DailyKenn.com — Political activists love martyrs because they channel human emotion into action.
The far-left, however, has a dearth of martyrs. What to do? They just invent them.
George Floyd is a case in point. The mainstream Marxist media has made a point of leveraging the death of the career criminal to stoke violent protests (aka, riots) for months. Floyd is portrayed to be a martyr who was killed by calloused police officers. Video footage seems to vindicate their accusations.
Seasoned conservative commentator Pat Buchanan dispels the myths.
George Floyd was not choked to death. He was not asphyxiated. He was not killed by Chauvin’s knee on the side of his neck. An autopsy showed Floyd’s neck muscles were not even bruised.
Floyd died when his heart stopped. Yet, he was already suffering from an enlarged heart with constricted arteries, one of five of which was 90% blocked and two others were 75% blocked.
An autopsy found heavy concentrations of fentanyl in Floyd’s system and traces of methamphetamines. If Floyd had collapsed and died in the street while being wrested into the squad car, his death would have been attributed to a drug overdose and a bad heart.
Also, a videotape of the minutes prior to Floyd’s being put on the pavement, his neck under Chauvin’s knee, shows Floyd crying, repeatedly, “I can’t breathe,” while resisting the two rookie cops trying to put him in the patrol car.
Moreover, there is testimony from those with Floyd when he was stopped for passing an allegedly phony $20 bill, that he had passed out in the car before the cops arrived. And the arresting cops claim he was foaming at the mouth before being restrained.
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