One of them, who is white, was kneeling on his neck. But that's not what killed Floyd. There was another cop kneeling on his back. Combined, the two people put enough weight on Floyd that he was unable to breath and died of asphyxiation.
Here's the question: What's the skin color of the second cop kneeling on Floyd?
What's the skin color of the two other cops who stood around and watched?
There were four cops in total. You only hear about one.
Narrative pushing, people. The Media has earned their "Enemy of the People" moniker good and hard in the past two or three months, capped off by the past seven days where if the media weren't claiming that the protests were "peaceful", they were outright encouraging and fomenting violence. Anything to hurt Trump. They would rather burn America down than see Trump win another term.
Fuck the fucking fuckers.
A minor point. Floyd had Fentanyl in his system, and there were allegedly indications that he had been using meth earlier in the day. And he didn't die of asphyxiation, he died of a heart attack. The reason he was being arrested was because he was caught passing a fake $20 bill in that drug store (the ones who actually called the cops in the first place, and who have opened themselves up for much future agony by announcing that they will no longer call the police for non-violent offenses, like shoplifting).
ReplyDeleteNot excusing the cops' behavior, just making sure that you know.
Even with all the secondary indications in play, the cops screwed up. He was in handcuffs. You don't kneel on him for eight minutes, you pick him up, plop him on his ass and get him in the car. If the car isn't available for any reason, you keep him sitting on his ass.
ReplyDeleteIf he were unrestrained, different rules. But he was in handcuffs, and that cop did everything wrong. I spent five years as an MP, and I can tell you he screwed up bigly.