George Floyd and the Police

This is such a disappointing article by Shai Linne, at the Gospel Coalition.

I'm going to get really controversial, here, just to warn you.

While I believe and sympathize with the "driving while black," and myriad other subtle, similar experiences Shai Linne shares, his blame of police or white people for profiling him is misplaced.

When police pay more attention to a fancy luxury car out of a suspicion of potential speeding or other lawbreaking, they are not being prejudiced against rich people.  They just know that drivers of such cars tend to speed, and be looser with the rules.  Similarly, it is not racist for police to give more attention to a minority if it is known that the minority crime rate is significantly higher.  Which it is.  This explains Linne's experiences, which again I do not deny.  As Candace Owens likes to say, the fault lies mainly with lawbreaking minorities.

At the same time, everyone should resist stereotypes that lead you to treat people as of less worth than you, just because of their race.  It is a lie that white people always do this.  A lie Shai Linne is perpetrating.

George Floyd resisted arrest for a good half hour.  That doesn't justify Chauvin's prolonged knee on his back (not neck).  But it did make sense to restrain Floyd until an ambulance came.  Floyd was high as a kite, saying he couldn't breathe, before he was on the ground.  Based on the charges Chauvin was convicted of, I believe mob rule and false assumptions about the facts prevailed, instead of real justice.

But it's just a lie that I or most Americans treat all minority folks as Chauvin treated George Floyd.  As if Black Lives don't Matter to us.  Of course they do, and my God insists I treat every person of any race as made in His image, of equal worth and dignity.

But most minority folks don't try to pass counterfeit money, and they aren't drug addicts who resist police instruction and arrest.  In the lunacy of our times, if I don't praise Floyd to the skies as a complete victim, I'm a racist.  I'm the problem.  Sorry.  My emphasis will remain on criminals being the problem (of whatever race), not the police (of whatever race) who seek to stop crime.  Over-reacting to crime IS a problem.  Chauvin certainly deserved punishment for maintaining the knee hold for far too long.  

But we have turned this isolated incident into a widespread assumption that all police are out to get all black people.  What?

The left is manufacturing this police brutality/shooting crisis, in defiance of all facts and statistics, for their own political gain.  And Shai Linne (and the Gospel Coalition) is playing right into their hands.