Derek Chauvin, the cop who knelt on George Floyd’s neck until he died, has seen his third degree murder charge reinstated by the judge at the order of the MN supreme court.
Here is the graphic bodycam footage of Floyd’s arrest and death. He goes limp at around the 16-minute mark, but Chauvin continues to bear down on his neck. Clearly unnecessary.
Floyd here was in an unwinnable situation, once he was on the ground. If he moved, Chauvin would continue to bear down, cutting off his oxygen. If he tried to explain that he couldn’t breathe, the cops would say, “Oh you’ve got enough oxygen to talk! You’re fine.” You can hear them say this several times. And it has been reported elsewhere that MN cops learned their restraint techniques from Israel’s Apartheid-state thugs, from whom they and many other American cops receive periodic training.
Was Floyd a dirtbag? Probably. But so was Chauvin. The body language of the cops make it fairly obvious that they believed they could get away with almost anything. That’s the problem. There must be accountability at every level of government, but blind cop-worship is a hindrance to that.
What if there existed pro-Antifa police departments? PD’s with an anti-white bias? Imagine Floyd as white, and his killers as black. Or imagine them all-white, or all-black. Whatever. Imagine Floyd was a political activist, or journalist. They’re killed all the time by cops around the world. It’s the lack of restraint, fueled by the belief that they’ll never receive punishment.
Cops are great people, and necessary for the functioning of a free society. But they are human, and therefore must operate with strictly-defined limits. It is possible to support cops while simultaneously condemning this out-of-control behavior.
It’s the job of the court to determine guilt, not a Barney Fife who thinks he’s the Punisher. This behavior needs to be corrected immediately. Abolish police unionization, abolish qualified immunity, forbid donations to police departments, forbid any funding outside of the community being policed.
