I must respectfully disagree. First of all, there were 4 perpetrators - Derek Chauvin who murdered George Floyd and his 3 colleagues who failed to intervene. They are as complicit.

Second, I asked you to be specific and you responded with more platitudes. So. I ask you again: what is the appropriate response? I'm not referring to this particular event that just happened to be the most recent tipping point. How do we address the systemic racism baked into the bedrock of America since its very inception? How do we address institutionalized racism when people refuse to even acknowledge, let alone condemn it?

It's difficult to discuss this latest manifestation of police brutality outside of the historical context - especially during a pandemic that's been disproportionately deadly to black and brown people. On top of the recent killing of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. On top of Amy Cooper calling the police on Christian Cooper for bird-watching while black.

Nothing ever changes.

Charging Derek Chauvin may be the appropriate response, but that doesn't mean he'll be convicted. What do we do about the system that created him?

A call for peace is a call for maintaining the status quo. I respect Barack Obama but he is not the current occupant of the White House. If he were, maybe he would actually listen and understand the anguish and frustration instead of adding more fuel to the fire.

In his address to the nation after the 1968 riots that followed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, LBJ said that further militarization against the civilian population would be counter-productive. Instead, he argued that the root causes of the violent protests - poverty and inequality needed to be addressed. America listened. And responded by electing Richard M. Nixon, a Law & Order president.

No justice, no peace.