There is a pattern to the arrests of criminals who resist the police

Andrea Widburg:

On May 25, a video showed serial criminal George Floyd dying while being arrested.  That triggered violent riots across America, ostensibly against systemic racism and race-driven police brutality.  The same happened on August 23, when a video emerged showing police officers shooting Jacob Blake, a man with a history of violence and sexual assault.

Everyone knew that Floyd and Blake were shady characters.  It's also become clear that the police behaved appropriately in both cases.  The same pattern appears with both Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin: the men who fired their guns were proven to have acted in self-defense, but violence followed both shootings.  There's a reason for this pattern, but first, let's review the dueling narratives in these and other cases.

Floyd was a bad guy with multiple convictions for drug possession theft, trespass, and armed robbery.  He admitted he was high when the police came upon him.  Even before the police put him on the ground, he complained that he couldn't breathe.

The toxicology results show that Floyd had overdosed and was already a dead man when the police found him.  Further, the police acted strictly by the book when dealing with someone suffering from "excited delirium" from an overdose.  We now know, too, that the medical examiner's first, pre-political conclusion was that Floyd had died from an overdose....

Two narratives developed: the video versus the facts.

Regarding Jacob Blake, I explain here that, while the video appears to show that police killed an unarmed man, facts show that the police acted entirely within the letter and spirit of the law.  Again, two narratives exist: the video versus the facts.

With Trayvon Martin's death, the leftist media manipulated George Zimmerman's 911 call to make it appear that he was stalking a black man.  The full 911 call, the physical evidence, and eyewitness testimony showed that Martin tried to kill Zimmerman.  And yes, there were two narratives: the audio versus the facts.

In the case of Michael Brown, a witness triggered mass riots in Ferguson by claiming that "the gentle giant" had his hands up and said, "Don't shoot," even as a racist police officer shot him.  Video footage, autopsy evidence, and honest witnesses show that Brown had just committed a strong-arm robbery (which was why Officer Wilson stopped him) and tried to wrestle away Wilson's gun (which was why Wilson shot him).  Again, there were two narratives: a dishonest witness versus the facts.

Freddie Gray was another case of a criminal whose death was accidental, as evidenced when the police involved, half of whom were black, were all acquitted.  His death still caused an orgy of destruction in Baltimore.

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Another pattern is that the media jumps to the wrong conclusion about what happens and is unfair to the police involved in the situation.