We should grieve. George Floyd is dead. Death is so certain but here among the living we must grieve. We must because we are human. We must because a human has died. There are death’s that should be celebrated like Hitler’s, Stalin’s, like those of murderer’s – but Floyd didn’t murder anyone. It is most unfortunate yet through what appears to be a cascading multitude of mistakes George Floyd is dead.

There’s not one reason to celebrate his death. Derek Chauvin, the police officer who has been on trial for several weeks certainly did not want to kill George Floyd. We cannot know what was in his mind as he had his knee somewhere on Floyd’s body while there were people who wanted Chauvin to stop what he was doing, … doing what he was trained to do and doing what he was supposed to do in the face of a hostile group of people telling him to stop doing what he had been trained to do and what he was supposed to do and what he was doing.

We cannot know what was in the mind of George Floyd especially because it was distorted by drugs. It is most unfortunate officer Chauvin is white because white people have been under attack for the past 30 years and it’s been getting worse and more and more attacks are going on and more and more attacks are coming every minute. So what happened? What went on among the many, many minds of the police officers and the bystanders and especially what was going on with George Floyd. It’s unknown. It can not be known. It can never be known. Blame nature. Blame everyone but in the end no one can know. George Floyd is an impossibility.  Pity. But pity for the guilty is treason for the innocent and we are stuck in treason.

“…. nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.”

Ayn Rand

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