Current Affairs George Floyd and Minneapolis Unrest

[jaycee]

Imagine living in a country were you were kept as slaves, been lynched for being the wrong colour,seen a president that advocates shooting you,being in fear for your life doing every day things,forgetting to indicate or listening to music on headphones,jogging all could end in your death and people wonder why your angry

 

[mahermi1]

In which case it seems like there is a big justification for rioting

Na don't think so, if that was your business they were looting, I'm quite sure you wouldn't be saying that.
Historically though violence does lead to violence and it should have been stamped on from the beginning, the guilty officer arrested and charged, then maybe a lot of this could have been prevented.

 

[Connor]

Been released thankfully

I've seen the video, it's incredible. Why on Earth would you arrest a guy for doing that when he was credentialled and was happy to be cooperate?!

Well, one guess as to why he was arrested Mike

 

[Kenshin]

The point is

The police (white police) murdered a black american for a minor misdemeanor. This is underlying racism in America but its been happening far too often over the years hence the anger.

 

[tsubaki]

Na don't think so, if that was your business they were looting, I'm quite sure you wouldn't be saying that.
Historically though violence does lead to violence and it should have been stamped on from the beginning, the guilty officer arrested and charged, then maybe a lot of this could have been prevented.

Perhaps, though whilst people are kept down like this these things will only ever require one person to make one mistake and it will happen again.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Well, one guess as to why he was arrested Mike

It’s amazing how Americans feel so emboldened to just be openly racist like that

 

[tsubaki]

It’s amazing how Americans feel so emboldened to just be openly racist like that

It really shouldn’t be - half the country only removed the ban on interracial marriages in the late 60s, and public attitudes in that half have only slowly become less intolerant of such things.

 

[mahermi1]

Perhaps, though whilst people are kept down like this these things will only ever require one person to make one mistake and it will happen again.

Correct, but how to break the cycle, surely there are other ways than violence, looting etc, that will just achieve more oppression and more emergency laws. Can't hope to understand the feelings of frustration and hopelessness these people must be feeling.

 

[LostLegend]

Shouty comment aside there, allegedly the pair (Floyd and the cop that killed him) used to work together at some point and likely knew each other...

 

[sdk]

I bet Colin Kaepernik kneeling doesn't look so bad now

See? See? Both sides! Both sides!!

 

[sdk]

People like to say there are lots of "good cops," but when the "good cops" are as likely as all other cops to defend bad cops from being held accountable for bad behavior, they're not good cops at all, are they?

 

[Rook]

People like to say there are lots of "good cops," but when the "good cops" are as likely as all other cops to defend bad cops from being held accountable for bad behavior, they're not good cops at all, are they?

99% percent of cops were good cops. which means given that there were 3 other cops just standing around watching while a man was murdered was just @#$% odds.

 

[LinekersLegs]

The only thing that would do that is evidence he didn’t die as the result of the neck compression, and it would have to be absolutely cast iron evidence such as Floyd being struck by lightning.

Looking for drug use and blaming it on that has been used as a tactic in the past - Jean Bothan’s use of pot being released to try to give some grounds for getting shot in his own apartment by a cop who “mistook” it as her own being one example.

Lawyers "disgusted" by release of search warrant showing marijuana found in Botham Jean's apartment

Following the shooting death of Botham Jean by the hands of Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger, multiple search warrants were executed at Jean’s apartment as part of the investigation.

www.fox4news.com

 

[zzr45]

99% percent of cops were good cops. which means given that there were 3 other cops just standing around watching while a man was murdered was just @#$% odds.

The problem is that the whole issue has been framed as 'us vs them'. which means that it becomes very difficult for the police to call out the actions of other officers. Doesn't excuse it whatsoever but it starts to get to the heart of why people don't step up.

Of course, the simple answer of ban guns - start to de-escalate confrontations between the police and citizens (the first thought isn't that its a life or death situation) and this nonsense dies down is something that will be roundly ignored.

 

[tsubaki]

Looking for drug use and blaming it on that has been used as a tactic in the past - Jean Bothan’s use of pot being released to try to give some grounds for getting shot in his own apartment by a cop who “mistook” it as her own being one example.

Lawyers "disgusted" by release of search warrant showing marijuana found in Botham Jean's apartment

Following the shooting death of Botham Jean by the hands of Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger, multiple search warrants were executed at Jean’s apartment as part of the investigation.

www.fox4news.com

She smoked? I suppose it would explain the paranoia.