The Trial Of Derek Chauvin, Death Of George Floyd

[Wonderfulspam]

Given the high rate of controversial police killings, their inevitability & the amount of discussions they produce here........

May I suggest a senior moderator open a new page, board, discussion topics header thingamy jig, within which the individual cases can be added as individual topics?

[Eleanor]

Given the high rate of controversial police killings, their inevitability & the amount of discussions they produce here........

May I suggest a senior moderator open a new page, board, discussion topics header thingamy jig, within which the individual cases can be added as individual topics?

You do it and then someone will decide if it makes sense.  This could depend on how good you are with words.

[Vertigo Swirl]

I'm a member of many right wing groups on facebook etc, I rarely comment but the general consensus I read there since the verdict is that Fentanyl Floyd was a dangerous criminal who died of a drug overdose & Chauvin was just doing his job.
We have to make allowances for these people's lack of intellect, they're American.

This is probably a very racist thing to say but I do find that the majority of Americans are pig ignorant on the whole, and have found that their cops in particular are charmless rather terrifying Neanderthals in my very limited interaction with them (and I'm a white posh female). 

[Wonderfulspam]

Resisting arrest is an offence you can be arrested for.

If only Floyd had just got in the sodding car. 

There were around 19 people killed during the 'mostly peaceful protests' following Floyd's death, including a retired black police chief, David Dorn, shot dead by looters, roughly $2 billion in property damage.

The whole situation is a stain on history & could have been completely avoided if Floyd hadn't done drugs & Chauvin didn't murder him.

[Wonderfulspam]

You do it and then someone will decide if it makes sense.  This could depend on how good you are with words.

I can't create individual boards, like the Maddie Board for example, this has to be done by Admin or Mod.

[Vertigo Swirl]

Given the high rate of controversial police killings, their inevitability & the amount of discussions they produce here........

May I suggest a senior moderator open a new page, board, discussion topics header thingamy jig, within which the individual cases can be added as individual topics?

To be honest I'm not massively interested in any of the other cases.  This one has used up all my interest and I'd rather go back to supporting child neglectors. 

[Wonderfulspam]

To be honest I'm not massively interested in any of the other cases.  This one has used up all my interest and I'd rather go back to supporting child neglectors.

Well, BLM aren't going anywhere soon & theirs no shortage of police killings ever so there will always something waiting for you when you've had your fill of missing kids.

[Eleanor]

I can't create individual boards, like the Maddie Board for example, this has to be done by Admin or Mod.

You can attempt to add a Thread to this one.

[Vertigo Swirl]

Well, BLM aren't going anywhere soon & theirs no shortage of police killings ever so there will always something waiting for you when you've had your fill of missing kids.

America is a cesspit.  I have no interest in ever going there again. I don't really care that much if the place burns to the ground.  Apart from New York.  That can stay. 

[Eleanor]

America is a cesspit.  I have no interest in ever going there again. I don't really care that much if the place burns to the ground.  Apart from New York.  That can stay.

America used to be wonderful.  I wouldn't have minded it 100 years ago.  But I wouldn't be seen dead there now.  Which I could well be.

[Wonderfulspam]

America is a cesspit.  I have no interest in ever going there again. I don't really care that much if the place burns to the ground.  Apart from New York.  That can stay.

BLM..... 'All Cops Are b........s'

The several hundred New York cops who ran to their deaths trying to save people from the burning Twin Towers.

There are still New York cops dying to this very day from the cancer they earned for their heroics.

14 died last year & 1 this year already.

But the only good cop is a dead cop, apparently.

[Carana]

It might be a more achievable goal than actually reducing police killings, so I don't think the idea should be entirely ruled out.

Are you volunteering to help redress the statistics?

More seriously, I feel sorry for the vast majority of decent police officers (in most civilized countries) who put their lives on the line to keep the rest of us safe and have to sometimes make split-second decisions, which may - or may not - later be deemed appropriate.

That said, in this case, I can't find anything to warrant what happened to Floyd. It's not as if he'd, e.g., been spraying machine-gun fire into a crowd, or appeared to have had a pack of explosives tied to his chest.

He just went in to buy a pack of cigs and paid with what the poor cashier kid thought could have been fake, who then alerted the police, otherwise the amount would have been docked from his pay.

I hope this young cashier is getting some kind of counseling help.

[Vertigo Swirl]

BLM..... 'All Cops Are b........s'

The several hundred New York cops who ran to their deaths trying to save people from the burning Twin Towers.

There are still New York cops dying to this very day from the cancer they earned for their heroics.

14 died last year & 1 this year already.

But the only good cop is a dead cop, apparently.

Apparently according to whom?  Not me.  I support policing as an institution, I just don't think police should be allowed to be judge, jury and executioner as well.

[Wonderfulspam]

Apparently according to whom?  Not me.  I support policing as an institution, I just don't think police should be allowed to be judge, jury and executioner as well.

Only Good Cops are Dead Cops is another sign I see regularly displayed at BLM marches.

I don't condone the police killing anyone unless it's in self defense, defense of another.

[Carana]

This is probably a very racist thing to say but I do find that the majority of Americans are pig ignorant on the whole, and have found that their cops in particular are charmless rather terrifying Neanderthals in my very limited interaction with them (and I'm a white posh female).

"Racist"? Are Americans of a different "race"?