George Floyd is Dead, What About Justine Damond?
The scales of justice aren’t always balanced equally
George Floyd is dead, and he shouldn’t be. Justine Damond is dead, and she shouldn’t be. What do these two deaths have in common?
They both occurred in Minneapolis.
A black man and a white woman both dead because of the actions of the police.
By now you probably think this article is about police abuse or racism. You’re wrong.
It’s also not about bad police. In fact, it’s not about police at all except for the events following both deaths.
George Floyd
Floyd was known to Derek Chauvin the man eventually convicted for his contribution along with three others to Floyd’s death. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Not the place you want to be as an ex-cop.
Floyd was born in North Carolina and grew up in Houston and played basketball and football in high school and college.
“Between 1997 and 2005, he was convicted of eight crimes. He served four years in prison after accepting a plea bargain for a 2007 aggravated robbery in a home invasion. “