begging him to get off because there was something wrong with Floyd. All officers are mentioned but there is a plain reason why it's Floyd that gets the most attention. It's not some big media conspiracy.
Even if Floyd was a murderer a police officer can't do what Floyd did so whether he believed he did drugs or not is irrelevant.
Opioids and related synthetics can literally paralyze a person's diaphragm. Thus making it nearly impossible for them to breathe. Sure there are other core muscle groups that can help, most notably, the intercostal skeletal muscles, but they very quickly fatigue under strain compared to smooth muscles, especially if the rig cage is being squeezed. It has a ratcheting effect. This fact is practically universally taught to first responders, including law enforcement officers.
Therefore, whether or not Chauvin believed that Floyd was a junkie is very relevant to the case, because if he knew, or should have known, that Floyd was an addict, it is evidence of premeditation and/or negligence.
Whether or not the prosecutors could suppress that evidence from being presented to the jury is up to judicial discretion.
And your insinuation that the leftstream media isn't pushing a narrative that it was racially motivated murder is just stupid.
The kneeling on the neck of a suspect is being banned all around the country. Not even those who once supported it are still supporting it.
Right, and the more you make it harder and harder for police to do their job, the more police are simply not going to do their job.
No, they are making it harder on themselves. The more they defend things that are not defensible, the more the push back will be.
We're seeing that right now across the country. Police are simply disappearing, and crime and murder are out of control.
The idea that we can either have police that will on occasionally needlessly kill someone and we have to allow that or no police is complete hyperbole.
No, it's fact. You are the one engaging in hyperbole.
Because I post the facts. We know the ferguson effect is real. We know that police departments across the entire country are all facing personnel shortages.
We know that 200 plus officers in Minneapolis have walked off the jobs.
The retention and recruitment problems that many police departments have experienced in recent years are especially pronounced after four Minneapolis officers were charged with Mr. Floyd’s death.
www.nytimes.com
We know that there is a critical shortage of officers in California.
According to the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics, in many large cities, including Los Angeles and San Jose, there are now fewer officers per citizen than ten years ago.
abc30.com
And that was BEFORE all this started happening.
No, they are making it harder on themselves. The more they defend things that are not defensible, the more the push back will be.
What are you even talking about? They are not defending anything. They are simply LEAVING.
Articles and videos about 'Critical' shortage: More than 100 Seattle Police officers left the department last year on FOX 13 Seattle.
www.q13fox.com
Critical shortages are popping up everywhere left-wingers have attacked the police.
They are not defending anything... they are quitting. You can defend your own self.
And that is exactly what is happening.
Some elected officials say the recent surge in gun violence across the US is a case for bigger police budgets. But supporters of defunding law enforcement argue this moment is actually proof that the US doesn't need more police.
www.cnn.com
All across the country, in left-wing areas, crime is spiking out of control, and the police are simply not showing up until it's over. The police sit on the farthest side of town they can, wait for the 911 call, and then show up long after the bodies are cold, and the murderers are gone.
Why? Because better to not confront a criminal, than do so, and go to prison if he gets hurt.
You can say I'm engaging in hyperbole, but I have all the facts, and all the evidence, on my side. I just posted proof of everything I claimed.
So go ahead... keep "pushing back" against police. See how that's working for you.
The ones leaving should be leaving. They are arguing that if we are going to actually hole them responsible for violating the rights of individuals they will just quit. Great, quit. Then the cities can re-examine the needs of the force and train people to respect the individual rights of people.
So then based on your statement that the ones leaving are the ones that need to leave.....
Then all police need to leave. Because that is what is happening. Basically you are saying all people everywhere are bad people.
Because it's not just the ones leaving. No one is joining the police force. So I guess those who are not joining the police force, are also the ones that need to stay off?
My brother in law... he served in Iraq. He was in a truck with a buddy, who had his arm out the window when an IED blew off his arm, and disabled the truck. He carried his buddy back to base, in the dark.
When he came back to the States, he wanted to join the police force. But he looked around, and saw police were treated terribly by the public. He had more appreciation for him being a soldier, from the Iraqis, than police did from the people they were protecting in America.
He gave up his dream of being an officer. There is a nation wide shortage of new officers. People are not joining the police force. In fact, many police families, people who generation after generation went into being police officers, are telling their children to not be police officers.
That lame TV series Blue Bloods, is actually a real thing. Granpa was an officer. Father was an officer. And I'll be an officer.
Not anymore. No one wants to be the officer that does their job, and goes to prison for it.
Two months after the killing of Mr. Floyd, a South Minneapolis neighborhood remains a police-free zone.
www.nytimes.com
Two months after the police killing of George Floyd, the four-block area of South Minneapolis where he gasped his last breaths remains a sacred space, a no-go zone for officers.
At night, though, the space is increasingly a battleground, with shootings and drug overdoses. The area has had an uptick in gun violence similar to what
other cities have seen in the wake of protests.
“What people aren’t recognizing is that people who live there are having a very, very challenging time from the unlawfulness that is occurring after the sun goes down,” said Andrea Jenkins, a member of the City Council whose district includes the memorial space. “There are constant gunshots every night. Emergency vehicles can’t get in. Disabled people are not able to access their medications, their appointments, their food deliveries, et cetera. It’s a very challenging situation.”
Police are not going to even go there. Why help people, by confronting the criminals, when doing so would send you to prison?
So they just.... don't. You doing a great job confronting police. Shootings, drugs, violence. You don't care about all those black people, do you? So what if they can't get emergency vehicles. So what if the medics never show up? So what if disabled people can't get their meds, or food, and so on?
As long as the police don't hurt anyone, you don't care how many people are harmed by others.
Victory for criminals, and those that support them. Police leave, and everyone else suffers.
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