Chauvin deserved his sentence. It’s impossible for me to watch Floyd’s death while pinned to the ground under Chauvin’s knee and come to any other conclusion. It’s not about Floyd’s history, nor is it about Chauvin’s history. It sounds like both were human garbage. What matters is the window of time between confrontation, escalation, and death.
The badge of police officer should never be pinned to a sociopath like Chauvin, even if the person he killed was a scumbag. Who else had he so casually brutalized while wearing the badge before his encounter with Floyd? It becomes obvious. Would you want you kid pulled over by Chauvin? Someone who knows the subconscious emotional buttons to push in order to escalate an encounter to the point that it ends in death?
Chauvin deserved his sentence. Bad cops deserve to be hauled in front of a jury and tried.
This isn’t about Floyd, it’s about justice, and getting a bad cop off the streets. Cop culture must change. There are too many Barney Fifes who think they’re the Punisher. Instead of one bullet, they’re armed with what appears to be a Batman-style utility belt of weapons. The person wielding these weapons needs to be someone stable and sane, and who sees the whole person they’re they’re interacting with, rather than nothing more than a potential threat to be neutralized.
How are cops trained to interact with someone who carries a weapon concealed? That seems to me to be the most dangerous aspect of concealed carry, the fact that a cop could gun you down with impunity. It’s happened.
Police are necessary for society to function. But the debate over policing has become so completely stupid than reasonable voices are muffled.
