Black man dies after video shows officer kneeling on neck

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  1. superbadbrutha

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    I am talking about laws not the Federal Police
     
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    "According to Saint Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, every person arrested in the city last night was from out of state: “We don’t know these folks,” he reiterated."

    Soros at work, unless we think these people just decided to all hitch a ride together across state lines.
     
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    The officer is not going to be able to explain away the 2 minutes after death. The man asked for help. The officer refused. The officer kept his knee on his neck and pushed it harder, and kept it there after the man died.
     
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    The real irony here is that the officer finds himself in the same helpless position—the state has its foot on his neck, and I’m sure he’s feeling helpless about a situation he doesn’t believe is his fault. The only difference is he’ll have his day in court, Floyd won’t, except posthumously.
     
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    We didn't have a U.S. Dept. of Education in the country until 1978 when the federal government decided we needed uniform process and regulation of schools (even though local school districts are supposed to be independent). In 40 years under federal education laws, kids across the country today believe that boys and girls are not really separate sexes but they get to choose their gender, and most kids believe that the world is going to end in 12 years in a fiery ball of global warming if we don't stop driving cars and eating meat. They also can't read very well, and forget about math skills.

    What could possibly go wrong with federalizing standard education and training for police officers? o_O
     
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    Inevitable this would happen:
     
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    The devastating disparities in the Twin Cities are well-known and much discussed, but addressing them has proved challenging.

    “One only has to look at the faces of the African Americans living in impoverished neighborhoods, attending failed schools, over represented in a broken criminal justice system, and suffering from covert and overt employment discrimination on a daily basis to see that not everyone is enjoying the prosperity of Minnesota,” as the state NAACP presciently warned in a report in December of 2019. “If the growing disparities, in education, economics, criminal justice are not addressed immediately our children will not have a future.”

    That same sense of despair is etched on the faces of demonstrators in Minneapolis, where Floyd died Monday, as protests raged into Friday. Similar scenes also have played out in Washington, Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Detroit and beyond, resulting in widespread property damage, numerous injuries and at least one death.

    “In the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard,” as Martin Luther King put it. “And what is it that America has failed to hear?”
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    What Chauvin did to Floyd was uncalled for.
     
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    That may be the most horrifying thing I've ever seen.

    AP: Pentagon readies force to liberate Minneapolis?


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    Walz: We’re now fully mobilizing the National Guard.

    After a shocking retreat yesterday evening by National Guard and police from the burnt-out shell of the 3rd Precinct in Minneapolis, rioters again roamed Twin Cities streets freely. A later effort to reassert National Guard and law-enforcement authority failed again early in the morning.

    Governor Tim Walz told people, “You need to go home,” and also belatedly admitted that he’s in over his head. The riot has taken on characteristics of a “military operation,” and Walz says he doesn’t have enough forces to deal with it:

    It’s tough to say whether he doesn’t have the numbers, or the will to use the force already at his disposal. Walz and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey made the same mistake that Los Angeles initially made in 1992’s Rodney King riots, which is to field an inadequate force at first and then quail at its use. In that riot, an initial pullback was not received as a signal of cooperation but a sign of weakness, which incentivized anarchists and nihilists to run wild:

    Walz and Frey have given them days of momentum and cost-free space. Popping up on TV now to announce that the government is too overwhelmed to impose order on its streets isn’t exactly going to help, either. Unless Walz uses the force he has at his disposal, this “military operation” riot will continue.
     
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    The legitimate military might need to take control. The Associated Press reports this morning that the Pentagon has put Army urban-control units on alert in preparation for possible deployment to the streets of Minneapolis and Saint Paul:

    Can Trump actually order such a domestic deployment? Under the Insurrection Act of 1807, yes, and it has been done before. In fact, that’s precisely what happened in the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles. The law requires an actual “insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy,” but Walz’ comments make that a fairly easy case for the White House to make. It also requires that the emergency deprives US citizens of “a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law,” and that “the constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection.” Right now, that sounds like a very good description of Minnesota’s position, as businesses burn and the state orders citizens to remain in their homes while disorder prevails.

    If Trump does deploy the Army, those troops would not be under Walz’ control either but Trump’s through Esper. Their rules of engagement would likely be quite different than the feckless response we have seen from Walz and Frey over this past week as well. Trump would almost certainly federalize the National Guard in Minnesota at the same time for the duration of the crisis, which will strip Walz of much of his ability to shape events. Not that he’s used much of it up until now.

    Obviously, this a step Trump won't take unless he has to, the Gov has now fully mobilized the National Guard now, the thing to see is whether he can actually command them.
     
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    Holy bleepin' cow. I need time to process this. It's horrifying. Now the government is between a rock & a hard place. FFS. It's time for a tear gas bomb, at a minimum. There has to be several ways to neutralize the situation without serious harm to life, no? Get them neutralized and all in a giant holding cell, awaiting trial.
     
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    If you think you have seen rioting and civil disobedience wait until the KKK DA and the cop loving jurors let the guy walk. The whole country will go up in flames.
     
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    Even if the factoids you presented were true, could that possibly prove that the murder of George Floyd was racially motivated?

    Are you an anti-white racist?

    Chinese agent provocateur?

    Explain yourself!
     
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    Have you seen the subliminal visual propaganda on the tv reports when they show cops arresting men? They throw the guy on the ground and four or five sit on him and then they let him up. The cops are cleverly brainwashing the viewers to show that the Minneapolis killer thug cop and his gang was doing a normal procedure.
     
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    :police: Be responsible when looting - wear a mask and keep social distance ` :nod: :w00t:
     
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    You nailed that one. The guy seems to have his head stuck up trump’s butt. He should have been a slave in 1820 Mississippi.
     
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    Get a clue. Don't you know that cities from coast to coast and from border to border are burning?
     
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    Yeah, right. One thing is for sure and that is trump isn't doing a damn thing to improve America.
     
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    When does a publisher have to publish every BS comment from an idiotic dummy like trump? They should ban his butt right now.
     
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    In the not too old days the mob would have raided the jail and lynched the guy and then had some beer and a picnic.

    Haven't you realized that this is a national movement? People will not tolerate the killer thug cops getting off with a slap on the wrist.
     
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    A few cars and a few buildings.

    Antifa = American al qaeda
     
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    As you can see from the protests around the country, people know injustice when they see it. The elite is refusing to stand up and punish one of their thug killer cops and the people will not tolerate their inactivity. And, since people have the right to govern themselves, they will take control and replace the elite. That principle is stated very clearly in the New Hampshire State constitution.

    The bottom line: the killer thug cops get charged and convicted of first degree murder or the country burns from coast to coast and from border to border.
     
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    George Floyd is supposed to get an independent autopsy. If the person doing it is honest and not threatened or bribed he might be able to produce x-ray evidence that Floyd's neck was broken. Would that upset you?
     
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    Nope, wouldn’t bother me in the least. Show me this evidence of a broken neck. I’ll believe it when I see it, and tell you that you were right. But somehow I doubt we will see that evidence.
     

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