The Fierce Urgency of Prophetic Hope

WHAT IS WRONG, WHAT WENT WRONG, AND MAKING IT RIGHT ©Wendell Griffen, 2020           On Monday, May 25, 2020, a black teenager used her smartphone to record the final minutes of George Floyd’s life in the world at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers.  She watched three of them stand, kneel, observe, and support a fourth who held his knee on the neck of George Floyd for more than ten minutes while Floyd was forced to remain on his stomach with his hands cuffed behind his back.  She watched George Floyd beg for help, complain that he could not breathe, and die.  Each officer heard Floyd’s desperate cries to breathe.  They heard Floyd scream for his mother.  They heard onlookers call on them to pick Floyd up, roll him over, and seat him in a police cruiser.  They heard onlookers proclaim that Floyd was not resisting arrest. The teenager captured the sights and sounds of racism, militarism, and materialism that resulted in the death of George Floyd in plain sight and u

THE WHIRLWIND IS HERE ©Wendell Griffen, 2020 For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.   Hosea 8:7 (NRSV).           Have you viewed the ten minute and twelve second video of the May 25, 2020 killing of George Floyd by former members of the Minneapolis Police Department?         Why haven’t you?         What are you afraid you will see?         What are you unwilling to see?         What are you unwilling to admit?         Have the four now former members of the Minneapolis Police Department responsible for killing George Floyd in broad daylight before onlookers who also videotaped their conduct been arrested on suspicion of committing a homicide (causing the death of another person) of George Floyd?         Why haven’t they been arrested?         Why have they not been held in custody and required to post bond?         Who decided they should not be arrested?         What message was sent when they were not arrested?