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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I think it is entirely possible that Derek Chauvin was an unprincipled person. I feel almost sure that George Floyd was an unprincipled person. I know, I know, we need to give everyone a new chance. George Floyd was arrested and sentenced to a penitentiary for several years for breaking into a private home and holding a gun to the belly of a pregnant woman, allowing three accomplices in to rob the home. He moved to Minnesota for a "new start". The police were called because he tried to pass a counterfeit twenty dollar bill. The camera's inside the store showed him swaying slightly and appearing to be under the influence of something. He got into a car with several other people who later refused to answer questions and took the fifth amendment as reason. I have to think they were somehow involved with buying or selling drugs, or they could have just been very private and did not want to answer questions. At the time that Derek Chauvin allowed George Floyd to die with neck pressure, that maneuver was allowed as a means of restraint. Clearly the other means of restraint used by FOUR MEN were not working. I don't know what I would have done if it had been MY job to arrest him. I believe in my heart that it would have been a dilemma whether or not he was high on drugs, and even if he was a skinny white Episcopalian. Derek Chauvin was there to arrest him and he continued to struggle hard physically. I think this has been made a racist issue above all other considerations. AND maybe it is. I am skeptical.
I am skeptical about whether this issue of "doxing" could be a red herring. I am thinking a lot of scary thoughts. Maybe because I think that people who are generally responsible and ethical worry about being at the mercy of people who are not generally responsible and ethical.
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It was 100% a race issue. It is a strained perception to believe otherwise. Some small % of people will NOT believe their "lying eves"! But, there are 2 major ways to prove that it smacked of racism - #1 The jury concluded that it WAS murder. #2 The US Attorney General has started a "patterns and procedures" investigation because he SUSPECTS that the Minneapolis Police Department has SYSTEMIC race problems. He would NOT be doing that if it was not LIKELY that they will find RACISM. Justice and most US citizens demand just that! What I saw was a VERY bad policeman cruelly murder a HELPLESS citizen over $20 that he may not have even known was counterfeit!
If someone is going to talk about Mr. Floyd's past (which was NOT allowed in the trial) then it is also to be talked about that Mr. Chauvin had 17 disciplinary incidents in his record - he was a ticking time bomb. And bad Police are the main takeaway from THAT trial.