Chauvin Murder Trial

[Rev. Rye]

Culture war BS? I hope you are proud of the climbing murder rates. Job well done.

While it's too early to tell, especially with COVID as a confounding factor, the heightening of racial tensions is by no means the only explanation for the sudden spike in the murder rates. This article lists several other possibilities, things like trust in police going down the toilet and people resorting to street justice to resolve disputes up to and including murder, or, indeed, the economy tanking, thrusting more people into poverty (a state of affairs that tends to make people more likely to commit murder.) And, of course, it points out that everything's still up in the air.

And, for the record, there's been two autopsies of George Floyd, and, unfortunately, neither one really exonerates Chauvin.