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[My Wife Hates CIV]

so mings idea is yet another garbage thread. more work for you i guess...

[-Jrabbit]

Exactly so.
Pretty sure the cops were called because of a suspected counterfeit $20 bill passed by Floyd.
Pretty sure that's not a capital offense.

And even if it were, Chauvin does not get to play judge, jury, and executioner.

[Sava]

Another violent criminal on drugs that couldn't be subdued.

in my dreams as SEAN CONNERY's regional accent consult career

ahem

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I'd use DYHYDRAGEN MONOXIDE against AL CAPONE

(hic)(sic)i spell bad a lot

dab dab dab(poorly)

[Sava]

(spectrum of ACCURACY):: resignation forces a discussion on the budget of any impeachment in ratio to LIKELIHOOD the THOUSAND YEAR meich make it

(sic)

[BeBMan]

In other other news the question is, if - after the resignation of Andrew Cuomo from his gov post - Prince Andrew will also resign from being prince

[Egbert]

I thought Floyd had been subdued as I do not see how one could put a knee on the neck of somebody who had not been subdued. I also imagine that the procedure would be to take him to the station, toss him in the cells to cool down and charge him with resisting arrest and failure to comply with lawful directions from police. I accept that the courts presumably found good reason to convict Chauvin of murder and that excessive force was used.

My view is that although Floyd was a bad person he ought not to have been killed. Surely if the police had handcuffed him they could get him to the station and into the cells alive.

[Uncle Sparky]

I didn't know Chauvin was on drugs at the time.... and the other cops at the murder didn't allow any of the witnesses to try to subdue the violent criminal. And technically, Chauvin had never been convicted prior to Floyd's murder, so while he had a long record of violence, wasn't a criminal at the time.

[SlowwHand]

Another violent criminal on drugs that couldn't be subdued.

[Egbert]

There seems no doubt that Floyd was a criminal and he was known to local police and very unfavourably known. There seems nothing exemplary about him. He was just another criminal and should be regarded as such. That said his criminal career does not justify his death and I believe the officer was convicted meaning killing the criminal was not justified in the circumstances. It boggles my mind that Floyd gets any favourable publicity. His death seems that tiny spark that lit a conflagration and I imagine there was a conflagration waiting to happen for reasons entirely unrelated to Floyd and his career as a criminal.

Perhaps US police do not get much training in dealing with difficult situations and also so many people are carrying guns it may make officers nervous? I say this because US police seem to kill an awful lot of people.

[Uncle Sparky]

The quickest way to deescalate a situation is to kill the person being an ass.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

The cop's position is in prison.

[Uncle Sparky]

Half the posters here are asses. None of them should be killed by a bad cop. Anyone to defend his murderer is "past ignorant and have ventured into the land of stupid.".

[SlowwHand]

You be in the cops position and tell me.

[giblets]

So, he deserved it?

[SlowwHand]

George Floyd was habitually an ass. If someone wants to make him their cause, they're past ignorant and have ventured into the land of stupid.