Thanks Paul! I love curated lists and trust your judgment on what's interesting. :) Thanks for sharing The Fall of Minneapolis. I'll check it out and send that to my friend, who is making a documentary for Frontline about police brutality that causes death in America.
I will def be watching and let you know. I have a friend who was a cop for lapd for over twenty years and he’s very much brainwashed. It’s an us against them mentality. 😒
As we both said previously, it's a dangerous job, one that people like you and me should be very, very glad we don't have to do. And on that note of gratitude, I wish you and yours the merriest of Christmases and the happiest of New Years.
I watched the first 15 minutes as you suggested and it changes my mind about nothing. I'm surprised it changed yours. The opener about his prior criminal record is post-facto BS. Did the cop know anything about that record before he shoved a gun in the guy's face and started swearing at him for the high crime of buying something with a counterfeit bill? I doubt it strongly. He only asks for priors to be run later in the encounter. Is Floyd putting on an act? Probably. Is he on drugs? Probably. Does that warrant being killed? No. Are the cops acting from the jump like Floyd is guilty until pronounced dead? Yes. As you rightly point out, it's dangerous being a policeman. You don't want the job, I don't want the job. But if one DOES want the job, one should not be as easily set off by crazy yet unarmed Black folk as these guys are.
They don't appear to be set off to me. They appear to be struggling with an incredibly strong, extremely intoxicated and irrational, 6'4, 223 lbs man who is saying he can't breathe long before he is on the ground and while he is fiercely resisting arrest. Of course he doesn't warrant being killed but it's very, very likely the cause of death was something other than what we all assume it was.
Maybe it was something else, but the old knee to the neck for 9:29 sure didn't help. And why exactly are they struggling with him in the first place? Because he's resisting arrest? Hell, I might resist arrest too if a cop went from rapping on my window with his baton to pulling out his piece and yelling at me to get my fucking hands up in under 15 seconds, during which time I did in fact open the door for him. Dude's ready to shoot first, ask questions later, and prepare the time-honored "I was scared he might have a gun" excuse. To which I say, if you're so scared, don't join the force. The guy passed a fake bill in a convenience store and you're responding as if he's on the FBI's Most Wanted list. Sheesh.
Why do cops struggle with arrestees? Why does he have his gun out? Why might a police officer have to use a department-approved maximum restraint technique? Because this is what can happen if you don't...
Thanks Paul! I love curated lists and trust your judgment on what's interesting. :) Thanks for sharing The Fall of Minneapolis. I'll check it out and send that to my friend, who is making a documentary for Frontline about police brutality that causes death in America.
Thanks, Claire! Watch that documentary and tell me where the violence comes from. I wouldn't be a cop for a million dollars/year. Too dangerous.
I will def be watching and let you know. I have a friend who was a cop for lapd for over twenty years and he’s very much brainwashed. It’s an us against them mentality. 😒
As we both said previously, it's a dangerous job, one that people like you and me should be very, very glad we don't have to do. And on that note of gratitude, I wish you and yours the merriest of Christmases and the happiest of New Years.
I miss you, Mac. Hope I get to see you in 2024.
I watched the first 15 minutes as you suggested and it changes my mind about nothing. I'm surprised it changed yours. The opener about his prior criminal record is post-facto BS. Did the cop know anything about that record before he shoved a gun in the guy's face and started swearing at him for the high crime of buying something with a counterfeit bill? I doubt it strongly. He only asks for priors to be run later in the encounter. Is Floyd putting on an act? Probably. Is he on drugs? Probably. Does that warrant being killed? No. Are the cops acting from the jump like Floyd is guilty until pronounced dead? Yes. As you rightly point out, it's dangerous being a policeman. You don't want the job, I don't want the job. But if one DOES want the job, one should not be as easily set off by crazy yet unarmed Black folk as these guys are.
They don't appear to be set off to me. They appear to be struggling with an incredibly strong, extremely intoxicated and irrational, 6'4, 223 lbs man who is saying he can't breathe long before he is on the ground and while he is fiercely resisting arrest. Of course he doesn't warrant being killed but it's very, very likely the cause of death was something other than what we all assume it was.
Maybe it was something else, but the old knee to the neck for 9:29 sure didn't help. And why exactly are they struggling with him in the first place? Because he's resisting arrest? Hell, I might resist arrest too if a cop went from rapping on my window with his baton to pulling out his piece and yelling at me to get my fucking hands up in under 15 seconds, during which time I did in fact open the door for him. Dude's ready to shoot first, ask questions later, and prepare the time-honored "I was scared he might have a gun" excuse. To which I say, if you're so scared, don't join the force. The guy passed a fake bill in a convenience store and you're responding as if he's on the FBI's Most Wanted list. Sheesh.
Why do cops struggle with arrestees? Why does he have his gun out? Why might a police officer have to use a department-approved maximum restraint technique? Because this is what can happen if you don't...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugFpuoNQFYM