None of this would have happened if one incompetent cop and his fellow officers had simply handcuffed the perpetrator and taken him into custody.

self | 6/28/2020 | self

[Signalman]

If the officer involved in the Minneapolis incident with Floyd (and his fellow officers on the scene) had simply followed procedure, subdued the suspect, handcuffed him and taken him into custody, the riots, the burning down of businesses, the tearing down of statues, the shootings of police officers and all the other mayhem that's occurred over the past month would not have happened.

I know I'm stating the obvious.

[logi_cal869]

That’s just a little ignorant there...

[LS]

Correct. ANY incident was the “trigger.” Soros gave the “activate cells” order.

[Ikeon]

It has little to do with race and everything to do with the type of person floyd was and the type of person darren was.

2 assholes meet but one of them tried to out asshole the other. unfortunately the bigger asshole was in cuffs and chose poorly.

What if the roles were reversed? do you think floyd would have treated a white man fighting him and 4 buddies any better?

[cnsmom]

This is summer camp for these activists. Every Summer it is something.Count on it.

[AlaskaErik]

None of this would have happened if a career felon who was high on drugs and had serious health issues hadn’t resisted arrest.

That crap happens. It's the responsibility of the police to use the minimum amount of force needed to attain and maintain control of the subject. That did not happen in this case. Now the subject is dead, the former officer has destroyed his life and and will probably spend the rest of his life in prison. And that's before we even begin to assess the deaths and damage to property, not to mention the fundamental changes that will come from all this. The police officer is the one person who could have broken the chain of events had he performed his job correctly.

[attiladhun2]

Beg to differ strongly. Trial balloons are constantly being launched to make sure an incident will go viral. The media is always on the prowl for something they can use to show how flawed we are as a country. This is all about going after Trump. Why do you think the 1619 project came out?

[ek_hornbeck]

None of this would have happened if a career felon who was high on drugs and had serious health issues hadn’t resisted arrest.

Exactly right. And furthermore, if George Floyd hadn't become an Antifa or BlackLivesMatter icon, they have dozens of other thugs to pick for their posterboys. None of these folks need much of an excuse to riot and loot.

[tinyowl]

Absolutely wrong. Eventually, their George Floyd would come along.

[central_va]

Just like slavery was the occasion and not the cause of the first Civil War, the untimely death of St. George was the occasion for this mini insurrection and not the cause.

[ealgeone]

THIS

[Does so]

“They’d use another event”

Before November, there’ll be (at least one) other “event”.

[DMZFrank]

The issue is NEVER the issue. THE ISSUE IS THE REVOLUTION!!!!

Floyd was merely the catalyst to spark the Bolshevism. . The scope and scale of this indicates that this op has been in the works for some time now. Just get ready to FIGHT!!!

[Romans Nine]

This has nothing to do with George Floyd.
Communists have been trying to destroy this country for 80 years.

[joethedrummer]

“The media has shown ZERO interest in learning where the phony $20 came from.“

OR why they had “sewn-on” badges...

OR why the so-called EMT’s never bothered to even check him out; they pulled up, grabbed the person on the ground, threw him on a gurney and carted him off. Never checked his heart, breathing, eyes, etc... never tried to revive him... ALL the USUAL things that REAL EMT’s are REQUIRED to do ...

[Thommas]

He was handcuffed.

The police did follow procedure (even with the knee-to-neck.)

EMTs were called before Floyd died.

George Floyd exhibited suffering from “excited delirium syndrome” (ExDS), or stress from merely being arrested. As such, the police could have laid him on the ground and he would have died anyway.

[old school]

Ain’t that the truth!

[libertylover]

No, I don’t think so. Bricks and Molotov Cocktails were prepositioned which tells me the riots had been planned for some time just waiting for an excuse to start.

[Widget Jr]

The police should have performed first aid themselves and called 911 sooner. That would not have prevented the riots, which are clearly organized and planned. If it wasn't Floyd, some other incident would have been manipulated to serve as a excuse.

[DrHFrog]

I have seen NOTHING to show this was racially motivated or that the police were racist..... Overzealous restraint of a possible criminal who resisted getting into the police car and had to be restrained yes, but racist... can’t measure what is in the policemen’s hearts . The drugs Mr. Floyd had in his system likely played some role in his ultimate demise !! His death was a convenient event for the protestors/ rioters to use.

[LittleBillyInfidel]

One other small matter that escapes nearly everybody, and many here, is that there’s still zero proof that Chauvin is a racist.