There’s a quiet ritual that plays out across America every Memorial Day. Families drive to cemeteries with small flags and fresh flowers. They kneel beside headstones bearing names that never got to grow old. They whisper thank-yous to sons and daughters who boarded planes for foreign soil and never came home. It is the most sacred day on the American calendar — a day that asks nothing of us except that we remember the price of our freedom.
You’d think every elected official in this country understands that simple obligation. You’d think the one day we set aside to honor the men and women who died defending this nation would be untouchable. Apparently not.
From The Post Millennial:
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey honored George Floyd on Memorial Day, May 25. It was six years ago that George Floyd died while in police custody after being arrested for passing a counterfeit bill in a store. When cell phone video of the arrest went viral online, agitators burned parts of Minneapolis and rioted across the US, causing over $1 billion in damages and leading to the deaths of at least 30 people.
“Today, we remember George Floyd,” said Frey, “who was murdered by a former Minneapolis police officer six years ago. That moment changed our city forever.” Frey took a knee during the summer of BLM riots in deference to the rioters. He also advocated to defund the Minneapolis police department after claims that policing itself is a racist vestige of slavery.
Read that again if you need to. I certainly did. On the one morning each year reserved for America’s fallen warriors, the mayor of Minneapolis chose to memorialize a man who died while being arrested for passing counterfeit bills. On Memorial Day. Deliberately.
A holiday as an afterthought
And it gets worse. Frey posted his George Floyd tribute at 9:03 a.m. Central Time. He did not post a single word about Memorial Day until 11:38 a.m. — and only after Breitbart News contacted his office at 10:25 a.m. asking why he’d prioritized Floyd over fallen service members. His communications director responded with a curt, “The mayor has also posted on his social accounts for Memorial Day. Thanks.”
You’re welcome, Ally.
Even Frey’s fellow Minnesota Democrats managed to clear this remarkably low bar. Senator Amy Klobuchar posted a Memorial Day message at 8:22 a.m. Attorney General Keith Ellison posted at 8:03 a.m. Governor Tim Walz posted at 8:55 a.m. When Keith Ellison is outperforming you on patriotism, it might be time to rethink a few things.
Meanwhile, President Trump honored “those who have made the ultimate sacrifice” as his first message of the day. Frey? Frey was busy mourning George Floyd. That tells you everything.
The man vs. the myth
Frey described Floyd as having been “murdered.” The medical reality is considerably more complicated. During Derek Chauvin’s trial, the Chief Hennepin County Medical Examiner testified that while the police restraint was the primary cause of death, contributing conditions included fentanyl intoxication, recent methamphetamine use, and hypertensive heart disease.
None of that excuses what happened during that arrest. But words matter — especially from a mayor, and especially on Memorial Day. Choosing the word “murdered” on the one day reserved for Americans who were genuinely killed defending this nation isn’t moral confusion. It’s contempt.
The riots that followed Floyd’s death caused over a billion dollars in damages and claimed more than thirty lives. Minneapolis burned while Frey knelt at a golden casket and wept for the cameras.
A mayor unfit for the office
This wasn’t a one-time lapse. It’s a pattern. Frey took a knee for BLM agitators while his city smoldered. He championed the idea that policing is a “racist vestige of slavery.” He told Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to “get the f*ck out of Minneapolis.” Now he’s pouring taxpayer money into reconstructing “George Floyd Square” as a memorial of “global significance.”
Jacob Frey does not serve the people of Minneapolis. He serves an ideology — one that elevates grievance over gratitude and criminals over the men and women who died so he could hold the office he so thoroughly disgraces.
Memorial Day belongs to heroes. It belongs to the nineteen-year-old Marine who never made it out of Helmand Province. The Army nurse who died in a field hospital in France eighty years ago. It does not belong to politicians who can’t be bothered to honor them until a reporter shames them into it.
Jacob Frey doesn’t deserve to be mayor of Minneapolis. The fallen deserve so much better than him.
Key Takeaways
- Frey honored George Floyd on Memorial Day before ever acknowledging fallen service members.
- He only posted about Memorial Day after a reporter asked — two and a half hours later.
- Memorial Day exists to honor heroes who gave their lives, not for political posturing.
- Frey’s pattern of opposing law enforcement makes him unfit to lead Minneapolis.
Sources: The Post Millennial, Breitbart
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