I should also mention that along with another woman in the residence, there was also a toddler in the home during this traumatizing crime. Those two women and that toddler were just three of the victims George Floyd left in his wake. Yet, despite his lengthy criminal past, he is being celebrated as a wonderful human being. You are simply not allowed to acknowledge and speak the truth about his violent criminal record.

You’re also not allowed to talk about the inconvenient details of the events which led to Floyd’s death. You cannot discuss the fentanyl or methamphetamine in his system, his history of drug usage, or previous drug overdoses. None of that matters because now we live under mob rule. If a black man dies and a white person is around while that black person dies, it is a racially motivated crime. It doesn’t matter that the prosecution never proved that Derek Chauvin’s actions were racially motivated. It doesn’t matter because George Floyd has been propped up as the martyr of a movement.

Some children are running around with George Floyd shirts. There are murals all over the country dedicated to George Floyd because his name has now become “synonymous with justice.” The question is justice for who?

If this is all really about “black lives,” why can’t we discuss black criminality at the same time? After all, usually on the other end of black criminality is a black victim. That was the case with Jacob Blake, that was the case with George Floyd, and it’s the case over and over again around America.

That’s also the case in a story that has been trending this week in which a 16-year-old girl in Columbus, Ohio, Ma’Khia Bryant, was shot and killed on Tuesday by police. According to police, and as revealed in bodycam footage, Bryant was attempting to stab another girl. That crucial detail apparently does not matter to the social justice mob.

We now live in a time where we must accept fiction as fact. It doesn’t matter that Bryant was lunging at another girl with a knife. What matters is that she was black and she died at the hands of a police officer. Maybe Nancy Pelosi will eventually declare that Ma’Khia Bryant’s name will also forever be “synonymous with justice”?

The goal of all the deception and lies from the Black Lives Matter movement is clear: to make sure black people love and support criminality. That is the goal. To make black people believe that we should be in the streets, rioting, looting, and demanding justice for criminals. Because that is what most people killed “unjustly” in the eyes of Black Lives Matter are. They Are Criminals.

George Floyd was in the process of committing a crime. I’m not saying he deserved to die, but I think he deserved to be arrested. They attempted to arrest him, something many seem to have forgotten given the media’s reluctance to provide the full video which shows the police calmly trying to put him into their vehicle multiple times.

That video showed that Floyd resisted arrest, claiming he was “claustrophobic.” Perhaps he was claustrophobic because he had just ingested fentanyl, a drug 100 times more potent than morphine?

But we must not ask such questions, and we must ignore the inconvenient details. Let’s ignore the testimony from his girlfriend who admitted that they had both been addicted to drugs. We could be talking about drug addiction. We should be talking about drug addiction. That would be a meaningful discussion, but instead, let’s ignore all of the things that would help us fix black America. Let’s not talk about drug abuse. Let’s not talk about drug dealers. Let’s not talk about criminality.

The result of refusing to discuss these things, opting instead to focus on black victimhood, will be to ensure that black neighborhoods only get worse. When you start celebrating criminals, that is, of course, what is going to be the end result. We’re going to have more black death. We’re going to produce more black failures because we’re not allowed to talk about the truth anymore.

Right now in this country, we are facing a pandemic of cowardice. People are cowering to the mob, and that mob wants to dictate what can and can’t be said, what opinions you are and aren’t allowed to hold, and what is and isn’t true, with zero consideration for the facts.

More than ever, we need people willing to stand up and say that what is happening in this country is wrong and backward. None of these criminals I mentioned are heroes to be revered and emulated. We must refuse to accept the media’s narrative and stop bowing down to the mob. That’s how we truly promote justice in our communities and our country.

Candace Owens is an American writer, producer, conservative commentator, and host of “Candace.”