Big Al, points well taken.

The government has always been pretty sensitive about passing bad currency, particularly in a day and age where a kid can use a color scanner/printer and one of his friends can attempt to pass a century note at McDonald's! This happened to someone I know and I drove by their house to see at least three police vehicles parked around it. That involved more than just a sit-down in a cruiser. Color of kid was irrelevant (white in this case).

I believe that the initial police report of Floyd's death covered up the actual events and it was the video taken by a young onlooker, who was threatened by the policeman with his knee on the neck, that exposed the actual events. Obviously something had to be done.

It is very tough to be a good cop, and it seems to me to be a natural instinct to look out for your fellow cop because of shared dangers and exposure to the anger of anybody who is reprimanded or worse. And in the U.S., the cops have guns because, well, everybody's got guns. It's in the Constitution!


As for change, the French have a saying that starts Plus ca change...