It’s a safe bet George Floyd knew Derek Chauvin, the policeman whose knee-to-the-neck trick caused Mr. Floyd to die. They both worked security at El Nuevo Rodeo in Minnesota, Floyd on the inside and Chauvin on the outside. The club’s owner hasn’t admitted it, but they had to have come in contact often over their work there. And while much of this commentary is subjective, the fact those two men were acquainted is pretty much a certainty.
If you’ve ever seen a person expire, the exit of their soul from the body is unmistakable. The preliminary consensus is that Chauvin kept his knee on a lifeless Floyd a couple minutes after the Gentle Giant had expired. Chauvin, both through his training and his seventeen year tenure on the police force, would have known the precise point in time when Floyd’s body gave up the ghost. There is no question the crime of murder has occurred in this case, but the reason why Chauvin kept the hold so long would tell the true motivation behind his evil.
Many see it simply as privileged white cop against oppressed black citizen, but evidence points to much more than race. Chauvin not only knew he had killed Floyd, he knew he was being filmed doing it, and by several people in the crowd of onlookers. So, he knows he’s not going to beat the wrap for Floyd’s murder, and that poses further the idea that there was some strong motivation for Chauvin’s malicious behavior toward Floyd other than race.
The truth will probably be exposed, but sadly, it won’t alleviate the sociopolitical devastation the public demise of Mr. Floyd has spawned. Anarchists, likely may professionals among them, have exploited Floyd’s murder. Certainly, the aggressive cop, as a symbol of abusive power, and Floyd, the Gentle Giant, being literally crushed by such an authority plays into the hands of anarchists. But it’s quite obvious the active agitators care little for Floyd other than as an excuse to repudiate all authority of government and of social order. Looting and pillaging is as much a crime against society as murder was to Floyd. Their motivations are not much different than Chauvin’s, despicable and damaging. I dare say Mr. Floyd, if he was indeed the gentle person as he’s being portrayed, would loathe the fact he had been sacrificed for the benefit of anarchists.
K. S. Key – May 31, 2020