Derek Chauvin’s dope-fiend defense is part of an old playbook. But it’s outdated.

[IM2]

We Say Some Things Are Racist For a Reason.

Because they are.

Derek Chauvin’s dope-fiend defense is part of an old playbook. But it’s outdated.

Derek Chauvin’s defense attorney, Eric Nelson, will try to make the case next week that fentanyl and methamphetamine, not his client, killed George Floyd. He’s following a well-worn playbook that has succeeded in the past — but may have outlived its usefulness.

Many White police officers have beaten the rap on excessive-use-of-force charges by invoking a Black suspect’s apparent use of narcotics. But such testimony may not carry as much baggage in an age when drug use has lost some of its stigma, the public increasingly recognizes that addiction is a disease and the opioid epidemic means that millions of people, across the socioeconomic spectrum, have friends or family members who have struggled.

Almost five years ago, in the Minneapolis suburb of Falcon Heights, Officer Jeronimo Yanez fatally shot Philando Castile, an adored school cafeteria manager, about 60 seconds after pulling him over. Yanez claimed he was on hair-trigger alert after smelling weed in the vehicle and seeing a child in the back seat. “I thought if he has the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the 5-year-old girl,” he told investigators, “then what care does he give about me?”

Yanez was acquitted on all charges.

Two months after Castile was killed, White officer Betty Jo Shelby shot aspiring gospel singer Terence Crutcher in Tulsa. Prosecutors said Crutcher didn’t resist during the traffic stop, but Shelby said the unarmed Black man was being aggressive because he was under the influence of PCP, a hallucinogenic drug that an autopsy showed was in his system.

Shelby, too, was acquitted.

The dope-fiend defense has even worked without evidence of dope. In 1992, four Los Angeles cops were acquitted for the brutal beating, caught on video, of Rodney King after one testified that they feared the motorist was on PCP and that this would give him “Hulk-like strength.” His blood tested negative for PCP.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/09/derek-chauvins-dope-fiend-defense-is-part-an-old-playbook-its-outdated/

And despite all the evidence of police consistently lying on police reports we have people right here willing to believe whatever the police say.when it pertains to blacks.

 

[Muhammed]

George Floyd obviously overdosed on fake Percocet that was actually meth and fentanyl while Chauvin was actively trying to save his life. He tried to calm him down, prevented Floyd from bucking out into traffic and even helped lift him into an ambulance.

Moronic anti-white racists like you are just too stupid to comprehend that fact.

This is why you don't do drugs, kids.

 

[theHawk]

We Say Some Things Are Racist For a Reason.

Because they are.

Derek Chauvin’s dope-fiend defense is part of an old playbook. But it’s outdated.

Derek Chauvin’s defense attorney, Eric Nelson, will try to make the case next week that fentanyl and methamphetamine, not his client, killed George Floyd. He’s following a well-worn playbook that has succeeded in the past — but may have outlived its usefulness.

Many White police officers have beaten the rap on excessive-use-of-force charges by invoking a Black suspect’s apparent use of narcotics. But such testimony may not carry as much baggage in an age when drug use has lost some of its stigma, the public increasingly recognizes that addiction is a disease and the opioid epidemic means that millions of people, across the socioeconomic spectrum, have friends or family members who have struggled.

Almost five years ago, in the Minneapolis suburb of Falcon Heights, Officer Jeronimo Yanez fatally shot Philando Castile, an adored school cafeteria manager, about 60 seconds after pulling him over. Yanez claimed he was on hair-trigger alert after smelling weed in the vehicle and seeing a child in the back seat. “I thought if he has the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the 5-year-old girl,” he told investigators, “then what care does he give about me?”

Yanez was acquitted on all charges.

Two months after Castile was killed, White officer Betty Jo Shelby shot aspiring gospel singer Terence Crutcher in Tulsa. Prosecutors said Crutcher didn’t resist during the traffic stop, but Shelby said the unarmed Black man was being aggressive because he was under the influence of PCP, a hallucinogenic drug that an autopsy showed was in his system.

Shelby, too, was acquitted.

The dope-fiend defense has even worked without evidence of dope. In 1992, four Los Angeles cops were acquitted for the brutal beating, caught on video, of Rodney King after one testified that they feared the motorist was on PCP and that this would give him “Hulk-like strength.” His blood tested negative for PCP.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/09/derek-chauvins-dope-fiend-defense-is-part-an-old-playbook-its-outdated/

And despite all the evidence of police consistently lying on police reports we have people right here willing to believe whatever the police say.when it pertains to blacks.

Why don’t you get your blood up to 11 ng/ML with Fentanyl.

I’ll let a friend kneel on my neck for 9 minutes.

We’ll see who comes out unscathed.

 

[IM2]

We Say Some Things Are Racist For a Reason.

Because they are.

Derek Chauvin’s dope-fiend defense is part of an old playbook. But it’s outdated.

Derek Chauvin’s defense attorney, Eric Nelson, will try to make the case next week that fentanyl and methamphetamine, not his client, killed George Floyd. He’s following a well-worn playbook that has succeeded in the past — but may have outlived its usefulness.

Many White police officers have beaten the rap on excessive-use-of-force charges by invoking a Black suspect’s apparent use of narcotics. But such testimony may not carry as much baggage in an age when drug use has lost some of its stigma, the public increasingly recognizes that addiction is a disease and the opioid epidemic means that millions of people, across the socioeconomic spectrum, have friends or family members who have struggled.

Almost five years ago, in the Minneapolis suburb of Falcon Heights, Officer Jeronimo Yanez fatally shot Philando Castile, an adored school cafeteria manager, about 60 seconds after pulling him over. Yanez claimed he was on hair-trigger alert after smelling weed in the vehicle and seeing a child in the back seat. “I thought if he has the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the 5-year-old girl,” he told investigators, “then what care does he give about me?”

Yanez was acquitted on all charges.

Two months after Castile was killed, White officer Betty Jo Shelby shot aspiring gospel singer Terence Crutcher in Tulsa. Prosecutors said Crutcher didn’t resist during the traffic stop, but Shelby said the unarmed Black man was being aggressive because he was under the influence of PCP, a hallucinogenic drug that an autopsy showed was in his system.

Shelby, too, was acquitted.

The dope-fiend defense has even worked without evidence of dope. In 1992, four Los Angeles cops were acquitted for the brutal beating, caught on video, of Rodney King after one testified that they feared the motorist was on PCP and that this would give him “Hulk-like strength.” His blood tested negative for PCP.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/09/derek-chauvins-dope-fiend-defense-is-part-an-old-playbook-its-outdated/

hidence of police consistently lying on police reports we have people right here willing to believe whatever the police say.when it pertains to blacks.

Why don’t you get your blood up to 11 ng/ML with Fentanyl.

I’ll let a friend kneel on my neck for 9 minutes.

We’ll see who comes out unscathed.

Since that wasn't the case with Floyd and pros in the feild said that, the shit you imagined in your hopes to see a cop kill a black man and get away with it is your problem.

 

[theHawk]

We Say Some Things Are Racist For a Reason.

Because they are.

Derek Chauvin’s dope-fiend defense is part of an old playbook. But it’s outdated.

Derek Chauvin’s defense attorney, Eric Nelson, will try to make the case next week that fentanyl and methamphetamine, not his client, killed George Floyd. He’s following a well-worn playbook that has succeeded in the past — but may have outlived its usefulness.

Many White police officers have beaten the rap on excessive-use-of-force charges by invoking a Black suspect’s apparent use of narcotics. But such testimony may not carry as much baggage in an age when drug use has lost some of its stigma, the public increasingly recognizes that addiction is a disease and the opioid epidemic means that millions of people, across the socioeconomic spectrum, have friends or family members who have struggled.

Almost five years ago, in the Minneapolis suburb of Falcon Heights, Officer Jeronimo Yanez fatally shot Philando Castile, an adored school cafeteria manager, about 60 seconds after pulling him over. Yanez claimed he was on hair-trigger alert after smelling weed in the vehicle and seeing a child in the back seat. “I thought if he has the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the 5-year-old girl,” he told investigators, “then what care does he give about me?”

Yanez was acquitted on all charges.

Two months after Castile was killed, White officer Betty Jo Shelby shot aspiring gospel singer Terence Crutcher in Tulsa. Prosecutors said Crutcher didn’t resist during the traffic stop, but Shelby said the unarmed Black man was being aggressive because he was under the influence of PCP, a hallucinogenic drug that an autopsy showed was in his system.

Shelby, too, was acquitted.

The dope-fiend defense has even worked without evidence of dope. In 1992, four Los Angeles cops were acquitted for the brutal beating, caught on video, of Rodney King after one testified that they feared the motorist was on PCP and that this would give him “Hulk-like strength.” His blood tested negative for PCP.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/09/derek-chauvins-dope-fiend-defense-is-part-an-old-playbook-its-outdated/

hidence of police consistently lying on police reports we have people right here willing to believe whatever the police say.when it pertains to blacks.

Why don’t you get your blood up to 11 ng/ML with Fentanyl.

I’ll let a friend kneel on my neck for 9 minutes.

We’ll see who comes out unscathed.

Since that wasn't the case with Floyd and pros in the feild said that, the shit you imagined in your hopes to see a cop kill a black man and get away with it is your problem.

Wasn’t in the Floyd case? It’s in the autopsy. Not that facts and forensic evidence matters to morons like you. After all, it’s not about justice, it’s about “social justice”, based on feelings and imagined slights.

 

[Oldestyle]

We Say Some Things Are Racist For a Reason.

Because they are.

Derek Chauvin’s dope-fiend defense is part of an old playbook. But it’s outdated.

Derek Chauvin’s defense attorney, Eric Nelson, will try to make the case next week that fentanyl and methamphetamine, not his client, killed George Floyd. He’s following a well-worn playbook that has succeeded in the past — but may have outlived its usefulness.

Many White police officers have beaten the rap on excessive-use-of-force charges by invoking a Black suspect’s apparent use of narcotics. But such testimony may not carry as much baggage in an age when drug use has lost some of its stigma, the public increasingly recognizes that addiction is a disease and the opioid epidemic means that millions of people, across the socioeconomic spectrum, have friends or family members who have struggled.

Almost five years ago, in the Minneapolis suburb of Falcon Heights, Officer Jeronimo Yanez fatally shot Philando Castile, an adored school cafeteria manager, about 60 seconds after pulling him over. Yanez claimed he was on hair-trigger alert after smelling weed in the vehicle and seeing a child in the back seat. “I thought if he has the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the 5-year-old girl,” he told investigators, “then what care does he give about me?”

Yanez was acquitted on all charges.

Two months after Castile was killed, White officer Betty Jo Shelby shot aspiring gospel singer Terence Crutcher in Tulsa. Prosecutors said Crutcher didn’t resist during the traffic stop, but Shelby said the unarmed Black man was being aggressive because he was under the influence of PCP, a hallucinogenic drug that an autopsy showed was in his system.

Shelby, too, was acquitted.

The dope-fiend defense has even worked without evidence of dope. In 1992, four Los Angeles cops were acquitted for the brutal beating, caught on video, of Rodney King after one testified that they feared the motorist was on PCP and that this would give him “Hulk-like strength.” His blood tested negative for PCP.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/09/derek-chauvins-dope-fiend-defense-is-part-an-old-playbook-its-outdated/

And despite all the evidence of police consistently lying on police reports we have people right here willing to believe whatever the police say.when it pertains to blacks.

It seems that the NEW PLAYBOOK is to claim "sainthood" for each and every black person who is shot and killed while breaking the law.
Trayvon Martin was a saint! Michael Brown was a saint! George Floyd was a saint! Don't look at who they really were...that's "racist"! They're black and they were shot by a white person...which trumps all else!

 

[MarathonMike]

We Say Some Things Are Racist For a Reason.

Because they are.

Derek Chauvin’s dope-fiend defense is part of an old playbook. But it’s outdated.

Derek Chauvin’s defense attorney, Eric Nelson, will try to make the case next week that fentanyl and methamphetamine, not his client, killed George Floyd. He’s following a well-worn playbook that has succeeded in the past — but may have outlived its usefulness.

Many White police officers have beaten the rap on excessive-use-of-force charges by invoking a Black suspect’s apparent use of narcotics. But such testimony may not carry as much baggage in an age when drug use has lost some of its stigma, the public increasingly recognizes that addiction is a disease and the opioid epidemic means that millions of people, across the socioeconomic spectrum, have friends or family members who have struggled.

Almost five years ago, in the Minneapolis suburb of Falcon Heights, Officer Jeronimo Yanez fatally shot Philando Castile, an adored school cafeteria manager, about 60 seconds after pulling him over. Yanez claimed he was on hair-trigger alert after smelling weed in the vehicle and seeing a child in the back seat. “I thought if he has the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the 5-year-old girl,” he told investigators, “then what care does he give about me?”

Yanez was acquitted on all charges.

Two months after Castile was killed, White officer Betty Jo Shelby shot aspiring gospel singer Terence Crutcher in Tulsa. Prosecutors said Crutcher didn’t resist during the traffic stop, but Shelby said the unarmed Black man was being aggressive because he was under the influence of PCP, a hallucinogenic drug that an autopsy showed was in his system.

Shelby, too, was acquitted.

The dope-fiend defense has even worked without evidence of dope. In 1992, four Los Angeles cops were acquitted for the brutal beating, caught on video, of Rodney King after one testified that they feared the motorist was on PCP and that this would give him “Hulk-like strength.” His blood tested negative for PCP.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/09/derek-chauvins-dope-fiend-defense-is-part-an-old-playbook-its-outdated/

And despite all the evidence of police consistently lying on police reports we have people right here willing to believe whatever the police say.when it pertains to blacks.

It seems that the NEW PLAYBOOK is to claim "sainthood" for each and every black person who is shot and killed while breaking the law.
Trayvon Martin was a saint! Michael Brown was a saint! George Floyd was a saint! Don't look at who they really were...that's "racist"! They're black and they were shot by a white person...which trumps all else!

They can't quite make a saint out of the 16 year old girl who was trying to stab another girl. I did hear some Media Morons say "Let's not judge the girl just because she was having a BAD DAY. "

 

[IM2]

We Say Some Things Are Racist For a Reason.

Because they are.

Derek Chauvin’s dope-fiend defense is part of an old playbook. But it’s outdated.

Derek Chauvin’s defense attorney, Eric Nelson, will try to make the case next week that fentanyl and methamphetamine, not his client, killed George Floyd. He’s following a well-worn playbook that has succeeded in the past — but may have outlived its usefulness.

Many White police officers have beaten the rap on excessive-use-of-force charges by invoking a Black suspect’s apparent use of narcotics. But such testimony may not carry as much baggage in an age when drug use has lost some of its stigma, the public increasingly recognizes that addiction is a disease and the opioid epidemic means that millions of people, across the socioeconomic spectrum, have friends or family members who have struggled.

Almost five years ago, in the Minneapolis suburb of Falcon Heights, Officer Jeronimo Yanez fatally shot Philando Castile, an adored school cafeteria manager, about 60 seconds after pulling him over. Yanez claimed he was on hair-trigger alert after smelling weed in the vehicle and seeing a child in the back seat. “I thought if he has the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the 5-year-old girl,” he told investigators, “then what care does he give about me?”

Yanez was acquitted on all charges.

Two months after Castile was killed, White officer Betty Jo Shelby shot aspiring gospel singer Terence Crutcher in Tulsa. Prosecutors said Crutcher didn’t resist during the traffic stop, but Shelby said the unarmed Black man was being aggressive because he was under the influence of PCP, a hallucinogenic drug that an autopsy showed was in his system.

Shelby, too, was acquitted.

The dope-fiend defense has even worked without evidence of dope. In 1992, four Los Angeles cops were acquitted for the brutal beating, caught on video, of Rodney King after one testified that they feared the motorist was on PCP and that this would give him “Hulk-like strength.” His blood tested negative for PCP.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/09/derek-chauvins-dope-fiend-defense-is-part-an-old-playbook-its-outdated/

And despite all the evidence of police consistently lying on police reports we have people right here willing to believe whatever the police say.when it pertains to blacks.

It seems that the NEW PLAYBOOK is to claim "sainthood" for each and every black person who is shot and killed while breaking the law.
Trayvon Martin was a saint! Michael Brown was a saint! George Floyd was a saint! Don't look at who they really were...that's "racist"! They're black and they were shot by a white person...which trumps all else!

What law was Trayvon Martin breaking?

Stealing cigars is not punishable by death.

Neither is unknowingly passing a counterfeit bill.

What law was Philando Castile breaking?

Alton Sterling?

Ahmad Arbery?

John Crawford

Elijah McClain?

Tamir Rice?

Shut the fuck up you dumb ass white boy.

 

[YoursTruly]

George Floyd obviously overdosed on fake Percocet that was actually meth and fentanyl while Chauvin was actively trying to save his life. He tried to calm him down, prevented Floyd from bucking out into traffic and even helped lift him into an ambulance.

Moronic anti-white racists like you are just too stupid to comprehend that fact.

This is why you don't do drugs, kids.

While I agree with you about Floyds death, I have to say Chauvin didn't bother trying to keep Floyd alive until the ambulance showed up. Chauvin and the others were CPR certified. And they failed to perform any type of CPR.
Would it have made any difference? No one can say. But the fact is, they didn't even try.

I think those that are accusing Chauvin of being racist, are FoS. And are just playing the race card because it's their go to.

 

[Oddball]

There was enough fentanyl in Floyd's system to kill two people.

That the autopsy report wasn't entered into evidence is one of the multiple avenues that will be used to get at least a retrial, if not outright acquittal.

 

[YoursTruly]

Many White police officers have beaten the rap on excessive-use-of-force charges by invoking a Black suspect’s apparent use of narcotics.

Have they ever "beaten the rap" on excessive use of force by invoking a WHITE suspects apparent use of narcotics?

What you and this articles is missing is the pattern of drug usage. And trying to invoke race into a very recognisable drug problem.
Drug don't discriminate. They'll get any race high as a kite. And those drugs will make'm like it.

Food for thought: If there's a predominately white trash neighborhood in a city. That city has a predominately black police force that are constantly being called into this neighborhood and arresting white trash druggy thugs, are the black cops racist because they're arresting so many whites?

That's a hypothetical question, that's not posted for an answer. Only to make you understand (and prove) this isn't about race as much as you're told.

 

[YoursTruly]

There was enough fentanyl in Floyd's system to kill two people.

That the autopsy report wasn't entered into evidence is one of the multiple avenues that will be used to get at least a retrial, if not outright acquittal.

I'm pretty sure the autopsy report was entered. But the defence didn't make as much of a deal about it as they should have. They didn't have "expert medical examiners" called in to prove the fact that Floyds drug usage was part of his death.
This is what makes me think this trail (at least the verdict) was pre determined to save Minneapolis from burning. As well as other cities across the country.

 

[mikegriffith1]

We Say Some Things Are Racist For a Reason.

Because they are.

Derek Chauvin’s dope-fiend defense is part of an old playbook. But it’s outdated.

Derek Chauvin’s defense attorney, Eric Nelson, will try to make the case next week that fentanyl and methamphetamine, not his client, killed George Floyd. He’s following a well-worn playbook that has succeeded in the past — but may have outlived its usefulness.

Many White police officers have beaten the rap on excessive-use-of-force charges by invoking a Black suspect’s apparent use of narcotics. But such testimony may not carry as much baggage in an age when drug use has lost some of its stigma, the public increasingly recognizes that addiction is a disease and the opioid epidemic means that millions of people, across the socioeconomic spectrum, have friends or family members who have struggled.

Almost five years ago, in the Minneapolis suburb of Falcon Heights, Officer Jeronimo Yanez fatally shot Philando Castile, an adored school cafeteria manager, about 60 seconds after pulling him over. Yanez claimed he was on hair-trigger alert after smelling weed in the vehicle and seeing a child in the back seat. “I thought if he has the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the 5-year-old girl,” he told investigators, “then what care does he give about me?”

Yanez was acquitted on all charges.

Two months after Castile was killed, White officer Betty Jo Shelby shot aspiring gospel singer Terence Crutcher in Tulsa. Prosecutors said Crutcher didn’t resist during the traffic stop, but Shelby said the unarmed Black man was being aggressive because he was under the influence of PCP, a hallucinogenic drug that an autopsy showed was in his system.

Shelby, too, was acquitted.

The dope-fiend defense has even worked without evidence of dope. In 1992, four Los Angeles cops were acquitted for the brutal beating, caught on video, of Rodney King after one testified that they feared the motorist was on PCP and that this would give him “Hulk-like strength.” His blood tested negative for PCP.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/09/derek-chauvins-dope-fiend-defense-is-part-an-old-playbook-its-outdated/

And despite all the evidence of police consistently lying on police reports we have people right here willing to believe whatever the police say.when it pertains to blacks.

This is sheer idiocy. You didn't even watch one minute of the defense's opening and closing arguments or their expert witnesses?

You have no clue what you're talking about.

 

[Rocko]

We Say Some Things Are Racist For a Reason.

Because they are.

Derek Chauvin’s dope-fiend defense is part of an old playbook. But it’s outdated.

Derek Chauvin’s defense attorney, Eric Nelson, will try to make the case next week that fentanyl and methamphetamine, not his client, killed George Floyd. He’s following a well-worn playbook that has succeeded in the past — but may have outlived its usefulness.

Many White police officers have beaten the rap on excessive-use-of-force charges by invoking a Black suspect’s apparent use of narcotics. But such testimony may not carry as much baggage in an age when drug use has lost some of its stigma, the public increasingly recognizes that addiction is a disease and the opioid epidemic means that millions of people, across the socioeconomic spectrum, have friends or family members who have struggled.

Almost five years ago, in the Minneapolis suburb of Falcon Heights, Officer Jeronimo Yanez fatally shot Philando Castile, an adored school cafeteria manager, about 60 seconds after pulling him over. Yanez claimed he was on hair-trigger alert after smelling weed in the vehicle and seeing a child in the back seat. “I thought if he has the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the 5-year-old girl,” he told investigators, “then what care does he give about me?”

Yanez was acquitted on all charges.

Two months after Castile was killed, White officer Betty Jo Shelby shot aspiring gospel singer Terence Crutcher in Tulsa. Prosecutors said Crutcher didn’t resist during the traffic stop, but Shelby said the unarmed Black man was being aggressive because he was under the influence of PCP, a hallucinogenic drug that an autopsy showed was in his system.

Shelby, too, was acquitted.

The dope-fiend defense has even worked without evidence of dope. In 1992, four Los Angeles cops were acquitted for the brutal beating, caught on video, of Rodney King after one testified that they feared the motorist was on PCP and that this would give him “Hulk-like strength.” His blood tested negative for PCP.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/09/derek-chauvins-dope-fiend-defense-is-part-an-old-playbook-its-outdated/

And despite all the evidence of police consistently lying on police reports we have people right here willing to believe whatever the police say.when it pertains to blacks.

Drug addiction may very well be a disease, but it’s self inflicted

 

[Muhammed]

George Floyd obviously overdosed on fake Percocet that was actually meth and fentanyl while Chauvin was actively trying to save his life. He tried to calm him down, prevented Floyd from bucking out into traffic and even helped lift him into an ambulance.

Moronic anti-white racists like you are just too stupid to comprehend that fact.

This is why you don't do drugs, kids.

While I agree with you about Floyds death, I have to say Chauvin didn't bother trying to keep Floyd alive until the ambulance showed up. Chauvin and the others were CPR certified. And they failed to perform any type of CPR.
Would it have made any difference? No one can say. But the fact is, they didn't even try.

I think those that are accusing Chauvin of being racist, are FoS. And are just playing the race card because it's their go to.

They were being confronted by a hostile crowd. Turning your back on them would put you in mortal danger. Also, Floyd was obviously going berserk on hard drugs. Therefore Chauvin would have been endangering himself if took Floyd's handcuffs off and tried to perform CPR. Even the EMS squad understood that performing CPR on the scene wasn't an option.

And besides, saying that he should have performed CPR is just idiotic Monday morning quarterbacking in the first place.

And CPR rarely works in overdose cases anyways. It's not like on TV.

Whoever sold Floyd the counterfeit Percocet killed him, not Chauvin.

 

[Oldestyle]

We Say Some Things Are Racist For a Reason.

Because they are.

Derek Chauvin’s dope-fiend defense is part of an old playbook. But it’s outdated.

Derek Chauvin’s defense attorney, Eric Nelson, will try to make the case next week that fentanyl and methamphetamine, not his client, killed George Floyd. He’s following a well-worn playbook that has succeeded in the past — but may have outlived its usefulness.

Many White police officers have beaten the rap on excessive-use-of-force charges by invoking a Black suspect’s apparent use of narcotics. But such testimony may not carry as much baggage in an age when drug use has lost some of its stigma, the public increasingly recognizes that addiction is a disease and the opioid epidemic means that millions of people, across the socioeconomic spectrum, have friends or family members who have struggled.

Almost five years ago, in the Minneapolis suburb of Falcon Heights, Officer Jeronimo Yanez fatally shot Philando Castile, an adored school cafeteria manager, about 60 seconds after pulling him over. Yanez claimed he was on hair-trigger alert after smelling weed in the vehicle and seeing a child in the back seat. “I thought if he has the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the 5-year-old girl,” he told investigators, “then what care does he give about me?”

Yanez was acquitted on all charges.

Two months after Castile was killed, White officer Betty Jo Shelby shot aspiring gospel singer Terence Crutcher in Tulsa. Prosecutors said Crutcher didn’t resist during the traffic stop, but Shelby said the unarmed Black man was being aggressive because he was under the influence of PCP, a hallucinogenic drug that an autopsy showed was in his system.

Shelby, too, was acquitted.

The dope-fiend defense has even worked without evidence of dope. In 1992, four Los Angeles cops were acquitted for the brutal beating, caught on video, of Rodney King after one testified that they feared the motorist was on PCP and that this would give him “Hulk-like strength.” His blood tested negative for PCP.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/09/derek-chauvins-dope-fiend-defense-is-part-an-old-playbook-its-outdated/

And despite all the evidence of police consistently lying on police reports we have people right here willing to believe whatever the police say.when it pertains to blacks.

It seems that the NEW PLAYBOOK is to claim "sainthood" for each and every black person who is shot and killed while breaking the law.
Trayvon Martin was a saint! Michael Brown was a saint! George Floyd was a saint! Don't look at who they really were...that's "racist"! They're black and they were shot by a white person...which trumps all else!

What law was Trayvon Martin breaking?

Stealing cigars is not punishable by death.

Neither is unknowingly passing a counterfeit bill.

What law was Philando Castile breaking?

Alton Sterling?

Ahmad Arbery?

John Crawford

Elijah McClain?

Tamir Rice?

Shut the fuck up you dumb ass white boy.

Trayvon Martin committed assault and battery.
George Floyd was told repeatedly that the bill he gave the store was counterfeit and he needed to return the cigarettes he bought with the bill. That was AFTER his friend had already tried to buy them with the same bill and been turned down! You claiming Floyd didn't know the bill was a fake is laughable. He knew.

 

[Muhammed]

We Say Some Things Are Racist For a Reason.

Because they are.

Derek Chauvin’s dope-fiend defense is part of an old playbook. But it’s outdated.

Derek Chauvin’s defense attorney, Eric Nelson, will try to make the case next week that fentanyl and methamphetamine, not his client, killed George Floyd. He’s following a well-worn playbook that has succeeded in the past — but may have outlived its usefulness.

Many White police officers have beaten the rap on excessive-use-of-force charges by invoking a Black suspect’s apparent use of narcotics. But such testimony may not carry as much baggage in an age when drug use has lost some of its stigma, the public increasingly recognizes that addiction is a disease and the opioid epidemic means that millions of people, across the socioeconomic spectrum, have friends or family members who have struggled.

Almost five years ago, in the Minneapolis suburb of Falcon Heights, Officer Jeronimo Yanez fatally shot Philando Castile, an adored school cafeteria manager, about 60 seconds after pulling him over. Yanez claimed he was on hair-trigger alert after smelling weed in the vehicle and seeing a child in the back seat. “I thought if he has the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the 5-year-old girl,” he told investigators, “then what care does he give about me?”

Yanez was acquitted on all charges.

Two months after Castile was killed, White officer Betty Jo Shelby shot aspiring gospel singer Terence Crutcher in Tulsa. Prosecutors said Crutcher didn’t resist during the traffic stop, but Shelby said the unarmed Black man was being aggressive because he was under the influence of PCP, a hallucinogenic drug that an autopsy showed was in his system.

Shelby, too, was acquitted.

The dope-fiend defense has even worked without evidence of dope. In 1992, four Los Angeles cops were acquitted for the brutal beating, caught on video, of Rodney King after one testified that they feared the motorist was on PCP and that this would give him “Hulk-like strength.” His blood tested negative for PCP.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/09/derek-chauvins-dope-fiend-defense-is-part-an-old-playbook-its-outdated/

And despite all the evidence of police consistently lying on police reports we have people right here willing to believe whatever the police say.when it pertains to blacks.

It seems that the NEW PLAYBOOK is to claim "sainthood" for each and every black person who is shot and killed while breaking the law.
Trayvon Martin was a saint! Michael Brown was a saint! George Floyd was a saint! Don't look at who they really were...that's "racist"! They're black and they were shot by a white person...which trumps all else!

What law was Trayvon Martin breaking?

Attempted murder, obviously.

You're an idiot.

Instead of shouting "no justice, no peace" you should be shouting "ya'll pregnant, don't drink".

A lot of the reason so many blacks are so fucking stupid that they can't learn basic math is because their mothers drank alcohol while they were pregnant.

Black kids are 7 times more likely than white kids to suffer from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. And that makes them stupid and causes behavioral problems that end up putting them in prison.

 

[SavannahMann]

Video is killing the narrative. The same sort of thing happened in the past. Only all we had was the cop’s professional narrative on events. Then private cameras became available. And some lies were exposed.

As cameras became more prevalent more of the excuses from the police were exposed to be thin, or outright lies.

The worst enemy of police is YouTube. No longer did someone need to get the attention of a reporter and hope they found the story newsworthy. No longer was editing able to soften the brutality. Now it was available. And then cameras were on phones. Live streaming was next.

Daniel Shaver. The police claim I was afeared for my life looked weak.

Now cops hate this. They tried to get laws passed to prevent it. They try to claim laws exist to prevent it.

One example.



And remember that is one. Out of thousands of examples.

And there are examples of much worse behavior by police.

Now the defenders of the cops are outraged. The old excuses don’t work anymore. And they have to blame someone. They blame BLM. They ask the stupid question. Who are you going to believe? Me or your own eyes?

The answer is their own eyes. And that infuriates the pseudo law and order types.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

George Floyd obviously overdosed on fake Percocet that was actually meth and fentanyl while Chauvin was actively trying to save his life. He tried to calm him down, prevented Floyd from bucking out into traffic and even helped lift him into an ambulance.

Horseshit. Horseshit and more horseshit .Have a horseshit sandwich on me.

 

[mikegriffith1]

You clearly have no clue about Chauvin's defense. If you want to read the arguments that Chauvin's attorney put forward for his defense, here you go:

Defense Opening Statement Transcript: Derek Chauvin Trial for Murder of George Floyd - Rev

Defense Closing Argument Transcript: Derek Chauvin Trial For Murder of George Floyd - Rev

Floyd caused the incident and brought on his own death. Having a 5'9" 140-pound man put his knee on your shoulder blade for 9 minutes is not going to kill you if you are a healthy 6'3 223-pound man. The problem was that not only was Floyd not a healthy man, he had just taken three times the lethal dosage of fentanyl.

You have to be dishonest or brainless to believe the prosecution's ludicrous claim that Floyd died of asphyxia, i.e., that Chauvin choked him by having his knee on him, and that Floyd's heart problem, hypertension, and recent drug use had nothing to do with his death. There was zero, zero, zero evidence of asphyxiation. None. Nada. The medical examiner made this clear:

There was no evidence of petechial hemorrhaging. There was no bruising to the neck or back above the skin, under the skin, or into the subcutaneous muscles of the neck and back. And he said he would expect to see those things in a case like this. There was no finding that pressure was applied to the point to cause these injuries. There were no injuries to the structures of his neck and that when he finally did review the video, it didn’t appear that the placement of the knee affected the structures of the neck because Mr. Floyd could lift up his head, turn his head, move it around. He saw no fractures to the structures of the neck, including the hyoid bone. There were no soft tissue injuries to the sides of Mr. Floyd’s neck.