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News reports emerged last week that a mural depicting the face of George Floyd in my hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin was damaged when someone poured gray paint over his face. This story was picked up by other ABC affiliates in different cities across the country including a TV station in Dayton Ohio. Why would anybody in Dayton give a flying you-know-what about this?

Let me unpack this for you. First of all my initial reaction upon hearing this was one of, give me a break, who cares? I, for one, do not. Most readers of my column know my sentiments about Saint George. Yes, he has been elevated to sainthood by liberals, Democrat politicians and most factions of the black community. Why, is beyond me. For liberals and Democrat politicians it is nothing more than moral preening and virtue signaling about racial sensitivity. For the black community it is about the lack of more legitimate role models to exalt and because he has been made into a hero and cause celebre by the pathetic corporate media and black racialists who are exploiting his death for financial and political gain. People like Black Lives Matter founder Patrisse Cullors and the white guy who posed as black for decades, Shawn King. He was another big mouth Black Lives Matter activist getting face time in the media after the deaths of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and after the death of George Floyd until it was discovered that he was born to two white parents. In fact, it was they who exposed this phony as a fraud. But he was given a pass because his intentions were pure, we are told. Cullors stepped down from the BLM movement but not before taking millions from the BLM fundraising PAC for herself and her family members and recently bought several million-dollar properties for herself. This includes purchasing a million-dollar property in Canada of all places. I was not aware that Canada was a hotbed of BLM activity. She also admitted to using her $6 million property in an exclusive gated community in California for hosting parties. Survivors of Mike Brown, Freddy Gray, Eric Garner and Floyd were not on the invite list. Shawn King, on the other hand, used $40,000 of donated PAC funds to purchase a show dog that he said he needed for protection. I guess the local dog shelter was out of suitable candidates. King, after all, wasn’t going to have a mutt protecting him.

Many cities across the country erected statues and memorials for George Floyd. This is the same criminal creep who did time in prison for a home invasion robbery looking for drugs. During the incident he held a loaded gun to the stomach of a pregnant female threatening to shoot her. Yes, that George Floyd. The same guy who was geeked up on a fatal amount of an illegal narcotic and was trying to pass a counterfeit bill at a store to purchase more drugs when he resisted arrest. No self-respecting city should have erected statues, painted murals or set up memorials for this miscreant.

I want to be clear. I do not advocate for acts of vandalism. The destruction of another’s property is a crime and should be adequately punished. Let’s, however, take a look at other acts of vandalism that have not gotten the same media coverage that those involving Floyd statues, murals and memorials. And I might add incidents that are more newsworthy.

America went through a period when anarchists and BLM apologists declared jihad on America and began destroying symbols of the founding of this country by destroying statues of our founders like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and American Revolutionary War and Civil War generals and did so with impunity. Basically, the liberal corporate media shrugged their shoulders in reporting it. The attention to it lasted a day or so. Democrat politicians demonstrated tacit approval by their silence. Some even called it democracy in action.

Another comparison in lack of news coverage on vandalism incidents compared to those involving George Floyd is in the area of police precincts and cruisers that have been vandalized. Not much fanfare occurred after these incidents. Here are a few examples. Protestors carrying BLM signs vandalized a California police station in January of 2021. In Davis, California, a police station was spray painted with anti-police sentiments. In Philadelphia, a number of vandalism incidents occurred at a station including damage to three vehicles. In Little Rock, Arkansas, multiple police stations were vandalized. Worse yet, a Little Rock fallen officers memorial wall was vandalized. Spray painted across the memorials was Defund The Police. A San Diego police station reported that for the second time in a week vandals target the station, smashing windows. The personal vehicles of four police officers were targeted and vandalized. A White Oak, Maryland, police station was vandalized when someone shot through and shattered a window of the building. I could list numerous other incidents, but you get my point. And I am not trying to suggest that these are breaking national news stories. For the most part, they are local news stories. Nothing more. Vandalism to George Floyd memorials, however, seem to go beyond local reporting and I am simply asking why? Several major news outlets made a big deal in reporting when a Floyd mural was struck by lightning and destroyed. Really? Who cares? We know why these were reported. Part of it is to stir up racial animus by liberal media. It’s insinuating some racist component where none exists. And why does vandalism to Floyd memorials draw the interest of the FBI but no interest when police stations are attacked? Memo to the FBI: How about a little help finding the perpetrators of attacks against police buildings with the same fervor you do in going after the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers or moms attending school board meetings?

And there is this last lack of vandalism media coverage. Are you aware that there have been over 165 reports of vandalism incidents by pro-abortion activists against pro-life pregnancy centers and churches since the Supreme Court issued the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v Wade on abortion? The interesting thing here is that the perpetrators in these incidents do not hide who they are, often leaving their signature calling card. A group calling itself Jane’s Revenge claims responsibility in many of these attacks. Not a single member of this group has been identified or arrested. The FBI has no trouble identifying members of the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers or the January 6 group who breached the U.S. Capitol, but can’t seem to identify members of Jane’s Revenge? Really? The truth is that they are not motivated enough to find out, just like with attacks on local police agencies. That is disgraceful.

Some criminal acts rise above simple state misdemeanor vandalism. Attacks against government institutions and Supreme Court decisions are acts of domestic terrorism and demand federal investigation and prosecution. Vandalism to George Floyd memorials, however wrong, are not acts of domestic terror. It is time to stop giving them that recognition.

Sheriff David Clarke Jr. is former Sheriff of Milwaukee Co, Wisconsin, President of AmericasSheriff LLC, Board member of the Crime Research Center, author of the book Cop Under Fire: Beyond Hashtags of Race Crime and Politics for a Better America. To learn more visit www.americassheriff.com