A quick word of advice. Dont be afraid to tell fellow officers "that's enough its over" or the like. Taking care of each other includes not letting happen what you saw on video.I didn’t read the above thread but my response kind of falls in line with the title and I just need to put this out there.
In about a month I’m set to graduate from the police academy. We are taught and have been taught to handle the immediate threat, then render aid. We aren’t taught to hold someone down via knee on neck. That’s never something we are taught to do. It’s okay to put a knee on a shoulder of the person is actively resisting, or a knee on the lower back. No department ever will condone this behavior. This man, George Floyd was murdered plain and simple. The officer who knelt on his neck was not a police officer, he was a thug in uniform. Police officers are there to help, handle difficult situations and stand in the way of danger to the general public. None of what I listed occurred in this situation. It’s saddening, maddening and tragic. I didn’t go into this profession to incite violence and enact unchecked violence on the very people I will swear to serve. The police officers who do incite and enact unchecked violence on the people they swore to serve, behind the badge are uniformed thugs.
It seems as if once the police gain a step closer into bringing some trust between them and the public, something like this occurs. It’s unfortunate, infuriating, and makes me sick. The thing about this is that it could’ve all been avoided in the first place. It’s horrible.
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You haven’t watched the 7 min video, have you?I don't get the "cops should hang" comments.
this is still America where you are innocent until proven guilty or do you really want to go the other route where someone thinks you are guilty so you go to jail or hang.
You haven’t watched the 7 min video, have you?
The standard for arrest isnt innocent unless proven guilty. There was probable cause for an arrest at least as soon as the video was seen and certainly as soon as their reports were found to be bald faced lies. The two together are probable cause for arrest for more than just murder.I have watched the vid and its still America where you are innocent till proven guilty.
EVERY one has the right to a day in court.
Oh I know lets arrest them and try them without all the evidence so they walk. Very good idea.
The standard for arrest isnt innocent unless proven guilty. There was probable cause for an arrest at least as soon as the video was seen and certainly as soon as their reports were found to be bald faced lies. The two together are probable cause for arrest for more than just murder.
There is no excuse for not arresting them at this point.
And technicalities deriving from an arrest that result in a charge being voided or case tossed a extremely few, rarely occure, and completely known by all academy grads.
No excuse at this point for not arresting these thugs.
I ...Hennepin County District Attorney Michael Freeman, a Democrat, spoke with reporters on Thursday. Freeman said he did not want to rush to make charges in the choking death of George Floyd. Then Freeman added this:
"I will say this, that the video is graphic, and horrific and terrible and no person should do that. But my job in the end is to prove that he violated a criminal statute, and there is other evidence that DOES NOT SUPPORT A CRIMINAL CHARGE. We need to wade through all of that evidence.”
Sigh.Sure they can arrest them and then when they get let out on bail or own rec because of lack of evidence do you think that is going to make the situation better ?
The cops involved are not a threat now that the badge has been removed from them
Let justice do its thing
I can get a lawyer to interpret a lot of things being within policy, even though they are not. Just depends on how much I want to spend.you want to get really mad
Some lawyers have said that you can interpret from that departments policy that what he did was within that policy.
The mere presence of a policy does not mean the veil cannot be pierced....If that ends up being true well good luck on a conviction for 1st degree murder...
Why is a coroner’s report needed? The prosecuting attorney has already stated that additional evidence shows no crime was committed. If that’s the case, then no trial is forthcoming, the investigation should be complete, and the evidence can be publicly released....What if it turns out he died from some thing other than being choked ?
Have you seen the coroners report ?
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I can get a lawyer to interpret a lot of things being within policy, even though they are not. Just depends on how much I want to spend.
The mere presence of a policy does not mean the veil cannot be pierced.
Why is a coroner’s report needed? The prosecuting attorney has already stated that additional evidence shows no crime was committed. If that’s the case, then no trial is forthcoming, the investigation should be complete, and the evidence can be publicly released.
Additionally, it’s highly unlikely cause of death will be definitive enough to determine manner of death as natural, accidental or intentional, except for that evidence mentioned above.
It has been characterized as a protest and not a real riot......
https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc...mostly-a-protest-as-building-burns-behind-him
laughing my ass off