On May 25, a video showed serial criminal George Floyd dying while being arrested.  That triggered violent riots across America, ostensibly against systemic racism and race-driven police brutality.  The same happened on August 23, when a video emerged showing police officers shooting Jacob Blake, a man with a history of violence and sexual assault. Everyone knew that Floyd and Blake were shady characters.  It's also become clear that the police behaved appropriately in both cases.  The same pattern appears with both Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin: the men who fired their guns were proven to have acted in self-defense, but violence followed both shootings.  There's a reason for this pattern, but first, let's review the dueling narratives in these and other cases. Floyd was a bad guy with multiple convictions for drug possession theft, trespass, and armed robbery.  He admitted he was high when the...(Read Full Post)