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Originally Posted by imperiouskitten
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George Floyd was not waving a knife around. If you pretend to have any respect for the principles of our justice system, his priors should be irrelevant. That said I will acknowledge the intimidation factor in there being a large black violent felon freaking out. I just think there should probably be a social worker or some sort of trained person present somewhere in a crew of 6 or 8 police officers, who engages with the guy conversationally in a manner other than "YOU WILL GET IN NOW" when he starts openly calling out a mental health freakout. I agree that we should fund that ^^
Yes the 2020 riots were bad, hope u dont think i liekd them granpa. I wish you could have a civil convo with me!
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If you watch the entire 20+ minute long body cam footage, the cops *were* being incredibly polite and civil, just doing their jobs, and asking him simple questions. They essentially were acting as social workers at that time. They didn't start yelling YOU WILL GET IN NOW until it was the last resort. Same with that dude who got shot after falling asleep in the wendy's drive thru. You only got to see the 7 seconds where they shot him. There were 20 minutes prior to that where they were super chill, just asking him what was up, and eventually determined he was too drunk to drive. They attempted to calmly place him in handcuffs and he freaked out and tried to steal their tazer and use it against them. Nobody gives a shit about these details, they just see the 7 second clip where he gets shot and respond emotionally. That guy, also, is responsible for his own death and his own actions. Not the cop. If they had just let him go, he easily could have ended up hurting innocent people who were not involved in the situation. Being a cop is probably really hard, I'd imagine, and the non stop dogpiling on them when they simply do their jobs is disturbing.
I understand he wasn't waving a knife around, but given that he has a violent criminal history, a social worker is not who you need. You need armed police. George floyd died because of the choices he made in his life, the demonization of the cops is completely out of proportion to what they actually did. The knee on the neck was over the top, I can agree with that. The rest of it was completely standard procedure and people are treating them as if they are hitler youth.