How George Floyd Dragged America to the Right
25th May 2025
He didn’t do it, it was the people who were eager to use him as a pretext.
George Floyd died five years ago today, his movement only more recently.
It is no exaggeration to say that his death was one of the most important moments in recent Western history. The viral video showing Floyd having the life choked from him by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin
Which is a lie … he died from the massive amount of drugs he had ingested, as the autopsy proved. Chauvin knelt on the side of his neck, and it’s almost impossible to choke somebody to death by kneeling on the side of his neck. Try it yourself.
led to a wave of protests, riots and so much more. His death may have been more complex and multi-causal than initially seemed to be the case. However, there was no room for nuance at the time: the national consensus was that a black man had been publicly lynched by a white police officer, a supposedly common occurance.
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But within a remarkably short period of time, nearly every major claim made by BLM activists during the ‘racial reckoning’ was exposed as nonsense. Very few innocent and unarmed black men are killed by US police, certainly not the thousands per year or even hundreds per day regularly cited by the media. In the year Floyd died, the total number of males killed by police who were both black and unarmed – according to the excellent database set up by the Washington Post – was 18. Last year, it was 10 – a remarkably low number for a country with a population of 340million, in which three million people die each year.
As I have often noted before, patterns of inter-racial crime rarely fit the mainstream narrative. In a typical year, the violent inter-racial crimes that involve a black perpetrator and a white victim, or a white perpetrator and a black victim, make up only three to five per cent of the roughly 1.2million annual serious crimes recorded by the Department of Justice. Furthermore, among this relatively tiny subset of offences, more than 80 per cent of the violence is black on white.
UPDATE: 5 Years After George Floyd’s Murder, the Backlash Takes Hold (Clyde McGrady/New York Times) To the Narrative Media, of course, the ‘backlash’ is all about Trump and White Racism.