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Prosecutors warn there is 'evidence that does not support criminal charge' in case of four cops accused of killing George Floyd
www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | 5/28/2020 | Rachel Sharp , Lauren Fruen

Posted on 05/29/2020 6:33:09 AM PDT by rktman

Mike Freeman, county attorney for Hennepin County, condemned the actions of white cop Derek Chauvin as 'horrific and terrible' But he added there was 'other evidence that does not support a criminal charge' Prosecutors must decide if the cop used force deemed 'excessive' when he knelt on George Floyd's neck for eight minutes until he passed out and later died Freeman warned the investigation 'can't be rushed' He voiced fears of a repeat of the Freddie Gray case in Baltimore in 2015 where all charges were dropped against cops involved in the black man's death Outrage is building as still no arrests have been made over Floyd's death with protests entering their third day in Minneapolis

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: again; chauvin; donutwatch; evidence; floyd; georgefloyd; mpd; murder; riot
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To: eyeamok

Did you see the photo of the cop with knee staring at camera? Dead eyes of a sicko.


21 posted on 05/29/2020 6:46:20 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: cuban leaf
We want the lynching now and then maybe we'll have the investigation later. Wasn't that the attitude of the Democrat KKK more than a century ago?

That attitude hasn't changed, just the color of the masks and the people wearing them.

22 posted on 05/29/2020 6:46:49 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

As they should be.


23 posted on 05/29/2020 6:48:01 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Youth, speed and energy can always be overcome with experience and treachery.)
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To: bigdaddy45

I had heard he died in the hospital sorry.


24 posted on 05/29/2020 6:48:33 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: rktman

That should satisfy the protestors. They’ll go home now.


25 posted on 05/29/2020 6:49:01 AM PDT by moovova
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To: rktman

Well, it is why we have this danged pesky thing called “due process”...

To most normal people, you view that video of the guy having his neck kneeled on, that is wrong in nearly every way.

But that video is often presented to us by the media and by race baiters (such as Black Lives Matter, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton) with little or no context at best, and at worst, what little context given to us is usually laudatory to the victim, “he didn’t do anything” or “he was a good person who was turning his life around” coupled with interviews from ‘witnesses’ who say the guy did nothing wrong.

And all those things may indeed be true, and it is a case of police malfeasance and evil non-professional behavior worthy of murder charges.

But it is also true they may not be. And I am not willing to send a man to the gallows or prison on the sole basis of a shot of video, shaped by the likes of the US Media, framed with the context THEY think is important or applicable, and excluding context that does not support their narrative.

That is why we have legal trials and not media or race baiter launched lynchings.


26 posted on 05/29/2020 6:51:45 AM PDT by rlmorel (Thinking for yourself is hard work. But it is a lot easier than ignorance.)
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To: rktman; Alaska Wolf; DCBryan1; Slings and Arrows; Doomonyou; napscoordinator; Shimmer1; ...
JBT Ping list

Internal Affairs strikes again.

“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker

Who ya going to believe? Us or your own lyin' eyes?

27 posted on 05/29/2020 6:53:18 AM PDT by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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To: snarkytart; nralife

Did search. Nuthin’ popped up. So, round 2. Butt still getting comments from folks who missed the earlier post. Have a safe weekend.


28 posted on 05/29/2020 6:54:14 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: steve8714

Why?
I see a policeman applying the full weight of his body thru his knee to the
main blood artery of a under control man for 8 minutes. Let me hand cuff
you with your hands behind your back. Apply my full 230lb weight thru my
knee to one of your main blood arteries for 8 minutes. And see how long you
live. Are you up for it?


29 posted on 05/29/2020 6:54:16 AM PDT by tennmountainman (The Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: Paladin2
Didn’t Freddy help kill himself by actively jumping around in the back of the Paddy Wagon?

Those are just pesky facts. They don't really mean/i> anything.

30 posted on 05/29/2020 6:55:02 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: cnsmom
“I had heard he died in the hospital sorry.”

He was pronounced dead at the hospital. Paramedics said there were no signs of life while he was in the ambulance nor could they revive him.

31 posted on 05/29/2020 6:55:47 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: jacknhoo

Well, “...you ain’t black!...” sure vanished didn’t it?


32 posted on 05/29/2020 6:56:04 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: gcparent

Maybe lamey clubcar should have prosecuted him when she had a chance. Guess she’ll be off the vp list now.


33 posted on 05/29/2020 6:57:38 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: cnsmom
Nobody knows what happened once he was in the ambulance.

True, although it is also known that Floyd ceased all motion and had bladder release before he was loaded into the ambulance. It's hard to believe they made things worse, and easier to believe they did their job but it was too late.

34 posted on 05/29/2020 6:57:50 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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Question?

Hasn't the four policemen involved in this incident been fired?

35 posted on 05/29/2020 6:57:56 AM PDT by deport
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To: gcparent

[Did you see the photo of the cop with knee staring at camera? Dead eyes of a sicko.]


They’re basically a Fort Apache on wheels, watching for people to take a potshot. The knee on the neck is right out of the MPD manual. In hairy areas, the idea is to keep the hands free to return fire from the man’s friends or ward off attacks from random ferals angry that a black criminal is being hassled.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/minneapolis-george-floyd-kaepernick-eric-gardner-i-cant-breathe-arrest-officers
[In Minneapolis, kneeling on a suspect’s neck is allowed under the department’s use-of-force policy for officers who have received training in how to compress a neck without applying direct pressure to the airway. It is considered a “non-deadly force option,” according to the department’s policy handbook.]

Note that the deceased is a felon who was involved in a home invasion and held a gun against a woman’s head. He’s also 6’ 7” and 191 lbs. Gentle or not, he’s not a little guy.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8366533/George-Floyd-moved-Minneapolis-start-new-life-released-prison-Texas.html


36 posted on 05/29/2020 6:58:18 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: steve8714; marktwain

“Maybe wait for the autopsy?”

Which autopsy?

The one the city coroner performs? Or the one the family has done thru their attorney’s choice of doctors? Or the one the Feds do when this goes Civil Rights violations case? Or the one done later once the family’s civil case is filed against the city?

All of those have already been tainted by an individual viewer’s bias, and will be disbelieved.


37 posted on 05/29/2020 6:58:24 AM PDT by moovova
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To: tennmountainman

How in the world do you know how much weight the cop was putting on his neck??? Sheeeesh!


38 posted on 05/29/2020 6:58:51 AM PDT by Penelope Dreadful (And there is Pansies, that's for Thoughts.)
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To: marktwain
So, if they find that George died from a huge drug overdose, you are still going to hold to the theory the knee against the back of the neck, holding him down, killed him?

Probably I would. The video is pretty powerful stuff, and the police have been known to close ranks to protect one of their own.

39 posted on 05/29/2020 6:59:18 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: rktman

As I was saying to my son “what sort of training do the Police officers receive?” “Is this considered excessive force?” “ Is this hold deemed inadvisable in certain circumstances or for any length of time” or are law enforcement given little direction in what is permissible/advisable and left to their own discretion. If there is a finger to point does it need to be pointed at the training and the lack of continued upgrading of skills and information?


40 posted on 05/29/2020 6:59:47 AM PDT by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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