Put him in a narrow sheath
Confine her to the dry heath:
Never above, always underneath
White knees on top, black necks beneath.

In life, they grind their teeth
In death, they gasp “I can’t breathe.”
Then will America rise, and bequeath
To them a coffin, tribute, and wreath.

And then put it all back on AUTO-REPEAT…

But the Boston Tea Party, was no frolic for the hearty.
Wasn’t King George’s beloved tea, looted and dumped in the sea?
Remind, o oppressed minority,
The deaf, dumb, and blind majority:
That one defiance so riotously
Brewed the nation so righteously.

And then put it all back on AUTO-REPEAT..

I gotta rant:

Asuwear, they are setting the guy up to walk.

An autopsy report is pending, but the Hennepin County Medical Examiner released these findings: There were no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation, and that the decedent (deceased) had underlying health problems, including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease. They add, for good measure, that he was also drunk.

me!

Spin it as you can, ME, you can’t spin the rule on causation, the causing or producing of an event. His underlying medical condition is not a novus actus interveniens, a new, independent intervening event that breaks the chain of causation.

You can spin the eggshell or thin skull rule (aka “take your victim as you find him”): the unexpected frailty of the injured or dead person is not a valid defence to the seriousness of any injury caused to them.

Unless they cook up an autopsy report that says Floyd was going to die in 10 minutes anyway, whether or not somebody, through his knee, put the full weight of his body on his neck while having his hands in his pocket, while Floyd screamed “I can’t breathe” and just before passing out and eventually dying, called out for his dead mother!

In RANTS I wrote: PS. When Colin Kaepernick, the American Football Quarterback, refuses to stand to the playing of the American anthem (he ‘takes the knee,’) he is tossed out of his team, and then berated by several persons, including persons of color, for daring to break the mould and upsetting the cart. He must know his place, play his part, conform and concentrate on ‘surrendering his wool’ to the Master, Dame and Little Boy [like BaaBaa the Black Sheep.] Do as you are paid.

If that includes standing to attention to the anthem, the lyrics of which are borrowed from a poem the third verse of which celebrated the killing of slaves:
 
“And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution!
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.”

Floyd begged for and was cruelly denied the most basic of human rights, the first natural act of life and right of any human exercised at birth: the right to breathe.

Then I read on social media, the elite ‘conservative’ black Africans loudly silent about the violation of that right to breathe, but now loudly crowing, weeping over the loss of the right to property! It’s property over life, especially the life of a fellow expendable black person: all 8 minutes and 46 seconds of it! Nasty. Brutish. Short.

Yeah, say it: ‘two wrongs don’t make a right.’ I agree. Neither Chauvin (and the racist system that produced him, so that he could pose for the filming cameras, looking smug with his hands in his pockets while snuffing the life out of another man, handcuffed and held down by two other officers), nor the looting (which Trump expects will bring a shooting), were intended to result in a right in the first place. Two wrongs make a wrong doubled, squared, multiplied, divided or even subtracted, depending on what happens between them!

But I agree with the fallacy of relevance: two wrongs don’t make a right even if it feels like it. So the violence must stop and will stop. And America will return to where it has always been. They used to lynch with a rope, where your body weight kills you. Now they lynch with their knee, where their body weight kills you.

Chauvin must be feeling pretty important right now, exercising his right to breathe, wherever he is.