Several prominent Minnesota officials on Sunday called for all four Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd’s death to be held accountable, as protests and police clashes continue escalating in major cities across the country.
Maybe, if the local officials had charged all four because they all seemed to participate in what undeniably looks to a reasonable person like the intentional murder of a man who could pose them no threat, maybe all this unpleasantness could have been avoided.
Three of them were not standing by idly. They were kneeling on Floyd. So, Minneapolis is just going to throw one to the courts and let the others go find new jobs. Appalling.
Wapo reported yesterday https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/30/video-timeline-george-floyd-death/?arc404=true that Chauvin continued to kneel on Floyd’s neck for five minutes after they radioed for an ambulance! How the actual fuck do they explain that move?
I think you could have gotten a sampler platter of explanations if they’d been arrested at the scene and questioned separately.
With Trump now recklessly retweeting Q’anon, I’m beginning to think the only way we start the climb out of this is if prominent Republicans go to the White House and demand Trump’s resignation. Not for the sake of justice, oh no, but so their corporate benefactors can get back to the norm of looting the treasury. This is an unfortunate and unwelcome distraction for them.
The hypocritical, mealy-mouthed statements released by the NFL, Amazon, and other corporate entities aren’t persuasive.
Well because bystanders were telling him to get off the guys neck, and he was not going to take orders from no n****r!
Now the focus shifts back to what the Protests were about in the First Place.
Bad news for Trump.
The more he tries to deflect by vilifying the Protests by shifting blame toward those who are not RWNJs, the more Biden looks like the actual President.
Meanwhile from WaPo
Trump calls for ‘LONG TERM jail sentences’ after man is brutally beaten on video in Dallas
This was the guy that charged into protestors with a machete.
Somehow, tRump has some sympathy for this person but has he said a word about George Floyd that was murdered?
You have one bad cop and three silent cops… it adds up to 4 bad cops.
He’s a racist and a pig and anything he tries to say to offset the impression of those things is never anything more than window dressing. I pray he gets everything he has coming to him this November. He is a malignancy and needs to be excised as such.
If one uses your statement as a definition of what it means to be a “prominent Republican” one must come to a conclusion that prominent Republicans are extinct. In fact, extinction of prominent Republicans is well-documented by 3-4 years of observational evidence.
They wanted to make sure he was dead.
If someone had told me 4 years ago all of this would transpire and this is how the country would look, I might have had them committed to a mental institution. Who could have ever believed this would be our fate, a madman at the helm and the country sinking lower and lower.
I know. It still seems unbelievable even as we live it day to day.
Remember, there are “good people” on both sides. For Trump, the man with machete is a “good person” on one side, the protesters who did not come out to the protest are good people on the other side. Clearly, for Trump and trumpers “bad people” were only on one side – those who came to protest.
They were afraid for their lives – can’t you see how scary can a hand-cuffed and unconscious black man be?
I wrote a post earlier today saying the same thing!
Both this and the epidemic can either get better, or get way way worse. Trump in office guarantees the latter. It is time to start talking about resignation, or sidelining him on these issues in other ways.
Whenever I write something like this people respond: impeachment was our only remedy, and we missed it. But since Trump is ruining the world extra-legally, we could come up with an outside-the-box way to stop him from doing so.
I don’t think there is any ‘maybe’ about it. If they had been charged as soon as they were fired, then we would not have seen the protests.
This is on the hands of the Hennepin County Attorney, Michael O. Freeman. His failure to act decisively and his on camera equivocation was shameful. It’s surprising as he seems to have been successful in prosecuting bad cops before.
They were standing guard while a citizen was being murdered by a fellow thug. None of them was moved by the victims pleads or by the bystanders requests. None felt like saying, “I think he’s had enough, let go”. Wonder how many times they have witnessed the same treatment and said nothing? And then they get offended when people call them swine.