Posted on 01/09/2025 3:02:32 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Minneapolis became the battleground for a national activist-driven debate about defunding police departments. The Democrats running the city are so beholden to those activists that the ensuing years in Minneapolis have been all about police reforms, and not about those surge in murders that the city has been unable to handle.
The Minneapolis City Council (made up of 12 Democrats and one official socialist) voted 12-0 in favor of a consent decree with the Department of Justice to oversee police reform in the city. Police reform has been the dominant narrative surrounding Minneapolis since police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd in 2020.
Since the beginning, it hasn’t been clear exactly what magical “reform” was needed here: Chauvin had kneeled on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and ended up being convicted of second-degree murder. He was sentenced to 22 years in state prison (and then, separately, 21 years in federal prison). You can’t exactly make what Chauvin did any more illegal than it already was.
Yet, the march toward these magical reforms continues on. According to local reporters Jay Kolls and Renée Cooper, based on previous consent decrees with other cities, “it could involve changes to the use of force or bias awareness training,” the latter being the racial pseudoscience that asserts that everyone is secretly racist and lets their secretly racist thoughts control their actions.
The most interesting part in all of this is that Minneapolis is enthusiastic about accommodating the Department of Justice’s plan to babysit the city and its police department, to the point that the city has gone along with the DOJ’s attempts to rush this agreement to a judge before Jan. 20. That is when Donald Trump will be inaugurated as president, putting such a deal in jeopardy. On top of that, Minneapolis...
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GEORGE FLOYD KILLED GEORGE FLOYD.
FENTANYL
Consent decrees are about Federalizing policing in Cities, States and then the entire US.
Then a national police force, AKA gestapo.
Police officer Derek Chauvin did not kill George Floyd. George Floyd killed himself with drugs.
Chicago too, for quite some time too many of the recruits they have been pumping out of the academy look like they came straight from the island of misfit toys. Add in some gang members and others with questionable backgrounds and its no wonder the department is in a decline.
That’s right. The only one to blame for the death of George Floyd is George Floyd.
Chauvin had kneeled on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and ended up being convicted of second-degree murder. He was sentenced to 22 years in state prison (and then, separately, 21 years in federal prison). You can’t exactly make what Chauvin did any more illegal than it already was.
This is all lies. Every word of it is a lie.
Who in their right mind would want to be a cop for the Minneapolis Police Department?
He kneeled on his shoulder in accord with official policy.
Yep, that is the goal.
That’s my point - everything in the article is a lie. Chauvin never knelt on Floyd’s neck - not once.
Floyd had huge amounts of fentenyl in his system, among other drugs.
Sorry. Missed it.
Go to Alphanews.org and watch The Fall of Minneapolis to see the fiasco of a trial that convicted the cops. They had to or Minneapolis would have burned. George Floyd killed himself with drugs and now they praise this criminal druggie.
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