We have to think of Policing like we do Pilots with airplanes. We expect perfection when it comes to life and death matters. What Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd can Never happen again.
Floyd was tortured to death for 9 1/2 minutes by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. The whole world saw it on video. But, if that wasn’t enough to convince you that Floyd was murdered, perhaps the 26 witnesses did, which included Paramedics, EMT’s, the Minneapolis Chief of Police, the Minneapolis Police Lieutenant, a use of force trainer for the Minneapolis Police, an on duty Minneapolis firefighter, a Martial Arts expert and etc.
Whether people want to make Floyd a martyr or not, to each their own on that. But, this totally avoidable murder needs to be a lesson to other bloodthirsty police officers and their complicit colleagues. Floyd tried to buy cigarettes and food with a $20 forged check. And then he was choked to death for 9 1/2 minutes by the police.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, tragically, it’s a crime to be poor in the United States. And that just ain’t right man.
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