(April 11, 2021 at 3:06 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote:(April 11, 2021 at 6:59 am)Brian37 Wrote: Yes he did, there is police cam video/audio that shows another officer asking if he(Chauvin) should adjust George's position after they(the questioning officer) noticed that George was unresponsive but Chauvin objected and kept his position. Keep in mind, his knee was on his kneck for almost 7 minutes by that point. And it took another 3 almost 4 minutes after he became motionless to get George into the ambulance.
If Chauvin doesn't get convicted of something IA(IrreligiousAtheist) it will mean unfortunately that our society is still being held hostage by Antebellum, Jim Crow bullshit.
Antebellum bullshit? A white man, Tony Timpa, died in a similar manner with the police on top of him. Those police officers are still working as police officers to this day, other than one of them who voluntarily retired. Tony Timpa's family didn't get 27 million dollars either.
Nobody in this thread has ever claimed white people never die by the hands of police. But there is a huge ratio disparity as to risk of death when interacting with police. Once as a teen I had a full size replica toy cap gun, no re noses required at the time back in the 80s. Cops were called because someone thought I was firing a real gun. Cop jumped out of his car pointed his gun at me, BUT waited for me to explain it was a toy and didn't shoot me. Another time in my early 20s I got pulled over for speeding, made the mistake of mouthing off, but made it to the police station alive and released unharmed. The disorderly was dropped, but I still had to pay the traffic ticket. They didn't even pull a gun on me during that.
Sandra Bland however, died in police custody over a minor traffic pull over she confronted the cop verbally and got arrested for it. Just this weekend a black Lt military EMT was pulled over for an improper mounting of his temorary tag. That Lt was smart in putting his hands out of the window. He shouldn't have had to though considering it was not a fellony stop. Point is, that Lt would have been more likely to be shot than I would have under similar circumstances.
So when you say whites get roughed up, and or shot sometimes, it is still nowhere near the rate blacks have to worry about.