It was pretty awful. Worth noting that the officer was not convicted of intentional murder (US terminology is odd), ie not an execution.
But I’m not here to defend either man. A pretty brutal police offer and a pretty brutal career criminal.
What I thought was tragic and absurd was the wanton destruction that followed with the nodding along of our political class. Somewhere between 19-25 people died in the protests in the week following, many neighbourhood (mostly poor ones) trashed and businesses destroyed, economic harm of $1bn-2bn. In Minneapolis alone in the year that followed the de-policing, murders doubled.
Now maybe this kind of mayhem happens sometimes.
But we had UK leaders kneeling in honour of this movement. wtf.
When there is any kind of race-related crime or outrage we get a preemptive lecture from our leaders about how bad elements are stirring up division and we should behave ourselves. Yet there they all were joining in when it was fashionable. It was shameful.
I’d be disgusted if our leaders cheerled and encouraged a white racial criminal backlash in this country. But this was a black one and American, so all fun and games.