Posted on 09/18/2020 6:40:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
If they get a fair trial, a questionable proposition at best, Minneapolis police officers charged with murdering George Floyd should be acquitted.
Let's consider new, undisputed evidence, beyond the initial bystander’s video that we’ve all seen, to understand why.
On Memorial Day, around 8 PM, Minneapolis Police are called to a local convenience store. Two suspects passed a fake $20 bill to buy cigarettes. When police arrived, the shop manager pointed across the street, where three suspects sat in a parked vehicle. George Floyd sat behind the wheel.
When the officers crossed the street to investigate, two other suspects, another man, and a woman, both black, stepped from the car and politely cooperated.
But George argued and disobeyed ten separate commands from officers to keep his hands up. After the tenth order, he finally put his hands on the steering wheel as instructed.
As George protested, police walked him across the street to the police cruiser, the vehicle shown in the bystander’s video.
That bystander’s video, isolated alone, implies that the officer cruelly forced George onto the ground, then callously put his knee on George's neck, causing George to cry out, pitifully, “I can't breathe.”
But when a Minnesota judge authorized the release of police body cam footage, a completer and more different story emerged. First, the police never wanted George on the ground at all, and frantically tried getting him into the back of their squad car.
But Floyd, a strong six-feet-eight-inches tall, fought police every second, and tried pushing his way out. Police video shows George repeatedly saying, “I can't breathe” long before he was on the ground, and before Officer Chauvin employed the infamous knee-restraint tactic.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
WTF!?
A more complete and different story emerged.
George Floyd
Watching the video when this first hit the news I was disturbed by Chauvin’s air of indifference as he kept his knee on Floyd’s neck. As more information comes out, it seems like he was acting in accordance with his training and this was “just another day at the office” for him.
George Floyd.....................
Odd that the author would put in wrong info into this article, either lazy or has never seen a 6'8 person in real life.
Fair trial.....??? C’mon man.....
Acquitted? How about reinstated with back pay and promoted as compensation?
The authorities have their minds made up, don’t bother them with any of your stinking facts. First the sentence, then the trial, with “prosecutorial discretion” being the guiding principle here.
A very informative synopsis.
Yep “GF”
Wiki has him at 6’-4”.
Either way, he was big.
I’m with you. Man I read this and was shocked.
The guy got a gold casket with horses and choirs and was pictured with the wings of an angel.
Seems the cop did nothing wrong and yet none of this got out via media.
What a scam.
None of these jerks, not Blake, not Brianna, not Floyd....none of them were heroes.
Is ‘completer’ a word?
Floyd killed himself by overdosing on fentanyl.
Who killed George? He and his pusher did.
Who Killed George Floyd?
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George Floyd killed George Floyd.......
You'll never convince Antifa or BLM of this. And if the accused officers are found not guilty of Floyd's death, the "peaceful" rioters will go on a rampage yelling, "No justice, no peace."
Who killed George Floyd?
Lemme take a stab at this:
On review of the play George Floyd killed himself and would have died under any other circumstance due to ingesting a fatal dose of that which will kill you if you take too much...
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