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Great column.

I'll never forget Joe Biden's deeply felt eulogy: "George Floyd was the first mainstream African-American who was articulate, bright, clean, and a nice-looking guy."

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A spectacular column, Ann! I find it curious that one of so many information sources the legacy media has steadfastly refused to avail itself of, at least publicly, are law enforcement officers. One would think that with the (apparent) focus of police being to hunt down and murder black people for no reason other than to allow the Officer's Inner Klansman to run free, they might be interested in actually doing some investigative journalism and FIND this supposed hotbed of murderous boys in blue that they want black people to be so terrified of. One might assume either that they have looked into it, but the police are SO VERY SNEAKY that they remain undetected! OR, it could be that they found a different answer entirely than the one they were hoping to find...that the vast majority of Officers are decent people who went into law enforcement as a career not because they wanted to hunt down and murder black people but because they wanted to make the world a better place by providing safety and security for law-abiding people by enforcing the law justly and professionally.

Too bad the constant hammering they're receiving from City Councils, Mayors and every other strata of political demon is making so many of the best, most experienced Officers wish they had chosen a different career.

The Summer Of Floyd taught us all many things, none of them good. It reinforced how little regard legacy media 'reporters' have for anything approaching journalistic standards, and for the rest of us it forced a habit to become even more commonplace...always be heavily armed. Always.

Thanks, Democrats!

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