Thu May 26, 2022 – 5:50 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday imposing a range of “reforms” on law enforcement across the United States geared at appeasing the left-wing activists of Black Lives Matter (BLM).
May 25 marked the two-year anniversary of George Floyd, a Minneapolis criminal killed during an altercation with former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who in April 2021 was convicted of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter for his death.
Floyd’s defense argued that he used appropriate force for the situation, and that Floyd’s death was actually due to a lethal quantity of fentanyl in his system; prosecutors argued that Chauvin used a lethal amount of excessive force. Regardless, the incident triggered a wave of BLM protests and riots across the country, as well as calls from the political left for a host of new limits on policing, up to and including the defunding of police departments.
The White House framed the new executive order with the anniversary of Floyd’s death and the “legacy of systemic racism in our criminal justice system and in our institutions more broadly,” claiming it will “advance effective,
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