Follow America’s fastest-growing news aggregator, Spreely News, and stay informed. You can find all of our articles plus information from your favorite Conservative voices.
Four years ago, there were widespread radical left-wing protests across the nation following the contentious death of George Floyd.
A video showed Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin restraining Floyd by kneeling on his back/neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, sparking widespread outrage and disorder.
In a surprising development, NBC, which is controlled by Democrats, released a story today with the headline “George Floyd’s murder sparked a national reevaluation of policing, but progress has faltered or regressed,” essentially downplaying the impact of his death on our legal system.
In the aftermath, Chauvin was convicted of murder and calls for a nationwide reckoning on issues related to racism and police violence reverberated in city after city. But in the years since then, some of those efforts at change, like the federal George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, have stalled.
In several states, calls to pass criminal justice reforms to address decadeslong racial disparities have stalled or been met with tough-on-crime rhetoric and policies.
For Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, the initial calls for change after his brother’s death were touching.
“The fact that he was stolen from us. We still can’t get over that,” he said in an interview. “So many people, they felt the same pain all across the world.”
But as he talked about the lack of change and his inability to lobby Congress to pass the federal bill named after his brother, Philonise Floyd broke down in tears.
“It’s different. It is really like you don’t have the understanding of how you can sit there and witness that somebody murdered your brother and four years later, it still hasn’t been any change,” he said while weeping. “You’re still trying to pass the same law for your brother. And the city and the world stood with you, and we still haven’t gotten, like, any kind of change. What is it going to take?”
In recent years, many conservative states — and some progressive parts of the country — have passed tough-on-crime policies.
Going on right now… hundreds of lawmakers, lobbyists, and community leaders are at Atlanta’s Wild Hog Supper a day before the Georgia Legislature starts its 2023 session.
Lawmakers say some of the priorities for…
Leave a Comment