{"id":233092,"date":"2021-04-22T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/letters-to-the-editor-april-22-2021\/"},"modified":"2021-04-22T02:00:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T23:00:13","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-april-22-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/letters-to-the-editor-april-22-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"#Letters to the Editor \u2014 April 22, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Letters to the Editor \u2014 April 22, 2021<\/strong>”
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The Issue: Former Police Officer Derek Chauvin\u2019s guilty verdict in the murder of George Floyd.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last May, when I first saw the video of Derek Chauvin with his knee on the back of George Floyd\u2019s neck, I was angry (\u201cGuilty,\u201d April 21).<\/p>\n

I felt compassion for George Floyd. Everyone in America should have been shaken by this senseless violent murder.<\/p>\n

I wanted Chauvin to pay for his crime. On April 20, Chauvin was found guilty of murder and will pay.<\/p>\n

Shortly after Floyd\u2019s senseless murder, Democrats tried to spin this as systemic racism. They tried to use Floyd\u2019s tragic death for political gain.<\/p>\n

I believe that the vast majority of Americans \u2014 black, brown and white \u2014 were app<\/a>alled and disgusted by what happened to Floyd.<\/p>\n

It was the Democrats who interjected politics and race into this horrendous murder.<\/p>\n

Michael Hart<\/em><\/p>\n

Kokomo, Ind.<\/em><\/p>\n

The system held. Chauvin was found guilty by a mostly white jury.<\/p>\n

As a country, though, we still have a long way to go, with millions of people, mostly people of color, locked up in prisons by Chauvin-type thugs.<\/p>\n

Some 400 years of systematic racism is a charge not easily refuted even by the most naive of true believers.<\/p>\n

Ron Spurga, Manhattan<\/em><\/p>\n

The Chauvin guilty verdict was a just one. He disgraced an honorable profession. People should note that he did not have the support of any police union across this country. His actions were universally condemned.<\/p>\n

I implore reasonable people not to view all police in this manner.<\/p>\n

I concede there are potentially other unfit officers in the ranks, just as there are unfit people in other professions.<\/p>\n

The challenge is to identify and separate them from the service. Radical solutions are not the answer.<\/p>\n

Phillip Serpico<\/em><\/p>\n

Queens<\/em><\/p>\n

Finally, a judge and jury got it right \u2014 not like the bungled Rodney King trial.<\/p>\n

Chauvin proves sadly that police brutality exists. <\/p>\n

Matt Engel<\/em><\/p>\n

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.<\/em><\/p>\n

President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the nation after the Chauvin verdict (\u201c\u200a\u2018Stain on our soul,\u2019\u200a\u201d April 21).<\/strong><\/p>\n

The two of them repeated their claims that both the American criminal-justice system and the country itself are systematically racist.<\/p>\n

Harris was both district attorney of San Francisco and California attorney general<\/a>. She was the system.<\/p>\n

Kenneth Fitzgerald<\/em><\/p>\n

Hicksville<\/em><\/p>\n

A recent editorial chided Biden for having spoken on the Chauvin trail, saying he was praying for a guilty verdict (\u201cTurn Down the Temp,\u201d Editorial, April 21).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Does The Post not believe in free speech? What the president said wasn\u2019t even inappropriate.<\/p>\n

All Americans are entitled to voice their opinion, and quite frankly, they are entitled to that even before the evidence is in. <\/p>\n

Brian W. Barnett<\/em><\/p>\n

Newport, Vt.<\/em><\/p>\n

I am OK with Biden\u2019s verbal approval of the guilty verdict in the Chauvin trial. The video was proof enough for the jury to form that decision.<\/p>\n

What offends me, however, is Biden\u2019s statement that America is \u201csystematically racist.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the height of hypocrisy. Biden\u2019s previous comments, like: \u201cIf you ain\u2019t for me, you aint\u2019 black,\u201d plus his past association with Sen. Robert Byrd, a former KKK member, make it hard for me to accept his caustic racist remarks about our country.<\/p>\n

Warren Goldfein<\/em><\/p>\n

Mount Arlington, NJ<\/em><\/p>\n

This verdict established that no one is above the law. As a nation, we need to move forward in our fight against racism. We are all brothers and sisters and need to respect one another.<\/p>\n

Make no mistake, serving on a jury is a stressful and demanding experience. I praise the jury in the Floyd case. A whole nation was watching.<\/p>\n

The majority of police officers in our country are doing the best job they can protecting us, and endangering their lives in the process. But this jury got it right.<\/p>\n

Frederick Bedell<\/em><\/p>\n

Bellerose<\/em><\/p>\n

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