Posted on 05/27/2020 7:17:30 AM PDT by bort
"New video appears to show police forcing George Floyd out of his car moments before an officer knelt on his neck ...
(Excerpt) Read more at insider.com ...
Here’s yet ANOTHER video.
He’s calmly talking to the now-ex-cops while cuffed.
Little did he know he had only a few agonizing minutes left to live.
https://nypost.com/2020/05/27/video-does-not-appear-to-show-george-floyd-resisting-arrest/
Hey look, another video. Full of VIOLENT DRUG-ADDLED FLAILING.
(Not)
https://nypost.com/2020/05/27/video-does-not-appear-to-show-george-floyd-resisting-arrest/
First - you are a liar or clueless. It is obvious his knee is on his kneck. Second - you are a liar or a clueless idiot. That would not "snap" a kneck. What -did you get that from a movie? lol. That is LAUGHABLE. You snap a kneck with a quick, sudden force - not crushing pressure.
It is obvious you are a retired cop - and that you were probably a CROOKED cop - that BROKE his oath to the constitution.
Did you ever write a traffic ticket for a citizen (enforcing the law) but let a cop go for the same violation - blue privilege? Did you ever let a cop go home (or drive him there) because he had a little too much to drink when you would have taken someone else to jail?
If you did that - then you VIOLATED your oath to uphold the law and the constitution - and thus you are CROOKED and your input here is WORTHLESS.
“First - you are a liar or clueless. It is obvious his knee is on his kneck.”
Give the man a break he has not see the other videos yet. Don’t be a very rude / hater.
No it is not obvious, the first video I saw it appear the knee was at the bottom of the neck at the shoulder blades. A second video from a different view, the knee appear to be on his neck. I am sure more videos will be appearing on the web. The officers did have body cams on, those will show more details.
Look at the still frame and if you see that - you are an idiot too.
ANYONE who says that is a shoulder blade is a liar or a bootlicker or just doesn't want to admit the truth.
Or - you could just be blind.
ANYONE who says that is a shoulder blade is a liar or a bootlicker or just doesn't want to admit the truth.
Or - you could just be blind.
Interesting. Just saw it on Fox. Now someone needs titch all these videos together against the timeline.
“Or - you could just be blind.”
Very surprise by your response with the hateful labeling (liar, bootlicker, idiot). Very unbecoming of professional.
I apologized if that statement triggers you but there are multiply videos with different angles. One of those videos has an illusion of the knee appearing at the base of the neck between the shoulder blade. This video is a short video out of context. I did not see the full videos showing the full context until later.
I am not a police officer, trained how to detain a person or a hater. I will give a formal police officer a pass if they think the knee is between the shoulder blade before calling them a liar or bootlicker. Maybe they have not seen the other full videos. There natural reaction is to defend a Brother in Arms. We still do not know all the facts yet.
From the standpoint of gathering facts and statements, if the officers would have sat for IA interviews, it would have strengthened the hand of the prosecution. That opportunity is now lost. And a sloppy cop friendly IA interview would NOT have helped ANY of them in this case.
I never wrote that the officer never put his knee on or near the neck of the detainee. The additional videos and still shots are an attempt to prove something I DIDN'T write.
Your input is about the level of a middle school Karen with PMS.
Then show us a still-shot or video demonstrating the officer’s knee on the guy’s shoulder blades, which you claim you saw.
Minneapolis’ previous murderous cop RESIGNED, nine months later, the day they issued his arrest warrant. Which shows you just how compelling IA actually is.
The prosecution doesn’t need their excuse mongering before IA to have a case. They’ve got the tape. The tape says they’re murderers. The only question now is will the prosecutor actually try to win the case, or will he try to protect his relationship with the rest of MPD.
Let's do a reset.
The incident happens, and all four officers are put on leave. They are all given an opportunity to give a statement to IA. Very likely, the senior officer is going to decline on the advice of his attorney. But the other three officers might go ahead and go in for the interview. They want to keep their jobs.
The interviews are a freebee for the prosecution because it fixes their statement should they decide to take the stand. Their statement cannot be used against them, but it can be used for impeachment purposes should they decide to give a conflicting statement. It let's the prosecution tell the jury that one statement was given to IA and now the officer has given a conflicting statement. The jury can assume now that anything further from the officer must be viewed with suspicion.
By firing the officers outright, the opportunity for the DA to fix the testimony of any of the officers is now gone. And for this, the defense attorneys are grateful.
So, what happens next? Well, the prosecution must lay out their case, and now, the attorneys for all four officers can construct a defense based on the case the prosecution lays out. Further, when the Feds come in, they too are now at a disadvantage because they also don't have statements by the officers to review.
At some point, both the DA and the Feds might want to concentrate on the junior officers to obtain their cooperation in exchange for not being prosecuted as a means to convict the senior officer.
By doing the snoopy happy dance, you are aligning yourself with the people who are rioting and looting. If you were really interested in a solid prosecution, you would know that normal procedures should have been followed. This my last attempt to give you the benefit of what I have learned during my employment.
You had your bite of the apple and you came out with half a worm. You and others posted pictures trying to disprove something I didn't say. I now give you the opportunity to search all the videos to disprove what I DID say. Buh bye.
I asked you to cite images showing a knee in Floyd’s shoulder blades.
Your response clearly says they don’t exist.
The Blue Gang circles the wagons.
Again.
A great many Black folks seem to hate cops.
Keep this up and most White folks will, too.
Unfortunately you’re not thinking AT ALL.
The simple fact of the matter is these guys are going to succeed or fail in their defense TOGETHER. Nobody is turning on anybody else, any wrong doing found by IA will be portioned equally and if IA decided to fire any it will fire ALL. Which means NOBODY will talk.
The DA still has plenty of opportunity to fix testimony. Just as they do in any case against civilians. Interviews WILL be attempted. Anybody that talks WILL have that info used, both against them and their compatriots.
Meanwhile by firing them they probably lose their union representation, who are probably better lawyers than they can afford.
By pretending IA actually accomplishes ANYTHING in these cases you are ignoring the long sad history of cops getting off for stone cold murder in this country.
It’s not a happy dance, it’s a relieved sigh. Finally, for the first time I can remember, a police department has said “it doesn’t matter if you can find a way to get off, what you did was wrong, reflects poorly on the department, and we simply need to not have your kind on the force.”
Don’t know what you were supposedly employed as. But you weren’t good at it. You have learned NOTHING. You know NOTHING. You are WORTHLESS.
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