(June 2, 2020 at 9:03 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Just so everyone's clear, the crime Floyd was arrested for was trying to pass off a counterfeit $20 bill at a store. Floyd was a drug user and even if he was resisting arrest at some point (and multiple witnesses and one surveillance video have said he wasn't), what the cops did in response was to strangle him with one of their knees for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. And for the last 2 minutes 53 seconds, he wasn't even conscious.
So, imagine that for every second that this song plays, you have a man pressing his weight against the back of your neck, pushing it to the concrete, restricting your airflow. Well, maybe not every second, because once the outro starts to shift gear at 5:53, you lose consciousness, and it never returns:
And why is this happening? Because you tried to pay for smokes with a bad Jackson.
Does this strike you as a proportionate response? Do you believe that using a fake $20 bill should be a capital crime? No? Congratulations, you just figured out why people are pissed off!
I couldn't have said it better.
Dying to live, living to die.
