Do you remember the whole George Floyd debacle?

The George Floyd incident sparked a massive national conversation regarding police reform and social justice after his 2020 death in Minneapolis. The event led to widespread protests across the country, including major demonstrations throughout South Carolina and the Upstate, as communities grappled with questions of law enforcement accountability. While the legal proceedings resulted in high-profile convictions, the "whole debacle" remains a deeply polarized touchstone in American politics, often cited in debates over urban policy and civil rights.

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00:00 Do you remember the whole George Floyd debacle? George Floyd, a... 00:10 guy who was experiencing fentanyl overdose, a guy who pointed a firearm at a pregnant woman's belly, a guy who was passing counterfeit bills and got arrested by police and died during that arrest. um He was lionized everywhere, everywhere. You saw these murals going up. George Floyd, 00:39 You saw statues. How many funerals did George Floyd have? Most people only get one. Maybe a funeral and a memorial service. But he seemed to have a funeral every week. 00:55 This guy was more well traveled in death than he was in life. This is a guy who is basically a career criminal who is overdosing on fentanyl and he was made to be out made out to be some sort of a folk hero. 01:15 Now everybody always missed the missed the fact about George Floyd. Even the coroner's report, the medical examiner's report said there was no evidence of asphyxiation. He died of an overdose. So why that police officer is still in jail is beyond how well you know how a jury works, especially one in Minnesota. You know how that. 01:43 They were partisan. They were out for blood. 01:49 But people didn't mind the folks on the left. did not mind all of these murals. They did not mind George Floyd Boulevards. They even made their little homemade signs and they named different streets in their cities. George Floyd Boulevard, George Floyd Avenue, George Floyd, whatever. Have little memorials all over the place. And that, according to the left, was completely OK. However. When a young woman. 02:18 is murder. 02:22 in Charlotte, North Carolina on their rail system. 02:27 like Arena Zaruchka stabbed in the neck. 02:34 murdered for no reason whatsoever. She didn't accost this guy. She didn't talk to this guy. She was literally sitting there minding her own business, a victim of the system that allowed people like that to roam our streets. Many, many others as well. But this happens to many others. In fact, I can't remember the city was, but a woman just got 03:03 A pregnant woman just got stabbed. She got stabbed by a lady that had been in jail over 23 times. When are we as a society going to understand that some people just cannot be rehabilitated? 03:19 and their rate of recidivism is too great to consider them ever to be a useful member of society. We need to put them in jail for the rest of their lives. This is your home now. Get used to it. 03:36 but we've got these radical judges letting people loose left and right in this country. Well, there's a guy that wanted to do a mural in Providence, Rhode Island for Arena Zaruchka. Elon Musk decided he was going to start a mural project. want you to listen to this. Elon Musk is funding a sizable portion of the nationwide mural project. He can support 04:05 a white woman in America, what about the black women in America that are dying every day on the streets? Where are the murals for everyone that died for black lives matter? Srucska is the 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who was brutally stabbed to death in North Carolina last summer. think everybody was pretty moved by the way that uh she was just so publicly murdered. President Trump and other prominent conservatives have pointed to Srucska's death as a consequence of lenient courts and politicians in Democrat-run cities. 04:32 Let's keep politics out of it. I got an idea. Let's get politics more into it. That's a better idea. Let's get rid of these radical judges. Well, the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, a well-known liberal. He wants that mural stopped. Well, Emily Jean, it's still here, but not for long. Artist Ian Goudreau tells me he's sad it's come to this point. But after calls from Mayor Smiley and other local leaders to remove the mural. 04:59 It felt like only a matter of time before this happened. artwork is going to be removed. Artist Ian Godreau breaking the news to NBC 10 Monday afternoon. The Irina Zaruzka mural is coming down. A lot of pe ...