It isn't super surprising because the media has done so much gaslighting and been so reticent to say what actually happened, but there appears to be some disconnect about what actually happened. Anyways, according to Wikipedia,

On the evening of Memorial Day, May 25, 2020, Floyd purchased cigarettes at Cup Foods, a grocery store at the intersection of East 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood of Minneapolis. A store employee believed Floyd had paid with a counterfeit $20 bill.[7][11]

Just before 8:00 pm, two Cup Foods employees left the store and crossed the street to an SUV parked in front of a restaurant; Floyd was in the driver's seat and two other adults were in the vehicle.[7]:1:25[11]:1:33[43] The employees demanded that Floyd return the cigarettes, and he refused.[11]:1:43[1] The interaction was filmed by the restaurant's security camera.[7]:0:49[11]:1:24[44][note 2] At 8:01, a store employee called police to report that Floyd had passed "fake bills" and was "awfully drunk" and "not in control of himself".[7]:1:33[11]:1:51[note 3]

-Note 3 is the following which I think is relevant:

The store owner said: "Most of the times when patrons give us a counterfeit bill they don't even know its fake so when the police are called there is no crime being committed just want to know where it came from and that's usually what takes place."

--Of course when police show up Floyd is sitting in the front seat of his car clearly compromised by substances, so at that point police actually have an obligation to escalate beyond just getting Floyd's information. The same thing happened in the Atlanta Wendy's drive thru case. If we want to change laws so it is legal to sit in the front seat of your car ****ed up as long as you aren't driving than that is fine, but my understanding is the DWI/DUI laws as written indicate if officers believed Floyd was under the influence they were obligated to act.

Erm, is this sarcasm to indicate you felt the joke was inappropriate?

I would guess the enhanced charges won't stick, but Republicans are creative when intending to use violence against people.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/utah-w...paint?ref=home

Four people who retweeted a tweet attempting to identify a police officer are being charged with felonies

lol. i dont think this is a place we want to go around this forum...

Must've struck a nerve I guess I notice you didn't take the opportunity to fill us in on the 'real' truth.
I've certainly read enough Irish history lol from the druids forward--do I need to go back further? or a little forward?

If the manner in which free citizens protest bothers you more than the police abuse they're protesting you're likely a fascist but there's always that one exception so be my guest.

So the police had an obligation to kneel on Floyd's neck until he was dead ?

You're right. That was relevant.

lol at any conservatives that whine and cry about how the Soviet Union treated people.

Yup that is everything.

When you see the police order a black mother with her children to the ground and bind them and leave them laying on hot pavement that is because they do not relate to them as equal humans.


As outraged as the race excuses will bet (and demand i prove it would not happen) that would NEVER happen to suburban Sally, a middle aged white mother, and her white kids.

And it should not. The outrage would be justified.

It is a complete failure in police training when cops who outnumber a mother and her kids, feel they cannot control the situation or at risk of the mother and kids, whom they could (and should) have already checked for weapons before handcuffing them and putting them on the ground, are suddenly going to get violent and overwhelm the cops and thus they need to take this precaution.


This comes from the dehumanization, and fear, too many cops carry around.

Are you familiar with the "Gate Test?"

Where do you rank Communism and Nazism on the evil ideology scale of 1-100?

90 to 100.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...hedge-clippers

I know Kelhaus and the rest of the Andy Ngo fan club are going to be up in arms over this:

A journalist guys. A JOURNALIST!

anyone that thinks Americans arent brainwashed needs to read this post.

All humans are brainwashed. It's in their nature.

It's how we survive.

Quickly Floyd’s fentanyl level was 11 nanograms per milliliter.

Tyler Skaggs an Angels pitcher who died last year from a fentanyl OD had a level of 3.8 nanos.

Tyler Skaggs Tragedy

More on this later but no it is not attacking Floyd. Rather it is about the specter of raising reasonable doubt at a trial. Chauvin doesn’t have to prove he is innocent.

Floyd didnt ****ing OD. apparently neither did Skaggs, he choked on his vomit.

and guess what, people build tolerances to opiods/opiates. what kills most people is a normal amount for an addict.

ok just clicked the link. alcohol potentiates opiates so it takes a lot less to die. also, it seems that Skaggs didnt OD rather he choked on his vomit.

so really I dont think there is any comparison in the cases and its only misinformation.

misinformation

and Skaggs had more than Fent in his system

seriously, thats some really poor framing.

All conservatives know that the best technique to administer to an overdosing patient is a neck kneel.

Usually 8-10 minutes does the trick.

I agree. Many Americans who haven't actually suffered living under a communist regime have been brainwashed to believe that communism is not evil.

What if I told you that authoritarianism was evil, but communism (although not how it was practiced by noted Communist authoritarian dictators in the 20th century) was literally in the Bible?

Is communism worse than nazism?