Truth has no Agenda

Washington DC

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Truth is never threatened by lies. Lies are always threatened by the truth. Truth tellers aren't concerned with trying to shut down speech. Liars seek to silence others. Anytime a voice is kept from speaking we should all insist on hearing what they have to say. Even if and especially if we disagree. I’m going to say something that will probably surprise more than a few people. Of the four police officers charged in the murder of George Floyd, it’s just possible that the conviction of Derek Chauvin is the least important, from a racial and police reform perspective. The only way to make sure the wolves “serve and protect” is for the wolf pack to control its members. The gun rights people say “the only thing that stops a bad man with a gun is a good man with a gun”, and I suggest that the only thing that can stop a bad cop is a good cop. For years we have seen that police will not step in and stop a bad cop from committing crimes because of the blue wall of silence. Police are more loyal to each other than the American public or the Constitution which they have sworn to protect. If this murder had not been filmed, there would probably not have been a trial, much less a guilty verdict. If officers Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng had done their sworn duty, they would have stopped Chauvin, and George Floyd would be alive today. This might be a greater crime than that which Chauvin committed. These officers enabled and allowed Chauvin to commit murder, and they alone had the power to stop him. They did nothing; because to do anything would have meant the end of their careers in law enforcement. If you or I were choking someone to death, they would have shot us, but they helped officer Chauvin commit murder. They were more afraid of their fellow officers than the law. This must change. If these officers are convicted, and others in the future as well, it just might lead to the single most important police reform possible. That reform is that police officers should be more loyal to the citizenry than they are to each other. The shepherds are too busy with other matters. Only the police have the power to control the police.