"The court finds you guilty of Insensitive Memeing in the First Degree, with Malice Aforethought!"
Posted on 02/16/2021 11:33:46 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
A report that Los Angeles police officers circulated a photo of George Floyd with the words “you take my breath away” in a Valentine-like format has prompted an internal investigation and drawn blistering condemnation from Floyd’s family, the district attorney and the police union.
Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said Saturday that investigators will try to determine how the image may have come into the workplace....
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Maybe a pic of fentynal would have been better.
"The court finds you guilty of Insensitive Memeing in the First Degree, with Malice Aforethought!"
Well I think it’s funny.
So there ARE some good cops in the LAPD!
Poor taste.
But also gallows humor.
Go ahead and be angry, but it doesn’t deserve all that attention. Much less anything besides an asterisk on the record.
Police humor has always been somewhat dark, which is understandable when one considers what the street cop, patrolman or deputy sees in the course of a week of shift work. You learn to laugh at macabre situations or it eats you up to the point of eating the barrel of your pistol.
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George Floyd’s Criminal Past:
George Floyd moved to Minneapolis in 2014 after being released from prison in Houston, Texas following an arrest for aggravated robbery
On May 25, 2020, Floyd was arrested for passing a counterfeit $20 bill at a grocery store in Minneapolis. He was under the influence of fentanyl and methamphetamine at the time of arrest
Floyd has more than a decade-old criminal history at the time of the arrest and went to jail at least 5 times
George Floyd was the ringleader of a violent home invasion
He plead guilty to entering a woman’s home, pointing a gun at her stomach and searching the home for drugs and money, according to court records
Floyd was sentenced to 10 months in state jail for possession of cocaine in a December 2005 arrest. He had previously been sentenced to eight months for the same offense, stemming from an October 2002 arrest
Floyd was arrested in 2002 for criminal trespassing and served 30 days in jail
He had another stint for a theft in August 1998”
DailyMail com | May 28, 2020
Adios!
I’d like to congratulate Mr. Floyd on being clean and sober for nine months.
> Police humor has always been somewhat dark, which is understandable... <
Very true. But there is a big problem here. Let’s say white Officer Smith was involved in this stupid, unprofessional joke. And he gets caught. Now every time Officer Smith testifies against a black defendant, the defense attorney will bring this incident up to impeach his testimony.
We saw the exact think happen during the OJ Simpson trial. LAPD Officer Mark Fuhrman had said some racist things in the past. Those things were used to discredit him. And so the murderer walked free.
Heard about this on the radio yesterday afternoon. Cracked me up. :)
Morbid humor necessary to get through a nasty job.
EMT’s also have the same gallows humor.
Really don’t care. They don’t have more pressing matters?
Mocking St George is a capitol offense, I hope the officers who originated the valentine can remain anonymous.
Great joke... Bring back fun at other people’s expense not to mention he died of a drug overdose.
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