The Trial of Officer Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd

Did he fire 3 shots into her? Lookit, I’m no expert, and we’ll see what the training says, but you’d imagine that could possibly have been excessive.

Either way, you’d be better off working in a 7-11 than as a cop in America.

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It’s more typical of most killings involving the police. They are called out to a ongoing crime scene, often domestic abuse, and someone gets shot who is armed and threatening someone else or the cop. It’s not that dissimilar to the case in Dublin this year.

Tragic. Girl should not have being trying to stab someone. She got what was coming to her.

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Let that be a lesson to all. Cops do not mess around over there.

Split second decision, has to assess a threat and take immediate action and protect life, analysed frame by frame after. But if you look on certain us news sites Facebook pages, many public comments suggest the shooting was in revenge for the Chauvin verdict…

This young lad is the clearest headed thinker I’ve sen on twitter in a while. Conservative for sure but grounded in logic.

Tucker is some boyo altogether. Below is an excerpt from his college yearbook. Being a member of the “Jesse Helms foundation” is bad enough - Helms was an unabashed racist - but what could the “Dan White Society” be?

Would it be this guy by any chance? The guy who slaughtered Harvey Milk and the Mayor of San Francisco George Moscone?

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Careful now. I know you are new around here but Tucker is a leading intellectual light for many on the forum

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Jesse Helms, Michael Jordan’s shame

I think you mean leading light intellectual, very light.

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81% of black Americans want the same or more policing in their neighborhoods, 19% want less policing. It certainly looks now like the 19% will get their wish. The vast majority of people of all communities living in the US are decent people, who just want to live in safety. The risk to them is overwhelmingly from violent criminals and not cops, especially in black neighborhoods. This is borne out in the statistics, just in the black community alone there are over 7,000 murders a year, yet the narrative is that cops are waging war on the black community.

We are now entering a new twilight phase where all killings by cops are claimed as unjustified and must lead to a murder charge, even if they are, as in this instance, to save a life. The question of course is why politicians and the media are calling for less policing or defunding police, and the answer of courser of they don’t give a fuck about people who are actually impacted by violent crime.

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What percentage of black people, do you think, want police to stop murdering black people?

The same percentage as all other races, 100%. Believe it or not, it is quite possible to be opposed to all murder and violent crime, regardless of who the perpetrators are.

Is it all the media? Robbed of 24 hour trump coverage to generate clicks now need something else to rile people up and get their attention.

So why do your narratives so frequently seem to be pro-police brutality or pro-excuse making for police? Obviously you aren’t the only poster here that seems to go for these angles, so I wouldn’t want to single you out.

You think the Black Lives Matter protestors don’t have a point?

Where have I excused police brutality? Fire up the posts there and we can discuss them.

That’s always been the general feeling I’ve got from your posts.

Then you should question your feelings.

Ah so is this the angle you are taking to brown nose to those in power and protect yourself. Fair enough.

BLM protesters are a widely disparate group. Including but not exclusively,

those who are protesting police tactics - definitely have a valid point however labelling every police shooting as murder is blatantly wrong, as you seem to be attempting.

Those who want police scrapped and prisons gotten rid of - nonsense

A few skangers who take the opportunity to cause trouble - do you support these?

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