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Originally Posted by Heyitsrick
If there are other videos that exist that show events prior to the the ones we've already seen, they provide context, if nothing else. No, I didn't say exoneration. Not even close. I said context.
Of course, if people just want to think that this all happened in a vacuum with a cop who just wanted to murder someone, well, that's up to them. I'd like to know the events as they occurred. And police organizations around the country would likely benefit from having access to those, just to train what not to do in each of the initial phases of the process of dealing with someone who was going to be arrested.
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I’m saying there is no context, once Floyd was under arrest and in handcuffs the police have no excuse for murdering him. He put his knee on his neck and killed him. At the very least he didn’t care if he died. There were other cops there and they didn’t stop him so they are guilty too. This happens all over the country where people are abused, lied to, and sometimes killed by the police.
Most of the time these abuses don’t make the news. Still, this is a huge problem. Most police departments have these officers in their ranks and something needs to be done to stop it. Trying to figure out context, whether he had drugs in his system, if he had a heart attack doesn’t matter. Those things are all defending systemic racism and abuse of our fellow human beings.
Fixing the problem will help all police departments, the thin blue line is a cover up and a threat to good cops not to speak out.