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 who you are charged with controlling. I am even willing to admit that his priors and size are "mitigating factors". But they are *NOT* justification.
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 re: going away to jail. I agree that we should fund that ^^
Yes the 2020 riots were bad, hope u dont think i liekd them granpa. Your emotional response tells the whole tale. I wish you could have a civil convo with me!
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