Most Americans agree that police brutality and rioting are both wrong. So why are our political class indicting Americans for the death of George Floyd? Plus, good news. Apparently protesting racism means COVID-19 can't kill you. Things I didn't know. You're listening to The Ben Shapiro show.

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Okay, so while we watch the fire raging out of control, and good news was last night it seems like it raged a little bit less out of control.

There wasn't major rioting in Los Angeles. Doesn't seem like there was as major rioting in New York. There were some problems in New York, but it wasn't nearly as bad. D.C. seems to have gotten things more under control. Minneapolis was under control as well. And you know why that was? Because of all the evil, terrible police officers and law enforcement officers who are apparently systemically racist who are out there protecting the veneer of civilization from rioting and looting. We ought to recognize a couple things can be true at once. One, police brutality is bad. Second, the police who you are indicting as systemically racist and evil are the people who are standing between you and a smashed window. They're the people who are standing between you and being beaten on the streets. There is a reality in the world and that reality is there bad people who are willing to do you harm and the people who are in blue are very often the last line of defense against those people. And we saw that over the past week. That's not mean that police brutality is okay. It means that you ought to actually be accurate in your portrayal of the police instead of this binary decision making where you see

people chanting things like abolish the police. Abolish the police ain't going to go so well if the last

week was any indicator. Okay, so here is the thing that's super irritating about everything that

is going on. I mean, there are many things that are very irritating about everything that's going on.

The big narrative that is supremely irritating is the narrative that

Americans, broadly speaking, are responsible for the death of George Floyd. And this can be attributed

to a larger narrative, which is that America writ large is responsible for every inequality

that exists in America, that inequality is inequity, and that every inequality can be laid

at the feet of the American system,

which is, of course, how you get people justifying the looting of Target,

because the idea is, by looting Target, I am looting an institution of the American hierarchy.

Now, normally, we would just say that if you loot Target, you're a piece of crap.

But as long as you cite the sort of Marxist pseudo studies that

university professors and members of our media spout, as long as you say that Target is just

an institution of the capitalist structure, and therefore you breaking into an ATM is

fighting back against the system that oppresses you. Well, then apparently it is utterly and

totally fine. Now, here's the thing about all this. This would assume that most

Americans didn't care about George Floyd. If you listen to our politicians, it really is

incredible. You listen to our politicians and our media and many of the protesters, they're

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