On May 25, 2020 a man named George Floyd died while in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department. The cellphone videos from bystanders showing Officer Derek Chauvin pressing his knee against Floyd’s neck-shoulder would kindle a conflagration of social protests and riots, which had not been witnessed since the late sixties, throughout the United States and countries of the Western Hemisphere. The death of one man sparked the Great Racial Reckoning, which conditioned nearly all Americans to view every political, social, and economic issue through the lens of race. Even a pandemic, which forced municipalities to shutdown for months, took a backseat to an ostensibly greater problem, that of racism. Over three years have passed since George Floyd’s death. Derek Chauvin nearly lost his life a few weeks ago when he was repeatedly stabbed in a federal prison. Black Lives Matter, the global foundation that received billions of dollars in charitable donations to fight racism, has been charged with tax evasion and fraud. The patron saint of Anti-Racism Ibram X. Kendi had his Anti-Racism Center at Boston University audited over supposed mismanagement of funds. And a new documentary entitled The Fall of Minneapolis claims that George Floyd died, not because of asphyxiation from Officer Derek Chauvin pressing his knee into Floyd’s neck but from the lethal levels of fentanyl and methamphetamine Floyd, who already possessed critical health issues, had in his system. If anything, The Fall of Minneapolis should be the last bitter pill Americans must swallow in order to acknowledge how insane the country went during the Summer of 2020.
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