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Originally Posted by ureout
I don't care how calm the times are or what George Floyd had done in the past ... Derek Chauvin is a bad cop... who the hell kneels on someones kneck for 8 minutes when they have the person handcuffed and under control ... he belongs in jail for the rest of his life IMO
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I couldn't agree more.
As for the all white jury (after a venue change), that acquitted the 4 white cops that beat Rodney King as we all saw the video of them doing it and without a doubt of them being guilty, who can say with a straight face that white privilege doesn't exist? The rioting, death, destruction and looting should not have happened however and no one should advocate such, even in the face of such an obvious miscarriage of justice. OJ Simpson should have been put in prison for life for his vicious murders, but because the King verdict was such an atrocity of justice, he got away with it as payback for King. That so many don't see anything wrong with what Chauvin did, shows how little we've improved as a nation when it comes to how we view blacks in our society. If there is any question to that fact, a person only needs to read the constant threads and posts on this site to see the same attitude.
Having scoured all of the threads and posts since this incident, there's one thing I haven't seen a single person say. That being how they think their life would have been easier in general and they would have had a better chance, or an easier time, of being successful, if only they had been born with black skin.