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Originally Posted by djwill27
The police had Floyd controlled and murdered him. Whatever he did prior doesn’t matter at that point. The cop with his knee on Floyd’s neck is guilty period.
And to all the media conspiracy theorists, how can the media report a story the judge hasn’t released? It is strange how many people will believe BS and deny the truth from reliable sources. This entire story may be false, I haven’t heard it anywhere else.
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I would agree with most of this except for a few details. The use of the words "the police" as if the entire police force of Minneapolis or all of the police forces in the United States are somehow complicit in what happened is a problem.
Wording like this is what is causing much of the problem that we are currently experiencing.
The fact is that this one officer who had a previous relationship with the deceased. It did not involve and systemic problem within a police department.
I also take issue with the term "murdered". Murder is a very specific term. In order to convict Officer Chauvin of murder it would have to be proven that he intentionally killed Floyd and did it with premeditation. He would have had to have gone out that day with the idea that he was going to find George Floyd and kill him.
Words are very powerful. We should be very careful how we use them.
The other issue that I have with a lot of the reporting and commentating about this is that there is not one single shred of evidence that this killing was racially motivated.
What created all of the protests and riots is a few people claiming that this was "another" racially motivated killing of a black man by "the police".
In fact, very few people, black, white or any color are killed by police. The vast majority of those that are, are justifiable killings.
Are there racists in police departments throughout the country? Of course there are and they should be weeded out. Are there bad cops? Yes! Just as there are bad lawyers, bad accountants and bad store managers.They also need to be weeded out.
The problem that we are currently experiencing is that a few race baiters in this country want to make this seem like it's a bigger problem than it is. They are trying to justify their existence by creating a bogie man to fight against.
All of this is much more about politics and power than it is about one bad cop unjustifiably killing a criminal.
It doesn't appear that George Floyd should have been killed and Derek Chauvin will be brought to justice. But blaming the millions of great, heroic police officers over this country for the actions of one person is absurd.