Enabling Chaos

The week of national rioting following the killing of George Floyd by a depraved Minneapolis police officer has escalated into a “pandemic of civil violence more widespread than anything seen during the Black Lives Matter movement of the Obama years,” noted Manhattan Institute scholar Heather MacDonald in a piece in today’s City Journal.  She points to the weak response by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who ordered police to abandon a precinct attacked and torched by rioters and then Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s reluctance to mobilize the national guard to avoid appearing “oppressive.”   This politically correct posturing in the face of widespread violent chaos in major U.S. cities demonstrates the successful marketing of blacks as victims of white privilege by academia, progressives and the national media.  Under this narrative anything the mob does to protest injustice, including beating innocent store owners and burning their businesses to the ground is justified.

“Once the violence began, any effort to understand it should have stopped, since that understanding is inevitably exculpatory.”  As evidenced by hours of video showing rioters gleefully kicking in storefront doors and windows, “The looters are not grieving over the stomach-churning arrest and death of George Floyd; they are having the time of their lives.  You don’t protest or morn a victim by stealing oxycontin, electronics, jewelry and sneakers.”   The rule of law which separates the civilized world from barbarism, has been all but extinguished in today’s woke America.