Kirk said Floyd was a scumbag, but didn't deserve to die. His followers didn't have a problem with that remark. What would the response be if someone said Kirk was a scumbag but didn't deserve to die? How do those two remarks differ? Why is one acceptable but not the other?
Even though George Floyd served 5 years for holding a woman at gunpoint while she was robbed, I dont think he deserved to die or be executed, and as long as we are still breathing maybe we should all get second chances to the end.
I see what your saying here, but the fundamentals of these cases are quite different, and by the way... when George Floyd died, I did not call him a scum bag, I felt sorry for him in the way that he went out of this world. But thats just me. I find it in very bad taste to speak Ill of the dead unless, they maybe murdered a bunch of people , set someone on fire...something like that.
The thing is here though, one case involved an officer interaction/ altercation/ intervention... whatever you want to call it with a person a cop suspected of something. The end result of that became the subject of rogue cops, racist cops, and improper police procedure involving tactics AND medical attention, perhaps.
By people calling George Floyd a scumbag because of his past criminal history, it might rightly be seen as in bad taste and heartless by some because he suffered beyond whatever crime he might have been comiting at the moment.
But at the end of the day, what is that going to change? is it going to affect the way police behaviour as it relates to their interactions with criminals or with the public? I doubt it.
The other case was not about a random run in with a cop, it was about a planned assasination, and an assination over speech in America. Considering how easily SPEECH itself can be manipulated on the internet to portray whatever you want from someone, its an insanly dangerous moment in time.
Anyone who takes a strong stance on ANYTHING these days publicly is going to be offensive to someone. So does that make anyone fair game for assasination? When "offensive " speech keeps getting reacted to as if there was a crime commited, and the person who spoke those words is now a "this or that" and we allow ourselves to be desenstised to assassinations for speech... then America will completely unravel and we will become a third world nation.
