(July 4, 2020 at 1:21 am)Editz Wrote:(July 3, 2020 at 9:34 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: And why is this happening to you? Because you passed off a counterfeit $20 as real while buying smokes.
And refused to return the smokes when the cashier asked. And resisted arrest, refusing to get into the back of a police car, and the officer's were incapable of forcing him into the car due to his being very big and strong, despite trying to talk him down etc for a long time, so tried to pacify him with the (ridiculous but authorised) neck-kneeling. you missed that part out rev.
(July 3, 2020 at 8:33 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Certainly not a saint, but his death is just the latest in a long line of questionable deaths at the hands of an over zealous, militarised police force.
Yes, people of all ethnicities have been killed, but it seems more likely that the cops can kill a black person and get away with it than they can with a white person.
If I were a cop in the US I'd be...on edge, what with the number of firearms in civilian hands, but yes, police training fail is evident.
My bold: I guess that's the real crux of the issue. Whether that's a uniform fact or it just "seems" that way..well, I read that the killers through suffocation of white Tony Timpa (who also repeatedly said "I can'y breathe") didn't even lose their jobs so.....
(July 3, 2020 at 9:34 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Yeah, no shit Floyd had a checkered past. He was sentenced to jail 8 times back when he lived in Houston. Thing is, that's entirely irrelevant to the actual incident of his death. Those crimes happened in Houston, several years before he moved to Minnesota. In an arrest like this, what he did in another city does not matter.
Perhaps his career-criminal jailbird history is fundamental as to why he died - in that he couldn't bear the thought of going back to prison YET AGAIN and that's why he resisted arrest so vehemently.
Amusing. The UK is competing with the US for how awful it can be.
I am willing to bet you have not watched that man die on the street.
I am willing to bet that you do not know that when the EMTs rocked up they could not access the patient because the cop was in the way with his knee on the neck AND REFUSED TO GET OFF.
I am willing to bet you don't know that this did not matter because the man was already dead long before that.
The hell with your comfy little life.
I have seen enough people die that I know it when I see it. It is in the video. You can see the moment when life passes. I have seen it more often than I care to think about. That was long before EMT rocked up. They knew they were dealing with a corpse when they arrived within seconds.
So what is your position? Do Black Lives Matter? Or do they not?
