Tag: George Floyd

What Derek Chauvin’s Mother Might Have Said

Posted on June 26, 2021 by

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I wanted Derek Chauvin’s mother, Carolyn Pawlenty, to turn around, look straight at George Floyd’s family, and say she was sorry about what happened. But she didn’t do that. She showed up on the day her son was to be sentenced for the murder… Continue Reading “What Derek Chauvin’s Mother Might Have Said”

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This Time is Just One Time

Posted on April 21, 2021 by

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Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Where there is one police brutality case that hits the news, there are 10,000 others that no one hears about. We’d be fools to think otherwise. Everything went right to convict Derek Chauvin. Had Darnella Frazier run out of… Continue Reading “This Time is Just One Time”

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Murdering is Painful Business

Posted on March 31, 2021 by

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We had no part in this murder, the renegade cop pulling on his black gloves to rip a Black man from his life, we were at home, having dinner, then loading the dishwasher with dirty dishes, scraping the hard parts off the frying pan,… Continue Reading “Murdering is Painful Business”

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