COMMENT:
The police in this country did the right thing by standing back and allowing thousands of protesters to spray their spittle over the horrible death of the handcuffed George Floyd as a cop for more than eight minutes knelt on his neck until he could breathe no more.
Rightly the cop, who knelt casually with a hand in his pocket, has been charged with murder. He was repeatedly pleaded with by Floyd to release the pressure to let him breathe, the same plea made by brave bystanders who were filming the life being taken from the African American in Minneapolis.
Watch an almost nine-minute video of the horrible event compiled by the New York Times as to how it unfolded, and your blood would boil and you'd want to protest as well, not that it'd make any difference to that police culture when it comes to African Americans.
Even with this protest having no impact whatsoever on what's happening in the United States, the attitude taken by the police here means they have opened the pub and church doors, with the Beehive finally losing any authority it had to keep crowds of more than a hundred from gathering.
