He didn't deserve to die, but he was by no means innocent. The cops should walk. He was being belligerent, claiming "I can't breathe" when he wasn't even being touched by officers, saying his mom died yesterday when she actually died months ago, he was positive for COVID 19, he was high on drugs, fentanyl and meth, he was noncompliant, and overall just a dick.
I think using the neck restraint for 8 minutes and 46 seconds was justified. With all of this shit he did, the cops probably thought that if he wasn't restrained like that he'd go berserk again.
I'm in a very similar situation. I won't go into details for the sake of safety, but you're not alone.
Here's my advice: attend all the mandatory anti-racism training. I keep my volume turned on, not on mute, but only turn it on at 1, and just leave it playing in an open window on a second monitor. That way HR will see that you did indeed have it on, and so that it won't show up as you having muted audio if you're on zoom or webex.
I am just getting my feminist credit in so that they don't fire me. Then when it comes time to vote in Nov, vote Trump and R down ballot.
I believe deeply in free speech, and I think communists should be allowed to speak and peaceably assemble, and when they do, we should pity them for their stupidity. But the minute they start burning down buildings and assaulting innocent people and officers is the minute when we should engage them as an enemy combatant.
Can someone redpill me on the whole bari weiss thing? I saw an interview she did with Maher a year ago and I thought "oh cool, at least she isn't insane."
I haven't read the whole resignation later yet, and I'm going to, but I think the media is going to try gaslighting me on the whole situation.
Unfortunately they won't learn. Every election cycle the suburban women will vote for Dems because "Trump is mean." They vote with their feelings, not with logic. I've seen it happen time and time again, even with my own mom. She votes democrat, then 2 years in she gets upset that the democrats are insane, and then next election cycle she votes democrat again.
They just don't learn.
It's literal crabs in a bucket mentality. They do not want students to have a better education. They do not want teachers to be treated better. They want everyone to be at the same common denominator of failure as they are.
Oh my god. CSPAN wasn't showing the camera shot until just a second ago from the side where you can see his hands moving.