Mr. Dyer, I sat on the edge of my seat watching the sentencing. An atheist, I prayed for the judge to send the strongest possible signal by sentencing the killer cop to the longest term legally possible.

I gasped in shock when I heard the relatively light sentence.

Black men and women all over the country are serving far more time than that on drug charges, based on racist laws written to stigmatize and single out Black people.

Every American has watched the footage of the killer cop murdering George Floyd in cold blood. We watched the killer cop sneer and ignore pleas for mercy. We watched depravity.

I turned my TV off after the sentencing, filled with despair and anger. I could not believe that a vicious murdering racist like this killer cop was not sentenced to spend virtually the rest of his life in prison. That would have been justice. Nothing less is true justice.

That the killer cop will one day walk free is horrifying, and says a lot about the evil racism that beats at the heart of our society.

That the killer cop’s mother could not even say George Floyd’s name is a perfect illustration of that evil.

That she has the audacity to claim he is not a racist is another sad illustration.