As opposed to letting a hundred thousand (and counting) die by not doing anything to properly fight against covid?
FBI investigating death of suspect after Minneapolis police officer put knee on neck
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That seems pretty standard for EMTs. They generally don't have the authority to declare a death.
The two scenarios are totally different.
What makes this worse is a Hispanic cop got off killing a black citizen a few years back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Philando_Castile
Then a Somali cop was sentenced to 12 years under a similar situation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Justine_Damond
Both of these shootings appear outrageous. Both cops were charged and fired.
The Black cop was convicted by a MN jury. The white cop was acquitted by a MN jury. I suspect the white cop got a little more than the benefit of the doubt at his trial.
OTOH both were prosecuted energetically right to trial. The MN DA's office appeared to want to do the right thing in both cases. The jury was the problem in the acquittal.
Thank god for the camera man. We can see the truth, not what they show us on paper.
All that matters is the outcome. It will looks horrible if justice isn't served and the reaction might be 10x worse to what we are seeing now.
10 times worse? I think that's an understatement. If that piece of shit gets acquitted, the reaction will be akin to this:
True as much as some people want to believe that President Obama is responsible for ISIS, the terrorist group started out as Al-Qaeda in Iraq as a resistance movement against American occupation. The siege of Fallujah is as bloody a battle American Marines have fought since the battle of Hue. They dropped "the mother of all bombs" to kill its leader Abu Musab Zarqawi...taking out 40 civilians with him.
Obama never did manage to grow a beard. Hue and Fallujah played out the same way, except that the Marines had air cover through the siege of the Iraqi city. Hue is now mostly de-classified.
Propaganda piece, Hue didn't play out exactly as described.
American firepower was neutralized because the fighting was door to door and room to room.
Yeah, but now the Muslims have won because they've forced the world to wear face coverings.
Qanon told me.
This is where protestors start to lose my sympathy
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1266929563046576128
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1266929563046576128
As satisfying as it might be to convict the other three, I would bet on their defense. Kneeling on someone's neck while maybe not procedure is not automatically lethal. The other three cops had no way to know the excessive pressure being applied by Chauvin.
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I think extreme negligence can be agreed upon between the city and the police union in order for the dismissals to stand. Unfortunately for these three, the police union doesn't want to be on their side in this ugly matter.
There are actually pictures of three of them kneeling on Floyd. They then stood and watched for nine minutes. If civilians don't render assistance to someone they are criminally responsible. To stand and watch and hold the crowd at bay by your presence makes you complicit. Still hasn't been explained why the didn't just put him in a squad car and take him away. What was the logic behind kneeling on his neck for 9 minutes? explain please..
