Much is being made by America's Left about how George Floyd died, and whether undue police brutality was involved. There are competing claims in terms of the official autopsy report, and another version commissioned by his family.[2] All of that is well and good; and the issues need to be put to rest, if that is possible.
The overriding issues, however, are the riots that followed. They were and are lawless, criminal acts; and they are consistent with earlier acts of mob violence that began in my lifetime with the Watts Riots in Los Angeles.[3] Put succinctly, the thugs and miscreants who have rioted need to be put down like a pack of rabid animals. They harken back to the barbarian Mongol hordes that swept across Asia, bringing death, destruction and anarchy with them.[4]
The American thugs have defaced the Lincoln Memorial and other monuments, which underscores the fact that they are ignorant and have no sense of history—and they do not care. Abraham Lincoln ended slavery and saved the Union. The ancestors of today's Democrats and other Leftists brought slavery to America, and perpetuated it with the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and segregation. Thus, how ignorant these thugs and yes, "animals" are today.
The question facing Americans now and in the future is whether they want to be ruled by rogue gangs of savages—or their Leftist, Democratic Party surrogates—much less in the midst of the deadly Coronavirus?[5] Will the thugs catch the virus? After all, it has been reported that 4,000 of them are in jails, which are incubators for the virus. Clearly they have not been "social distancing" during their anarchy; and presumably they will not be doing so in the jails and prisons of our land.
From a macro view, how China's brutal Xi Jinping[6] and Russia's equally brutal dictator-for-life Vladimir Putin[7] must be salivating. Having unleashed the Coronavirus as a bioweapon or inadvertently[8], Xi is moving against Hong Kong now; and Taiwan and other parts of Asia may be next. Yet, in all likelihood, the American thugs know nothing about these issues, or their global effects and impact on millions of lives, nor is it likely they would care one iota if they knew. Their rioting must be stopped, period.[9]
© 2020, Timothy D. Naegele
[1] Timothy D. Naegele was counsel to the United States Senate's Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and chief of staff to Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal recipient and former U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass). He and his firm, Timothy D. Naegele & Associates, specialize in Banking and Financial Institutions Law, Internet Law, Litigation and other matters (see www.naegele.com and Timothy D. Naegele Resume-20-5-11). He has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as two law degrees from the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley, and from Georgetown University. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army, assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon, where he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal (see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commendation_Medal#Joint_Service). Mr. Naegele is an Independent politically; and he is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, and Who's Who in Finance and Business. He has written extensively over the years (see, e.g., www.naegele.com/whats_new.html#articles and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/), and can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com
[2] Compare https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8371557/George-Floyds-autopsy-claims-died-underlying-heart-conditions-not-strangulation.html ("George Floyd's family hire their own pathologist after official autopsy finds he died of 'police restraint combined with heart disease and potential intoxicants in his system' and not asphyxiation or strangulation by officer") with https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/01/family-ordered-autopsy-george-floyd-died-of-asphyxiation/ ("Family-Ordered Autopsy: George Floyd Died of Asphyxiation").
The determination of death will be a central issue in the arresting officer's trial for murder; and any variances from the initial official report may be subject to scrutiny by the officer's legal team, and rightly so. Indeed, there are reasons to believe that the official conclusions were "softened" for political reasons. If so, it is a travesty.
See, e.g., https://www.foxnews.com/us/results-of-george-floyd-independent-autopsy-expected-today ("George Floyd's family, county officials release autopsy results declaring homicide") and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8377809/George-Floyd-MURDERED-says-independent-autopsy-ordered-family.html ("Coroner confirms George Floyd's death WAS a homicide as officials walk back initial reports he wasn't strangled after family's autopsy found cop's knee on his neck caused asphyxia")
[3] See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/30/minneapolis-burns/ ("Minneapolis Burns"); see also https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8377723/Husband-wife-brutally-attacked-group-looters-tried-destroy-store.html ("Disturbing moment a husband and wife are brutally attacked by ‘a group of looters who tried to destroy store below their apartment in Upstate New York'")
Later, it was the Rodney King Riots, where the mistreatment of one man was a spark that ignited a fire that went nationwide, much as is true of the riots now. Yet, ongoing black-on-black crimes are ignored, which in many cases involve young thugs who target elderly blacks, and especially elderly black women who are terrified.
See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/05/07/the-brooke-amendment-and-section-8-housing-revisited/ ("The Brooke Amendment And Section 8 Housing: Revisited") and Timothy D. Naegele [NOTE: To download The Banking Law Journal article, “The Brooke Amendment And Section 8 Housing: Revisited,” please click on the link to the left of this note]; see also https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/03/edward-w-brooke-is-dead/ (“Edward W. Brooke Is Dead”) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Brooke (“Edward Brooke”) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots#Rodney_King_incident ("1992 Los Angeles riots"—"Rodney King incident")
[4] See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_under_the_Mongol_Empire ("Destruction under the Mongol Empire"—The Mongol army conquered hundreds of cities and villages and also killed millions of men, women and children. It has been estimated that approximately 5% of the world’s population was killed either during or immediately after the Turco-Mongol invasions. If the calculations are accurate, the events would be the deadliest acts of mass killings in human history")
[5] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/30/the-coronavirus-and-similar-global-issues-how-to-address-them/ ("The Coronavirus And Similar Global Issues: How To Address Them") and Timothy D. Naegele, "The Coronavirus and Similar Global Issues: How to Address Them," 137 BANKING L. J. 285 (June 2020) (Naegele June 2020) (Timothy D. Naegele) [NOTE: To download The Banking Law Journal article, please click on the link to the left of this note]
[6] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/12/coexistence-with-china-or-war/ ("Coexistence With China Or War?")
[7] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/29/the-death-of-putin-and-russia-the-final-chapter-of-the-cold-war/ ("The Death Of Putin And Russia: The Final Chapter Of The Cold War")
[8] See supra n.5.
[9] See, e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8377833/Protests-held-New-York-Washington-DC-riots-broke-out.htm ("Horrific video captures cops being RAMMED in Buffalo as looters ransack Macy's and target Manhattan stores and the army is deployed in Washington DC - as violent George Floyd protests erupt across the US") and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8377833/Protests-held-New-York-Washington-DC-riots-broke-out.html ("Lawless America: Four police officers are shot in St Louis, cops are rammed by an SUV in Buffalo and looters ransack Manhattan stores on another night of unrest across US after Trump vowed to crack down") and https://defensemaven.io/bluelivesmatter/news/video-rioters-beat-woman-with-two-by-fours-after-she-asked-them-to-stop-T3zIoDpXP0KESbOK2rkqDw ("VIDEO: Rioters Beat Woman With Two By Fours After She Asked Them To Stop")
