Do you know what killed George Floyd? Meth and fentanyl. Sometimes it’s cocaine and heroin. He probably used them all. The poor man had a criminal record, including breaking in and robbing and terrorizing a pregnant woman, and also high blood pressure and SEVERE heart disease, and he was high at the time of his death. He was an addict! Active addiction always ends at the hospital, prison, or the morgue.
Every. Single. Time. Addiction does not discriminate and it has no mercy.
George Floyd was made in the image of God, he had tremendous worth and value to Jesus and it’s really sad that his life ended the way it did, but to martyr George Floyd as an upstanding member of the black community, as a complete innocent is, well, really racist. The guy was an addict and an ex con who darn near blew his own heart out doing meth amphetamines.
I’ve loved a lot of people doing that very same thing and I love them too much to lie about what really killed them. A white kid from my neck of the woods was actually killed by the Seattle cops not long ago. We can blame the cops, we can blame the knife he was brandishing in front of them, or we can speak the truth.
His addiction got him killed.
People on heroin and meth aren’t thinking clearly, they can be really violent, and they are scary to confront. I have no love for aggressive behavior from cops, but I get it. People I love have certainly attacked me in the throes of their addiction and put my life in danger. Not too long ago an elderly couple was robbed, murdered, and set on fire by some people in active addiction. Addicts can be really scary to deal with.
Boy, if the black community and the white community ever came together on this one point, we could really give the Powers That Be a good scare and maybe enact some real change…...for a change. I long for that day.
You know, I’m a little bit afraid to talk about such things, because besides the mass hysteria, mob mentality, and toxic politics, there are people in power who reap a huge benefit from making sure the truth of my words are never heard. Did you know drugs never come into a community without permission from the gatekeepers? It took me a long time to understand and accept that truth, but drugs are deliberately introduced into a community, not unlike smallpox blankets where once given to Native Americans by our government. It’s really easy too, basic economics, you simply create the need and then you supply the demand.
In my lifetime, I watched crack cocaine introduced into the mostly black urban community, and I watched meth and heroin roll up the West coast and mostly hit white rural areas. It’s all over the Midwest, too. Does anybody know the history of the British opium wars? Drugs are really a biological weapon, an act of terrorism, a useful pandemic, and highly profitable, too.
People get rich and powerful, all up and down the drug pipeline, but not the addicts. Not their families. Families just get destroyed. The addicts just get dead. My heart breaks for all the moms who have lost children to addiction.
Nobody ever wants to talk about it. In fact, we won’t even name it for what it is. Our issues are all about “the homeless,” “racism,” and “people with mental health challenges.” I’ve watched all my local bleeding hearts invite this problem right into our tiny community for years, and I’ve watched it spread, and I’ve watched so many people die.
When we love people sacrificially, the way Jesus teaches us to love people, we speak the truth about who they are and the truth about what afflicts them. A whole lot of people don’t actually love black folks, they just love that label, “not racist,” and the social status and political power that goes along with it.
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I have many friends who are African American, and they’re all wonderful people. Any one of them would be a better role model than George Floyd. Just saying, our black brothers and sisters deserve better examples to represent them. Holding up Floyd as a hero and a martyr is doing the black community a grave disservice. Holding him up as representative of the African American community only reinforces negative stereotypes.
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Absolutely! This does reinforce a lot of negative stereotypes. It is also just really grievous and heartbreaking that some really good black guys have now been murdered as a result of these protests. Some of those guys were husbands, fathers, leaders in their communities. Their lives mattered, too.
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Addict or not addiction did not kill him it was a knee to the neck. He was not resisting so there was absolutely no need to crush his windpipe in such a brutal fashion. I am in active addiction and have been for thirty years on and off and not every addict is the same. Regardless of colour race sex or anything else nobody needs treating in such a fashion. If people want to use him as a martyr so be it but there are plenty of examples of dead black people killed by police that could have been used it is just that Floyds death touched a nerve with millions of people across the world so who are we to say they are wrong because he was a criminal. Most criminals are fighting a system that makes it hard to find work so they gravitate to crime to get some kind of life. I know many addicts and none deserve to die getting arrested. Martyrs come from many situations face facts
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@DREW5000G
I am sorry you have an addiction problem. I won’t make fun of it. We all have our weaknesses. Only our Lord can help us repair that which is broken within us.
There actually are not that many examples dead black people killed by police that would touched a nerve with millions of people across the world. The killing of Floyd touched a nerve because people saw a desperate man apparently murdered by a cold-hearted fiend in cold blood. They just assumed racism, and the opportunists went with it.
Much of what we see is not as it first appears to be. The world is filled with camouflage, masquerades, and deceptions. If we won’t think for ourselves and strive to see the truth, then people will use us.
Race does not matter. It is not real. What is important? The truth. We must learn as much of the truth as we can, and we must learn the wisdom to do good and avoid evil.
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You have my permission to make fun of my addiction, laugh at my situation, whatever energises your thought process works for I. I am comfortable in my sphere right now. Your Lord can give you all you desire i make no fun of your belief system. As for truth i am in agreement that it must be the basis for all discussion. I am aware that forces will use sympathy to arouse anger and in this case the truth is not abundantly clear. We are no doubt being manipulated
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There is one other possible end to active addiction which I didn’t see mentioned here-Yes IB once I read about the toxicology I had to absorb another message of the ravages of addiction, which our leaders are all too happy to see fall by the wayside and take an opportunity to grift
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Oh, a big amen! I should have said that, I should have clearly pointed out that there are miracles, that recovery is possible, that people can break free. I sometimes just see so much suffering, so much grief, that I forget that. I sometimes say watching someone suffer addiction is like having surgery without anesthesia. Painful stuff and it’s easy to lose hope. But healing is certainly possible, many have done it. 🙂
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It’s a spiritual malady with a Spiritual solution
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See, there’s this thing called getting to the heart of the matter….
Well done ma’am.
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Wow! Thanks for speaking the truth.
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That knee on his neck for 7 or so minutes was incidental I’m sure…. /s
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It actually is incidental. It’s likely he wouldn’t have been in that situation and resisting arrest if it weren’t for the drugs he was using. And he may well have survived the encounter if he wasn’t suffering from severe heart disease, high blood pressure, and a load of meth and fentanyl in his system.
We could hang Chauvin off a bridge and send all cops through diversity training every few months, but nothing is ever going to change until we get the meth and heroin out of our communities.
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WAS NOT RESISTING WATCH AGAIN, LYING DOWN PEACEFULLY ACCEPTING HIS DEATH, WHY IS IT HARD TO ACCEPT FOR YOU
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This containes truth
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All that said, there was no excuse for the guy to kneel on his neck. That was messed up and wrong.
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Right, the problem being we, meaning Dept heads and politicians, issue directives and train cops in the way they want them to behave. So I may not “like” to see cops kneel on some guy’s neck, but if it is in their rule book, their list of directives, their training, then we can’t turn around after the fact and accuse them of having no excuse. We paid them, we trained them, we taught them how to use excessive force, and then we put them in harms way.
We can certainly put this Chauvin guy on trial. We can even send him to jail. The problem being, nothing changes. You’ve still got meth and heroin destroying communities and cops hired to try to contain the damage using techniques we instructed them to use.
http://www.minneapolismn.gov/police/policy/mpdpolicy_5-300_5-300
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That being the case we certainly need to change our training directives. If that happens as a result of this it would be a good thing.
I lived in St. Paul the last time this happened. I wanted to give the cop the benefit of the doubt. After he was acquitted the body cam footage came out, and it was clear that there was no excuse for his actions. How a jury acquitted him after seeing that footage still baffles me.
I actually worry that Chauvin will also be acquitted… Facts are important, but I don’t feel at all compelled to become an apologist for him, in spite of my contrarian tendencies.
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I’m also concerned about an acquittal. I think we really set up that possibility by over charging him. Sometimes it’s easier to get a conviction for a lesser charge, but people don’t understand that.
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Given the track record I’ve seen my money would certainly be on acquittal.
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“A whole lot of people don’t actually love black folks, they just love that label, “not racist,” and the social status and political power that goes along with it.” This right here is truth.
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This post made me think of the Opium Wars between Great Britain and China. In the 19th century the British East India company began growing opium in India and selling it to China. When the Chinese government tried to block the importation of opium their action led to war. Here is a Wikipedia article on the subject.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
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Exactly, Clyde! It is much like the British Opium wars. Thanks for the link.
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I find the BLM movement quite curious. First and foremost, I believe the leadership (not the rank and file members) to be neo-marxist. Their message is that black lives matter, yet hardly a whisper for David Dorn, or Dave Patrick Underwood, who were both black and both killed by ‘protesters’. In much the same way of conspicuous silence by N.O.W., and #metoo over Tara Reade (not to mention the Clinton years) – and their message during the Kavanaugh hearings that ‘all women must be believed’, BLM is nowhere to be seen for these murdered black men. Perhaps black lives matter if they fit the monolithic racial narrative being presented. Perhaps women who are raped must be believed only if it falls within the left’s political viewpoint (and political ambitions). Until that disparity is addressed, true reform will be impossible, because the electorate will see the politicians for what they truly are – pandering politicians bent on getting elected.
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Well said, Rob. Something that that makes me crazy, our laws, rules, and even our “science,” are all really subjective, morally relative. My state Health Dept has done a number of articles fully supporting these protests as an important public health issue, while at the same time explaining how if you try to run a small business or go to church, you’re selfish and trying to kill everyone.
People really should inform themselves about the nature of BLM as an institution with leaders and a mission statement and a great deal of money. Absolutely the lives of black people matter, but just because you take some good words and slap them onto your organization doesn’t make you a good organization.
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Let’s apply a little common sense here. BLM’s focus is police brutality. If the person who murdered David Dorn can be found he will be arrested tried and convicted. The police frequently get away with their crimes.
I watched the video of the police with George Floyd and the behavior of the police is inexcusable. You are correct that the police are not particularly racist. That means that one day that knee might be on your neck or on the neck of one your loved ones. Maybe we should all insist on reasonable policing?
I don’t think that anyone is claiming that George Floyd was perfect. However, it is the job of the police to arrest people suspected of crimes. In this case they did a terrible job. Imagine a doctor killing a patient through his own bad behavior and then claiming that it was the patient’s fault for being sick in the first place. The doctor’s job is treating sick people. We would not allow the doctor to get away with that excuse and we should allow the police to get away with it either. But common sense is not all that common these days.
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Hi Nonya
It may be none/of/my/ business, but please refer to your comment here when it is determined the policeman did not MURDER Floyd.
‘Full intent and with motive in broad daylight?’
Uh, don’t think so. Tragic all around/ but MURDER?
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I am quite certain that the police officers who killed George Floyd will get away with it. Again that is why BLM exists and why there are so many protestors. If police officers were routinely held accountable for their bad behavior then there would be no protests.
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Tkx, but maybe u are forgetting about the real world of vice and crime, where not all criminals who have been subdued act like obedient choir boys.
Maybe u need to be reminded of how many WHITE men, who while being under the knee, have lied and said ‘I can’t breathe,’ then after being released, turned like an animal upon the cop, stole his gun, and killed a cop trying to do a difficult job.
So while you are CERTAIN of an outcome, I am not, but the difference is I choose to be patient before I give a verdict. Any good judge will agree with me, while at the same time condemning Sharpton and Cooper for inciting ignorance.
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Policing is a dangerous job. It is made more dangerous, not less, by police misconduct. George Floyd was handcuffed. Unless he had superpowers he was not going to be able to break the handcuffs, jump up grab a gun and kill anyone. There are countless videos of police abusing their authority and violating the trust that society places in them. Their behavior is shameful and is currently an international embarrassment.
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Thank you, you write what many of us are thinking and you write it well.
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You know IB…I have written about our reactions to the things that magically seem to happen to us for many years now—with the gist of my clarion call coming down to the choices we make.
Our choices.
Good.
Bad.
I had read that Mr. Floyd was “messed up” when he went into that convenient store to buy cigarettes and that he used a counterfeit 20 dollar bill to pay. The ink was still wet.
The clerk asked for the cigarettes back but he refused and went back to his car where some other guys were with him.
The clerk called the police.
The clerk has stated that they will now never call the cops over such issues again despite such being required of employees when there is such an issue of stealing or counterfeit bills, etc.
The police came and Mr. Floyd refused to cooperate.
So because of poor choices…Mr. Floyd ended up on the ground and because of another egotistical poor choice by a cop, Mr. Floyd died.
The entire incident need never to have happened, but it did because of choices.
And now we have madness touting the choices made by two men as a catalyst for poor choices run amuck.
Our choices effect not only ourselves but everyone we encounter.
And the sad thing is, we, as a civilization no longer seem to even care…
Lord have mercy…
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Really well said, Julie. It is about a series of choices and what kind of ripples in the pond we set in motion. Our choices really do have an impact on those around us. I think addiction is a really good example of that, people who use, lose their ability to make good choices, and then they make it so much harder for those around them to do the same.
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But IB— the nation does not hear this truth and we are living with the onslaught from lies — the lies just might destroy us
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Daring commentary, I applaud your boldness. Addiction indeed led to Floyd’s death. But, what is being ignored is the prior relationship the cop had with him. George Floyd worked at the same local nightclub as the Minneapolis police officer ( Derek Chauvin) who was shown on video kneeling on his neck as he said, “I can’t breathe.” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/george-floyd-officer-who-kneeled-his-neck-had-worked-same-n1217976
Knowing this history and their likely relationship, it isn’t too far a stretch of the imagination to see this as an intentional elimination over a recent dispute. If we scrutinize the average addict’s lifestyle, there is appropriate blame to be place on Chauvin who was Floyd’s coworker at the venue as an off-duty officer for the 17 years. A mere coincidence to be swept under the carpet?
Recent statistics (facts) have cited the number of police involved killings are NOT consistent with the supposed ‘epidemic’ and ‘genocide’ BLM claims. Far more whites have died by police. Far more blacks continue to die at the hands of other blacks than white on black or cop on black attacks. But the FACTS are again ignored, while the race-card is played. Why else were Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson featured speakers at Floyd’s memorial?
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Good points, IB. It’s easy to conflate what Chauvin did, which was inexcusable, and the drugs in Floyd’s system which contributed to his death in more ways that one. They are two separate and very disturbing issues. But it’s has gotten so political that what actually matters gets lost in all the noise.
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Every time I see someone call themselves a “bleeding heart so-and-so” unironically, even proudly, I just smack my forehead. People keep using that as a banner and I’m like, you realize you’re actually mocking yourself, right?
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Reblogged this on Stephanie Parker McKean and commented:
The real cause of death for George Floyd
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THANK YOU!!! I know, writers are not supposed to shout at readers by using all caps – but this truth needs to be shouted. I have reblogged it, and shared it to Twitter and Facebook. It’s about time TRUTH got a fair hearing. God bless you. THANK YOU!!!
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Thank you for the reblog and for your kind words. 🙂
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Our universe is beautiful and terrible and beyond our understanding … and perhaps its most terrible drug is power?
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IB, I’m too exhausted to respond appropriately to this post. It’s going to take more than I have emotional to get it out. If it matters, it wounded me deeply. I know it’s customary to reply to all who comment, but it’s not necessary. Maybe I’ll feel up to sharing more later. 😞
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Get some rest. Well talk when you’re up to it.
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I’ve read your post four times trying see what I must have missed, trying to get beyond the emotional triggers to see, the point. I think I see it.
The point seems to be that, while we have been distracted by the “incidentals” like racism, the government has been controlling us, fostering the greater problem of drug addictions. As such George Floyd is a victim of his choice to use drugs.
If I’m right, I have to tell ya I took a beating to get there. But I’m still bothered by something. Much of the world watched what happened to this drug addict with his criminal past and poor health die and fell for the distractions of racism and police brutality. The black community and the worldwide response to what we saw is to be pitied because that kind of response is reserved for the “complete innocent.” The officer had his knee on the criminal addict’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds and he’s in handcuffs, but because addicts can be dangerous, and though we “don’t have love for aggressive behavior from cops,” we too are supposed to “get it.” Get why he would keep his knee on his neck for 8:46, as the addict and bystanders plead for his life. Yet the office kept his knee on his neck and his hands in his pockets until the criminal addict’s severely diseased heart stopped beating. And our take away was supposed to be that, “he may well have survived the encounter if he wasn’t suffering from severe heart disease, high blood pressure, and a load of meth and fentanyl in his system.”
No IB, I simply cannot by this one. I side with rest of the world on this one. I know our government is full of gangsters, but don’t think they are this good at deception. I must apologize to you because I think I have judged you already in my heart. This sounds and feels intentionally hurtful. To suggest that the response to Floyd’s death by the black community and the “bleeding hearts” is “really racist” can’t just be a bad choice of words. The irony is clearly intended and it’s downright mean. As if we don’t know real racism. I believe you could have found a better way to bring out the connection between George Floyd’s death and drug use.
And the comments to your post suggest, save for one, this post wasn’t meant for people like me. They too responded to the triggers. One comment is by someone suggesting the police officer is being lynched. I visited his blog and it gave me chills. No I don’t think I was supposed to be included in this group. This was a one party group. I’m sorry for intruding.
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Thanks for coming back and talking to me about it. I didn’t want to offend or hurt anyone’s feelings, but I knew I probably would. It’s an emotionally charged issue with lots of triggers. But I do really wish I could make you understand what I’m saying because it is really important, because it is the only way we are ever going to change things and prevent more suffering.
“The point seems to be that, while we have been distracted by the “incidentals” like racism, the government has been controlling us, fostering the greater problem of drug addictions. As such George Floyd is a victim of his choice to use drugs.”
Racism is not an disembodied thing outside of us, an entity unto itself that is separate from addiction, poverty, crime. More people have died from drug overdoses than from anything else, more families have been destroyed, more crime, more poverty created. For some strange reason the government has managed to convince millions of people that the drugs aren’t what’s causing our social problems and killing people, it’s just “systemic racism.” Well, the system is supplying the drugs, allowing the drugs in, and likely profiting off the drugs. I suppose that is a kind of “systemic” racism. It’s either outright malevolence or it’s complete indifference. Possibly greed.
I’ve simply seen too much child abuse, too much domestic violence, too many kids killed, too many over doses, too much violence, too much destruction, every last bit of that misery linked to somebody’s drug addiction. White, black, doesn’t really matter, drugs destroy families, communities, economies, from the inside out. Nearly all negative encounters with the cops involve somebody using substances. I’m supposed to ignore the one consistent link, the common denominator in all our problems, in favor of a narrative that suggests the problem is just racist cops out to murder as many black people as they can?
Again I don’t want to be deliberately hurtful to anyone, but there are some truths that just have to be spoken, some truths that just hurt too much to ignore.
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I appreciate your response to a friendly man, and agree that unfortunately, we miss the greater issue. One policeman’s actions used as a springboard to burn cities/ erase Aunt Jemima pancakes from the menu/ change the names of streets and buildings/ in short/ to annihilate history all under the guise of ‘obvious racism.’ No.
I left a response elsewhere for anybody to prove white racists ply their craft in ER’s/ OR’s/ blood labs/ chemo centers/ any hospital ward or room where the most tender of care is rendered without reference to color or religion.
But do u want to see real racism? How bout the Amalekites hating on the Jews…… been going on forever and I don’t hear a peep.
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Does not matter what you have seen, a man died. A man died. He was cuffed. He did not resist. Still he died. Are u saying he would die anyway because if so i can say that is guess work. You are not able to see the future. He died for no reason, simple. All your reasons dont carry weight.
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My sister is an alcoholic and has had encounters with the police for disorderly conduct/agitation issues. No doubt addiction is a real problem, but nothing justifies what Derek Chauvin did.
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Truly a crass post.
Wow
I have tried to be reasonable here before, to no avail. So I won’t bother now. I just leave my voice saying, “NO.” Even the bits in this post I would agree with are lost in the idea that George Floy killed himself with that knee on his neck. The obstinance toward healing that characterization reveals is stunning. I just leave my voice saying I disapprove of this, and it in no way speaks for me.
I hope my hand reached out to black brothers and sisters (and people of other color) will be grasped. I aim for peace and healing. I will work for that.
Thanx
X
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