So, all the deaths and property destruction that followed was justified? Are you ok that race relations have been set back because of the violent response, to the hurt of the black community? And why is it ok for blacks to wantonly kill other blacks, including black children, by the hundreds, and no one raises an eyebrow?
The outcry over George Floyd's death rested on a single smartphone video taken by a bystander. Because of that video dozens of others lost their lives and dozens of businesses and buildings were burned to the ground. Most have never recovered.
Do you think the 'cause' of black people was advanced by all this? I'm not a racist, but I am more critical of blacks because of this, and because of the black crime wave now sweeping the country.
She made a claim that she absolutely can't back up, where as she is trying to say that the knee to Floyd's neck killed Floyd, and the drugs in his system didn't.
It has been established that the knee to Floyd's neck didn't kill Floyd, but the amount of drugs in his system alledgedly did. Floyd was saying he couldn't breathe before falling to the ground after struggling to remove himself from the back of the police cruiser. In his struggle the officer then detained Floyd with an alledged legal hold that he held for too long while a top Floyd.
Everyone by a majority in the country agreed that the officer held Floyd for way to long in the hold, and alledgedly didn't consider his medical emergency that should have been attended too once he was detained/handcuffed safely.
However when in a situation where a suspect is suspected of being on drug's, and a struggle with that suspect erupts, who is to say what are fake cries or real cries from a suspect that is struggling with officer's instead of going along peacefully ??
I absolutely was appalled at the situation of the knee, but what do I know as an untrained citizen who doesn't have to deal with situations like that ? Hopefully politics didn't decide the fate of the officer's involved, and the facts of the case did.
Nothing wrong with peaceful protest, and nothing wrong with the study of all case's in order to make our law enforcement a better crime enforcement agency, but it helps to also shed light on the citizen's biased untrained eye when it comes to becoming "emotionally involved" in a law enforcement action, otherwise just like we saw in the case's concerning Floyd, M.Brown and/or other's.
Hopefully we are learning and learning quickly about these things, because we must separate the bad guy's and the good guy's with a skilled and trained eye.
We have to have police, and citizen's willing to serve, but this has placed a dark cloud over the situation, and it has destroyed trust, and it has caused the people qualified and tough enough to serve to say to themselves "OH HELL NO I'M NOT GOING INTO THAT FIELD", because the stakes have gotten way to high, but law enforcement can deal with it by incorporating training that will protect the officer's from being set up. If have to ride two officer's to a vehicle like the show "One Adam 12" once depicted in the 60s, then so be it, and also train the officer's that are trying to be a lone wolf hero, that it is not the order of the day for them, but rather it's a collaborative effort to stay alive while serving the public safely.. That is the ultimate goal instead.