Posted on 03/11/2021 7:41:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
There was something jarring in the summary of the story of George Floyd that the New York Times published to refresh our memories on the eve of what promises to be a gripping event — the televised trial of Officer Derek Chauvin who knelt on George Floyd's neck, eventually killing him.
It was not even the Times' fault — the article was a bare, straightforward chronological enumeration of events and did not offer any opinion. What was jarring was the reaction of Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey it quoted — the reaction that defined the tragedy for the protesters and sympathizing press: "Being Black in America should not be a death sentence," distilling what happened into a single word: racism.
This was jarring because up to that point in the Times' narrative, it was clear that George Floyd's death was caused by not one, but two wrongs, racism being neither one of them.
One wrong was that someone forged a $20 bill, which, by unlucky chance, landed in George Floyd's wallet, combined with George Floyd's refusal (that may have been induced by yet another wrong: his use of drugs) to cooperate with the police. The second wrong was Officer Chauvin's, who grossly miscalculated the amount of force needed under the circumstances.
Per the Times' account, those were two wrongs that caused George Floyd's death and Officer Chauvin's trial. Where is the racism?
This is not the only instance of such strange, illogical, Kafkaesque conflation of two wrongs into a single, unrelated wrong. Resisting arrest for illegally selling loose cigarettes, Eric Garner was put into a lethal choke hold by a New York police officer. Again, there were two wrongs: Eric Garner's violation of law and refusal to cooperate with the police on one hand, and excessive police force on the other.
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Here’s another one:
Breonna Taylor, was killed by police fire in a botched arrest of her boyfriend, who was a wanted drug-dealer. Again, there were two wrongs — drug-dealing on the one hand and poor control of the firearm by an officer on the other. Yet to hear the reaction, only one wrong was involved — racism.
The second wrong was Officer Chauvin’s, who grossly miscalculated the amount of force needed under the circumstances.
I contend that Officer Chauvin. Will be found to have uses appropriate force.
Floyd was just a distraction, a useful event that initiated what the Demonicrats were going to do anyway. A critical election was coming up, so the Demonicrats needed a contrived flashpoint around which their dumbed down drones could rally. If it weren’t Floyd, it would have been some other Junkie felon who got tangled up with the police by his own criminality.
Here’s my take on Officer Chauvin - Yes, he should answer for his actual wrong, probably that of using excessive force — but not for the imagined wrong that had nothing to do with George Floyd’s death.
If the wrong of racism will again get invoked, invoking it will be a terrible wrong, indeed.
It seems that in our pursuit of racial fairness, we’ve lost the ability to be fair. We refuse to see wrongs that are there; instead, by some unconscious political alchemy, we conflate those real wrongs into one wrong that just isn’t there.
They don't punish jockey's when their horse dies on the track. Some people, animals just cannot take the stress, often due to drugs or poor health or underlying physical issues that a normal (oops there's that word) person would be unaware of.
George didn’t die with the cops knee on him, he died a few hours later at the hospital from complications from his drug over dose when he swallowed his stash to keep said officers from finding it on him...
Repeating the lie does not make it true.
Really? That’s a game changer
I’d add one more thing to the Breonna Taylor case. It would seem to me that cops should go busting through a door only in the most extreme of cases: hostages being killed, etc.
True, Taylor and her boyfriend were shady characters. Cops forced entry into the apartment because they just suspected drugs might have been there. No drugs were found, by the way.
Ok what kind and type of force should he have used.
The author needs to read the autopsy report before he writes legal commentary.
The autopsy found no trauma and no bruising to Floyd's mouth, throat, neck, shoulders, or back.
In a separate filing, the medical examiner wrote that there was no evidence of asphyxiation.
The toxicology report has been online for months. It showed lethal levels of fentanyl and fentanyl byproducts, very high levels of methylamphetamine and also THC in copious quantities. He was a dead man walking as soon as he ingested his stash.
False premise. No difference, as when saying someone, "died of COVID" vs died with COVID. The drugs Floyd ingested killed him.
I contend that Officer Chauvin SHOULD be found to have used appropriate force.
However, the Fix, Indoctrination, Disinformation and Kangaroo courts may take the day.
The tactic is clear here, a perp may escalate until the cop loses his job, ability to earn, freedom, assets, friends, family, and life.
Hero perps, one of the wonderful precepts of Mob Rule for America.
Took his stash...and spit some on the floor of the police cruiser
There were two autopsies done, one did mention asphyxiation.
I call bullsh*t. The evidence indicates George Floyd died of a Fentanyl overdose.
George Floyd had ingested all the Fentanyl he had on him before Officer Chauvin got him to the ground. In other words, George Floyd, entirely by his own actions, had done everything necessary to ensure he would die of a Fentanyl overdose before Chauvin laid a hand on him.
Chauvin followed Minneapolis police procedure in restraining Floyd. Chauvin’s conduct was thus not a proximate cause of Floyd’s death, and he should not even be being tried, much less found guilty of anything.
The autopsy that mentions asphyxiation was the last autopsy performed. It was performed precisely in order to manufacture evidence in order to go after Chauvin for political reasons.
Agree. It’s all psyops to prepare the election battlefield for the steal they were working to pull.
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