President Joe Biden on Saturday paid tribute to the late George Floyd, whose death in police custody in May 2020 touched off a summer of rioting by leftists that left some two dozen people dead and caused more than $2 billion in property damage.
Biden used the occasion of what would have been Floyd’s 50th birthday to continue his theme of promoting America as a racist society, particularly within law enforcement.
Floyd, Biden said in a proclamation issued on Saturday, “should be alive. He should be celebrating his 50th birthday with his young daughter Gianna, family, and friends. He deserved so much more.”
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“Today, we join his family to honor his life and legacy. And we remember the tragedy and injustice of his death that sparked one of the largest civil rights movements in our nation’s history and inspired the world.”
“George Floyd’s murder exposed for many what Black and Brown communities have long known and experienced — that our nation has never fully lived up to its highest ideal of fair and impartial justice for all under the law,” Biden continued.
“The day before her father’s funeral, Gianna told me, ‘Daddy changed the world.’ Three years after her father’s murder, my answer to Gianna remains the same: he has.”
In his statement, Biden failed to mention that Floyd was a known criminal who was arrested multiple times, and who served nearly five years in prison for his part in a brutal armed home invasion that led to a woman being pistol-whipped in front of her children.
As The Washington Post once reported, “Floyd was stopped by police or charged at least 19 times in his adult life, according to records, friends, and family. In a handful of encounters, he was let go. Other times, the charges were serious and shaped the trajectory of his life.”
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Biden also failed to note that on the day he died, Floyd was being arrested for passing counterfeit money and had taken doses of fentanyl and meth on the day he died.
During the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer eventually convicted of murdering Floyd, the Minnesota medical examiner who did his autopsy stood by his ruling that it was a homicide, but admitted that Floyd’s drug use and pre-existing heart condition contributed to his demise.
Nonetheless, Biden, who has presided over a skyrocketing amount of crime in America’s major cities, proudly proclaimed his alleged reforms after Floyd’s death that “advance effective and accountable policing that increases public safety.”
“Across our Administration, we have made significant progress in fulfilling the requirements of my executive order, making policing safer and rebuilding trust in American communities,” Biden continued.
“But we know that implementing real and lasting change at the state and local levels requires Congress to act. I will continue to do everything in my power to fight for police accountability and urge Congress to pass meaningful police reform and send it to my desk. I will sign it.”
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“George Floyd’s memory reminds us that there is more work to do to redeem the soul of America,” Biden concluded.
“Let us recommit to changing hearts and minds while enacting policies and laws that ensure our nation lives up to its founding idea: that we’re all created equal and deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives.”
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