White men confirmed to have committed horrible crimes have been taken into police custody unharmed. Police even bought dylan roof a meal at burger king after he shot up a church killing 9 people.
This black man was SUSPECTED of forging a check and police killed him.
There is nothing right about any of that. There have been many examples before this, but this is the straw that broke the camels back.
The justice system has failed to do it’s job. Time to burn it down and build a new one.
I believe that what happed to him was unjust and tribble, and that the officers involved should be punished. I also believe that the riots and craziness following is a disgrace to this nation. Burning buildings and business is not a form of protest... it is crime. I also think that it is crazy that the same people who get mad at others for going to the lake bars (where people are together in close contact) are the same people who are okay and support the riots going on (where people are together in close contact).
My heart is heavy for all black men in America right now.. I fear for my people’s safety. I find myself thinking often about what if my dad, brother, or partner become another victim. All I can say is I am prepared to fight for my life, my child’s life, and my people’s lives if I am ever in a situation where they need me. If it is witnessed in front of me, I am prepared to risk it all.. my life included to protect the innocent. I will keep my people safe. No matter what it takes or how far I have to go.
Peaceful protesting is fine. If people want to setup camps in front of their buildings or the officers house that's fine.
What I'm not ok with is wreckless vandalism. Like setting local stores on fire. And I even seen this kid purposely breaking a civilian's car window.
That doesn't make anything better all you're doing is making the situation worst.
And this crap has spread to other big cities. Look it was those 4 cops from Minneapolis that screwed up. Drive there and join them don't spread that rioting bull crap here.
There's multiple sides to it. 1. Should there be stricter oversight of police in the USA? Sure. 2. This isn't about police violence, it's about race, about liberal whites trying to work with blacks against conservative whites. 3. This is also about power. There's great power in controlling what your enemies think and can say. Everyone in this case flat out knows it's about race, just ask celebrities They also know that when hispanic or blacks kill whites, any white who likewise says "A Hispanic murdered Mollie Tibbets" or "Black guys murdered Tessa Majors" will be condemned as evil neo nazi racists who are probably straight from hell.
A white person or cop or whoever kills a black, it's publicly discussed as racial and whites are shamed publicly. A hispanic or black kills a white? It's a crime to even consider talking about race.
"A white person or cop or whoever kills a black, it's publicly discussed as racial and whites are shamed publicly. A hispanic or black kills a white? It's a crime to even consider talking about race."
That's right. Why?
Because the minorities are targeted by the cops and treated more harshly BECAUSE of their race. . The white victims of crime aren't being targeted because of their race unless it's because white people tend to have more money. That's not racism; that's smart criminal targeting.
@abc3643 You wrote "The white victims of crime aren't being targeted because of their race unless it's because white people tend to have more money."
Actually plenty of cases whites are targeted because of their race by non whites, and denying that is ridiculous at best and flat out delusional at worst. Hell, I was walking down a sidewalk in Atlanta last Saturday and two black guys started yelling at me that white privilege was over and they were going to be rounding up whites soon.
@abc3643 fbi homicide by race table 6 statistics show blacks murder whites over twice as often as whites murder blacks. You have nothing that backs up your claim that it's not racial, just your opinion.
it is tragic all the way around but what gets me is all of the rioting, looting and burning down of private property. what does that do other than make the people who are protesting look bad? Not only that we have only one side of the story. and the media will do anything to make sure a story fits their narrative.
It's hard to say without seeing the full video. Many of the videos of police beatings and shootings start recording halfway through the scene and don't show the suspect acting suspicious, arguing with the officer, not complying with orders and resisting arrest. I don't know why the media always tries to spin stories about race just because the officer happened to be white and the suspect happened to be black. It's more likely that the police officer was a douche bag and lost his patience for criminals making his job more difficult. It was obviously excessive force but doesn't look like intentional murder.
I'm glad that the Minneapolis DA's office has charged that asshole cop with murder and are taking the situation more seriously than the Michael Brown case and others. That cop should be put in prison for life or put on death row.
I wanna know what you mean by "this George Floyd craziness" @Gotcha_Writer10
Seems pretty obviously unfair what happened. Then those idiots decide rioting and destroying business and homes is the way to go. As if that doesn't just reinforce the stereotypes and harm their own neighbourhoods.
Yeah they are destroying communities and buildings but you gotta realize nobody wouldve done shit if people dont get violent. The government is already wrong for not arresting the police officer with full video proof. But hey, people can keep complaining
Nobody says anything when we use to riot for shit in the past to earn our rights. Cough jim crow but now people want to complain. People should just get over themselves and realize whats the message being conveyed here
I want to see the video where he refused to comply before NEEDING to be taken to the ground and held. This just doesn't happen to people that comply and offer assistance if you were not part of the initial investigation of the call.
LET's SEE THAT all you people that need a sign to prove your relevancy, I mean once you stop looting that is. Go on I'll wait.
I agree, it doesn't "just happen" to people that comply. He at a bare minimum argued with the police and tried to make their jobs more difficult, in addition to whatever else he did.
there's videos on youtube and facebook showing him being removed from his car without an issues, I dont know how you can resist arrest when your already cuffed. Also only going for 3rd degree murder... sorry what the actual fuck is that all about... it wasn't an accident it was preventable hows that so hard to get?
Still doesn't show what happened before and after the video or the conversation that went on. Also it came to light that the two worked together before the scenario went down, which is proof to me that it was something personal between them and not based on racism like the media wants us to believe.
No your right it doesn't. But it does show he got out his car no issues, the officer did start to being heavy handed after a while shoving him about, that and the fact they worked together should be enough proof to try him for 1st degree which is what it should be... does anyone know how long he had his knee on his neck for?
I don't care. People get killed everyday, I don't know why I should be more concerned about him than anyone else. The other people that got killed didn't even have their name mentioned. This is all a media hoax and political agenda.
A black person shoots a black person and it doesn't even make the news. You can't trust law enforcement, that's pretty foolish. I'm also a victim of police corruption but I got the fuck over it because dwelling on it will just eat you up inside until you hate the world.
From what I heard, that cop that had his knee on Floyd’s neck already had a string of complaints on his behavior in the past, so the fact that his superiors already KNEW he was a problem makes them just as guilty. He needs a death sentence, and his superiors need to be fired.
As for the riots, the rioters are only hurting themselves and their community doing what they did. No jobs available? The jobs are going somewhere safer.
Very true. I don't understand why the cop was even allowed to still be working with the public after such a long record of complaints.
I also agree that damaging local businesses works against the economic problems that are already going on, such as so many people being unemployed. If I was one of those business owners, I would do what you said and move to a different location when it was time to rebuild.
The cop who did the actual killing is definitely going to prison. The other cops may go to prison.
Frankly, any real sense of true justice would require the execution of the cop who actually killed him. I'm suspect his fellow future black inmates might help expedite that.
What happened to George Floyd was horrible, and the police officer who killed him should go to jail for a long time. The vast majority of police officers are good people, but the bad ones need to be eradicated.
However, as much as people seem to think that police brutality is a racial issue, it's not. When you look at the number of African Americans who get arrested, they are actually at a lower risk than the general population of being killed by police. The issue is that the media only makes an issue of black victims and ignores the rest.
And that is why there is this false perception, and why we see the entire country erupting in riots. The media are to blame for what is happening today.
No, police aggressions against black people has been a constant struggle since times after slavery ended. You don’t need the media to tell you that, just ask anybody in those black communities. The media only gives a fuck when there’s a killing involved, but there’s a lot more that happens when the cameras aren’t rolling dude.
The media did bring attention to it but it is a racial thing. Not all cops are bad. However police training needs to be better and not only that police view black Men as criminals it goes back to slavery.
I'm not saying there isn't racism, because there is. And I'm not saying blacks don't get killed unjustly by police officers. But the perception that it happens more to blacks is false. In fact, statistically, it happens slightly less to blacks relative to the rate at which they commit crimes. That is, a black person who gets arrested by the police is slightly less likely to be killed than a non-black person who gets arrested. That is an undeniable statistical fact based on FBI statistics.
The media does not report on everything but the media does report on killings in this country on local news. In many cases the media focuses on things that gets people’s attention. However the video of George Floyd getting killed went virtual before media got hold of it. Also it does happen to whites Latinos and Asians. In ny there is a high rate of Asians being killed due to the coronavirus which I don’t condone.
In additon to that in America there is a double standard on how black and white people are treated when dealing with police. That is what people are protesting for. They like I do as a black men want to be able to jog through a neighborhood and not have people chase me and kill me just they heard of the neighborhood having a lot of break ins and want to take matters in to their own hands. I want to be able to get a job own a home in white neighborhood and not be looked at weird. My money is the same as another person. I want to be able to be get paid the same amount as my white counterparts. Be able to not be stared : followed through a store cause people suspect I am stealing based on the color of my skin. That is why people is protest. America has came a far way from slavery and the civil rights movement but we still have a long way to go
Knee to the back is taught. It makes it difficult for people who have resisted arrest to get up. But nobody told him to put the weight of his body on someone's neck.
I'm not saying it's the right thing to do, but you also have to consider the position the officers are in. For example, let's say your friend was wrongfully accused of rape, would you tell him "hey, you shouldn't sexual assault people" in public? Likely not, because even though hasn't sexually assaulted someone (so you think) anyone around who overhears this could run with it and say "I heard his friend tell him not to sexually assault people" and this could be used as evidence to convince people that he actually did rape someone. Law enforcement is under a lot of unwarranted heat right now, ever since Ferguson, really. They don't want to just offer up ammunition to the opposition on a silver platter. Now, does that mean I'm saying people shouldn't whistle-blow or oppose what they think is wrong? Certainly not. But if they deal with criminals who express discomfort on a daily basis, if they didn't think it would end his life, it's not very reasonable for them to publicly, verbally criticize the actions taking place. Unfortunately, this time was not one of the unwarranted occurrences. This was a very serious and unfortunate ordeal.
I agree that it isn't a standard operatingprocedure, and I agree that someone should have said something. But I can see why someone might not want to. It's like if you see someone broken down next to their vehicle in a really barren, desolate area. The nice thing to do would be to stop, make sure they're okay, and offer them a ride. But bad people started to take advantage of good people, and they'd fake a break-down and they'd rob people who stopped to help. Now good people are reluctant to do the good thing that leave room for exploitation. It's the same reason we have things like "innocent until proven guilty" and due-process. Because bad people wrongfully accused/framed innocent people, now we can't just trust people when they say someone has done something bad. If bad people didn't exploit things, this sort of thing would be a lot easier.
i'm sitting here thinking how different the country would be if the police went to neighborhoods and burned their shit down every time someone murdered a cop. These dumbass people out here burning down fucking Autozones and Target stores and looting shit. That ain't protesting; that's rioting and theft. I'm cheering for the cops on this one. We don't get to hold any other entire groups accountable for the actions of a few of them, so I'm not about to condemn all police for the ones that are shitty.
I believe the police officer holding his knee down on the kneck of Mr. Floyd should be placed under arrest for murder and be charged it's plain no use of him lying cameras don't tell a lie
5haven't followed it. I only know some black guy died in police custody... and right on queue strangers... criminals who do not even know him decide they can burn down their own communities. I have seen this in the news many times over the decades.
If a direct relative wanted to assassinate a direct involved cop... I would understand. 1000s of criminal strangers ruining for decades their own communities... worthless humans.
@goaded Why? Your reading comprehension seems lacking. I CLEARLY stated, I'd understand if some direct relative of him wanted to go after the specific cops.
Some guy begging does not excuse thousands of complete strangers who don't know jack shit about this dude to destroy the city and ruin people's businesses, ensure businesses will move out and not want to go near this area and turn it into a slum.
It's actually an anti-killing stance; which is not normally a controversial position. Do you think there would be rioting if the officer had been arrested and charged on the day it happened?
@goaded You sure keep arguing for mass hords of criminals burning down businesses and stealing property. Yousound like you would be out there with them
Why don't you quote where I said that? You said: "If a direct relative wanted to assassinate a direct involved cop... I would understand." You're advocating murder, I'm saying it's understandable that people riot when they're treated as disposable.
@goaded Yeah, you keep justifying riots. "They are treated" There is no they... there was this ONE man and 3 or 4 cops. You play identity politics where all you need to know the races of large groups of people and then act like you know all you need to know about them and make all these assumptions. All you need to know is that they are black... then you paint this one arrest to apply to everyone of that color. That is idiotic.
The riots are criminal acts that are drawing attention away from Floyd's death, which is the actual tragedy. Rioting and protesting injustice are two completely different things. Destroying stores, stealing flatscreen TVs, and burning the city to the ground is not protesting and does nothing but draw attention away from the actual tragedy, which is someone died in police custody that didn't deserve to die.
@Other_Tommy_Wiseau It wasn't the wrong platform for Kaepernick, it was the wrong time. He was on the clock when he chose to protest. You protest on your time, not on someone else's dime. If he had gone to the NFL and/or the players association, I'm sure they could've organized an event and/or charity.
@lockster The people that are destroying the city couldn't give two shits about Floyd being killed, other than his unnecessary death is a convenient cover and excuse for them being assholes.
The officer after seeing the evidence seems pretty much guilty of murder, that however doesn't excuse the violence and hate and racism coming from the looters and rioters (they are not protesting a god damn thing, you don't protest by burning down peoples homes and busineses and stealing game consoles and tvs.).
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White men confirmed to have committed horrible crimes have been taken into police custody unharmed. Police even bought dylan roof a meal at burger king after he shot up a church killing 9 people.
This black man was SUSPECTED of forging a check and police killed him.
There is nothing right about any of that. There have been many examples before this, but this is the straw that broke the camels back.
The justice system has failed to do it’s job. Time to burn it down and build a new one.
I believe that what happed to him was unjust and tribble, and that the officers involved should be punished. I also believe that the riots and craziness following is a disgrace to this nation. Burning buildings and business is not a form of protest... it is crime. I also think that it is crazy that the same people who get mad at others for going to the lake bars (where people are together in close contact) are the same people who are okay and support the riots going on (where people are together in close contact).
My heart is heavy for all black men in America right now.. I fear for my people’s safety. I find myself thinking often about what if my dad, brother, or partner become another victim. All I can say is I am prepared to fight for my life, my child’s life, and my people’s lives if I am ever in a situation where they need me. If it is witnessed in front of me, I am prepared to risk it all.. my life included to protect the innocent. I will keep my people safe. No matter what it takes or how far I have to go.
Peaceful protesting is fine. If people want to setup camps in front of their buildings or the officers house that's fine.
What I'm not ok with is wreckless vandalism. Like setting local stores on fire. And I even seen this kid purposely breaking a civilian's car window.
That doesn't make anything better all you're doing is making the situation worst.
And this crap has spread to other big cities. Look it was those 4 cops from Minneapolis that screwed up. Drive there and join them don't spread that rioting bull crap here.
I need my toilet paper!
There's multiple sides to it.
1. Should there be stricter oversight of police in the USA? Sure.
2. This isn't about police violence, it's about race, about liberal whites trying to work with blacks against conservative whites.
3. This is also about power. There's great power in controlling what your enemies think and can say. Everyone in this case flat out knows it's about race, just ask celebrities They also know that when hispanic or blacks kill whites, any white who likewise says "A Hispanic murdered Mollie Tibbets" or "Black guys murdered Tessa Majors" will be condemned as evil neo nazi racists who are probably straight from hell.
A white person or cop or whoever kills a black, it's publicly discussed as racial and whites are shamed publicly. A hispanic or black kills a white? It's a crime to even consider talking about race.
You wrote:
"A white person or cop or whoever kills a black, it's publicly discussed as racial and whites are shamed publicly. A hispanic or black kills a white? It's a crime to even consider talking about race."
That's right.
Why?
Because the minorities are targeted by the cops and treated more harshly BECAUSE of their race.
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The white victims of crime aren't being targeted because of their race unless it's because white people tend to have more money. That's not racism; that's smart criminal targeting.
You also wrote:
"There's multiple sides to it."
Yep.
Above the knee and under the knee.
@abc3643 You wrote "The white victims of crime aren't being targeted because of their race unless it's because white people tend to have more money."
Actually plenty of cases whites are targeted because of their race by non whites, and denying that is ridiculous at best and flat out delusional at worst. Hell, I was walking down a sidewalk in Atlanta last Saturday and two black guys started yelling at me that white privilege was over and they were going to be rounding up whites soon.
@abc3643 Simple example of how untrue your comment is.
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That's one example.
I am talking statistics.
Anyway, overall, I agree pretty much with what you are saying except the targeting by police.
@abc3643 fbi homicide by race table 6 statistics show blacks murder whites over twice as often as whites murder blacks. You have nothing that backs up your claim that it's not racial, just your opinion.
it is tragic all the way around but what gets me is all of the rioting, looting and burning down of private property. what does that do other than make the people who are protesting look bad? Not only that we have only one side of the story. and the media will do anything to make sure a story fits their narrative.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/SgghI3WPSLwThe second part of that video tho... everyone needs to see that
It's hard to say without seeing the full video. Many of the videos of police beatings and shootings start recording halfway through the scene and don't show the suspect acting suspicious, arguing with the officer, not complying with orders and resisting arrest. I don't know why the media always tries to spin stories about race just because the officer happened to be white and the suspect happened to be black. It's more likely that the police officer was a douche bag and lost his patience for criminals making his job more difficult. It was obviously excessive force but doesn't look like intentional murder.
I'm glad that the Minneapolis DA's office has charged that asshole cop with murder and are taking the situation more seriously than the Michael Brown case and others. That cop should be put in prison for life or put on death row.
I wanna know what you mean by "this George Floyd craziness" @Gotcha_Writer10
Seems pretty obviously unfair what happened.
Then those idiots decide rioting and destroying business and homes is the way to go. As if that doesn't just reinforce the stereotypes and harm their own neighbourhoods.
Too bad, if u didn't want a large riot then dont go crazy with power
They are literally tearing up their own community. It amounts to nothing though...
In fact, theyll just end up getting arrested.
Yeah they are destroying communities and buildings but you gotta realize nobody wouldve done shit if people dont get violent. The government is already wrong for not arresting the police officer with full video proof. But hey, people can keep complaining
Nobody says anything when we use to riot for shit in the past to earn our rights. Cough jim crow but now people want to complain. People should just get over themselves and realize whats the message being conveyed here
So just black peoples right? “Those people “ girl bye
It was numerous races involved and numerous other races looting
I want to see the video where he refused to comply before NEEDING to be taken to the ground and held. This just doesn't happen to people that comply and offer assistance if you were not part of the initial investigation of the call.
LET's SEE THAT all you people that need a sign to prove your relevancy, I mean once you stop looting that is. Go on I'll wait.
I agree, it doesn't "just happen" to people that comply. He at a bare minimum argued with the police and tried to make their jobs more difficult, in addition to whatever else he did.
there's videos on youtube and facebook showing him being removed from his car without an issues, I dont know how you can resist arrest when your already cuffed. Also only going for 3rd degree murder... sorry what the actual fuck is that all about... it wasn't an accident it was preventable hows that so hard to get?
Still doesn't show what happened before and after the video or the conversation that went on. Also it came to light that the two worked together before the scenario went down, which is proof to me that it was something personal between them and not based on racism like the media wants us to believe.
No your right it doesn't. But it does show he got out his car no issues, the officer did start to being heavy handed after a while shoving him about, that and the fact they worked together should be enough proof to try him for 1st degree which is what it should be... does anyone know how long he had his knee on his neck for?
I don't care. People get killed everyday, I don't know why I should be more concerned about him than anyone else. The other people that got killed didn't even have their name mentioned. This is all a media hoax and political agenda.
It's more that it happens that's my problem, I couldn't give a fuck what colour your skin is if your a cunt your a cunt.
Plus how can you trust law enforcement when this goes on? (I've not had the greatest time with them but nothing compared to what some folk have)
Those rioting though are the biggest cunts in all this
A black person shoots a black person and it doesn't even make the news. You can't trust law enforcement, that's pretty foolish. I'm also a victim of police corruption but I got the fuck over it because dwelling on it will just eat you up inside until you hate the world.
From what I heard, that cop that had his knee on Floyd’s neck already had a string of complaints on his behavior in the past, so the fact that his superiors already KNEW he was a problem makes them just as guilty. He needs a death sentence, and his superiors need to be fired.
As for the riots, the rioters are only hurting themselves and their community doing what they did. No jobs available? The jobs are going somewhere safer.
Very true. I don't understand why the cop was even allowed to still be working with the public after such a long record of complaints.
I also agree that damaging local businesses works against the economic problems that are already going on, such as so many people being unemployed. If I was one of those business owners, I would do what you said and move to a different location when it was time to rebuild.
The cop who did the actual killing is definitely going to prison.
The other cops may go to prison.
Frankly, any real sense of true justice would require the execution of the cop who actually killed him. I'm suspect his fellow future black inmates might help expedite that.
* I suspect...
What happened to George Floyd was horrible, and the police officer who killed him should go to jail for a long time. The vast majority of police officers are good people, but the bad ones need to be eradicated.
However, as much as people seem to think that police brutality is a racial issue, it's not. When you look at the number of African Americans who get arrested, they are actually at a lower risk than the general population of being killed by police. The issue is that the media only makes an issue of black victims and ignores the rest.
And that is why there is this false perception, and why we see the entire country erupting in riots. The media are to blame for what is happening today.
No, police aggressions against black people has been a constant struggle since times after slavery ended. You don’t need the media to tell you that, just ask anybody in those black communities. The media only gives a fuck when there’s a killing involved, but there’s a lot more that happens when the cameras aren’t rolling dude.
The media did bring attention to it but it is a racial thing. Not all cops are bad. However police training needs to be better and not only that police view black Men as criminals it goes back to slavery.
I'm not saying there isn't racism, because there is. And I'm not saying blacks don't get killed unjustly by police officers. But the perception that it happens more to blacks is false. In fact, statistically, it happens slightly less to blacks relative to the rate at which they commit crimes. That is, a black person who gets arrested by the police is slightly less likely to be killed than a non-black person who gets arrested. That is an undeniable statistical fact based on FBI statistics.
It also happens to whites, Latinos and Asians; we just rarely hear about it because the media doesn't cover it. That was my point.
The media does not report on everything but the media does report on killings in this country on local news. In many cases the media focuses on things that gets people’s attention. However the video of George Floyd getting killed went virtual before media got hold of it. Also it does happen to whites Latinos and Asians. In ny there is a high rate of Asians being killed due to the coronavirus which I don’t condone.
In additon to that in America there is a double standard on how black and white people are treated when dealing with police. That is what people are protesting for. They like I do as a black men want to be able to jog through a neighborhood and not have people chase me and kill me just they heard of the neighborhood having a lot of break ins and want to take matters in to their own hands. I want to be able to get a job own a home in white neighborhood and not be looked at weird. My money is the same as another person. I want to be able to be get paid the same amount as my white counterparts. Be able to not be stared : followed through a store cause people suspect I am stealing based on the color of my skin. That is why people is protest. America has came a far way from slavery and the civil rights movement but we still have a long way to go
Obviously it was police brutality, and the officer should be charged and police training modified if that knee to the neck thing is taught.
Protests are clearly justified, but lighting fires and looting, well that's taking things too far.
Reform yes, anarchy no.
Knee to the back is taught. It makes it difficult for people who have resisted arrest to get up. But nobody told him to put the weight of his body on someone's neck.
I didn't think so. What's wrong with this cop... Jees
At the very least, he's incompetent, at the very most, he's a terrible person.
And those other cops just watching... Good grief.
I'm not saying it's the right thing to do, but you also have to consider the position the officers are in. For example, let's say your friend was wrongfully accused of rape, would you tell him "hey, you shouldn't sexual assault people" in public? Likely not, because even though hasn't sexually assaulted someone (so you think) anyone around who overhears this could run with it and say "I heard his friend tell him not to sexually assault people" and this could be used as evidence to convince people that he actually did rape someone. Law enforcement is under a lot of unwarranted heat right now, ever since Ferguson, really. They don't want to just offer up ammunition to the opposition on a silver platter. Now, does that mean I'm saying people shouldn't whistle-blow or oppose what they think is wrong? Certainly not. But if they deal with criminals who express discomfort on a daily basis, if they didn't think it would end his life, it's not very reasonable for them to publicly, verbally criticize the actions taking place. Unfortunately, this time was not one of the unwarranted occurrences. This was a very serious and unfortunate ordeal.
A knee on the neck is not standard operating procedure, another cop should have said something.
I agree that it isn't a standard operatingprocedure, and I agree that someone should have said something. But I can see why someone might not want to. It's like if you see someone broken down next to their vehicle in a really barren, desolate area. The nice thing to do would be to stop, make sure they're okay, and offer them a ride. But bad people started to take advantage of good people, and they'd fake a break-down and they'd rob people who stopped to help. Now good people are reluctant to do the good thing that leave room for exploitation. It's the same reason we have things like "innocent until proven guilty" and due-process. Because bad people wrongfully accused/framed innocent people, now we can't just trust people when they say someone has done something bad. If bad people didn't exploit things, this sort of thing would be a lot easier.
i'm sitting here thinking how different the country would be if the police went to neighborhoods and burned their shit down every time someone murdered a cop. These dumbass people out here burning down fucking Autozones and Target stores and looting shit. That ain't protesting; that's rioting and theft. I'm cheering for the cops on this one. We don't get to hold any other entire groups accountable for the actions of a few of them, so I'm not about to condemn all police for the ones that are shitty.
I believe the police officer holding his knee down on the kneck
of Mr. Floyd should be placed under arrest for murder and be
charged it's plain no use of him lying cameras don't tell a lie
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5haven't followed it.
I only know some black guy died in police custody... and right on queue strangers... criminals who do not even know him decide they can burn down their own communities.
I have seen this in the news many times over the decades.
If a direct relative wanted to assassinate a direct involved cop... I would understand. 1000s of criminal strangers ruining for decades their own communities... worthless humans.
Maybe you should watch the video where people are begging the policeman to stop killing the handcuffed man on the floor.
@goaded
Why?
Your reading comprehension seems lacking.
I CLEARLY stated, I'd understand if some direct relative of him wanted to go after the specific cops.
Some guy begging does not excuse thousands of complete strangers who don't know jack shit about this dude to destroy the city and ruin people's businesses, ensure businesses will move out and not want to go near this area and turn it into a slum.
Rioters are a plague.
So you think it would be OK to murder a policeman for killing a relative, but not to damage property. Is that right?
The police are supposed to be serving the community, not killing anyone they feel like.
@goaded
Sell your pro riot stance to someone else
It's actually an anti-killing stance; which is not normally a controversial position. Do you think there would be rioting if the officer had been arrested and charged on the day it happened?
@goaded
You sure keep arguing for mass hords of criminals burning down businesses and stealing property.
Yousound like you would be out there with them
Why don't you quote where I said that? You said: "If a direct relative wanted to assassinate a direct involved cop... I would understand." You're advocating murder, I'm saying it's understandable that people riot when they're treated as disposable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rapfJYfPU38
@goaded
Yeah, you keep justifying riots.
"They are treated"
There is no they... there was this ONE man and 3 or 4 cops.
You play identity politics where all you need to know the races of large groups of people and then act like you know all you need to know about them and make all these assumptions.
All you need to know is that they are black... then you paint this one arrest to apply to everyone of that color.
That is idiotic.
Let my try to put this in a way that you can grasp. Riots: bad, Murder: worse, two Murders: much worse.
Also, killing somebody in police custody: bad, not caring: worse.
The riots are criminal acts that are drawing attention away from Floyd's death, which is the actual tragedy. Rioting and protesting injustice are two completely different things. Destroying stores, stealing flatscreen TVs, and burning the city to the ground is not protesting and does nothing but draw attention away from the actual tragedy, which is someone died in police custody that didn't deserve to die.
Neither does peacefully protesting police brutality... literally cost Kaepernick a job. The excuse? Not the right platform
Too bad, if u didn't want a large riot then dont go crazy with power
@Other_Tommy_Wiseau It wasn't the wrong platform for Kaepernick, it was the wrong time. He was on the clock when he chose to protest. You protest on your time, not on someone else's dime. If he had gone to the NFL and/or the players association, I'm sure they could've organized an event and/or charity.
@lockster The people that are destroying the city couldn't give two shits about Floyd being killed, other than his unnecessary death is a convenient cover and excuse for them being assholes.
He never resisted arrest so all that wasn’t necessary.
The officer after seeing the evidence seems pretty much guilty of murder, that however doesn't excuse the violence and hate and racism coming from the looters and rioters (they are not protesting a god damn thing, you don't protest by burning down peoples homes and busineses and stealing game consoles and tvs.).