INGERSOLL: The Democrats Are Right, Let’s Do A George Floyd Memorial Holiday

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 03: White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany notes the deaths of several police officers during a news conference, including retired St. Louis Police Captain David Dorn, in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House June 03, 2020 in Washington, DC. Earlier in the day, Defense Secretary Mark Esper broke with President Donald Trump and said that he does not support using active duty military troops on the streets of American cities to quell protests over the death of George Floyd, who was killed while in the custody of Minneapolis police on Memorial Day. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Greetings, Dear Reader,

Welp, another Memorial Day in the can.

Was it insufferable online? Absolutely.

WE NEED A GEORGE FLOYD MEMORIAL DAY

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey knows exactly who and what to remember on Memorial Day.

Yes, that’s right, George Floyd. Floyd died of an overdose and the first casualty of his death was Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, who was wrongly imprisoned for murder in a bogus show trial. Really he was turned into an avatar for the left’s hystericism over racism that’s in large part or wholly apparitional.

Another 25 to 41 deaths occurred in the riots that followed, depending on who’s doing the counting. Most of those deaths were black people. Many were attempting to protect themselves or their businesses from violent rioters.

Obviously these Memorial Day genuflections to objectively shitty person George Floyd pissed off anyone to the right of Nancy Pelosi online, which was most of X (at least, from my vantage point).

And while I sometimes cringe at the over-the-top veteran worship, by the numbers, as of May 2026, 7,000 troops had been killed in the “war on terror” Bush launched in 2001.

The stat reminded me of something.

You remember how brainwashed both liberals and conservatives were during the height of Black Lives Matter? The entire movement was kicked off by a series The Washington Post created tracking the deaths of black men at the hands of police.

At the story’s absolute height of saturation, staggering percentages of both liberals and conservatives believed police were slaughtering black men in battalion numbers.

More than 7,000 troops killed in combat since 2001. In 2022, just 11 unarmed black men were killed by police. My guess is, if I spot checked all 11, somewhere close to 11 police killings would have been legally justified. Maybe one or at best two might have been questionable.

Rather than a rebuke, it’s a stunning endorsement of modern policing.

As I........

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