Questions Need to Be Asked and Answered

George Floyd's death at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis sparked protests around the country. There is not any doubt at all that some bad actors are involved in those protests, but neither is there doubt that the police are included in those bad actors.

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Who targets journalists? Video evidence and follow up evidence from those injured is clear. The first violation of the constitution was the arrest of a CNN team in Minneapolis. They weren't harmed but that is immaterial given that the First Amendment guarantees a free press. But the police weren't done. It is not just the Minneapolis police but they are the ones who are on video targeting journalists. A correspondent from Canadian Broadcast was blinded by a rubber bullet. The video of that event showed the journalist distant from the protesters but still fired on by the police. When will those people be charged with crimes?

Who gives those orders? Where is the police chief? Where is the mayor? Who is responsible for attacks on the news? Who gave the orders and what were they?


The First Amendment guarantees a number of ideas including a free press. They are all equal as far as the Constitution considers them. So if you want your religion to be free from government intervention, you should fight just as fervently for your press to be free from government intervention. I don't think the Founding Fathers ever considered that people would be shooting journalists. Far from being the enemy of the people, the press exposes harm to the people. That applies even to weird sites that promote conspiracies, or sites that join with the deranged to point fingers at the press as long as they identify as journalists rather than private citizens or companies

I lived through the riots of the 60s and the brutality of the Chicago convention. This is demonstrably worse and we are in deep trouble as a country; as a culture; as a democracy; or even as so many conservatives insist is the correct nomenclature, a democratic republic.Trump sits in the White House tweeting racist and incendiary ideas, quoting some of the worst actors from the 60s, pretending that he didn't mean what he clearly meant. Please give him grace and understanding so that he can help the country heal.