{"id":25214,"date":"2020-06-02T00:10:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T04:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=25214"},"modified":"2020-06-05T20:16:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T00:16:38","slug":"monday-morning-moment-protests-pleading-and-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=25214","title":{"rendered":"Monday Morning Moment – Protests, Pleading, and Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Photo Credit: John Englart, Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n

What kind of world do we call home where we can actually watch a man die in minutes, in handcuffs, begging to live? George Floyd<\/a> died May 25, 2020. We hear of such things in other nations – public murders, executions – but to see them in the US awakens us more to the injustice and the utter wrongness of such situations. No wonder there is so much outrage right now. How we respond to that pain and anger matters…moving us either toward needful unity or worsening division.<\/p>\n

How do we respond?<\/p>\n

1) Protests <\/strong>– In the US, we have the Constitutional right to right to peaceably assemble<\/a> and the right to petition the government for redress of grievances<\/a>.\u00a0 There is a way to protest that gives pause; that rivets our attention; that demands a hearing. A protest that doesn’t destroy its very own cities.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Photo Credit: David Sanabria, Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n

In Richmond, Virginia, friends on the police force see themselves on the streets, during these protests, there to protect the protesters. So they may be heard.<\/p>\n

Whatever turns the protests to violent, destruction raids on businesses and neighborhoods makes the loss of George Floyd and others even more painful.<\/p>\n

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‘That’s Not Going to Bring My Brother Back’: George Floyd’s Brother Calls for End to Violence<\/a><\/em> – Janell Ross<\/p>\n

Atlanta is where I was born. Hear from this city’s police chief:<\/p>\n