Michelle Baade
4 min readMay 28, 2020

George Floyd and The Violence of Change

In the wake of George Floyd being publicly murdered by an officer while other officers stood by and watched, I woke up to the expected swarms of white people swinging at anyone who questions or condemns an officers excessive use of force. I’m not sure why we have to clarify this, but if an officer can’t keep their cool to do their job safely, they shouldn’t be in that job. If they purposefully want to hurt people or think certain people are intrinsically “bad,” they certainly shouldn’t be given a gun and a badge. Period.

Michelle Baade

Truth-teller. Writer. Photographer. Banjo/guitar/ukulele player. Mom to four kids, one is transgender. Married to my favorite person. www.michellerothwrites.com