I grant that these two articles come from clearly politically right journals; and I grant that they may be tendentious, written perhaps to advance a biased, pre-judged point of view and, so, may have been written in bad faith.
OTOH, we are left even to this day as well with narratives of falsely assumed criminality, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, where none was ever established, let alone the accused having been exonerated.
My point is that even with all my hedges, these articles, for all their possible bias and limits, show the need to keep an open mind on the issue of criminal guilt in the death of George Floyd and the shooting of Jacob Blake.
At this point, having read them, I feel I need to await the outcome of a sober, impartial, full on and final determination, judicial or investigatory, of the charges/accusations against the officers involved: I say accusations because I don’t know if the officer(s) in the Blake case has been charged.
When one, however, sees how these articles at least present the real possibility of “another side” to these events, then it’s simply stunning to contemplate the violent even homicidal, nihilistic chaos unleashed by rushes to judgment coming from all quarters and how that chaos may be overdetermined by causes having nothing to do with the insisted upon police criminality.
https://spectator.org/george-floyd-death-toxicology-report/
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