The problem is George Floyd is dead.
It is indisputable that he had enough drugs in his system to kill him.
It is indisputable that a police office kneeled on him because he was resisting arrest.
Two actions, self inflicted, led to his death…drug use and resisting arrest.
The police officer was using a technique that would not have been fatal had Floyd not been in respiratory distress due to his drug use. There was no way for the police officer to have known what drugs, in what dosages, had been taken by Floyd.
Had this not been elevated to a national issue, the officer would have likely been acquitted. Subsequent interviews with jurors reveal that the larger implications of the trial influenced the verdict.
It’s indisputable that George begged for his mother and died and the cop KEPT KNEELING ON HIM.
It’s indisputable that this keeps happening over and over again. Unarmed people, complying people, blind dogs. People getting shot. People getting choked. People getting banged patty-wagons, people getting ignored. People dying in custody.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4240087/posts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTzKPZtPrV4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ryan_Whitaker
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-death-man-27-tucson-police-custody-chief-offers-n1232093
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4240083/posts
Cops are killing too damn many people in this country. Whether it’s directly or indirectly. It’s just plain too many. And every police force we have needs to fix that. And everybody who isn’t outraged by this constant drumbeat of death is wrong.