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Four Minneapolis police officers fired after death of unarmed man George Floyd
CBS News ^ | Updated 5/26/2020 | Erin Donaghue

Posted on 05/26/2020 3:02:55 PM PDT by wastedyears

Four police officers have been fired following the death of an unarmed black man who was taken into custody in Minneapolis, officials said Tuesday.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: abuse; corruption; donutwatch; horrible; jbt; minneapolis; minnesota; murder
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To: wastedyears
I've *never* been questioned,let alone arrested,for anything,anywhere,in my entire life.However,if the police were to ever give me an order I'd obey,regardless of how unjust or illegal I believed it to be.IMO those who resist arrest in any way almost always are those who are either drunk/high...or have something *very* serious to hide...or have been listening to too much gangsta rap.

If you're being treated illegally by the police you *DO NOT* resist...you sue.For millions.

21 posted on 05/26/2020 3:25:19 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: bort

“The fact that 4 cops had to be involved obviously suggests that the deceased resisted arrest. “

even if the other three just stood around while they WATCHED the fourth one kill the “suspect”?


22 posted on 05/26/2020 3:26:12 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Bonemaker

LMAO!


23 posted on 05/26/2020 3:27:23 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: bort

Here ya go dip shit post # 20 nails it, you are a pathetic POS:

The video is be shown and watched by millions, as they should. With the cop putting 220 lbs of weight on his left knee kneeling on the mans neck, the cop knew he was killing the suspect. What that cop did to that suspect is the same thing you do to a horse to keep it from getting up.
When the suspect relieved himself during the video, I knew he had died. His urine is visible running across the sidewalk and the other cops should have known the suspect had died but did nothing to correct the situation. This video should be an easy conviction of the cops involved with 20 years minimum incarceration. I lived in Minneapolis for six months and am glad I left. Worst people with authority in the country live in that city.

Minimum 20.....Execution is more in line


24 posted on 05/26/2020 3:31:11 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: unixfox

Those liberaland cops up there seem to have a penchant for ...oh I don’t know...killing Australian women who called police, black motorists reaching for their CCW, and this poor bastard for god knows what.


25 posted on 05/26/2020 3:33:49 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: wastedyears

maybe we should wait for an autopsy to be done before immediately jumping to conclusions. The guy may have died of heart failure brought on by cocaine and stress. The 3700 block of Chicago Ave in Minneapolis is a hotbed for prostitution, drug dealing, drive-by shootings and all manner of crime.

The only video I’ve seen is when the guy is already on the ground, what happened prior to that? BTW, if you can’t breathe you can’d talk either, and on the video the guy is talking for about 2 minutes.


26 posted on 05/26/2020 3:37:32 PM PDT by euram
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To: wastedyears

This dead guy was HUGE! And was resisting arrest. These cops should have tazaed him instead.


27 posted on 05/26/2020 3:38:12 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: DuncanWaring

“They were telling him to get up and get in the car while one of them still had his knee on the guy’s neck/head.”

Sort of like the Mesa cops who told the pest exterminator to stand up and lay down at the same time...then killed him, an unarmed white man. What in the hell are they hiring for cops these days?


28 posted on 05/26/2020 3:38:13 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: null and void

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2020/05/26/man-who-died-in-minneapolis-police-custody-was-houston-native-former-neighbor-says/

Man who died in Minneapolis police custody was Houston native, former neighbor says


29 posted on 05/26/2020 3:38:54 PM PDT by abb
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To: Bell Bouy II

..yes it appears the man was held down by a knee to the neck for way too long. Was it the intent to kill the man? Name calling solves nothing but shows you are more emotional than rational. If someone provides an opinion, the lefties begin name calling - you are no beter.


30 posted on 05/26/2020 3:39:19 PM PDT by Pirate Ragnar
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To: wastedyears

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

a very sad read.....


31 posted on 05/26/2020 3:41:34 PM PDT by rebelskid
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To: chopperk

I saw the urine and thought the same thing. ....however Abc just minutes ago said he died in the hospital. ....I think he was dead in the street.


32 posted on 05/26/2020 3:45:47 PM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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To: bort

“...The police arrest criminals...”

Excuse me, but they arrest suspects.


33 posted on 05/26/2020 3:47:04 PM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: Bonemaker
What in the hell are they hiring for cops these days?

Dr. Clarissa Cole on After Hours AM April 17, 2019

(Start at 1:18:31)

Dr. Cole: He had an epiphany; he was going to become a cop!

Eric Olsen: Ha ha ha what??? Uh, so, wait a minute, he was told by a former employer, if you ever, you better never get a job where you have influence over others, an authority position, or I’ll do whatever it takes to stop you. So wouldn’t becoming a cop kinda give him the ultimate authority over people?

Dr. Cole: Well, you know, lucky for all these other people, he kept moving from county to county so they weren’t really, uh, yeah, it is the ultimate authority he was just moving around so people wouldn’t know what he was doing, and I think getting out of the teaching profession they didn’t know what he was going to do.

He eventually applied to the Broward County Police Unit; he was rejected, though, because he failed the psychological test.

Eric Olsen: Oh that’s it he’s out of the career. No career for him He’s obviously unstable…

Dr. Cole: One, you know what? One would think so, and I actually used to perform these psych tests, and oh, do I have stories! You would think that it would even, it’s supposed to, let me tell you how it’s supposed to work, it’s supposed to prevent you from getting a job as a police officer or a prison guard.

Eric Olsen: Sure.

Dr. Cole: Does that always occur?

Eric Olsen: I would hope that it does.

Dr. Cole: No, no, no, I would say 50% of the time.

Eric Olsen: What?

Dr. Cole: It’s supposed to be a be a requirement, a REQUIREMENT, if you don’t pass, if you are not psychologically fit, you are not supposed to become a police officer or a prison guard. Does that actually preclude you from becoming a police officer even as long ago as what, 2005? No, I was doing them in 2005. Half of the people I rejected still became a cop.

Eric Olsen: How does that happen? How do they get around this?

Dr. Cole: Oh God there so many ways

Eric Olsen: Is it a buddy, a dad?

Dr. Cole: My son, he’s the son of my buddy, his dad is a cop, he has to be a cop, he’s going to work in this county and we’re really understaffed, we need people, we know he failed, but it’s OK. The amount of excuses I heard to employ people.

And that’s the thing, just so the general public is aware, it’s difficult to fail, it’s difficult to fail one of these psychological…

Eric Olsen: What would cause one…

Dr. Cole: It’s not like the bar is so darned high that no one could pass, it’s nothing LIKE that, this test is just to find out is this person basically psychologically stable, are they non-sadistic, do they not have criminal or punishing tendencies or narcissistic tendencies themselves. Basically you’re trying to weed out anybody that has a like God complex; I’m judge, jury, and executioner. You want to get those people out of there. You’re trying to get people out of there that are just psychiatrically so unstable that they can’t control their emotions so, maybe some sort of bipolar thing going on or somebody that absolutely clearly has a personality disorder, like narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder. They are not

Eric Olsen: Checks and balances. Checks and balances to protect the general public from somebody that would not do well in that position.

Dr. Cole: And I was very, yeah, I was extremely, forgiving on these psychological tests even when somebody would sort of hit sort of some of those marks on the tests we would give, I would ask in interviews I would ask a ton of questions just to be very, very sure that this person was indeed failing the psychological exam, and I did not fail that many people, but the people I failed, please believe me that it was for extremely good reasons, extremely good reasons, and half of them became cops anyway.

Eric Olsen: So when they‘d leave would they go to a different state and do it?

Dr. Cole: Hah no, they would get hired by different a county, like a couple minutes over usually. Somebody knew them and “Now let’s pick them up.” “No, no, no, he has really strong sadistic tendencies and fantasies of rape and murder, you really shouldn’t hire him” and they would. And that’s exactly, I hope it’s different that was like I said, this was in 2005, it scared the heck out of me and I said I would never have a career doing that I don’t want to know that those people are becoming officers.

Eric Olsen: Tell me it’s in the minority, though, that this happens.

Dr. Cole: It’s in the minority that people fail, the majority of people passed. But those that do fail, like I said it’s for very good reason, but half of them. Half of them got picked up. So no, it’s not a minority a full 50% got hired.

Eric Olsen: That is truly a scary number out there that 50% of...

Dr. Cole: It’s a small sample, a small sample that was in a place that was economically depressed and needed officers…

(End at 1:23:29)

34 posted on 05/26/2020 3:47:26 PM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Nope. If men with guns and badges dislike you - you leave town.


35 posted on 05/26/2020 3:49:20 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: Pirate Ragnar

Follow Borts rant about Brunswick Ga until then STFU


36 posted on 05/26/2020 3:50:16 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: chopperk

The poor guy actually said They’re killing me.


37 posted on 05/26/2020 3:50:58 PM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: bort

Did you see the video? The fact is they MURDERED him pure and simple, regardless of what he may have done. If I were on the jury I would convict the cop that had his knee on his throat to the death penalty. The others would be accessory to the murder and they would get life without parole.


38 posted on 05/26/2020 3:54:23 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Tunehead54

OK,maybe.But if you’ve been treated illegally by a cop you *sue* first,and then consider leaving town.What you *never* do is resist or run.


39 posted on 05/26/2020 3:57:57 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

They’re “agents of the state”. Governmental power exercised by ‘roided up insufficients.

Avoid them at all cost.


40 posted on 05/26/2020 3:58:04 PM PDT by Hugh the Scot ("We are domed!" - V V Camp Enari 67-68)
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