(April 6, 2021 at 6:06 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(April 6, 2021 at 5:42 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: Floyd was given the chance to give the cigarettes back, but he chose not to. He was given the chance to go back into the store to clear things up, but he chose not to. That wasn't the only fake bill they had on them. When George refused to give the cigs back, I don't think it's unfair to call that stealing.
And passing off a counterfeit bill is worthy of death why exactly? And, even if his use of fentanyl contributed to it, bear in mind that he also had a cop pressing down on his neck for 9 1/2 minutes, 3:51 of which were after he lost consciousness and never returned it, which has been stated to be well against the guidelines set forth by the Minneapolis PD.
The counterfeit bill is not relevant really, other than when people say he should have been sent on his way by the cops and given a warning or whatever. Floyd was high out of his mind on fentanyl and whatever else, so letting him drive away like that would have been a big risk to the public. His friends even said he was passing out over and over and they had trouble waking him up. It's shameful that anyone thinks the police should have let him drive away in that condition.
He was brought to the ground because he was resisting arrest for over 10 minutes or however long it was, and he escaped out of the back of the police car after they had already placed him in there. Now, why don't you just say resisting arrest shouldn't get you the death sentence? Be truthful. No offense, but I think you know very well deep down that this propaganda about "killed over a fake bill" which has been fed to you by the tv and twitter machine is stupid. I think you know it's stupid. No, Floyd didn't deserve death. It's sad what happened, and Chauvin was wrong, but Mr. Floyd didn't exactly make himself the ideal or easiest person to be defending. By that I'm not talking about him being a drug user or holding guns to women or whatever. I support the legalization of all drugs. I'm talking about his history of swallowing drugs when the cops show up. I'm talking about his history of drug overdose. I'm talking about his history of when not overdosing, walking or driving around with an overdosing amount of drugs in his system. He lived an extremely risky lifestyle, it seems. Was he murdered? Maybe. Is there some kind of reasonable doubt about exactly what took place in his body as he was down on the ground? Maybe. We don't have X ray vision to see exactly what was happening inside of Floyd's body from second to second. Is second degree murder too high of a level to prove beyond any reasonable doubt? We shall see what the jury thinks.
