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[Doctor Gollum]

Have you actually read the NYT piece 

[Lizzie Zoom]

Have you actually read the NYT piece 

No, I have not.  watched the BBC broadcasted piece and made up my own mind on what I saw.

[Lizzie Zoom]

I have now read the NYT piece, and my opinion has not changed.

I would add the man was provactive and obviously taunting the police, as many do, and got what happened.  Yes, he tripped going backwards but due to his decision to go backwards away from the officers.  He struck his head, but that was not down to police actions but the consequence of his own.

He wanted publicity and he got it!

[Rangie]

Seen the footage and quite clearly shows that he was given an instruction which he failed to comply with a shove is permitted even in the UK which he got & paid the consequences , personally I would have got him in an armlock & moved him over but it is a decision made on the spot by the officer it is " fight or flight"  when adrenaline is up anything can & will happen. Will he have learnt from it probably not.

[Doctor Gollum]

The course of events was clear, but the officers have already been to court having been charged with a felony charge only because of the age difference between them and the man.

I suspect this is what caused the rest of the department to step down... Here suspension on full pay pending an investigation would have been the sum total of the incident.

[Raeturbo]

It’s of course not right what happened to Floyd, but criminal behaviour is dangerous to all involved including him. live by the sword die by the sword. The way this world is going I’m on the laws side even if they accidentally go too far sometimes. Quite simply if he want a criminal he would still be alive. It happens to whites too. All this over that is even more criminal.

[Lizzie Zoom]

It’s of course not right what happened to Floyd, but criminal behaviour is dangerous to all involved including him. live by the sword die by the sword. The way this world is going I’m on the laws side even if they accidentally go too far sometimes. Quite simply if he want a criminal he would still be alive. It happens to whites too. All this over that is even more criminal.

At his funeral a picture of Floyd was shown with a halo over his head and angel wings growing from his back and some saying he was a “gentle giant”.  Who are they trying to fool?  Not the woman who was held at gun point that’s for sure !

[STEMO]

Afraid you're not allowed to call out Floyd for the piece of shit he was. It kind of takes all the air out of the balloon.

[Rangie]

Bristol hasn't had a great day today , total disgrace what is being allowed to happen the UK is going to be in severe trouble if this is allowed to continue .

[STEMO]

Some might say he didn't deserve to die that way, no matter what he was. Others will disagree.

[Doctor Gollum]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd

He had served his time for the previous offences, so far dos as far as that goes.

He was arrested for trying to spend a counterfeit note. What happened next, ie his behaviour leading to his restraint and subsequent arrest, is a direct result of being under the combined influences of fentanyl and methamphetamine.

A white person behaving in the same manner would have received similar levels of restraint.

[Raeturbo]

I agree^

[Sir Tigger KC]

I'm beginning to wonder if I've just woken up from being in a coma for a few days and missed a genocide or something.   

[Doctor Gollum]

I'm beginning to wonder if I've just woken up from being in a coma for a few days and missed a genocide or something.   

I almost wish that I were in a coma. That's about the only escape from this madness 

[Shackeng]

It is ironic that these protests, triggered by the unacceptable killing of a black man, will have the inevitable result of the increase in the spread of the pandemic, thus killing a higher percentage of the BAME community than the “white” community.