This is Breakpoint This Week, a weekly briefing on faith, culture, worldview, and mission with

John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center for Christian World View.

Welcome to another edition of Breakpoint this week. I'm Shane Morris here with John Stone

Street to explore the stories of the week from a Christian worldview perspective. John, we've got

some tough issues to get to this week.

Just tough stuff to talk about. And one in particular, as we record this, several cities are reeling

from protest, which in Minneapolis at least have turned violent and even deadly. And all this outrage

is over the killing of another unarmed black man by police officers. We saw an incredibly

disturbing video earlier this week of an officer actually kneeling on a George Floyd's neck

beside his squad car while he begged the officer to stop and repeatedly told him for several

minutes that he couldn't breathe. And John, this is just a tragic story all around

and one that has brought out deep feelings for millions of Americans. It's horrible. And, you know,

one of the things that we have seen is if you go back to, for example, what happened in Ferguson

a couple years ago, it escalated over a period of several days into some pretty intense rioting.

We saw the same thing in the city of Baltimore. This in Minneapolis escalated really quickly.

And I think it's probably due to a number of things. You know, the mental and emotional stress

of kind of being on COVID lockdown is probably not

a good factor in all of this. But there's also a level of frustration. There's also this, too,

Shane, which is worth mentioning that even you and I just a few weeks ago talked about the Ahmaud Arbery

case in which an unarmed 17-year-old African-American student

football player was basically tracked down by two father-son duo and a third person who's now

actually been charged with murder since you and I talked about this with guns trying to do

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