But flashback to Monday, May 25, 2020, a man called George Floyd died in Minneapolis police custody. By Wednesday, video circulated on social media showing his final moments. He had been arrested in a parking lot, handcuffed, restrained, and subdued against the pavement. An officer used a knee to secure him to the ground before moving him into a police cruiser. He died in police custody.
Riots that began in Minneapolis traveled out across the country. Police stations were torched, stores were looted, 31 people were killed, Antifa and BLM rioters laid siege to a federal building in Portland, Ore. for over 100 straight nights. Media backed the riots, promoting looting as reparations.
A couple in St. Louis who stood on their front steps holding guns were vilified for protecting their property from a mob of trespassers traipsing across it. Entire neighborhoods were set on fire. Progressive leftists put black squares in their social media profiles and tried to get people fired if they didn't. And the mob wasn't satisfied with destroying public property.
Once it was time to bury the man, there were multiple memorial services. His grieving children were held up as examples of the wages of racism and white privilege. Murals sprung up on what was left of cities across the country. Streets and plazas were renamed for George Floyd. He was held up as a saint, a martyr to police brutality. They tried to get publications taken down if they didn't bend the knee.
Conservatives and leftists alike spoke with sadness about the man who lost his life, regardless of if he was guilty of the crime he was accused of—passing a counterfeit bill. While conservatives said that it was not an example of systemic racism, they still admitted it was a shame the man died. Leftists said it was all conservatives' fault then set more things on fire. They even tried to cancel Mount Rushmore. They removed episodes of The Golden Girls over mud masks.
You'll notice, in the wake of Charlie Kirk's brutal, livestreamed murder, there were no riots. Spontaneous prayer vigils popped up across the country and around the world. People came together to pray, to commune with each other, to seek solace in shared grief.
We did not riot. We did not burn things down. We did not loot stores. We did not march down the street demanding things. All we asked was that we have time and space to mourn a man who was a friend to everyone he met, who shared God's love, who believed in this country and his countrymen.
And they won't give it. Instead they peddle unceasing lies about his character, claim the President is in some way responsible, and say that retaliation, whether in the form of digging into IRS charity status of leftist political groups or by social media influencers calling out those who revel in Charlie's death, is in some way fascistic. This after years of canceling people for not believing men are women, or for microaggressions (i.e. fake racism), or for not putting a black box in their bio...
Those on the left demanding that conservatives protect their "free speech" as they slander and defame Charlie did not play by those rules and they will not when the roles are again reversed. I'm all in on free speech, but for those getting fired for celebrating Charlie's death, might I remind them of what they told me when I lost my career for saying men aren't women: you can speak freely but there may be consequences.
Speak truth. Don't believe the lies.
