Philonise Floyd gave stirring testimony on the death of his brother, George Floyd, at the hands of Minneapolis police before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday.
Floyd’s Brother Testifies Before House: ‘He Didn’t Deserve To Die For 20 Dollars
’You see? That’s the same argument that cops and other Derek Chauvin’s defenders are making: He doesn’t deserve to lose his job much less go to jail for a single dead man, and one that was no angel either.
Damned straight.
I had someone tell me that there’s a rightwing rumor going around that Floyd did time for rape. I quashed it immediately at my source, but that’s already infected the atmosphere. He was initially jailed for a $10 drug charge, then did a plea bargain for an assault charge. I’d love to hear from the public defender who probably had to do a plead-and-leave because s/he didn’t have time or resources. But when he got out, it sounds like he was rebuilding his life.
Redemption. Who knew it was only for wealthy whites?
Only Trump Inc decides who does and doesn’t deserves to die.
We The People are shit.
For something that happened years ago.
Funny, when we apply that logic to Trump, we only hear about how he’s changed over the years.
Doesn’t apply in this case, I guess.
I’ve noticed in recent years occasionally when I purchase an item with cash the clerk would take a minute to examine the bill even hold it up to the light. This started happening more frequently after the new counterfeit proof coded marked bills were put in circulation. Because of this change there are probably fewer counterfeits.
I’m still confused. Reports said he’d bought cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill. That made no sense to me.
Stores have those weird little pens they can use to detect counterfeit bills, but the Average Joe (or, in this case, Average Doug) is not likely to carry one. Did the clerk test the bill after he made the purchase? How many times have you seen that happen? (And just out of curiosity, What color was the clerk?)
Moreover, how would Floyd be expected to know he was actually trying to use fake money? Did he make it himself? Doubtful. At best.
But let’s say it was a counterfeit bill. Why hasn’t the Twin Cities Secret Service field agent made a statement about the veracity of the claim, not that it would make any difference?
In addition to an “innocent until proven guilty” man being murdered by the police, the events leading up to the cops even being called don’t make a lot of sense.
Well, maybe House Democrats can work some conversion therapy for racist police officers into their police reform bill.
I understand Marcus Bachmann is available to develop a program.
I was thinking more along the lines of cell block #9.
Nor did Eric Garner deserve to die for selling loose cigarettes. It’s pretty cold when you hear people say, “well, he was no angel,” as if anyone who commits a crime deserves to be murdered at the hands of the police…
“I did not see humanity,” Arradondo said in response to a reporter’s question about the origins of such a behavior
I’m afraid, Chief, that I did. That’s what humanity is, often enough: vicious, savage, bloodthirsty primates looking to establish dominance over all of the troupe who are watching… even if it means killing one of them.
That’s why we have laws. It’s why we need those laws enforced fairly. And why the people who are most eager to do it… probably shouldn’t.
Redemption. Also know in many cases as Afluenza.
You know where else we didn’t see humanity, or even the pretense of civility is in police union president Kroll’s statement that he has killed 3 people while on the job and doesn’t regret any of them. And that is what evil says, looks like.
It is the 18 complaints that lead up to this final outrage from this twerp…in a career of 19 years, yet!
Now it turns out that this bozo had it in for George Floyd because of prior interactions. This guy had better plead guilty and beg for solitary confinement for the rest of his life.
Yeah, but sometimes we bite back.
I have wondered from the start of this debacle if George Floyd knew the $20 he was using was counterfeit. Pretty clear he did not manufacture it, so did someone else pass this on to him?
Yeah, but they do not believe we have the the right.
The proposal will provide “much-needed solutions,” Scott said in a tweet on Tuesday adding that the GOP reform package would address “police reform” and “retraining.”
I’m guessing that means a cop will be required to inform the black person up front that he is getting ready to ready to murder him or her.
I was taking to a friend the other day about counterfeit bills in general related to this incident. She told me that back in the 90’s she had a $20 bill that she got from change or an ATM and went to a deli to make a purchase. The clerk said this is a bogus bill and gave it back to her. Since she had no idea that it was counterfeit she went to her bank to exchange it. The bank took it but could not issue her a new bill because it was fake and having no proof that it was from the bank thus losing out on $20.