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It has been one year since the killing of George Floyd. We have a police officer who has been convicted of murder in that incident.

And today the White House is meeting Joe Biden, the president of the United States is meeting with the Floyd family.

And we are told, and there are countless editorials, articles, commentaries, we're told that this is a moment that we're supposed to take a step back and think about how we could reform policing and the defund the police movement.

We should consider that. That's where we are. We're one year into this. And the narrative at the left, the Democrats want you to believe is that George Floyd's memory led to the BLM movement which brought about greater justice. That's what they want you to think.

That's the story. That's the dominant narrative that there's racist policing in America, wearing a systemically racist society, and the BLM movement is addressing that and has for the last year.

And there are things to point to you to to say we're successful in that regard.

Unfortunately, the reality of the BLM movement and its usage of the George Floyd incident as an as an inciting moment to go for BLM 2.0 is that Black Lives Matter has made everything worse for everyone, which I was saying almost exactly a year ago, just a few weeks from now if you were to go back and listen to this show.

That was my assessment then as the riots tore through cities as police were being assaulted and mobbed and pelted and ridiculed spat on. This was going to be bad for America and it would be bad for the Black and Black and Brown communities.

Now we are told are the whole reason for the defund the police movement right that it would actually make things worse for everyone including in predominantly minority areas of the country where there is a high crime where there is sometimes a high crime rate right that's what we are looking at right now what has been the reality of the last year.

And I have to point now as as we are in this martyrdom worship of the Floyd memory, which is really what's going on here they have elevated George Floyd as a symbol a global symbol in fact.

This was a man who yes, our courts found was the victim of police police excessive force and murder that is where the process stands right now there was a murder conviction as we know there may be an appeal we shall see.

But that individual George Floyd was also somebody who pointed a loaded gun at the belly of a pregnant woman during a home invasion had a long criminal history and was someone used to resisting arrest.

So that's not to say that what happened to him is in any way justified in that incident but it is to say that picking this individual as a martyr for a movement.

Is worthy of scrutiny and I would say criticism.

I would say why is it that it is in these instances these cases that we see whether it's Mike Brown or George Floyd where law enforcement interaction with somebody who was engaged in criminal activity and then there is a dispute over the level of force use that's always the choice it's not incidents where there actually is what seems to be a clear.

It's not always at least focused on incidents where there's a clear murder by police which does happen although very very rarely.

Which if we're going to have a serious and honest conversation about this you have to look at the numbers the facts the figures is incredibly rare for anyone to be murdered by a police officer in this country there are and I'm telling you the truth this is serious there are more people kill.

They're killed every year by B stings then there are people who are unarmed and murdered by police in an incident where the police officer is not using using force appropriately.

I think there were unarmed black men in the last year for which we have statistics which would be 2019 at this point there were about nine or was it 14 that were killed that entire year by police.

In an incident that may still have been lawful but you can't look at the numbers and come away from the saying anything other than why so much exaggeration of this as a concern in society.

Why is that we can't just treat each of those individual cases as worthy of due process and legal system and let the facts bear out on any officer who exceeds the lawful use of force should be held to full account.

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