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"Whatever Floyd George did in his life, up to and including the moment of his arrest, does not justify an extrajudicial killing by a street cop who has a duty to bring the suspect into the justice system. "

Sure but she acknowledges that about 476 times and frankly even THAT is not the bigger point of this whole thing.

Ultimately, he's just a guy a bad cop appears to have killed or murdered or call it what you will. Blacks are not killed in greater numbers than whites and whites are killed by cops in greater proportion. There is not systemic police brutality against blacks.

So I'm not sure the point you're trying to make.

I think her broader point isn't just that Floyd isn't a guy to follow around like a holy martyr, but that the black community has its head up its butt in terms of making its situation better because it always identifies as a victim to whites -- and then chooses people with very bad character to make that point.

So sure - that Floyd was no martyr isn't the biggest point, but nor is the biggest point that whatever happened, which appears from the video released so far to be a bad kill, shouldn't have happened.

The BIGGEST point is 'what is happening as a result of what happened'. And THAT is her point. It's a combination of the black community being easily manipulated into victim mode over a false martyr, and then, too, is the organized/planned violence - which is frankly organizations controlled mostly by whites ... who are manipulating blacks.

So I guess I disagree with you -> I think she is speaking to the heart of the matter. What follows from George not being a hero, and her coming right out and saying it and why, is that the black community has once again been manipulated and lied to so as to cause them to rise up, in the name of the reverse of a hero, against something which is not the thing that is holding them back.

There is not systemic police brutality against blacks.

So I'm not sure the point you're trying to make.

The point I'm trying to make is that there was a man, a black man, killed on videotape in broad daylight by a police officer who had no reason and no authority to do so, while three other police officers stood by silently on the scene. If you don't see a man at the very least having his life endangered from irresponsible police behavior before your eyes, you can't engage with the other side of the argument at all. I believe there is a lot of room to come together on things with both the left and right of our political systems working together. However, if neither side decides to keep to consistent standards, it makes all things worse.