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Published on: 04/06/2020 10:33 AMReported by: rogerblaxall
We live in a democratic society and one of the proudest traditions of the UK press is its editorial independence - that's why I read 'Private Eye' every fortnight.
This reader's letter might prove controversial to some - and led to its author (who asks to be known simply as 'BH') being banned from the Ormskirk community FB page for this post that's now been deleted.
It comes with this rider: The opinions in this article are the author’s and do not necessarily represent the views of QLocal.
Here it is: 'The dead man George Floyd was unlucky; the cop who tried to arrest him for using counterfeit $20 dollar bills to buy cigarettes wasn’t going to put up with his resisting arrest by a 'dropping to the floor' tactic that day.
With an underlying heart condition and a blood stream impaired by amphetamines he hadn’t much chance of surviving the arrest tactics of the cops, and unless he’d made the overdue decision not to commit a crime, he was a known felon and must have been aware that on a bad day with the wrong cop he was pushing his luck...
Now Black Lives Matter and the leftist agitators are making him into a martyr.
Will they be taking a knee for the 79-year-old black retired police captain they gunned down in St Louis this week who was protecting a local store from looting? His wife is a serving police officer, too.
The three founders of Black Lives Matter actively encouraged their followers to attack white supremacists after the LA rally on Sunday. The result was they destroyed local businesses - many belonging to low income ethnic minorities.
It’s not about a man being killed by police officers, it’s about the Democrats wanting to keep the minority voters under control and making sure they need Democrats to give them free stuff.
Republicans gave them jobs with decent pay in many Republican states but the Democrats gave them sanctuary cities where illegals and criminals were allowed to live in poverty and immunity as long as they voted Democrat.
Those at the clock on Tuesday night, trying to replicate what they think is a peaceful protest, are deluded.
Democrat Governors run the Democrat states where the worst is happening; they won’t act to stop it as it fits their agenda. Democrat Mayors run the worst hit cities. The Federal Government cannot interfere at State level, President Trump is not in charge of the States and it's up to each State to govern themselves.
So, when pallets of bricks are shipped into inner city streets to be used as weapons against the police, you have to ask 'who is funding that?'.
Don’t make this protest in Ormskirk anything other than the 'bandwagon jumping' it is by ill informed, deluded 'virtue signalling' - and attention seeking - bored students.'
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