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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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"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..." Nothing in the official police arrest record at the time of the robbery mentioned anything about the woman being pregnant. I agree that Chauvin and Floyd were unprincipled, however, police are not supposed to be judge and jury.
Background Check: Investigating George Floyd’s Criminal Record | Snopes.com
As for Floyd's cocaine use, Florida's Republican Congressman in Fort Myers was caught buying and using cocaine BUT he was not sent to jail. He was sent to a rehab center. Today he is a commentator for right wing media.
In 2006, the FBI warned us that White Nationalist had infiltrated our police departments. Nothing was ever done about it.
FBI warned of white supremacists in law enforcement 10 years ago. Has anything changed? | PBS NewsHour
We do need to change, otherwise things will just get worst.