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Liberals and conservatives alike were horrified on Monday by a widely-circulated Facebook video showing a white police officer choking an unarmed, handcuffed black man to death by kneeling on his neck for upwards of seven minutes, ignoring his increasingly feeble cries for help until he went limp. Regardless of their race, viewers demanded the officer - Minneapolis Police Department's Derek Chauvin - be charged with murder and cheered at the news he and three colleagues present during the Memorial Day incident had been suspended from the force.
Given the country's oft-lamented polarization, it's rare to see such broad agreement on something as controversial as a police killing. But the sight of George Floyd struggling to wheeze out "I can't breathe" while Chauvin mocked the anguished cries of onlookers convinced many to put aside their ideological feuds and get outraged. Seeing the life slowly choked out of the 46-year-old for nothing more than allegedly "resisting arrest" over supposedly forging a check at a supermarket was beyond the pale.
Comment: No Ms Ahern, the problem is you don't think at all. Which means you don't really care either.
This is what all these examples of government and cultural elites breaking the rules is telling us; they don't actually believe a 'killer virus' is going around.