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Anniversary of George Floyd's death, what are they celebrating?

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While there is nothing to celebrate about George Floyd's death, there is certainly nothing to celebrate about George Floyd's life.  Today there are 'celebrations,' commemorations, and even forced moments of silence in our Minnesota Public Schools. Even a trip to the White House for the Floyd family and their now wealthy lawyer. Ask yourself as parents, is this a life you want your children to emulate? Do you want them to emulate his history of armed robbery? Prison stints? Drug abuse? His last day dying in police custody after passing counterfeit $20 bills? For the last year I've heard that somehow his death and the conviction of Officer Chauvin was a vindication of 'systemic racism.'  Can anyone tell me how race even factored into this? If it did I'm sure Keith Ellison would have charged it out as a racially motivated hate crime. He didn't. Yet MN Governor Walz and many others are touting this as something that focused the 'World' on systemi...

Kamala Harris and Biden staffers to bail out Minneapolis rioters, again.

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The trial of Officer Chauvin in the death of George Floyd is set to begin in one week. Fences and barbed wire surround the Hennepin County Public Safety Facility and the Government Center.  After the death of George Floyd over 1,500 businesses were burned, the  MPD Third Precinct was surrendered to rioters and Mayor Frey and Governor Walz allowed the mayhem to continue for 4 days. Once they decided enough was enough people started getting arrested. But not to worry. The Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF) was ready to bail them out and get them back on the ground. MFF went from a small scale bail group started in 2016 able to afford bails up to $1,000 to a big one fast. Their website boasts having over $30 million now! Thanks in LARGE part to Kamala Harris taking to Twitter to raise money to "post bail to help those on the ground in Minnesota" and Biden staffers kicking in and asking others to. Fast forward to now. Local Government is putting up barriers, businesses are bracing for...