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Jun 12, 2021 12:41:59   #
thom w Loc: San Jose, CA
 
mwalsh wrote:
I don't believe a lot of people have elevated Floyd to icon or hero or role model status as the far right likes to claim. Maybe he has become an icon in the sense of putting a face to police brutality. But I don't see the left as a whole making him a hero or role model. To me they have not made him someone to look up to.

That said, I know some do. I saw one of the many murals painted on walls...this one had angel wings behind his portrait and a halo over his head. Wishful thinking perhaps.

I don't see groups making him a hero though. Everyone knows about his drug and crime issues. He just did not deserve what he got...an ignoble death, face down on the pavement with three cops on top of him.
I don't believe a lot of people have elevated Floy... (show quote)


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Jun 12, 2021 12:49:20   #
scooter1 Loc: Yacolt, Wa.
 
Architect1776 wrote:
Cooperate with the police no matter how wrong you think it is.
If you do not and are so stupid to resist because you are told to do so by other morons then you die from stupidity and that is called good evolution of removing the stupid genes.



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Jun 13, 2021 06:31:54   #
Carusoswi
 
InfiniteISO wrote:
G****e F***d played a large part in his own death. While the policeman may be ultimately responsible, he was not in the habit of over-powering random black men and suffocating them for sport. G****e F***d put himself in the crosshairs of the police. In the best circumstances, any interaction with, and especially being arrested by the police can be dangerous. He was a thug and met a thug's end.


Please reference your statement that the officer 'was not in the habit of over-powering random black men and suffocating them' (for 'sport' or other reasons). In this country, we do not afford police officers authority to execute citizens for being thugs or for having put themselves in 'the crosshairs of the police'. We also do not authorize police executions of citizens suspected of passing a counterfeit $20 bill. Police should apprehend the suspected offender (regardless of his criminal history), arrest and charge him, and subject him to a trial with respect to the charges. Police execution is not an approved option in this country.
If Floyd was a thug, that is not good, but it is not a capital crime. Floyd is no hero in my book, but that doesn't alter the fact that he was murdered unjustly, and it does not alter my belief that, had he been white, he would still be alive today. Police arresting a guy who inserted himself into a church prayer meeting, ultimately k*****g numerous black parishoners, was treated by police to one last fast food burger before being taken to the station. He was not murdered by the police because he was white.
That's just how it is in this country. It is very sad.

caruso

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Jun 13, 2021 06:40:22   #
anotherview Loc: California
 
Both.
Triple G wrote:
School’s responsibility or parents’?

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Jun 13, 2021 06:59:08   #
Architect1776 Loc: In my mind
 
Carusoswi wrote:
Please reference your statement that the officer 'was not in the habit of over-powering random black men and suffocating them' (for 'sport' or other reasons). In this country, we do not afford police officers authority to execute citizens for being thugs or for having put themselves in 'the crosshairs of the police'. We also do not authorize police executions of citizens suspected of passing a counterfeit $20 bill. Police should apprehend the suspected offender (regardless of his criminal history), arrest and charge him, and subject him to a trial with respect to the charges. Police execution is not an approved option in this country.
If Floyd was a thug, that is not good, but it is not a capital crime. Floyd is no hero in my book, but that doesn't alter the fact that he was murdered unjustly, and it does not alter my belief that, had he been white, he would still be alive today. Police arresting a guy who inserted himself into a church prayer meeting, ultimately k*****g numerous black parishoners, was treated by police to one last fast food burger before being taken to the station. He was not murdered by the police because he was white.
That's just how it is in this country. It is very sad.

caruso
Please reference your statement that the officer '... (show quote)


Floyd was NOT murdered.
Just do not resist and you will be just fine.
Resist and if you die, so much the better for society.
Too bad we lost the old west justice system.

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Jun 14, 2021 06:10:45   #
anotherview Loc: California
 
We bring our fate on ourselves. Nobody escapes this equation.

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Jun 14, 2021 10:16:14   #
InfiniteISO Loc: The Carolinas, USA
 
Carusoswi wrote:
Please reference your statement that the officer 'was not in the habit of over-powering random black men and suffocating them' (for 'sport' or other reasons). In this country, we do not afford police officers authority to execute citizens for being thugs or for having put themselves in 'the crosshairs of the police'. We also do not authorize police executions of citizens suspected of passing a counterfeit $20 bill. Police should apprehend the suspected offender (regardless of his criminal history), arrest and charge him, and subject him to a trial with respect to the charges. Police execution is not an approved option in this country.
If Floyd was a thug, that is not good, but it is not a capital crime. Floyd is no hero in my book, but that doesn't alter the fact that he was murdered unjustly, and it does not alter my belief that, had he been white, he would still be alive today. Police arresting a guy who inserted himself into a church prayer meeting, ultimately k*****g numerous black parishoners, was treated by police to one last fast food burger before being taken to the station. He was not murdered by the police because he was white.
That's just how it is in this country. It is very sad.

caruso
Please reference your statement that the officer '... (show quote)

Please reference it? I think if he had suffocated other black men it would have come out in trial.

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Jun 14, 2021 17:06:08   #
Architect1776 Loc: In my mind
 
InfiniteISO wrote:
Please reference it? I think if he had suffocated other black men it would have come out in trial.



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