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Back in the 1960s people like Chauvin and the other three from his Animal Farm were given an Orwellian name. The only difference is in the 1960s there were no smartphones to record their acts.

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And we can rest assured that if during "enhanced interrogation" the subject happpened to die, the death could be ruled "natural causes" if it looked like a stroke or a heart attack to the coroner.

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Mr. Robinson:

So you're judge, jury, and executioner based on a video? That would be a "yes" or "no" question. How does that make you any different from Derek Chauvin whom you purport to be the judge, jury, and executioner of Floyd?

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Two of them actively stood on Floyd for a while. The other prevented witnesses from offering assistance.

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Listen Jesus I don't like what I see...

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Would "the man who was kneeling on his throat while his life was extinguished" be okay?

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When my husband was still working full-time as a paramedic, he rescued a man from a cop who had him in a death hold. 911 calls used to summon cops and medics at the same time. The man had been shoplifting at WalMart and he would have died if my husband hadn't been there.

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One thing the police unions are very good at is PR, and for decades, they have done a brilliant job of leaning on the press every time some innocent is beaten, deprived of his constitutional rights, or slaughtered by a cop.

Offending the cops is regarded as "sides-taking," the way offending any other Republican is, and the press is very, very careful to "both sides" acts of official murder, lest angry police union officials ring up their publishers and editors and shriek about anti-police bias.

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"Underlying health conditions?"So, so strangely, that is also what right wing truth-benders and outright liars keep saying is really the cause of alleged deaths from Covid-19. Not the novel coronavirus at all. Underlying conditions that mean Covid-19 isn't really as lethal as medical experts think it is, underlying conditions that were the real cause of people croaking in the pandemic.Now it was the cause of George Floyd's death too.That's nice to know.

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I’m poking a lawyer on Twitter about whether even just saying Mr. Floyd was killed would still potentially leave papers open to liability; I’ll update if he responds.

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Look at that video again! Not only was Chauvin kneeling on Mr. Floyd's throat, he is seen shifting all of his weight onto that knee in order to make sure he was snuffing out Mr Floyd's life.We all witnessed this murder in cold blood.

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In Norway, for example, police recruits are basically trained to be more like social workers than soldiers. It works very well.

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The unions need to be reigned in and individual officers held legally accountable for their actions. As it is now taxpayers usually pay for any officers BS

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3rd degree was on purpose - apparently Minnesota law defines 3rd degree murder as a death unintentionally caused by wanton acts without special regard to their effect on any one person. They were going to charge him with murder to quell the unrest, then throw out the murder charge on a technicality.

https://www.bostonglobe.com...

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I heard he had a bacon double cheeseburger once, so off-setting penalties?/s

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Since the murderer knew Mr. Floyd, I think it should be called a HIT.

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