police. Given who it is that does the overwhelming majority of murdering of black people, maybe the focus of the talk needs to change.
“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”
― Jesse Jackson
Here is John Derbyshire’s non-black version of “the talk.”
Very profound. It’s really good to know you are on top of all the important stuff.
Keep burnishing that lib cred.
“You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization – including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain – without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.” Thomas Sowell
I still have idiot neighbors with BLM signs in their yard. Yes they are all white rich libtards.
Since the mid 1960’s I have lived in 4 states. All have or are being transformed. First was Minneapolis. A city that settled by Scandinavian Socialists that a excellent quality of life back then. Then the Mondale far left types turned Minnesota into a Marxist hellhole. My next move was to Colorado Springs a beautiful city. Now they have turned the corner with a new mayor and the Transformation is taking place. Next Cheyenne. Still somewhat conservative but headed left. Lastly, Oregon’s capitol where the little Marxists are trying to become Portlandia’s adopted child. Almost every city has the same issues. Message to the young you have been made to believe things that aren’t true and now in sight is a Cuba future. Maybe worse.
Remember Lightning from the Sky destroyed Floyds Memorial