They are going for 3rd degree murder. Did the cop commit 3rd degree murder?
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I have no clue. I have heard that Floyd would be dead (from drugs) regardless of the crap with the cops. Apparently, he was so loaded up that he was dying as he was screaming at the cops (which is kinda hard to understand - "I can't breath" - yet he had enough oxygen left to make that statement....so rather than jump to conclusions, I don't know.
What I DO know, for a fact, is that I am an old man. Back in the dark ages, when I was a smart assed teenager, you mouthed off to a cop, you were going to "fall up the stairs" on the way to the station. God help you if you decided to mouth off and then throw a punch....
Today? What the hell are the cops supposed to do? Beg a suspect to behave? Good Lord....and we wonder why this country is going to hell as fast as it can go.......

[ Some people have a different logic now. Some time back there was in the news where a police officer responds to a domestic violence call. the officer knocks on the door of the house. a crazed black man comes out with a big knife and and charges at the officer. the officer quickly backs away the idiot comes at the officer with his raised arm with the knife in his hand ready to strike the officer . the officer fires his service weapon and he drops the idiot..next day blacks were protesting the killing of that black man by police. in a video of the protests a young black guy loudly wails. WHEN IS IT GOING TO STOP WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO STOP KILLING US. if that young black guy can't figure that out by himself. nobody can help him. some blacks believe that because they are black they have the right to do anything they want including charging a police officer with a knife and not get shot