They still haven’t opened the street where Saint Floyd died of a drug overdose.
I know a guy who lives a block from there. He said there is no need to cal the cops for any reason because they won’t show up.
I hate when attorneys try a case in the media instead of the courts. Lawyers are disgusting.
Facts are irrelevant to the narrative./sarc.
a tad late in the game now and I doubt if would have made any difference given how other similar incidents have been handled by BLM
Shortly after the incident, I opined (here) that the officers will NOT be found guilty. (And rightly so).
its not about floyd anymore
The weakest part of the case is he died from an overdose of fentynal, 4X OD dose...
Can’t murder a dead man. They’ll get back pay and some bucks from the city.
Rectum, he’ll, it killed him
So if Floyd was in Chicago and he was offed by one of his bruthas, we would have never heard of him?
BLM has already extorted $2 billion from corporate America. NFL, MLB and NBA are giving the BLM millions in free advertising with reference to the cause every game. BLM gets more publicity than any legitimate charity in the media and by now collected more cash than most big charities combined.
BLM has won this skirmish in the 2020 Civil/Cultural War. If the cops go free they collect more extortion money. If the cops are sent to prison they look for a new victim/champion to extort more money. Extortion is the game if only Je$$e Jack$on could have figured this scam years ago.
Seems likely that that's why he resisted arrest.
We knew there was only one reason that the body cam footage was not being released.
This is mostly just the right optics re: the original video. My guess is that all of the remaining evidence will be exculpatory for the officers.
That said, I have to question the tactics of trying to get Floyd into the back seat. Big dude like that, if he doesn’t want to get in the car, just trying to jam him in isn’t going to work. You could try a snoutful of pepper spray (but that probably won’t work because he’s so high), or maybe try the hobble. But, seriously, when the dude is so obviously high (you can hear one of the cops say they found a pipe, might be pcp or something), he’s gonna need to go to the hospital for a minimum “OK to book”. Just sit him on the curb until fire gets there with the ketamine.
Bumppo
Compare it to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6HvvPC2hL0
When once it was found out that it was a DUI cop they used kid gloves WAY before any force, much less ever deadly force, was ever used.
My friend’s dad from awhile ago was a Detroit cop. And he basically said every single one was beaten to near death on arrest.
First of all, I think there is a lot more going on than is being reported.
The thrust of the BLM complaint and riots is that an innocent black man was “murdered” by the police. Well, if you looked closely at the Police training manual it allowed the use of certain kinds of neck restrains in certain situations. It also banned other types of neck restraints. I strongly suspect that the knee on shoulder/neck restraint may have been in or close to what was taught as appropriate. Of course that will be for a jury to decide.
“Murder” has a technical legal meaning. There are many degrees of murder. However, the usual definition involves death “...without any warrant, justification, or excuse in law. with malice aforethought, express or implied, that is, with a deliberate purpose or a design or determination distinctly formed in the mind before the commission of the act....” A police office following departmental training would be hard to convict in front of a fair jury.
The next serious question was if there was a relationship (past work in a bar) between the police officer and the person who died. If there was a past relationship and it had anything to do with what the police officer was thinking, then the court case could be a real zoo.
I think that the Prosecutor is going to have a very hard case to prove. And Body Camera footage could make it even harder as it would give the Jury a police officer perspective on what was happening.
George Floyd illustrates what happens when a mind is fried on drugs. I never saw an imbecile as messed up as Floyd. Directions from the officer went in one ear and out the other. Compare to him, my cat is Einstein.
He promised to do what the police said, but he kept resisting. He also sid “I cant breathe,” long before the police had him on the ground.