MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota authorities: Police officer who knelt on George Floyd has been arrested.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1311548
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1311548
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Good, and what are the charges? No bail please.
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YES!!! Now are the charges strong enough? And what about the other three who are complicit?
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Brick by brick. Institutional racism needs to be torn down.
This is one of them. Three other officers were involved and complicit.
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“Knelt on” is a nice way of saying “put his whole body weight on his neck through his knee”
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At what point does a citizen NOT have the right to protect their own life? Is killing a police officer to save your own life acceptable? I mentioned a few years ago, eventually we would get to a point where doing so is common place (predictably, people whom it’s reasonable to assume are white, got upset)…sadly, we’re so much closer to that day, it might as well be today.
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Which is a nice way of saying “murdered”.
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They know exactly the same things they knew three day ago, they could have arrested him then, and would have spared themselves of three days of rioting. The thug mounting guard while a citizen was being murdered should be charged as well.
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And the officers that held his body down and/or stood around and did nothing to stop it as they were warned by onlookers that it was a blood choke and they were in danger of doing serious harm?
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The new video is pretty damning for the other asses. It shows one of them also on top of Floyd when he was on the ground with another one right by his head.
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“You had very fine people on BOTH sides of the George Floyd murder.” – Trump, probably
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What new video?
And what about the other officers involved in this murder? Are they free? Had this been non-cop people committing a murder like this on video they all would have been arrested
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Here’s a little trivia.
The wife of fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was once charged with writing a bad check for $42, the Daily Mail reports. Chauvin, a 19-year veteran cop, was one of four officers who arrested George Floyd on May 25 on suspicion that Floyd used a forged $20 bill at a convenience store. In a now-infamous video, Chauvin was filmed pressing his knee down on Floyd’s neck for several minutes while Floyd said he couldn’t breathe.
Chauvin’s wife Kellie, a former Mrs. Minnesota pageant winner, was charged with writing the bad check in 2005, before she was with Chauvin. Multiple letters were sent to her home chasing the money and when she finally paid, a criminal case was dismissed. In a 2018 interview about her pageant bid, Kellie said her husband was “a softie” under his police uniform and a “gentleman” who opened the door for her.
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Negligent in allowing the abuse to continue-- for minutes.
Doesn’t seem to be any gray area for debate.
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The one that surfaced yesterday.
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GOOD! Its about DAMN TIME!
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It was released…late (?) yesterday afternoon. It’s from across the street.
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Biden is live right now on MSNBC discussing this.
“This original sin still stains our country.”
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Trump is due in the Rose Garden at 2 PM to spew something.
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Irony is a dead horse.
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