Some Black Lives Matter More Than Others

People the world over now know the name George Floyd. They know him because he was killed by a cop in Minneapolis on a routine arrest. What they may not know is that Floyd was charged in 2007 with armed robbery in a home invasion in Houston and in 2009 was sentenced to five years in prison as part of a plea deal, according to court documents. 

Floyd was passing a counterfeit $20 bill when the police were called and one very twisted cop ended his life. Yes, we all agree his death is terrible, sad and unnecessary. But let's not forget that Floyd was a criminal: armed robbery, home invasion and passing counterfeit bills are not what you want on your resume. 

Despite that, the media, hungry for red meat with the coronavirus story getting stale, has turned Floyd into a martyr. He is about to have not one, not two, but three funerals in different cities. Al Sharpton is doing the eulogy at one of them, and Hollywood director Tyler Perry has offered Floyd's family his private plane to ferry them around to all three.

On the other hand, few people know the name Dave Patrick Underwood, another unjustly murdered black man who was killed because of Floyd George. Underwood was an officer in the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Protective Service. Last Friday he was standing guard outside the U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, California with another officer. Both of them were targeted by an unidentified person shooting from a passing car. Underwood was killed, while the other officer lived. (Nobody knows his name either.)

Dave Patrick Underwood, 53, died on the job, protecting a U.S. courthouse where scumbags like the ones in that car, if caught, will likely get the benefit of due process of the law. “He was a good man, everybody in the community loved him,” his friend Antwon Cloird said. Ours is a truly sick society, wherein a two-bit criminal becomes a national hero just for dying while a true hero protecting our Democratic institutions is kicked to the curb.