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Originally Posted by graciegirl
Well I watched all of the footage, and I saw and heard George Floyd refusing to sit in the squad car, after refusing to get out of his own car and later struggle against four policemen. I saw him apparently quite high on something inside the store. I saw that he was a very large man in apparent excellent physical shape and he towered over the smaller police officers. It appeared to take all four to restrain him.
The cameras, nor the trial mentioned that George Floyd had been arrested and convicted for breaking into a home and holding a gun to the belly of a pregnant woman while four others robbed the home. He must have continued to do illegal things because the store clerk called the police in the first place because he passed a counterfeit twenty dollar bill. Correct me if I am wrong on either what I saw or what I read from sources I vetted.
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OK. There is a mild correction to be made. Inside the store, he appeared about as normal as the average person at any Walmart in the country. I have seen a lot worse. AT best he could be thought of as mildly high, not "quite" high. I see that as a perception thing.
I would not have liked to be killed (legally speaking-murdered) by Police officers for passing a $20 bill, which I might not even have known was counterfeit. And if they could not have handled him WITHOUT murdering him, then they needed to call for backup. Also, the Police have psychologists for situations like that - it is obvious that Floyd had acquired an unrealistic FEAR of Police somewhere in his lifetime. Many blacks have that same fear. Many whites have led sheltered lives of privilege that have insulated them from real-world Police encounters. So, my conclusion is that depending on people's background, they have different slants and perceptions on the Floyd incident. I think that the jury was correct!