We must make sure other families don’t suffer the same racism, violence & pain, and we must enact the George Floyd #JusticeInPolicing Act.” His family’s calls for justice for his murder were heard around the world. Pelosi sought to clean up the mess she had made. “You have to imagine Pelosi tried that line out on people around her earlier and they nodded along as if it wasn’t one of the most offensive things they’d ever heard,” tweeted Ryan Grim, the DC bureau chief of The Intercept. ![]() THE POINT - NOW ON YOUTUBE! In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. The utter tone-deafness of Pelosi’s comments – her first since the verdict was announced! – drew immediate reaction, especially on social media, where people wondered what the heck she was talking about. That Chauvin hadn’t kneeled on his neck for nine-plus minutes as Floyd said, repeatedly, “I can’t breathe.”Īnd while the verdict reached Tuesday gives his family some sort of closure after such a heartbreaking and terrible year-long ordeal, racial profiling by police remains a huge and unacceptable injustice in this country. While Floyd’s death sparked a national movement aimed at examining and reforming race and policing, the best outcome for Floyd and his family would be that he was still alive. Pelosi’s comment seems to bizarrely suggest that Floyd had some choice in the situation, when in actuality he had zero say or control over whether a police stop would end in his death. ![]() Floyd didn’t want to “sacrifice” his life. “And because of you … your name will always be synonymous with justice.”Ĭlearly, this is a poorly constructed line. “For being there to call out to your mom, how heartbreaking was that,” Pelosi said during the news conference. “Thank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice,” Pelosi said at an event with the Congressional Black Caucus shortly after the verdict. Which makes what she did say on Wednesday – in the immediate aftermath of the Chauvin verdict – all the more baffling. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had months (and months) to ponder what she would say if and when former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of the murder of George Floyd.
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