To the editor,

Mark Place, your letter “A lot of questions unanswered” is well put. Perhaps State Sen. Jeff Smith will provide some answers. We sure deserve some.

I would like to address policing in the big cities. A while back I watched “The Fall of Mpls” not once but twice. George Floyd was not killed by police. He committed suicide that day when he took a large amount of illegal drugs and then resisted arrest. I remember Mayor Jacob Frey’s pathetic act of kneeling and sobbing at Floyd’s casket. Nancy Pelosi gave a speech thanking George Floyd for “sacrificing his life in the name of justice.” Ben Crump said he was a healthy young man. George Floyd’s original autopsy was changed. That is a fact.

Anybody dying is sad but George Floyd was a rehearsed criminal. I think him and Mayor Frey attended the same acting school.

The White House invited the Floyd family more than once. One time was his one-year anniversary. Says a lot. One might think you would invite the family of a fallen officer. Perhaps the family of Ella French of Chicago. Ella French took a one-month-old baby shot in the head to the hospital. Three weeks later Officer French was shot and killed during a traffic stop. She was 27 years old. Her partner was shot three times in the face. She never drew her gun.

George Floyd is not a “hero.” To put him in history books along with Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Frederick Douglas and Booker T. Washington is wrong. They were heroes.

There is a “war on cops.” Why? My guess is it is all about black votes. Biden said, “if you have a problem voting for me or Trump you ain’t black.” It is indeed sad they sold out four cops to get votes!

Carol Fuller

Ellsworth