I will surely get this wrong but hear me out.
Court documents from June in the George Floyd case were made public for the first time yesterday. The documents suggest Floyd was probably a dead man walking.
Should police have put a knee on his neck; no.
Did police end his life; yes.
Wouldn’t we as a nation have been better off to know the assessment in June? I say yes. Would the riots in Floyds name changed the level of rioting; probably not. But more people have died in these riots. Could their death have been avoided had the facts been revealed in June…. we will never know.
So two things…. 1) people need the full truth. 2) people need to wait for the truth before making conclusions.
In the absence of full disclosure it is the nature of people to fill in the blanks with their own version of the story. With volatile topics like this the last thing our nation needs is everyone filling in the story with their own stuff.