The "Mostly Peaceful" Lie That Shattered a Nation

On May 25, 2020, a 46-year-old man named George Floyd died in police custody.  - @amuse

That much is known. 

• What is not widely admitted, at least not in polite society, is that Floyd’s death was not a case of state-sponsored execution, but a tragic overdose amid an arrest. 
• He died with a fatal dose of fentanyl in his system, an enlarged heart, and methamphetamines in his blood. 

But no matter. 

For a certain ideological contingent, Floyd was not a man, he was a symbol. 

And symbols, unlike men, cannot die. 

They can only be weaponized...
Let us first deal with the fact. 

• The Hennepin County Medical Examiner, Dr. Andrew Baker, stated that the levels of fentanyl in Floyd’s system were potentially fatal on their own. Had Floyd been found dead at home with those levels, Baker testified, he would have ruled it an overdose...
• The facts about policing also fail to support the narrative. Each year, police in the US fatally shoot around 1,000 people. Roughly a quarter are black. The vast majority of those individuals are armed or pose an immediate threat...