The autopsy proves otherwise, the cop restraining his feet did not suffocate him, the guy restraining his torso was on his side so he didn't suffocate him (try it, lie on your side and have someone push down on you torso with all your might, you can still breathe, your rib cage can still go in and out). It's a question of whether the cop at his head was just resting his knee on his neck or pressing it down, he says no, the footage is inconclusive and the autopsy says Floyd didn't die of strangulation so...? What 'elite'? What are you talking about?
No, it doesn't legitimize violence but that is not what you asked me. They are also not reacting only to events from 50 years ago but to what are perceived as current injustices, compounded by the history.
The cop had his knee on Floyd for eigth minutes. Plenty of time to hand cuff Floyd and take him to a hospital for a blood test. Eight long minutes. Seems both the cop and Floyd worked at the same bar as security guards. https://www.foxnews.com/us/george-f...-chauvin-worked-at-same-minneapolis-nightclub A white Minneapolis police officer and the black man he's charged with killing both worked as security guards at the same Latin nightclub as recently as last year, but its former owner says she's not sure if they knew each other.
He was handcuffed but they couldn't transport him because he freaked out when they did, hence why the had to restrain him.
You're saying four cops couldn't control Floyd who was in hand cuffs? Did none of the cops have plastic cuffs so they could secure his legs? I'm pretty sure one of those cops had a stun gun.
3 cops and very hard to control someone freaking out, even if his legs were plasticuffed he could still kick out. You're actually saying you wanted to taze him? Hard to justify when they already had him restrained?
But did anyone check to see if a knee on the neck is a restraint option? Or did they simply check off the politcally correct boxes? Anyone check with any official at the Minneapolis police training academy? Anyone? All that said it is quite possible that in point of fact this particular technique is absolutely forbidden for officers to use and that this particular officer is rogue and did deliberately set out to murder a man simply because he loathed the man's skin tone. So anyway there is this evil White racist caught doing something evil and so now it is time to destroy part of a city and loot and burn when anyone with a functioning I.Q. above low room temperature knows that this evil man is already going to be investigated up one side and down the other. So are we endorsing citizen stupidity and their own brand of group . . . evil?
That plus tazing restrained prisoners can also result in being put on trial. Our cops-loathing political Left keep forgetting just how many ways they have used the law to punish officers for doing their job while simultaneously demanding that officers do . . . that . . . job.
I get that, but that's not my point. If someone believes the coroner's report, then they need to ask themselves if they really believe he would have have died either way, because that is what that report implies and I do not believe it.
The left has unrealistic expectations. The sooner folks realize this the sooner the left can be called out for its idiocy.
Because there is decades long history of leftist news sources and Democrats telling Black Americans they are victims, not overcomers, and their only hope of success in life is to loot and burn. Though many black Americans have proved them wrong. My family physician is only one of them.
OK, Wyrd... got it. Now. The "thug cops" are being charged with all applicable crimes. They have already been summarily thrown off the police force, and they will be made to stand trial. THAT'S A GOOD THING. Or, would you rather that the fired police officers are simply thrown out into the street to face "justice" from the mob? COOL! We could have YouTube videos of them being burned alive, hanged, and drawn-and-quartered! It would, like, go more 'viral' than everything else on the internet put together. Would THAT make you happy...? . "Oh! Dude! Bring it...!"
I fail to see the humor in this tragedy. What stereotypes are you speaking of? Moderates are not the problem and that can be seen just reading the posts on this forum.
There is one common theme with you in all these cases, you try to turn the blame on the person who was murdered. Never do you want to see the murderer held responsible it is always the fault of the victim when it comes to you.
Yeah, and we've seen how well mob-justice works, too. Ask the French about what comes AFTER mob-justice fails.... ."The Romans and this Obama kid were right! -- just give the dumb fuggers "bread and circuses".
They noted he was under medical distress when they arrived, which is why they immediately called for paramedics.
When does the anger end? A woman named Fannie Lou Hamer asked a similar question decades ago, when she said "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired." Everyone making it clear that brutality is unacceptable, instead of looking for reasons to exonerate when it occurs, would be good place to start.
A half million white Americans are violently victimized by blacks each and every year and you obsess over a few dozen blacks who die while being arrested for crimes or are confronted by white people when they break the rules? 3.5million * 0.15 = 525,000+ https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv18.pdf I don't blame you for your worldview, I blame the misrepresentations of the MSM. Their narrative is whites are oppressing blacks and that is all they publish. They are creating a false reality that is completely demolished when one looks at the actual stats. They are creating racial division and hatred for profit and political gain.