This is why we riot
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I agree. The police officer in the Floyd incident shares some guilt in this by being aggressive. However, George Floyd was certainly no saint.
You have George Floyd who is 6ft 6, convicted felon, armed home invasion, drunk, and high on fentanyl and meth, committing a crime by passing counterfeit money.
Gets arrested. Bad things happen.
I get it. Both men were wrong. Both were off.
But to make George Floyd some type of saint is bent.
You have George Floyd who is 6ft 6, convicted felon, armed home invasion, drunk, and high on fentanyl and meth, committing a crime by passing counterfeit money.
Gets arrested. Bad things happen.
I get it. Both men were wrong. Both were off.
But to make George Floyd some type of saint is bent.
Nothing that I've seen (though admittedly I haven't looked all that hard) has made out Floyd to be a saint. If Floyd had died in a shoot out or a physical altercation with the very same officer, and suffered injuries during the course of that altercation, there could have been more to this story.
But the video showing the officer systematically choking off the man's blood supply as he was handcuffed and completely subdued was just too much. At that point, nothing else matters.
Didn't we just go through this clown show with those two fighting over the virus? One of them said he was going to lockdown all of NYC and the other saying he lacked the authority and over his dead body would the City be shut down. And around and around they went while the citizenry were forced to be like kids watching their parents fight, and probably some people died while they were trying to figure out. Either because the shutdown was delayed or because the issue took away from working on finding/creating new beds.
They fight with each other more than they do with Trump. Trump might get pithy and fight with them but he also delivered bigtime afterwards. Not sure what comes out of Cuomo and DeCrockio fighting and being disorganized. If New York is going to be lefty and democrat- and it is- they should at least get some democrats who can work together. As with the virus fighting, probably more people will die and more looting burning will occur while they go in circles.
Wow..the fact that you have to explain that to him.....
WTF AMUN....who the fuck decides that a saint or sinner deserves to be murdered by a police officer. Funny how when a black person is killed by a police officer under very questionable circumstances such as these, there are always the few mentally challenged that rush out to say NOTHING about the cop but disparage the dead person....
Murder is murder plain and simple.
If I walk into a school and shoot 3 kids, you think it matters if the rest of the school and administration says those 3 were complete assholes?
I saw some video clip of the this police chief chick yesterday making some statements about how she did not want to put the lives her officers at risk over just property crimes. WTF!!!!
Santa Monica police chief faces calls to resign after officers watch businesses being looted, do nothing
Santa MonicaPolice Chief Cynthia Renaud is facing calls to resign after local television footage showed officers standing idly by as looters ransacked more than 80 stores in the city’s downtown area.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/santa-monica-police-chief-petition-resign-looting
Santa Monica police chief faces calls to resign after officers watch businesses being looted, do nothing
Santa MonicaPolice Chief Cynthia Renaud is facing calls to resign after local television footage showed officers standing idly by as looters ransacked more than 80 stores in the city’s downtown area.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/santa-monica-police-chief-petition-resign-looting
It's not just a black person being killed by the police. More whites are killed by police than blacks. Surprised? So was I until I researched it.
But you wouldn't hear anything about that because the media doesn't make you aware of it. Its not a big deal to them because it doesn't drive the "police are racist" narrative.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/
Now, before you try to tell me that proportionately more blacks are killed (because of the percentage of the population they represent) I would also remind you that proportionately blacks commit more crimes.
I know you didn't bring any of this up, but you continue to point out the injustices of when blacks are killed by the police. I'm telling you there are injustices across the board. Not as many as those that are legit defense, but they happen regardless of whether the suspect is white or black. There isn't a real race component. It is just bad police behavior/training for the vast majority of incidents.
Because, remember, the liberals are TOLERANT and only want peace. Doh!
Here's the link you want, it compares the rates, which takes proportions into account. It's not using absolute values as your link does.
Black Americans 2.5X More Likely Than Whites to Be Killed By Police
https://www.statista.com/chart/21872/map-of-police-violence-against-black-americans/
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Willem Roper,
Jun 2, 2020
Protests around the United States are boiling over after Minneapolis man George Floyd was killed by police. Floyd, accused of forging a $20 check, had his neck compressed by an officer’s knee while in handcuffs for roughly nine minutes before later dying. Other recent instances of racism against African Americans in the country have led to massive protests against police brutality and systemic, institutional racism that many feel have gone unchecked for decades.
In 2019 data of all police killings in the country compiled by Mapping Police Violence, black Americans were nearly three times more likely to die from police than white Americans. Other statistics showed that black Americans were nearly one-and-a-half times more likely to be unarmed before their death.
Most states’ police forces killed black people at a higher rate per capita rate than white people, with Illinois, New York and Washington D.C. carrying some of the largest discrepancies by state. D.C., with a black population of nearly 50 percent, had 88 percent of all police killings be against black Americans – a discrepancy of over 38 percentage points. Rhode Island had the largest discrepancy of 44 points, albeit with a much smaller sample size of four police killings in 2019 – two of them being African American.
While much of the western states have smaller discrepancies overall than eastern ones, large cities like Reno, Oklahoma City and Anaheim all had higher police killing rates of black people than the total U.S. murder rate. Others above the U.S. murder rate were St. Louis, Madison, Wis., Scottsdale, Ariz. and two others.
Overall, in 2019, 24 percent of all police killings were of black Americans when just 13 percent of the U.S. population is black – an 11-point discrepancy. Mapping Police Violence also showed that 99 percent of all officers involved in all police killings had no criminal charges pressed against them.
