This Is Just The Beginning
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Accountability.
Some accountability was finally handed down to a murderous police officer yesterday. Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all three counts in the murder of George Floyd. The jury found, beyond reasonable doubt, that what Chauvin did was murder. He used excessive force on George Floyd. He had no regard for his life when he decided to knee on his neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds. He choked the life out of Floyd. Floyd constantly told him that he could not breathe, and Chauvin did not let up. He was rightfully convicted of the murder of Floyd, and now he will hopefully spend the rest of his miserable life behind bars. That is what he deserves.
This needed to happen. We all saw what happened one year ago. It was everywhere. You couldn't miss it. It was terrifying. And the jury agreed. George Floyd should still be alive, just like so many other African American people that the police have wrongfully murdered.
I want everyone to know what this all means. This is just the start. Now is the time for accountability. We need to hold anyone that uses excessive force accountable to the fullest extent of the law. These people need to be prosecuted. They need to know that they cannot get away with murder just because they are the police. They need to know that they are not above the law. That is fact, and it should be easy to follow.
When the verdict was read I was joyous for a while, and then I turned my focus to the other people that have lost their lives too early at the hands of the police. Those officers need to be put in front of a judge and jury. The lady that killed Daunte Wright, she should be guilty. The cops that shot that 13 year old child, they are guilty. The cops that murdered Breonna Taylor and Tamir Rice and Philando Castile and so many others, they all need to face a judge and jury. That is the law. They are not above it. They can't get away with it anymore. The joy I felt was kind of odd too. This is what was supposed to happen. But since we have become so backwards in our country, we applaud when a murderer gets convicted of murder. This is what we should have expected. We all should not have been on bated breath waiting and hoping he would be found guilty on all three counts. This was a homerun as far as convicting him. But we all cheered and applauded when it finally happened, when the verdict came back the way it was supposed to. This shouldn't be the case. But because of the situation, coming off the last administration, dealing with all the rampant racism, white supremacists getting more and more comfortable and police becoming more and more brutal, we as a society did have to wait with bated breath. We didn't know what the outcome was going to be. That needs to change. We need to evolve. We need to grow up. And we need to be held accountable. The Floyd family finally got some justice. It will not bring their son, father and brother back, but they did get some kind of justice. But as I said at the top, this is just the start. More of this needs to happen, and I hope that it will.
So while we celebrate a murderer being put in jail, lets all get ready to work to make sure that this continues to happen to anyone in a position of authority that uses that power in the wrong way. Let's put all these murdering cops behind bars. That is what they deserve. Rest in Peace George Floyd. And, BLACK LIVES MATTER.
Ty
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