That's where I've been for some time. I'm all for seeing police face the consequences of their actions when they do the wrong thing. The issue is it seems like 99% of the time when people say the police did the wrong thing, those people are wrong. That isn't to say that the police couldn't do the wrong thing in the future, but I almost immediately assume that the police didn't do anything wrong just because of how often it happens.
For the George Floyd incident I found out by having someone ask if if I saw the videos of those police officers killing that guy, and my immediate reaction was to roll my eyes. After I watched the video, I said to them that yeah, it looks bad, but I want to know the details before I make any judgements. And in the immediate aftermath I pointed out that the officers were fired and charged before any review had been conducted, which is not in line with standard procedure, which means they're being railroaded for political purposes. All of that was before any other evidence was available. As soon as I saw the bodycam footage I knew I was right.
Also, today I just found the bodycam footage of George Floyds 2019 arrest which was submitted into evidence in the case, and it's super telling. In that video Floyd is uncooperative, belligerent, and tries to swallow drugs when the police approach the vehicle. It shows a clear pattern of behavior. Floyd did the same thing in 2020, but this time he got the drugs down before the cops stopped him, and it cost him his life.
The people causing the majority of the damage were not activists, they were opportunistic criminals. People were driving into Minneapolis from out of state to break shit and steal stuff. They could've done that anywhere, but Minneapolis was where the the party was at, and was where they would be able to get away with it.
Many of these people are not politically motivated. For them it was never about black lives or George Floyd. The activists start the unrest and the opportunists finish it. A precedent has been set, and the opportunists will be back in full force as soon as the verdict hits.
I hope she sues the fuck out of them. That's assault. Even if she was trespassed, they don't get to enforce it, and if she's not being violent they have no excuse to intervene. They should've called the police if they wanted it enforced.
Probably. Only thing that maybe could've saved him would be if he was in the cruiser instead of on the ground. Then when he became unresponsive they could've driven him to the hospital instead of waiting for a unit with a gurney to transport him.
You saying you watched "the video" leads me to believe you haven't watched the bodycam footage. You might want to do that. He was clearly going into cardiac arrest before he kicked his way out of the backseat of the cruiser onto the ground.
If you drink a bottle of poison, shoot yourself through the chest, jump off a cliff into a lake, and then die while someone is trying to rescue you, did you die because of pressure on your neck from the swimmer rescue hold?
This.
If he had just sat in the car like the officers were trying to make him do, he might still be alive. He was uncooperative and beligerient, and was saying he couldn't breathe before the even got him to the car. He was going into cardiac arrest when they tried to get him into the air conditioning in the car, but he refused and kicked his way out, and after kicking his way out asked to be held on the ground instead of in the car.
It's easy. Because the virus is only dangerous to people who are already at risk and have health complications. You're not seeing the virus kill people in 3rd world countries because all of those high risk people are already dead.
Box looks waterproof. Humidity is bad for guns (or any exposed metal really), but if your bathroom has a vent it's not gonna hurt it. You'll still want to clean it regularly (every few months or so) to ensure it stays oiled and protected, but you should be doing that anyway.
I'll never forget the time that my theology professor ranted about how they're not trying to take your guns away like it was obvious and everyone agreed with him, while at that exact moment the only reason I didn't have my gun in the empty holster I was wearing was because of the schools rules and the threat of expulsion for breaking them.
Another amusing side note about that is before I went back to school, I worked at the armored car company that picked up the schools money, so I had been previously paid by the University to bring my gun onto the campus to transport valuables, but now because I was a student, I wasn't allowed to carry it. All this while they pass out pamphlets about how you should try to run away or hide if there is a campus shooting.
Stupid people can't understand statistics. Reminds me of a thread I saw on reddit posted in the science subreddit of all places with the inflammatory and misleading headline that being killed by police was the 7th leading cause of death for men aged 19 - 27.
Trying to explain to people that this isn't even remotely surprising at all just doesn't click with some people. You pick a category of people who generally don't die from disease or natural causes, you stretch all the way down to the 7th leading cause of death, and you ignore the fact that the numbers include justified shootings. They're more likely to die from cancer than being shot by police, but the idiots on reddit are all in a huff talking about how it's unacceptable. Trying to point out that it's totally expected not not indicative of anything just doesn't even register. Some moron tries to hit me with the, "Well do you think that's ok?" What? Do I think it's ok that the 7th leading cause of death of 19 - 27 year old men is at the hands of police? A better question is, is it statistically significant? The answer is no, it's not.
Literally the first thing they teach you in a college philosophy course on ethics is that cultural relativism is intellectually bankrupt and must be rejected on principle in order to have any sort of meaningful discussion about ethics.
This is a weak and pathetic excuse by Beijing Biden to get out of talking bad about his handlers.
If he gets convicted I hope the entire Minneapolis police force resigns, and I live in the Minneapolis area. Shit needs to get worse before it can get better, if if he gets convicted then clearly it hasn't gotten bad enough.