Posted on 05/27/2020 5:47:24 AM PDT by USA Conservative
A video posted on social media this week shows a police officer keeping his knee planted on the neck of a black man who pleaded that he couldn’t breathe and subsequently died shortly afterward.
It happened Monday night, when cops were responding to a “forgery in progress.” Police arrived and saw the suspect sitting in a car. According to the Department, the man resisted arrest so he was placed in handcuffs, adding “he appeared to be suffering medical distress.”
The Police Dept. added, “At no time were weapons of any type used by anyone involved in this incident.”
What the P.D. did not address … is the video, and it’s incredibly disturbing.
The black man can be heard moaning and telling the officer that he’s having trouble breathing.
The officer doesn’t budge, as another officer passively watches.
It’s apparent the man is in distress, as a passerby screams, “That’s bulls***, bro. You’re stopping his breathing right there, bro. Get him off the ground, bro,” adding the officer was “enjoying it.”
The man becomes motionless, an ambulance shows up and the man is taken to a hospital where he died.
Video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lirHz93qJ50&feature=emb_title
Today a new video surfaced that is showing the moment George Floyd was pulled from the vehicle and placed in handcuffs.
The new video also shows officers wrestling with Floyd as they attempt to restrain him and place him in handcuffs. YouTube version of the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WviRrsDbOg0&feature=emb_title
Twitter version of the video:
https://twitter.com/AlexLehnertFox9/status/1265409119843954694?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1265409119843954694&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fconservativeus.com%2Fnew-video-shows-the-moment-george-floyd-was-dragged-out-of-his-car-by-the-police-before-the-cop-kneeled-on-his-neck%2F The Minneapolis Police Department first requested an independent investigation by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, and later contacted the FBI as well after the force received additional information that indicated the incident “could be a question of civil rights,” Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said Tuesday.
Floyd’s family has reportedly retained the services of Benjamin Crump, a well-known civil rights attorney who previously represented the family of Michael Brown, a black teenager whose 2014 killing by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, helped propel the Black Lives Matter movement into national prominence.
Arradondo announced that four officers involved in the incident had been fired Tuesday afternoon, which Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said was “the right call.” Will this new video clear thing up or will create more troubles?
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I was afraid you’d say something like that.
I can think of few circumstances that should be less conducive to putting your knee on the neck of a handcuffed man than that.
Thank you for your appeal to my comfort. It seems a bit fork tongued, I assume YOU would be more comfortable if I left. That is a perfectly acceptable attitude to have - just do not get caught on video getting out of line! Your point is taken about lumping everyone together - I will endeavor to address individuals rather than the group - it seems to offend the innocent and go over the heads of the guilty. You also have a nice day.
Why would you think I condone the actions of this officer? I was just speculating what might have prompted the initial call to police. I have already called this out as murder. It doesn’t matter if this guy, committed forgery or not, nothing justifies murdering someone in the street.
That means they are no longer policemen.
Does that mean qualified immunity no longer applies, since their behaviour was so out-of-bounds with recognized practice, that it is not an official act?
Also, if they are no LONGER policemen -- then it creates no "chilling atmosphere on legitimate police function" for someone to publish their home addresses on social media?
The Constitution is supposed to guarantee our rights as citizens against agents of the government killing us in cold blood like this and then walking away.
dragged a guy out of his car
handcuffed him
Made him lie down in the street
Kneeled on his neck (in public, while being filmed)
Ignored bystanders calls and the guy's own pleading that he can't breathe
Till the man DIED
While three or four buddies of the guy kneeling on the neck, kept anyone from helping the man on the ground, and tried to block the phone from filming it?
Murder one, that same day. No bail. All four of them.
I agree, it's time for you to find another forum, we don't want to gargle JBT thug jizz here.
The Constitution is supposed to be our guarantee against this kind of thing; not a paper mache pastiche where a mere sop is given to going through the motions of the appearance of due process, before the inevitable exoneration of the government agent in a show trial, followed by quietly awarding the agent back pay and damages for his inconvenience.
What part of FREE in "Free Republic" did you miss?
I’m not saying I thought you approved.
I’m saying that the same thing occurred to me, but it horrified me. So, just to do a reality check, I asked, hoping I’d missed something. Your post suggests I didn’t miss anything. I was afraid that that’s how it would turn out.
There’s a lot of good, well thought out comments on this forum; there’s also a lot of knee-jerk nutty comments.
Not certain what a “forgery in progress” is.
If a person is able to talk, they can breath. A possible explanation of what happened is the man had a heart attack before or during his resistance (heart attacks can cause shortness of breath). There didn’t appear to be any video of the time period between when he was removed from the car and when he was being held on the ground (not certain why). Even so, I doubt if there is any justification for putting a knee to someone’s throat while they are cuffed and lying on their back, especially considering the liabilities.
OK - I misunderstood your point. Sounds like we are on the same page.
Wow.
Go ahead and let your vile HATE flow.
Put your “Hands Up. Don’t Shoot” or “FREE MUMIA”, Tee-Shirt on, fly out to Minnesota and join the BLM marchers. You seem to share much of their passion and many of their thoughts. Destroy some window front properties. Loot some merchandise. Burn some Police Cruisers and torch Police HQ. Take your gun and see if you can hunt down the four Cops and execute them. They don’t even deserve a trial. They are GUILTY already according to you. Why waste the money in a judicial process you don’t believe?
You are FREE to do whatever you like.
I’ll stick with FR. I’ll just avoid the HATE POLICE threads where you and your fellow travelers are found.
I don't like helpless civilians being killed in cold blood by armed agents of the state.
Followed by the double standard where the killers usually get months before punitive action is taken (the Somali cop who shot the woman who called 911), or at most "get fired".
If it were anyone but police, they'd all be in jail already, denied bail, and facing multiple charges of murder.
So yes, you should still be banned.
Drawing yourself to your full height and attempting to seize the moral high ground on this won't work on this one.
Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.
Neither did George Floyd.
What state? These are local departments. If you want armed agents of the State, that is exactly what the protesters want. They believe replacing local police with a Federal Police force would solve these problems.
Merely in theory anymore, see qualified immunity. Click on that link and read it and prepare for your blood to boil.
Let me know if it's broken, earlier I posted the capsule description of the cases where the govt. actions were held as protected by qualified immunity.
You hate Cops(”Armed agents of the state”). I get it.
Now you want me “banned”? You lecture about FREEDOM in one breath and in the next breath want me banned.
Are you being treated for Schizophrenia or are you just generally incoherent?
Typical of JBTs and their sycophants.
I don't hate cops, but tyranny.
Kneeling on the neck of an unarmed man who is already prone on the street, with bystanders shouting, "Stop, you're killing him" type remarks, until he dies, and then spreading transparent lies that even Baghdad Bob would blush at, is tyranny.
So the penalty for passing an alledged fake 20 dollar bill is death by suffocation???? Really......
I could care less about race,
How much less?
“So the penalty for passing an alledged fake 20 dollar bill is death by suffocation???? Really......”
Yes, apparently, and the same goes in NYC for selling cigarettes on the street.
I’m pissed as hell that a man lost his life for NOTHING and the police watched him die and didn’t give a rats ass. And this is NOT an isolated incident. God Bless Gorge Floyd and his family.
Well, it appears that his family will be rich and the taxpayers will take a hit.
But still, that Chris Rock video would have been instructive to this guy. Reminds me of those old seatbelt commercials: “Sure, he was right. Dead right.”.
Don’t piss off the cops. They put up with a lot of chit and they are not paid that well. i.e. they have an attitude, are dangerous and they have guns.
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