The cold-blooded and utterly chilling murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska has inspired some conservatives to demand an accounting: call it a racial reckoning for the right.
They want payback for the racial reckoning of 2020. They are understandably angry that the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police was taken to be a definitive and representative statement of racial relations in America and used to justify not just demonstrations and rioting in many cities but a suite of disastrous anti-policing actions and policies. This resulted in insane experiments such as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle, which led to a rash of mob-like business intimidation and the shootings of two teenagers. The fact is that deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police are rare. Statistically, black-on-white violence is far more common, some conservatives point out, and they want a national conversation.
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