Lies. Deception.

Oh yes, my little Marxist friend, who lives to divide.

What the video actually shows are 4 cops who are politely and calmly dealing with a guy freaking out on fentanyl and meth. Crying about being claustrophobic WHEN HE WAS JUST SITTING IN A CAR.

Autopsy states no brusing on the neck, so you can shove your narrative, Mr. White Savior. He actually had cardiac arrest in the ambulance,.

The thing that makes you go hmmm is the overcharging. This video helps to determine there was no intent to mistreat or kill this huge guy with 90% of his right artery blocked and 75% of his left. They were patient and kind to a thug resisting arrest. Of course, had he collapsed and smashed his head writhing in a drug frenzy, you'd ask why he wasn't restrained.

And Kylie Minogue is a washed up Aussie hack. Why you care about her?

POW - onwed!

When a concerned citizen begins his grande sympathetic meme over someone getting killed by saying ''lol''

He doesn't care about Kylie because he doesn't care about anything, other than negativity aimed at him. He fetishizes her. As with Floyd, she does not exist as a person to him, just an image, a flag to wave to display his sheer awesomeness by attaching himself to her.

They say 1 in 100 people are sociopaths...

pfffffffft, they haven't met my family, or whatever you call that thing.
Plus a lot of other folks I've known,,,

Nope. He was clearly high as a kite, had just been accused of passing a fake $20, and was at the wheel of a car. The police are going to let him go? He had to go down to the station and he was trying every possible way to weasel out of simple charges. Claimed claustrophobic wheres his driver's seat was even smaller. He claimed difficulty breathing before he was pinned down, likely due to having 3x a fatal dose of fentanyl in his system. The neck technique was an approved procedure, and the autopsy indicated it was not cause of death, which anyone with eyes can tell you, if you can clearly talk you are not being choked out. If he had cooperated (not tried to talk his way out of the charges) and told them he was ODing and needed medical attention he would have fared better. In any case the cops absolutely could not let him go in that condition, and likely they were restraining him to get him to wear himself out so he could he be transported (which he refused to do, as the new footage shows). The local prosecutor refused to release his footage even though he knew it could reduce the amount of rioting going on, because as he said he wanted to make sure he could prosecute the cops (in other words releasing it would obviously make the case weaker, because it doesn't support any murder charges).

You cannot change the mind of someone as delusional as Kamikaze. They hate this country and everything it has stood for its entire existence!

Yikes, I guess you stopped watching right before the fun started.

One, he was saying he can't breathe well before being taken to the ground. That does muddy the water. For all I know, that racist Democratic cop who killed him thought he was just yelling the same crap throughout the whole process. Still sucks he died, but it may give the Democratic racist cop some leverage in court to make the case that he "didn't know."

Two, the media said he was peaceful the whole time, and the video clearly shows him resisting multiple times. Maybe follow that logic and you can figure out why the guy had multiple officers on the scene. When someone is being difficult, you call for help.

Furthermore and three, "mostly compliant" shows your lack of understanding of how authority works. There is no middle ground on compliance with cops. Either you are compliant are you are not. The guy almost got shot out the gate, and for what? Because he couldn't put his hands on the wheel? Seriously?! Challenge you to find me a video of a person calmly raising their hands and getting shot and I'll hear you out. But good luck, because it ain't out there.

As to this train wreck of silly conspiracy theories:

"Do you think the PD didn’t review the body cam footage before they decided to terminate these cops?
—Do you think the prosecutor didn’t review the body cam footage before deciding to charge them?"

A thousand times yes. Google Rashard Brooks. Those cops were terminated before the body cam footage even was reviewed. Once it was reviewed it became clear that the man resisted arrest and pointed a taser at one of the cops. It also shows that the cop who shot the man, even expressed genuine concern for him. So now that cop's legal team is burying the Georgia DA right now because of that.

So maybe next time, try to first watch the whole video for yourself before you "give a description" for others.

If he watched it or not, he'll push his narrative until the day he dies. If 5 years went by without a single black person killed by police and then a black guy was shot by cops after firing on them, he'd cry about a systemic racist system that hunts blacks down mercilessly.

Get this, he hates cops, and he's a lawyer!!!! LMAO

He's not a lawyer, that's just another lie.
Probably had a couple of classes in college 10 yrs ago.
Like getting paid to meme. Utter bullshit, nobody would pay for that dull garbage he puts out.
He's an attention w**re lying loser with cheap lies to bait normal people.

Imagine thinking wearing a blue uniform is an excuse for not doing your job

Haha nice try as always chap

Absolutely nothing... Democratic rhetoric seems to be though that the right is racist... They always tone down when the perp is a Dem... Just thought I would add it for the sauce.

There are most certainly different degrees of behavior that fall under the rubric of resisting arrest. In no particular order:

—Delaying in response to a command;
—Fleeing on foot;
—Fleeing in a car;
—Verbal backtalk;
—Stiffening up when touched;
—Mild struggling;
—Intense struggling;
—Fisticuffs;
—Pulling a knife;
—Pulling a gun;
—Actually swinging a knife;
—Actually firing a gun.

Each demanding a proportionate response from the police. A response which should adapt and de-escalate when the threat has been subdued. Long before the suspect is literally dead if at all possible.

The fact you can’t spot the departmental and constitutional violations (see: 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th Amendments) here suggests that you’re the one who doesn’t understand authority. At least, how authority is supposed to work in this country vs. how it actually happened in practice here.

As for Rayshard Brooks (you misspelled his name): I don’t know the timeline of that case and you haven’t provided it. All you said was to Google him, which of course returned many competing viewpoints. I decline to waste any more time immersing myself in the details of that incident because the discussion today is about Floyd.

In any event: It stands to reason that in most cases, the PD and the Prosecutor review body cam footage, when it exists, prior to making important decisions and before such footage is leaked to the public.

Tl;dr — Life is full of gray areas but that doesn’t excuse the responsibilities of those we put in positions of power to navigate them.

Someone told me that you pretend to be a lawyer. Is that true? Because the fact is if you really are, you must be bad at your job.

Any lawyer worth their salt knows that the only thing worth a damn of the amendments you rattled off was the 8th in this case. Are far as Georgo boy was concerned, the 5th and 6th would not have been a card to play until after being arrested. So do what any other lawyer would do: get arrested, call your lawyer and then leave when they can't present any evidence to hold you or convict you of a crime.

And the 4th is one that a lot of people claim to understand but have no clue how it actually works. So let me help you sound like a lawyer to your friends. The amendment, much like our government, has checks and balances that allow the line to be a bit grey. The key being probable cause. That's why you can find a million videos of idiots getting arrested because they were doing something illegal when the cops showed up and were convinced by some redditor that a cop can't search their vehicle at all. Hilarious to watch.

About the only reasonable and coherent thing you said is that resisting arrest deserves a "proportionate response from the police." But the danger of your argument is that you are already playing a negative. In other words, if nobody resists arrest, there is no need to splash in the murky pool of "how to keep myself safe and this thug safe too?" Yes, it is a tragedy Georgio died, but he also was a thug resisting arrest. Two things can be wrong at the same time. A classic "play stupid games, win stupid prizes."

Rayshard Brooks is relevant to your point. You said that body cam footage is reviewed before prosecutions are made. Rayshard Brooks is a clear rebuttal to your claim. That it doesn't hold water. It was big news too so it is no surprise an uninformed person does not know about the case. But if a legitimate rebuttal to a weak claim is too much for you, I can drop it for your sake.

And I'll fix your tldr too, so you actually get the full picture:

Tl;dr — Life is full of gray areas but that doesn’t excuse the responsibilities of those we put in positions of power to navigate them, nor does their shortcomings excuse us from having to obey the law and those we put in place to enforce it.

Damn, I wish you'd post more often.

Hahaha, I wish. I try to get on from time to time when work is light. Appreciate the comment though!

Begone, paid troll. And I don't live in Britain.

Oh snap, that reminds me of a gif I gotta dig up,,,

Aye fair enough

You’re British tho

Do you have a problem with my nationality? Are you a xenophobe?

“Are you a xenophobe” asks a dude who supports UKIP and Brexit to an American who loves Kylie Minogue

I love it

No: I just find your gleeful diving into American political debates curious

If you live in America, so be it

However, it’s fair to say that a liberal commenting on American politics from Canada or wherever would get raked over the coals around here

I was just poking some lighthearted fun at that

I do not support UKIP anymore. And how is supporting UKIP and Brexit xenophobic?

Because he's been so brainwashed by the media he thinks anything that isn't 100% in lockstep with the labour or democratic party is xenophobic

Despite their superficial similarities, in terms of populist affect and presentation, Boris Johnson is 10x the leader Trump will ever be. There are clearly some brains behind the blokeish public persona.

However, the Johnson cabinet has already been in some scandals and Britain's coronavirus response left a lot to be desired. Though not as catastrophically bad as America's.

Jeremy Corbyn was a Leftist hack and I'm glad he's gone from leadership. A Labour led by someone competent and reasonable could be an electoral threat to the Conservative Party, however.

Actually when it comes to case fatality rates and deaths per population the US has had one of the top responses in the western world. But keep ignoring the actual statistics behind coronavirus and pretending we did catastrophically horrible.

The face you make when you get to react this way a second time in the same comment thread

Nah

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

--If you want to look at total infections, we're #1.
--If you want to look at total deaths, we're #1.
--If you want to look at active cases, we're #1.
--If you want to look at new cases, we're #3.
--If you want to look at new deaths, we're also #3.
--If you want to look at deaths per million pop (a metric you referenced), we're #10. Not the absolute worst, but many, many other "Western Countries" are doing better.

In no particular order, some countries (western and non-western) with a much better response than the U.S.: South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, New Zealand, Australia, Germany.

Canada is perhaps the most comparable country geographically and culturally to the U.S. Look at the metrics and they've been managing alright: not stellar but not as poorly as us, either.

What we had in America that most other countries did not have was a substantial backlash against any and all restrictions, mask-wearing provisions, etc. in the name of "freedom."

An admirable sentiment in many contexts but totally suicidal in the context of a pandemic.

We have a problem in this country with anything demanding sacrifice (even of a trivial kind, like strapping on a damn piece of cloth) for the public good or requiring us to care for our neighbor.

You are THREE TIMES as likely to die from a coronavirus infection in the UK as you are in the US.

Sorry, but I can't take anyone overly obsessed with a C list celebrity as much as you are, seriously when it comes to politics.

eyyy you walked right into this one

but he won't be in politics for much longer

I said "c list," not "a list." And I'm also not obsessed with him. He's my president and I happen to support him in most things.

And I'm glad you're so sure your brain dead candidate can beat him.

lol

lol Kylie is A-List. International career with longevity on par with Madonna's. Multiple stylistic reinventions. Side-hustles as an actress and reality TV show host.

That said: She wouldn't top my list of folks who should be placed in charge of nuclear arsenals like y'all did with Trump but here we are.

If you wanna go and beat up on her sister Danni for being B-list or C-list or whatever, have at it. She's been subject to those comparisons with her sister since Day 1 of her career so that's nothing new.

Trumpies? Is that supposed to be an insult? I'm confused. He's our President, not some rock star with groupies.

It could be an insult. Depends on how you take it.

"Trumpies" is simply shorthand for Trump followers as distinguished from true classical conservatives and patriotic Never Trump Republicans. See: Above.

It's my way of preserving the term "conservative" of its meaning for a future brighter day for the GOP.

If you think Romney is a Conservative you've got a lot to learn about Conservatism.

He only thinks RINOS are actual Republicans lol

Like Trump didn't have push back with all 3 branches for 2 years. The Mueller investigation would never happen if he had been investigating a dem prez who controlled congress. They love tarmac meetings and never recusing themselves.

Yes, imagine if Trump met secretly on a plane with anyone. The double standards wreak.

Had the Republicans squashed Mueller's investigation, like they should have, the libs would be howling to no end. But good for them to vindicate Trump, though they still cling to it. Makes Watergate look amateur.

A list? I didnt even know who she was until you came in here with your obsession

Now she's infamous lol

imgflip.com/m/KylieMinogueSUCKS

Was a celebrity, now he's the most powerful man on earth. Catch up with the times.