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Originally Posted by graciegirl
My point is this. A lot of times, police officers have to do that, lean on someone's neck in order to put on cuffs. There are bullies among police officers and there are bullies on this forum. I wonder sometimes when I see the extreme views of some folks how their wives fare. I hope if these officers are guilty they are tried for murder. We should not allow what they did to influence our respect of good police officers. One is just as wrong as the others.
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But this thread isn't about those other times, other cops, other criminals, other situations. This thread is about THIS time, THIS alleged criminal (there's still no determination if he even KNEW in advance he was passing a bad bill - so it's still possible he was 100% innocent of THAT as well), THIS situation, THIS cop.
When you dilute the situation by bringing in "what about those other things" you are guilty of what's known as "whataboutism." That is how people deflect from an actual issue, trying to make it a non-issue, making people think "oh that's not so bad, let's just forget it."
I don't know if you do this on purpose. But you DO do it often. This thread is not the place for talking about all the other times cops do good things. You can make a thread for that. This isn't even about all the other times cops do bad things. There are threads about that. This is about George Floyd, who was murdered by a very specific individual cop.