Your attention span is too short, and they made the key point in the first few minutes.
What additional evidence?
Knee to the Neck.
No, you did not. You said “millions”. You then said Chauvin said “seven figures” which could be ONE million.
It could also be $9,999,999.99. Point was, the FOP and donations for right wingers gave Chauvin's lawyers millions to work with, resources your average kid accused of holding up a liquor store doesn't get.
But if the crime is caught on video, it doesn't matter much in either case.
Nevertheless, this is one of the services unions provide.
It shouldn't be, and for most unions, it isn't.
here's the problem. You look at any cop involved in one of these incidents of excessive force- Chauvin, Van Dyke, Wilson, Loehmann - you find a record that in most of the civilian world would have gotten you fired for poor conduct. Chauvin had been involved in a couple of officer-involved shootings and a previous case where he nearly choked a teenage boy to death. But thanks to the Union, he still had a job.
I think of the happy alternate universe, where there is no union, Chauvin gets fired the minute people realize he's a bad apple, and we avoid all the riots and huge payments.
And here's the thing. 99% of cops are good guys. But they feel a need to protect the bad apples like Chauvin.
They’re not there for your use unless you’re a cop and pay into it.
They shouldn't be there for cops, either. In fact, here's a modest solution to police brutality. Instead of the cities having to pay out the nine and ten figure settlements to victims of police brutality, the unions should pay those out of their pension funds. I'm betting they wouldn't be so keen to protect the bad apples after that point.
Which resulted in a witch hunt which then resulted in all officers being villified in a blanket condemnation which in turn resulted in officers being ambushed and assassinated.
Wow? Really? Okay, let's look at the "officers being assassinated claim". Using "Officer Down", a Copaganda site not less.
The number of cops killed by gunfire actually DROPPED in 2020.
In 2019 - 51 officers were shot in the line of duty
172 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty in 2019.
www.odmp.org
2020, that number dropped to 46
461 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty in 2020.
www.odmp.org
By way of comparison, 284 officers died of Covid that year.
5 were killed by "Inadvertand gun fire", which is a polite way of saying they were hit by bullets fired by other cops.
This notion that we have swaths of cop being murdered by the bad guys, and this is why they need to put a knee on someone's neck for 9 minutes or pump 16 rounds into a kid who was trying to break into a truck is fucking absurd, and frankly I'm tired of hearing it.
if the cops were REALLY concerned about cops being killed by guns, stand up to the fucking NRA and their nonsense of making it easy for a crazy person with a criminal record to buy a gun.
What does any of this have to do with Trump?
Are you fucking retarded? I explained to you that Covid and the Recession already had people on edge. Do you have some kind of learning disability, Corky?
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