June 1, 2020
Minneapolis police chief says all four officers involved in George Floyd’s death bear responsibility - CNN
As we tape this liturgy for broadcast in 6 days, we have no idea where the world is going to be. But we do know today that people from around the world have come together in solidarity to stand against the betrayal and injustice that was perpetrated on George Floyd last week.
The chief of police in Minneapolis said, “Mr. Floyd died in our hands and so I see that as being complicit,” Chief Medaria Arradondo told CNN’s Sara Sidner. “Silence and inaction, you’re complicit. If there was one solitary voice that would have intervened … that’s what I would have hoped for.”
Police officers around the world have knelt in solidarity with protesters. In a separate interview Sunday night, another police chief, this time from Floyd’s hometown, stood in solidarity.
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo told CNN he wants his department to provide escort services when George Floyd’s body returns to the city for his burial.
In my sermon for Trinity Sunday I take a perspective that is very broad — as if looking at the earth from the space station — and say that the time for division is past. Here, today, with my one small voice, I say, “The time when such injustice was ok is past.” Amos the prophet, thousands of years ago, said the same thing, “But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” (5:24)
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