As unjust as Floyd's death is it does not represent a significant pattern in police killings.
This unbelievably massive and often destructive response is clearly due to the last few weeks of selective reporting by the media on white-on-black crimes, even digging so far down as to make headline news out of a minor disagreement between two city park visitors and framing even that as a massive injustice.
In a country of 330 million people, unjust crimes will happen from time to time. Perhaps it is worthwhile to try and minimize them, but the narrative pushing this disproportionate outrage to a single person's death is only going in one direction: white-on-black killings are the tragedy of the century and no other crimes are particularly meaningful.
Never mind the recent (probably race-motivated) killing of Paul and Lidia Marino by a young black man. Never mind the police murder of Tony Timpa (a white man) in 2016 who died much the same way that Floyd died (though was not a criminal or under arrest for any crime). Never mind the fact that these looters have already killed at least one black man, former police officer David Dorn.
And certainly nevermind the greater frequency of police killings of whites than blacks overall or the greater frequency of black citizens killings white citizens more than the reverse.
No crowds of protestors for those events. No celebrity tweets or politicians rushing to placate angry mobs supporting those victims.
This is not a spontaneous, fair-minded movement responding to any and all forms of injustice. It is a single-minded movement that is following one specific narrative driven by selective media coverage: that blacks are perennial victims and whites are perennial oppressors.
If this whole fiasco results in better policing procedures across the country, that's great. But I'm skeptical. Sadly, I think we are only likely to see an uptick in crime in response to all of this, like we did following the Ferguson riots.
Allow too much chaos and destruction to come out of your movement and that is likely to be the legacy.