Posted on 10/05/2021 4:30:15 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
The Texas State Board of Pardons and Paroles voted on Monday to recommend George Floyd get a full posthumous pardon for a 2004 drug conviction, the Harris County District Attorney said.
Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man who died in handcuffs with a white Minneapolis police officer kneeling on his neck for over nine minutes during a 2020 arrest, became the face of a movement challenging police brutality and bias in the U.S. criminal justice system.
The Texas board voted 7-0 to recommend the pardon, media reported, adding that the recommendation would be passed on to the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, for a final decision.
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What?
St. Floyd of Fentanyl?
Give me a break.
Yes it is, but maybe it’s just their way of showing they are woke.
Next they’ll be insisting that the Lord miracle him an asbestos suit. Just more stupidity from our ruling classes.
Give him the vaccine as well seeing he had COVid.
Abbott doesn’t have to do it, and shame upon him if he does.
And a new sideshow to distract us from Biden failures is born...
Or more likely than not a move to put pressure on Abbott. Sign it, and he pisses off people. Doesn’t sign it, and he pisses off people. If he can fire the team that voted for this, it would be the first place to start.
How about renaming MLK day for George Floyd. After all by Woke standards MLK was a racist.
Reuters once again lies about the death of George Floyd.
What Abbot should do is ignore this. Tell one of his subordinates to form a committee to “study” the matter and allow it to become lost in the bureaucracy.
I wonder aside from the woke aspect of this horsesh*t idea if there is even a shred of evidence to support the idea of a pardon?
“Meaningless gesture of the day”.
Wouldn’t this affect present legal appeals of Officer Derek Chauvin? (Which might cause Wikipedia to amend its entry)?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_George_Floyd
It’s time to remove all members of the the Texas State Board of Pardons and Paroles and force them to submit to drug testing.
It’s time to remove all members of the the Texas State Board of Pardons and Paroles and force them to submit to drug testing.
Sovereign State of Harris formerly a county in Texas.
Saint George Floyd is still dead though - they can’t un-dead a fool who would pop fentanyl to avoid arrest.
I suppose next there will be a move to declare him a saint.
GEORGE FLOYD has posthumously become a martyr for the Progressive Revolution. Except a national holiday honoring him for what he could have become.
Can’t be canonized to sainthood with all his convictions, can he?
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