George Floyd 100% did not deserve to die, and it wasn’t a tragic mistake that killed him. That’s why his death was so shocking.
As someone who used to deal with counterfeit currency, presenting a fake bill is not a crime. The average person has no idea whether a bill is counterfeit and cops definitely don’t. There was literally no reason for Derek Chauvin (and the others) to arrest him, let alone choke him to death.
That’s why people went nuts. He was killed for no other reason than being a black man. It’s as simple as that: some people are totally fine with killing black people because they don’t see them as human.
That part of it was just a distraction. I don’t care if he had a counterfeit printer at home churning out 20s, no-one deserves to be chocked to death for non violent crimes.
Now if you are running around with knife/gun all bets are off and you might get killed in the process of being restrained.
But again, once you are restrained you should not have a fucker standing on your neck.
As someone who used to deal with counterfeit currency, presenting a fake bill is not a crime.
Did we ever even find out if the bill in question was actually counterfeit?
It doesn’t matter. It’s only a crime if you know the bill is fake; and the average person doesn’t know that. Running a red light is a worse offense.
I’d say it matters if the people who cast “summon murderpig” did so on false pretenses.
There was a random right wing Floyd vid on TikTok. The comments were trash and usual right wing talking points and fake news.
I commented “even if he was Hitler, he has the right to trial and not be murdered slowly on the street” and my post was removed.
Great.
The right wing censors everything that is not lockstep with whatever the current message is. They carefully curate their message boards while decrying when others do it.
I used to use Reddit a lot and I talked a lot of shit over the years. The only time I got a temp ban was for posting that the GOP should take out Ron Desantis like the dirty diaper he is on a Pro-Trump discussion.
When I pointed out my comment was rather tame compared to the others ones on the post the mods claimed I was harassing them and tried to get my account banned. It was insane but I learned an important lesson.
Reddit mods are insane. I pointed out the hypocrisy of the the r/news mods in that they would delete any story that didn’t suck of Israel, while keeping the pro Israel post open and unlocked, they fuckin banned me. Then when I complained to the reddit admins they permabanned me. Reddit is a cesspool and I hope they go broke.
We are ruled by depraved monsters (mods)
That’s because mods is actually an acronym
Monsters Of Depraved Sadism
There was an opportunity to change things, in fact there is still plenty of opportunity to change things, but that would upset the current power structure so you’re supposed to be satisfied with this empty gesture instead:
That’s all they ever give, hollow empty platitudes.
The white man will try to satisfy us with symbolic victories rather than economic equity and real justice.
Malcolm X.
For a moment Rodney King’s beating changed everyting, too.
The USA is a racist country. It was founded on racism, built with racism, and now thrives on racism. That’s never gonna change, and it deserves to perish in fire.
The USA is a racist country. It was founded on racism, built with racism, and now thrives on racism.
Like every other country ever.
That’s never gonna change, and it deserves to perish in fire.
Careful you’re going to cut yourself with all that edge.
Lmao, liberals
Your semi weekly reminder that Biden’s response to the police brutalizing peaceful protestors was to proudly give them more funding.
Arr you seriously suggesting that George Floyd’s murder was justified? As for your other examples, people were angry about that as well.
For one thing, you can reply directly to the comment.
For another, in no way did I suggest George Floyd deserved to die.
Crazy how it’s playing out exactly how I thought, cherrypicking because you’re too stupid to read.
Nice of you to insult my intelligence right out the gate. I’m surprised you’re monitoring the thread so closely that you replied to me even though I didn’t reply to your comment (which I didn’t realize until you pointed it out)
Yes I have eyes and was interested in seeing the other comments. I get it, reading is hard for you so you struggle to understand the concept.
Edit: did you see how I read my comment again and corrected my typos? Wild, right, re-reading the things you’ve written? Try it sometime.
If you did this, you might realize the way you talk to other people is insufferable.
My god dude, you are a colossal tool. Move on with your life.
Yeah I just block jerks like this guy. Makes lemmy a whole lot more pleasant.
TL;DR: BLACK LIVES MATTER and the people who rioted after George Floyd’s murder have set civil rights back by decades. Reactionary politics are cancer.
This is what happens when you prop up a career criminal as a martyr.
George Floyd was a bad man. Is anyone actually surprised that nothing good came from the riots following his death?
Breonna Taylor’s murder comes to mind. That woman was an innocent and upstanding member of society. She was a fucking EMT and the reaction to her being murdered by cops blindfiring through her window after a no-knock breach was fucking mute compared to the rabidity that people showed after George Floyd was murdered. This was two and a half months before Floyd’s murder.
Where were the riots following her death? Oh, right, it didn’t happen for another two fucking months because it was largely unnoticed outside of Louisiana until CNN released s story about it. Even then they weren’t as bad as what happened after Floyd’s death.
The wild disparity between the two events can be summed up quite simply - Floyd’s murder was recorded and shown immediately, Breonna’s murder was not.
Reactionary politics are cancerous. Of course things have only gotten worse - the idiots responsible for the riots provided conservatives with all the talking points they needed to make the other side look fucking rabid.
That’s not even mentioning the bad actors who jumped on the event to cause havoc. Yes I’m talking about the white people dressed all in black throwing molotovs and chanting “black lives matter”.
I don’t even know why I’m writing this, I guarantee I’ll get responses that completely ignore the points I’m making and cherrypick. Let’s see.
Edit: what a surprise, reactionaries reacting. Crazy.
I think the difference be between Briana’s and George’s killing and why one got the limelight was two fold. One could have maybe explained away as an honest mistake or a bad situation. The other was pretty blatant malice. George being the latter. Outrage takes time to build and can dissipate quickly. It maybe the public had just reached a tipping point after months and years of unlawful killing by police of black people, mostly male, mostly young.
I think the offense people took with your reply is due to the historic “he was no Angel” excuse. As a way to justify the inexcusable, cold blooded murder.
