Posted on 06/04/2020 2:31:14 PM PDT by knighthawk
In wake of the death of George Floyd, a black man who pleaded for air as a white Minneapolis officer held a knee on his neck, a viral video from 2014 of Milwaukee’s former police chief Ed Flynn began to spread again around the web.
The video, filmed by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Ashley Luthern, got thousands of likes and retweets including from Donald Trump Jr., son of President Trump, who retweeted it while stating "This is a must watch and RT. This is the difference between the truth and the narrative the media runs with. Why won’t the media cover this side of things?"
The video was filmed on Nov. 6, 2014, at a civilian oversight board after Flynn fired officer Christopher Manney in the fatal shooting of Dontre Hamilton.
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Whenever a black man, usually someone who has had many brushes with the law, and served time, dies at the hands of a white cop, the media puts a target on all cops. It's open season to retaliate, and the media and Democrats encourage it, ie., Keith Ellison, former POS Congressman, and now Minnesota A.G. who is trying the cases of the four cops, telling the protestors to "direct their anger at the cops." He's telling them to target cops, not the cops who were involved in the incident with Floyd, but all cops. And this is the a-hole who is prosecuting those cops. He's no better than Emmett Sullivan, attacking General Flynn in the courtroom, when he's supposed to be an unbiased observer in the matter.
bkmk
Civilization requires leaders of courage who can take the heat.
We have very few individuals of that calibre in our states and cities.
The pandering and knee-bending is disgusting—the Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves.
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