18th June, 2020.
Yes: it’s raining.
Which is possibly the last thing on your mind.
Frankly, though … ?
That means I’ve got some nice cool air coming through the window.
Given last month was fairly warm … ?
That makes for a nice change …
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One thing I’ve seen doing the rounds?
Is the view that we’re making a martyr of George Floyd: because he’s a convicted criminal, after being gaoled for robbery in 2007, and released in 2011.
I’ve just been sent a message to that effect.
I think that’s deeply offensive to George Floyd’s memory.
It’s saying people convicted of a crime, are incapable of redemption or reform.
It’s saying people convicted of a crime, are incapable of going straight, and living good lives, from then on.
It’s saying people convicted of a crime, deserve to die at the hands of police.
The other point? He was arrested for passing what the cashier where he was shopping, thought was a bad $20 bill.
That cashier is complicit in George Floyd’s death.
They could — as I, over a long cash handling career was taught to do — have checked it, then said “I’m sorry, this is a bad note, I can’t accept it. Have you got an alternative way of paying, please?”
A man died … potentially because of racism on the part of the police officer … and possibly because of that cashier’s incompetence.
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