Posted on 06/02/2020 10:08:52 AM PDT by conservative98
The head of the Minneapolis police union says George Floyd’s “violent criminal history” needs to be remembered and that the protests over his death are the work of a “terrorist movement.”
“What is not being told is the violent criminal history of George Floyd. The media will not air this,” police union president Bob Kroll told his members in a letter posted Monday on Twitter.
Floyd had landed five years behind bars in 2009 for an assault and robbery two years earlier, and before that, had been convicted of charges ranging from theft with a firearm to drugs, the Daily Mail reported.
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We are a nation of laws and due process.
How much due process did Floyd get? None. The dirty cop fan club doesn’t seem bothered by that one bit.
It does not change it. But there is a point that respectable, upright people are less likely to have this kind of encounter with police. And yes lowlifes should not be brutalized by police.
We have heard that this method is an acceptable procedure for subduing a suspect. Do the procedures for this method call for the officers to monitor the suspect's condition while applying this technique? If so, I can see the third-degree murder charge asserting reckless endangerment with the prosecution alleging that Chauvin did not properly follow those procedures.
Now i am reading people say that the riots that happened after the Dr. King assassination made the Civil Rights act possible 6 days later. Oh dear, now we are comparing George Floyd to Dr. King.... the rioters from these two happenings have a completely different spirit about them....
Actually it is and explains why they subdued him using an approved tactic to subdue someone- especially someone as large as he was- He dwarfed the police that took him out of the car-
You can make other arguments but the one that his violent criminal past is irrelevant isn’t one of them- It explains why he was subdued- one of the explanations anyways- the other was that he was obviously high on drugs, which is why police had called the ambulance and were detaining him in a subdued manner, till the ambulance got there-
What part of he was unconscious (dead?) for minutes while the police assault continued do you not understand?
So Floyd resisted it gave the cops a right to assault him while handcuffed and unconscious? Utter Nonsense. Don’t defend the indefensible.
You sound like a Democrat justifying political motivated prosecutions of Trump supporters. All is fair game because they worked for Trump.
And the policeman kept his knee on the neck without a break.
Even for 2 full minutes after ANOTHER COP tells him the guy doesn't have a pulse.
He doesn't bother to check for himself.
He doesn't start CPR (as a 19-year veteran and 1st responder).
Nobody likes dirty cops except dirty cops.
And I guess the policeman's union?
Because the only thing that matters, in this world or the next, is that sweet, sweet pension.
somebody facing three strikes and you’re out has nothing to lose by resisting arrest
plus hopped up on drugs
[[Having watched the film it is hard to find any defense of the cop who had a knee on the neck.]]
People high on drugs, even skinny slight folks- can be very dangerous- let alone a dude as large as George Floyd- The cops knew he was on something- (There is video of him acting very strange, and claiming he ‘couldn’t breath’ before he was even taken into custody- )
We’ll need to see the video of him resisting being put in vehicle though- they said he resisted for 10 minutes before he was on ground subdued— how vigorously was he fighting htem? While high on drugs, and having serious heart problems and clogged arteries?? Obviously during that 10 minutes he could breath- despite claiming he couldn’t-
[[Meth addicts are a whole different thing. It would take 5 people to do what usually 2 could handle. They never...never stopped fighting, cuffed or not]]
Exactly- i personally know of a case where it took 3 policemen to take down a 98lb weakling who was high on PCP- the kid was subdued- looked like everything was fine- then all hell broke loose- even after they got him into the squad car- he was still going mental- in restraints though by then so he couldn’t hurt anyone— people high on powerful drugs like that are very very dangerous- always- unless put into restraints where they can’t move and injure themselves or soemoen else-
“””””’I do doubt he was committing any crimes while handcuffed on the ground being murdered.””””””””””””
Dying from a heroin overdose is not called murder.
All on video and in front of multiple non-involved witnesses.
Pull your own head out, Einstein.
I wonder the same too. I wonder if the 20 was not a counterfeit OR if there ever was a 20 introduce in the first place. They needed something to create a situation.
If the defense lawyers determine that this might benefit their client, they could introduce it there. Otherwise, it just sounds inflammatory and will create more anger.
I also read he attacked a woman.
The rioters may be terrorists, but that still doesn’t justify what happened to George Floyd.
I just saw something on the Varney show this morning that might at least help. It was a high-tech bolo. It shot out of a device, it was wires that wrapped around the legs of the person very quickly, rendering them immobile. I don't know how much that might have helped with such a large man as Floyd; but, with the protestors, I'm thinking, it would be a good device to have handy.
Standing on a guys neck for 8 minutes is though. Your attempts to spin the murder on video into something else are hopeless.
Well, there is a history of counterfeit money being intercepted.
https://www.news8000.com/900000-in-counterfeit-money-seized-at-mn-port-of-entry/
So now he was STANDING on the guys neck?
The Statement of Probable Cause for the murderous ex-policeman's arrest for murder and manslaughter, points out that the victim became compliant as soon as the cuffs were on him. There is store security footage showing him in cuffs seated against the wall of a store, and being calmly raised to his feet in cuffs and walked half a block away to the police cruiser.
Another video taken six feet away, shows nine full minutes unedited and uncut, of the ex-policeman with his knee on the neck of a man lying on the ground on his stomach in handcuffs.
First he says he can't breathe.
Knee stays on.
He passes out.
Fluid runs from his direction under the police car on video; he's probably urinated and voided his bowels.
A bystander identifies as a first responder and begs Mr. Kneecap to check for a pulse.
Knee stays on.
Mr. Kneecap pulls out his can of mace and brandishes it at a bystander approaching (presumably to help the poor guy).
Knee stays on.
One of the other policemen holding the guy down checks for a pulse and tells Mr. Kneecap, there's no pulse.
The knee stays on for a full two minutes or so (not mere incidental hesitation), of a handcuffed, lying down, unconscious man with no pulse and two OTHER policemen on his legs.
On unedited video. In front of multiple witnesses.
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