Commentary “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” So said John Adams at the trial of the British soldiers involved in what, more than two centuries later, we continue to call “The Boston Massacre.” But there’s a problem: it wasn’t a massacre; all but one of the British soldiers was acquitted; and John Adams—a Founding Father and anti-British colonial patriot—made it happen. In short, what we call the “Boston Massacre” was anything but, thanks to an ideology-driven narrative of what took place, rather than a factual one. Today, something similar is taking place in the case of the George Floyd trial. Some are already attempting to elevate Floyd to a status that can only be compared with sainthood. Many are equating the trial with that of Christ, with the justice …