Covington 2: George Floyd Boogaloo
POSTED BY: 6IXSTRINGJACK
UPDATED: Monday, May 27, 2024 20:23
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That doesn't look like murder to me.
Having a hard time finding any racism either. In fact, I think everyone was pretty patient and calm given that this beast of a dude was obviously drugged out of his mind and acting paranoid and extremely sketchy.
This footage would make for a very boring Rage Against the Machine music video.
TBTB are going to have to realize that cameras being everywhere are going to make it harder for them to push their narrative.
It's absolutely abhorrent that this footage wasn't shown since day one, and we're only seeing it 2 months later. Despite the video having over 4.5 million views, YouTube is suppressing it by keeping it off trending and burying the search results under videos that only have a few thousand views.
The Legacy Media needs to go. And they can take Antifa and BLM with them. Maybe when Trump wins in November they can all go to California and split off from the union.
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Plenty of opinions on this for the last two months.
Everybody's bag of George Floyd fucks is empty today though, huh?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Here is one intepretation NOT MINE
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Now, with the leak of the police body-camera footage of the arrest of George Floyd, we have confirmation of what sensible people suspected all along: George Floyd was not a victim of police brutality or injustice.
The story we had been sold was that, for no good reason, Floyd was thrown to the ground by a brutal cop, Derek Chauvin, who then put his knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes while Floyd pled that he could not breathe, choking him to death.
Based on this story, Derek Chauvin was fired and indicted for murder, and the three other cops who assisted him were fired and indicted for aiding and abetting murder.
Also based on this story, America has been convulsed by more than two months of race riots, which have killed dozens, injured countless others, and destroyed billions of dollars in property and countless livelihoods.
There were many facts that did not fit this story, however.
George Floyd’s autopsy revealed that he wasn’t suffocated. Instead, he died of heart failure. He was suffering from heart disease and COVID-19. He also had the opioid fentanyl in his system as well as methamphetamine. The medical examiner said these drugs contributed to this death. (He also had traces of cannabis.)
Beyond that, Floyd was apprehended before he could drive off, clearly intoxicated, after trying to pass a counterfeit bill. Should the police have allowed him to just drive away? Obviously not. They had to do something to get Floyd out of his car and away from the public so he could not endanger himself or others.
The person who called the police reported that Floyd was acting strangely, which in all likelihood meant that he was intoxicated or mentally ill, thus not to be trifled with.
It turns out that Floyd had a long criminal record, including an armed robbery in which held a gun to the stomach of a pregnant woman. In short, George Floyd was a real piece of shit.
Moreover, putting a knee on an uncooperative suspect’s neck is an approved police control technique, so how could Chauvin be indicted for murder?
Finally, there was never any evidence that race played any role in Floyd’s death. He was not arrested because he was black, but because he committed a crime. He was not forcibly restrained because he was black, but because he was uncooperative. Two of the four officers were non-white. The claim that race had anything to do with Floyd’s death at all was simply a baseless assertion amplified and endlessly repeated by the media and BLM agitators.
But now we know that it was all a fraud. What does the police body camera footage reveal?
First of all, it reveals that George Floyd was dishonest, uncooperative, and acted deranged and scary.
Floyd claimed that he had just lost his mother (he hadn’t).
He claimed to be too claustrophobic to get in the police car, which was a lie because he was not too claustrophobic to sit in his own car.
He claimed twice that he was not on drugs, falsely.
He refused repeatedly to allow the police to cuff him.
He refused repeatedly to get in the police car.
He claimed multiple times that he could not breathe before he ended up on the ground with Chauvin’s knee on his neck. Obviously he was lying before that, so it made sense for Chauvin to disbelieve him when Floyd was on the ground. And, in any case, remember that the medical examiner said Floyd did not die of asphyxiation.
Second, the video reveals that the police dealt with Floyd with a level of patience and professionalism that I certainly could not have mustered. One cannot say that Chauvin lost his patience or lashed out at Floyd.
Ask yourself, dear reader, would you have been able to maintain your cool in the same situation? I know I would have snapped. I was thinking “Couldn’t we just arm police with tranquilizer darts to bring these beasts down?” ThiNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Floyd was in handcuffs. At that point I would have either rolled him onto his side or sat him up. When it comes to Floyd in particular, if he was having an acute heart failure episode, every single time he said he couldn't breathe might very well have been true, not just after being restrained but before as well.
In general, egregious behavior by police generically seems to happen when people are already restrained in cuffs. There should be a bright-line policy that once a person is in cuffs you shouldn't be tasing them, dog-piling them etc.
Another issue very generally is prone positioning. Once a person is in cuffs they shouldn't be allowed to be prone positioned, or worse, be restrained by the weight of multiple people in a prone position. It's a medically dangerous practice.
Finally, Chauvin became over-focused on the bystanders and failed to notice Floyd had stopped moving. IN GENERAL police should be given at least EMT training with a yearly refresher so they can be true first responders and be cognizant of when a medical situation has developed.
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Easy to say. Looks like he was twice the size of the cops you did see in the video. And he was tripping balls and completely unpredictable.
Cops don't go to where you work and slap the dick out of your mouth.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Floyd was in cuffs. And btw his struggling could have been due to the fact he was suffocating from heart failure and struggling to breathe.
Believe me, due to my stints in various hospitals but especially a very large county hospital I've seen big burly dudes on PCP safely restrained and brought in, by EMTs no less, not police. And Floyd was nothing even remotely like that. (That's something I'm sure you haven't seen.)
Once a person is in cuffs the situation is under far greater control and the person shouldn't be subjected to tasers, dog-piling, neck restraints, or prone positioning.
ETA: once cuffs are on in terms of getting out of restraints there's only 3 options I know of - break the cuffs (my since-retired cop friend tells me that's not likely), break your bones (I haven't seen it but I'm sure it's happened with strong people on PCP), or slip your cuffs for example by bringing your hands down and forward and squeezing your butt and legs through (a few very flexible small people have managed that).
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Well... maybe that could be investigated further.
Worst case scenario, this was just shoddy police work. And I'm only saying that because I'm playing devil's advocate for what you're saying right now.
This wasn't racism, and it certainly wasn't murder.
And at the end of the day, this dude was a huge piece of shit. But that's the hill the Democrats and the Legacy Media chose to die on.
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My retired-cop friend told me about some of the games you can play if you're a cop. One is to put the cuffs on really, really tightly - to be excruciatingly painful. Another is to not use two sets of cuffs on people who are either really large or really inflexible, but to simply force their arms back and then restrain them there. The other is the 'rough ride'. All of these are allowable, because cops are given a lot of latitude.
That they should use them more on people of color is racism in action, but you wouldn't know that by looking at any one instance.
BTW I don't think it's a case of murder, but imo it's what I understand as criminally negligent homicide.
ETA: And btw I completely disagree to the point of being outraged with charges being filed against the cops who shot Rayshard Brooks. Brooks stole a taser AND POINTED IT AT COPS. And there's some video indication he might have fired it. (AFAIK when a taser it fired it releases a confetti of small pieces of paper with the taser SN on them, as evidence. If Brooks fired the taser there should have been evidence literally all over the place. But the media is pretty mum about whether or not that's true.)
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That's it, racists. Blame the victim.
The idiots that post things like "If he didn't do x, he would still be alive" honestly feel like they're treating the police like a force of nature that has no moral leaning and will kill you without remorse if you make a mistake.
That's exactly the problem! You shouldn't have to take explicit security precautions to avoid being murdered by police. Black people are well aware that an encounter with police can quickly turn into a game of Simon Says, and if you don't do it just right, you're dead.
God bless the heroes of BLM for standing up to this fascism.
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Quote:The standard and approved methods cause many deaths: U.S. Police kill civilians at a much higher rate than police in other wealthy countries.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Gonna let that simmer for a bit with the question: How would YOU have handled Flyod? (SECOND is probably thinking: "I would have just shot him.")
George Floyd got justice.
www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/
The chart above compares the annual rates of police killings in each country, accounting for differences in population size. This is the most apples-to-apples comparison we can make with this data. But the total number of deaths at the hands of police is also worth seeing in comparison with other countries.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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