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George Floyd: The Prototype
The death of George Floyd was a political windfall for the enemies of the United States. Almost immediately, inconvenient facts, including toxicology reports showing lethal levels of fentanyl and methamphetamine, were brushed aside. Floyd’s death was transformed from a tragedy into a political instrument.
What followed was not justice. It was chaos: weeks of rioting, dozens of deaths, billions of dollars in insurance losses, statues torn down, neighborhoods burned, and elected officials openly siding with vandals.
This was not an accident. It was indulgence.
What followed in Minnesota was not an isolated episode, but the unveiling of a repeatable political formula: First, identify a death. Next, strip away inconvenient facts. Then elevate the event into a racial or ideological symbol. Finally, use that symbol to justify disorder, intimidation, and permanent suspicion of law enforcement.
Dolal Idd: The Failed Sequel
When the riots finally subsided, Minnesota seemed eager to manufacture the next symbol, a “George Floyd II.” That candidate emerged in December 2020 in the form of Dolal Idd.
Idd was killed during a Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension sting, the state’s equivalent of an FBI operation, while attempting to sell stolen firearms. When officers moved in to arrest him, Idd tried to shoot his way out by firing through the driver-side window. Police returned fire, and Idd was killed.
Under ordinary circumstances, the story would have ended there. But because Idd was Somali, the facts were immediately subordinated to identity. Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), quickly emerged as the designated interpreter of events. He was repeatedly given platforms to second-guess law enforcement, eventually appearing on ABC News, despite having no investigative role, no access to evidence, and no obligation to be accurate. For a time, Idd was framed as yet another victim of racial injustice, until the accumulating details made that narrative impossible to sustain.
When the Dolal Idd narrative collapsed under the weight of reality, CAIR did not reassess. It pivoted, supplying the media with a fresh narrative, prepackaged and ready for immediate reuse. The facts were irrelevant; the momentum mattered.
January 6: The Narrative Reset
The January 6 Capitol riot conveniently provided the next opportunity. Hussein quickly declared it proof that “white supremacy” was the greatest threat facing the nation, a claim CAIR repeats reflexively.
Context, scale, and causation were irrelevant. The talking point remained the same, just recycled for the next moment.
Eventually, even that cycle ran its course. Minnesota limped forward, economically damaged, politically radicalized, but nominally stable.
That stability did not last.
Jacob Blake: Exporting the Script
Next came Jacob Blake, a repeat domestic offender who defied police commands in Kenosha, Wisconsin, while attempting to retrieve something from his vehicle. A police officer shot and paralyzed Blake, and Kenosha promptly erupted into arson, rioting, and lawlessness. Although Jaylani Hussein had no direct connection to the incident, and there is not even a CAIR chapter in Wisconsin, he nonetheless emergedonce again, using his public platform to agitate and inflame.
Geography, jurisdiction, and relevance posed no obstacle to Hussein’s ambitions.
Myon Burrell: Revolution Without a Case
Then came Myon Burrell, a man who had spent nearly two decades in prison for the 2002 killing of Tyesha Edwards. In December 2020, Minnesota’s Board of Pardons voted to commute his life sentence after questions were raised about the reliability of the original investigation and the integrity of key evidence used to secure his conviction.
There is no evidence that CAIR had ever been involved in Burrell’s case. Yet Jaylani Hussein inserted himself anyway, proclaiming that “we are not stopping with Myon, we are starting with Myon,” and announcing that the country was in the midst of a revolution.
It was not advocacy. It was mobilization. Burrell was merely the latest prop. Hussein’s real objective was never justice in a single case, but mobilization against the United States itself.
With a record like this, one might expect TV stations to stop putting him on the broadcast. On the contrary, TV stations — and much of Minnesota’s political leadership — appear to reward his conduct.
Renee Good: The Next Attempted Martyr
This week, a woman, Renee Good, apparently inflamed by years of rhetoric portraying immigration enforcement as illegitimate, was killed during an encounter with an ICE officer who reasonably believed he was facing a potential vehicular assault. The distinction between lawful self-defense and post‑hoc narrative construction was immediately blurred. Almost immediately, Minnesota’s political class reached for the George Floyd script again.
Law enforcement was delegitimized. Obstruction was excused. Resistance was sanctified. Jaylani Hussein went further, declaring (@1:09) that people have a God-given right to fight ICE agents.
God has chosen us to carry the burden of this nation’s fight against President Trump’s authoritarianism.
The message was reinforced at the highest levels. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said (@17:00) publicly:
If you’re in Portland or you’re in LA or you’re in Chicago or you’re wherever they’re coming next, stand with us, stand with us against this.
This is no longer rhetorical excess. It is encouragement of resistance to lawful authority on a national level.
Ready to Do It Again
One might think Minnesota would now avoid invoking George Floyd. Instead, senior state leaders treat the unrest as an achievement, treating the months-long rioting they enabled, excused, and in some cases actively encouraged, as a precedent they are prepared to repeat.
Minnesota today is a place where public funds vanish, governance falters, law enforcement is treated as the enemy, political leaders openly flirt with lawlessness, and allies of terrorists are routinely given platforms. Violence is rationalized. Misinformation is reported as news. Police orders are treated as optional, illegal immigration is normalized, and mob action is moralized.
This is not coincidence. It is a process, one that has Minnesota exhibiting the defining characteristics of a failed state, not through foreign invasion, but through ideological corrosion from within, sustained by a constant demand for manufactured martyrs.
So on some windy cold and rainy night the Bronze man will get up and walk into a warm place because Global warming is aa scam
Some things need to be known, if for nothing else but for the sake a balanced perspective.
Which is that George Floyd was a vicious hardened criminal therefore it’s very wrong to make some kind of a “hero” out of hooligan was such criminal that he not was not only on drugs but was also involved in drug trafficking . Floyd even knowingly pass counterfeit money
Mr. Floyd was so totally despicable that he even entered a pregnant woman’s home under a false premise of deception to let his lawless ruffians lot her home , all the while he threateningly pointed a gun to that pregnant woman’s stomached ‘You better cooperate.”
The list of crimes that Floyd was guilty of can to go on. It’s absurd as well as wrong to make a “hero” out of heinously wicked thug. As the Bible reads “Woe to those who call evil good…” Isaiah 5:20. [N.K.J.V.]
The police officer, Derek Chauvin who was sentenced to prison by the politically correct court of “law” for the death of that hoodlum George Floyd completely refused to take into consideration everything that really mattered.
The PC court didn’t take into account that Mr. Floyd was both a drug trafficking and drug using hooligan and that one of the reason his died that night was not only that the officer used force on him, which is the only language that thugs and gangsters are able to understand because that will not respond to reason. Floyd died because of his drug abuse about with the force that officer used on him.
If Floyd hadn’t resisted the officer force then would not have been needed to control him.
In the light of Bible it’s wrong to resist of police officers or their orders. Romans 13:2.
Furthermore as this CP unjust prison sentence upon Mr. Chauvin is a reminder for Christians to pray for him since he was wrongly sentenced and that Bible also instructs in Hebrews 13 : 3. “Remember the prisoners as if chained with them – Those who are mistreated…”
Police officer, Derek Chauvin who was sentenced to prison by the politically correct court of “law” for the death of that hoodlum George Floyd completely refused to take into consideration everything that really mattered.
The PC court didn’t take into account that Mr. Floyd was both a drug trafficking and drug using hooligan and that one of the reason his died that night was not only that the officer used force on him, which is the only language that thugs and gangsters are able to understand because that will not respond to reason. Floyd died because of his drug abuse about with the force that officer used on him.
If Floyd hadn’t resisted the officer force then would not have been needed to control him.
Floyd died by his drug abuse and the stress he brought upon himself by being such a fool that he resisted arrest. In other words, Floyd is responsible for his own death.
Floyd’s companions mentioned that he had been passing out at the wheel of his parked vehicle. Had he been allowed to drive away, he likely would have lost consciousness while driving, possibly killing himself and others.
Regarding January 6th 2001 and then later when Joe Biden was sitting in the Oval Office of the White House masquerading as a genuine, real US President , he had again proven that he was, and still is, a blatant and outright liar of the most despicable sort. For Biden called that patriot rally on January 6, 2021 at Washington DC. “A deadly insurrection.”
As for “deadly”, the only people who died that day were American patriots, as Ashi Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland. Neither is an insurrection, the patriots didn’t try to overthrow the US government and they no firearms on them.
Therefore, what Biden slanderously said statement that about those patriots, he lied again For Joe Biden has been lying for decades, So much so that we may be sure the he is a pathological liar and likewise being chronic liar is now part of his despicable character.
It might even be that with Biden’s fragile mental haze and he’s so self -deluded that he might really believe some of his own lies.
America surely didn’t need anyone sitting in the Oval Office of the White House who has no concept of reality or grip on reality. We ,as Americans should be very glad and relived he’s now literally and officially a “has been.”
That January 6th Committee was a complete political hoax. To make matters even worse the corrupted Red -Green alliance infiltrated and influenced FBI took a sinister part in that schemed despicable hoax.
Furthermore, on Fox News had interviewed a woman who is an American patriot women and was outside at the rally on January 6,2021 for a free and honest national election said that she saw a number of Capital police smiling and even waving the other patriots in the Federal Capital building.
She said that she had a gut feeling and it was a set up. That woman turned out to be right.
It was, indeed, a set up a despicable schemed leftist set up. In other words, it was a dirty double cross.
It was a planned entrapment of a very insidious loathsome lawless low sort.
It was an unconscionable arranged and sinisterly designed disingenuous unfair affront to all genuine justice law and order.
The ancient Roman statesman lawyer scholar and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero had very wisely wrote that “Law is built on justice; where there’s no justice there’s no law.”
We should glad and even relieved that with President Trump back in Office such dark days of insidious wickedness might for over,
Right you are, Walter. And we cannot underestimate the role played by Ray Epps on Jan. 6. There are still unanswered questions.
I live in Minneapolis, specifically in Ilhan Omars CD. There are still many wonderful parts of Minneapolis. It has not been completely destroyed, though not from lack of trying. I have lived here for 40 years. It is sad to think I may have to leave the neighborhood I love. It is two blocks from the river with beautiful walking and bike paths; The river gorge is a federal park. Minneapolis city government is a laughing stock. It is more akin to a high school student council dreaming of all the cool things they can do. Bike lanes on busy streets that are rarely used, but funnel all other traffic, busses included into two lanes, costly light rail that is unusable because it is unsafe, no new single family residences may be built any longer as they are prioritizing multi family dwellings. of course this transforms it into a city of transient apartment dwellers instead of a city with stable, cohesive neighborhoods. DEI in public schools that are over funded and under performing. Taxes increased
10% in the wake of 10 billion dollars in fraud out of the Somali community. Many of us have seen that fraud for years, it is no surprise to us. The Somali community has, for the most part, been a blight on the state. It is my opinion that Minnesota is more conservative then our voting record implies. If fraud were eliminated, I believe Trump would have won here and Keith Ellison would not be our AG, but I am quite certain that fraud got him in. More people are waking to the reality that George Floyd was not a saint. The Fall of Minneapolis, has made its rounds here. Many still see it as right wing propaganda however. Troy Peterson, a mayoral candidate recently, made an interesting claim. He said Minneapolis has been the epicenter of every radical idea that has ever swept our country, and specifically they have all started in the proximity of the 21A bus line down Lake Street. He had the map to prove it. Are we sitting on some weird vortex or something?
Hi fellow Minnesotan, lived in MN my whole 65 years but my family and I are tired of all the constant chaos (and high taxes!). We are, hopefully, moving out of MN—family and all—within Trumps tenure as President. If another lefty President gets into office, this state is down the tubes unless that occurs beforehand. Sadly, what I see/hear from friends is that they are unwilling to admit the truth of how awful and leftist our government here is so, in my opinion, the brainwash here in MN is complete. The more college you attended, the more brainwash occurred. The rural areas are definitely more on the right. The whole situation is awful! We used to enjoy going downtown Mpls for dinner but we haven’t been downtown since before the whole G Floyd disaster ruined the city. Who wants to get car jacked or robbed? No thanks! I want peace and prosperity!
I was born & raised in St Paul, a 4th generation Minnesotan. At 18 I moved to Minneapolis for college & lived in Cedar Riverside. After college I got a job downtown Minneapolis & lived in South Minneapolis for several years before my career took me out of state. Although Minneapolis was always more lively than sleepy St Paul it was most definitely not crazy or dangerous. I could take a bus home from downtown at 1am, walk to my apartment with no problems.
My husband & I used to visit every year, but I have not been home now since 2007. I can’t bear to see what it’s become. My friends there now speak endlessly about evil ICE Agents ripping good, hardworking immigrants from their beds in the middle of the night. I don’t recognize them anymore & our 50 year old bonds of friendship are beginning to fray. One friend asked me when she last visited if I would ever return to Minnesota. I said no, I’ll never visit again. The Minnesota I remember doesn’t exist anymore & it hurts too much to see what it’s become.
Your comment really spoke to me, I’m sorry this has happened. You may find a new place you want live that fits your needs better than Minnesota. I hope so.
The small central MN town I grew up in is ruined as well. So, so sad to see! My parents are buried there so my sister and I go tend to the gravesite several times a year only to grieve the loss of a once vibrant little town! It’s an awful mess now!
We are moving to Florida! No more snow and leftist ideology!! Yippee!
If the fed’s remove all the criminals and protestors from Minn. there won’t be enough Democrats to vote the current politicians back in office. Dems are so desperate for voters they don’t want any illegals removed. After all they have invested years of taxpayer money buying their loyalty.
Two possible solutions:
1) trade Minnesota to Canada for Alberta.
2) let it form its own Islamic People’s Republic of Minnesota.
Why hasn’t Ashli Babbitt’s killer been criminally indicted?
Isaiah says it succincly in chapter59,”So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter, truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey.”
Elijah please visit Minnesota. You can stay at my house.