Posted on 06/15/2020 7:29:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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And this saint was out in covid release on child abuse charges. No tears here
Way way back in my day the local cops might have driven you home to sleep it off.
Now you get a DUI if you are in your driveway sleeping it off in your own car.
The drugs in Floyd’s system, and his coronary condition are largely irrelevant in this case. Derek Chauvin didn’t know anything about Floyd’s physical health.
Chauvin’s case will be decided on whether his breaking police policy by continuing to apply his knee to Floyd’s neck after Floyd stopped actively resisting (stopped moving and breathing, also) contributed to his death.
Chauvin’s depraved indifference to Floyd’s situation, leaving his knee on his neck for 2:45 after they checked for his pulse is what I cannot see him being able to explain away nor justify.
It’s not all that tragic. Brooks was a career criminal that was let out of prison because of the coronavirus.
He was shot after Brooks shot the officer with a taser that he had stolen from one of the officers.
That is quite a detail leave out.
This is an open and shut case of an officer acting self-defense, more so than the Michael Brown case since was unarmed.
Open your damn eyes. Brooks resisted arrested, took one of their tasers and shot the taser at one of them.
That kind of behavior can't just be let go if you want to have any law and order.
The death of Rayshard Brooks at the hands of Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe is not in any way a tragedy. Once you fight the cops and aim a Taser at them, you’ve proven that the world would be a better place without you. Bye, Rayshard!
He was shot AFTER Brooks shot at the officer. That would be the key detail.
See the link in Post 81 here
Open and shut? Since when?
An approved method of restraining a person resisting arrest, for which the cop was trained for, was used. It was not a choke hold but a knee on the back of the neck.
However, Floyd was high on Fentanyl, which causes respiratory depression and death, Floyd had Covid 19 which causes lack of oxygen and respiratory problems and death, on top of that he had and enlarged heart and heart trouble.
The autopsy revealed that Floyd did Not die of asphyxiation.
The cop applied the hold for a long time, 9 minutes. But it is clear to me it was not murder, accidental manslaughter at best.
Why do people assume it was race realeted?
Are they so racist, and have such racial bias that any black death at the hands of the police is ‘systemic racial oppression’?
Why was Floyd resisting arrest? The man was large and dangerous (muscular 6 foot seven!) And several police were unable to put him in the cop car because of his resistance. The only choice the police had was to pin him down.
I call his death ‘suicide be cop’, and the cop should be exhonorated.
OK, what about the topic at hand — Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta?
Well, there you go. Shoot a tazer and run away, that gets you a shot in the back. Good luck with that.
He fired the taser at the officer and was shot. 100% justifiable shoot!
You are correct. This was suicide by Cop. It is disgusting the amount of idiots on this thread taking the side of BLM. FR needs a purge.
That didn’t negate anything I said.
Agreed. They already had everything to just stop by the next morning and arrest him.
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So he can secure a more lethal weapon to wait for the police to call on him?
I had that same conversation with a cop buddy. He’s a white cop in a majority black large democrat city with plenty of protests.
I’ve also see the full 30 minute bodycam video. The guy went psycho with no warning and stole the officers Tazer. To a reasonable observer, his shooting was perfectly justified.
Freepers who think otherwise need to examine their premises.
A cop has a split second to make a decision.
Everyone else has all the time in the world to look at it frame by frame before making a decision.
My brother once got pulled over by a cop driving a Mustang GT. My brother had an older GT. It ended up with the trooper and my brother under the hood of the Police car.
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