How one man turned back on police career because of attitude to Blacks (Op-ed) Jerome Irwin 02 May 2021, 21:07 GMT+10 The George Floyd-Derek Chauvin murder trial once again seriously jogged the memory and disturbed the conscience of this particular 80-year-old white man. Nearly fifty years have since elapsed when, as a once young idealistic man, full of hope and enthusiasm he first began his new career in law enforcement. By day, he was an eager Gung ho Criminology student at a local community city college. The George Floyd-Derek Chauvin murder trial once again seriously jogged the memory and disturbed the conscience of this particular 80-year-old white man and the reasons for his disillusionment with America's long-standing racially unjust police and legal systems. Especially when it came to the traumatic mental-emotional-psychic effects he'd suffered so many times before over similarly outrageous, biased, unfair, if not bordering on criminal, law enforcement practices he'd witnessed for decades waged against Black, Brown, Asian, Indigenous, and White peoples alike. Recalled again was how diminished had become not only his sense of idealism for what America actually stood for but also for his own once budding career in law enforcement, which also had long since 'gone south', forever.