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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 that 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 that 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 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.

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