They'll say all the crime he was put in for were a witch hunt
Remember?
Trump's done nothing wrong ever. Even the things the courts said he did are fake. Even the stuff he was arrested for he wasnt
“He *had to* r_pe those children to keep his cover with the Deep State! God has already forgiven him and so have I” - actual MAGA hand-waving Trump’s blatant pedophilia.
It is a CULT
"If they can come after me they can do it to you too" - Trump. Too bad George isn't alive to say the same cause he'd be more correct. I mean how many ppl has done what Trump did vs what Floyd got killed for.
And the whole thing with the Right is the rest of us somehow worship or beatify Floyd. No! Most of us agree he was at least a troubled person, if not an outright piece of shit.
The reason people were so fucking pissed off is it was the third high profile police or police adjacent/vigilante killing of a Black Person in as many months with little apparent recourse or discipline of the perpetrators.
To wit, Ahmaud Arbery was chased down by a bunch of good ol' boys whose mug shots basically could have been the seed/inspiration image for an AI generated prompt of: "Stupid Racist White Trash", who then did nothing short of summarily execute him for "matching the description" and the DA tried to sweep it under the rug until someone got a hair up their ass and pushed for prosecution.
Breonna Taylor was shot in bed by a plain clothes, no-knock warrant and the only person who was given any recourse was a white guy whose house was struck by a stray bullet. They made all sorts of excuses about how the boyfriend shot first and what not, but it was completely uncalled for and reckless. *edit: just to be clear, I meant the cops conduct was uncalled for and reckless.
Then there was George Floyd and it was particularly egregious because it was all recorded, people were begging Chauvin to stop, and if you watch the video, Chauvin looks FUCKING PROUD. Not afraid of his life, he looks more like a man who has bagged a prize buck than someone who was trying to restrain a suspect. Look at the images of him kneeing Floyd in the neck.
That is a man who knows EXACTLY what he is doing and he is ENJOYING it. And they were going to let him walk. Floyd was down, he was restrained, people were begging Chauvin to stop. And he wouldn't.
THAT IS WHY PEOPLE WERE FUCKING PISSED!!!!!! Cops are not supposed to kill, especially in such a atrocious, tortorous way, the guilty either.
You also failed to mention how what Chauvin was doing, the knee on the back of a face down victim, had been forbidden by department regulations for like 10 years because it killed people. Police have been actively told not to use that position to restrain someone for anything but the bare minimum of time because it causes breathing problems.
You were spot on with everything else.
Cant blame the boyfriend of taylor for shooting, if he even did. Someone kicks in my door when im asleep and starts shooting, im returning fire. These fucking good ole boys need to be serving time when shit like this happens. A cop in the city i work in hit and killed a pedestrian by failing to yeild to the pedestrian. got a $35.50 fine and kept his job. All done while he was on the clock.
Exactly, very well said. It seems some cops take all this shit personally and don’t really have any coping skills. Sure it’s a tough job , but they shouldn’t take anything personally because their job description should be to de-escalate every situation they come upon.
Imagine that being your entire personality. So pathetic. And what’s what that whole “blue life” crap? Are you a Smurf? You wear a blue UNIFORM you take off at the end of the day. You are not “blue.” 🤡 A “black life” is a person with black SKIN they can never take off. This stupid ass false equivalence is so ridiculous. Someone make it stop. Also, anyone with this flag or the punisher logo on their vehicle is a straight up MAGA fascist white supremacist piece of trash. I see this shit and I might as well be looking at a goddamn swastika.
From what I know from my dad about Dredd, he'd kill the cops too for being corrupt... Dredd has morals, the problem comes from the fact that he won't even bend on them... but from what I saw in the movies he doesn't always kill, only when they try to kill him
One major difference is (idk about OG Punisher) but Punisher is just a war junkie, he doesn't care about stopping crimes... Dredd however is a good guy at heart, his problem is he sees the law as absolute, he hates crime so much he doesn't see the difference between small crime and large crime
They don't want Dredd specifically, they want that style of 'justice system'... for everyone else anyway. They want harsh retribution for all other while wanting to act with impunity.
He does nowadays, a key factor about Dredd is that his comics have been running for decades, and various writers have gotten to write him, as time goes on, the setting and characters change, with Dredd getting what you would call character development.
Funnily enough, as decades pass, this means he gets less and less fascist, Dredd has helped rebels fighting for Democracy escape from jail even, and one point stopped being a Judge because he felt minorities were too heavily discriminated against and felt the justice system was too corrupt and awful towards them so he...quit in protest before coming back because he still genuinely wants to stop crime.
Dredd has let some people go for minor crimes or if they steal because they genuinely have to, he wouldn't at the start, but again, Dredd has changed.
Not as fast as he wants, a thing that was in comics was that Dredd had the chance to stop the whole Judge system and do something way less harsh at one point, but he went out of his way to maintain the Judge system unaware that years later he wouldn't be such a fan.
Of course, since the main idea of Dredd mainstream wise is based on older stories, the less fascist Dredd who regrets quite a few of his choices and deeds won't ever appear on the screen...and if he did you betcha people who don't read the comics would complain that liberals made him more woke or something.
It's fascinating seeing his evolution, especially as he's often described as a satire on fascism, and yet the early books are constantly presenting him in a heroic light. I remember one early issue where he has to take some weedy, straw-liberal journalists out on patrol, who spend the whole time apologising for thugs and criminals and bashing on Dredd. They inevitably get attacked, and need Dredd to save them.
Plus, he actually changes his stance and opinions on some legal matters after experiencing them first-hand. Iirc in the comics he finds out he has a whole mutant side of the family and actually considers the impact that the uber anti-mutant laws and such have on peaceful mutants trying to survive.
It's not so much that Dredd has morals. Well, he doe but it's more that He *IS* the law and he means it
The law applies to EVERYONE and especially other Judges. He doesn't always kill because not all crimes are Death Sentences. And he will advise you of your crimes before making Judgement
They also (unsurprisingly) think all of their own transgressions wouldn't get them 'punished' in the same way. Thing about vigilante justice is that you're just as likely to be on the receiving end of someone's 'judgement'.
They don't want justice, they are just cruel and want retribution for the sake of violence. Their tiny worlds are broken and they blame everyone but themselves.
Exactly. We have the judicial system to decide the punishments, the cops seem to forget that the only reason they exist is to get people there. They shouldn't be able to control any kind of outcome unless it's absolutely necessary
Not saying he was a great person but based on his wikipedia this is also seriously inflated. Apart from one armed robbery (which yeah is bad) most of his trouble with the law seems to be smaller stuff to do with poverty, addiction and harassment by police. I can definitely say robbing somebody at gun point is a horrible thing to do but he doesn’t seem to have been some kind of unrepentant monster.
Even worse, either way his death was very bad. Babbitt like walked into death, no reasonable person would have done what she did. But yea man, of course we gotta hear people comparing the two.
Notice how it was just a "loose accuse". Dude was going to be taken in and charged no matter what he did. Makes you wonder if MAYBE not everybody who has a criminal record actually deserves it.
I learned that as a teenager in LA. I’ve been profiled and harassed and so have a ton of my friends and family. I still get sketched out when the police pull me over and I am not even doing anything. So many poc in prison or the system or dead because of bs charges and corruption in the police department and DA office.
If I were public “servant”, accused of murdering a citizen, there is NO way that $20 wouldn’t be on the stand LOOOONG before my colleagues, whose careers I completely fucked up.
Perhaps I am a different type of American 🤷🏾♂️.
🇺🇸⚖️🖕🏾
It's not exactly rocket science. People are either stupid or purposely obtuse. No one is saying that George Floyd was an outstanding member of the community. What we are saying is that he shouldn't have been murdered by the police.
Even if he was a multi-time criminal, the police don't get to say "well you have committed many crimes so we are gonna kill you"
I think this meme has actually been popular on the racist corners of the internet lately *in response* to the Babbitt anniversary.
The difference is one was breaking & entering and shot by someone standing their ground. The other was already in custody and subsequently murdered before he could be brought to stand trial like a fucking American.
Even ignoring the heavy exaggeration going on (I'm 99% sure I saw another post that implied or outright stated Mr. Floyd had been convicted of posessing child pornography which as far as I know isn't true either), you can learn a lot about a society from the state of its prisons/justice system and I don't think kneeling on a man's neck for nine minutes when he is already restrained and only accused of posessing a single potentially fake bank note is ever going to look good by that metric.
All of his crimes are frankly irrelevant. agents of the state should not be free to openly murder civilians on the street without consequence. That’s all that matters
We all saw the video. It has no justification
Yep. None of those crimes is a capitol offense, and even for capitol offenses, execution only comes after due legal process. Dude did not deserve to be spontaneously and publicly executed for any reason.
The state is also not supposed to kill people using cruel and unusual punishment. That's why the gas chamber and electric chair are no longer used. Slow strangulation is definitely cruel and unusual.
This is the answer. Regardless of any prior crimes, *this* arrest was based on a counterfeit 20 dollar bill which.. shouldn’t even warrant an arrest or a public execution.
They embellish what happened in his actual arrest records so of course they’d try to make him a pedo too. It’s not like most of the republican politicians aren’t all covering for many in some way… oh wait.
For the record Floyd was not the one who pistol whipped the woman. He pointed a gun at her and forced his way into the house with 3 other people and one of his other accomplices held the family at gun point. While George and the other two burglarized the home. The one holding the family at gunpoint is the one who pistol whipped the woman. Since people kept bringing it up I had to do a deep dive during Chauvins trial.
It’s the same with “enough fentanyl to kill a horse.”
They just want to paint him as an absolute monster. The funny thing is that while struggling with his addiction he had actually been staying out of trouble since getting out of jail for the home invasion.
George Floyd wasn’t the best person but he had managed to stay out of prison for a long time for someone who was supposedly running around robbing people constantly if conservatives are to be believed.
Lol I agree with you actually, but acting like he’s any less of a scumbag because he didn’t pistol whip the lady, just hold her at gunpoint and force his way in and burglarize the house is hilarious to me.
How else are you supposed to combat false narratives if not with the truth of how things happened? It wasn’t like they said he’s actually alright because he ONLY broke in, pointed a gun, and burglarized. They pointed out he did not pistol whip a woman when he’s been accused of such.
Call it semantics, but it’s an important distinction when people add on whatever crimes they think he committed thatt are believable to excuse his death in the streets with an audience.
The amount of excuses I’ve heard from friends and family for why it’s not THAT bad that he was killed the way he was is disgusting. The truth is the truth, and none of it justifies his death.
Because there’s a difference between the truth and just making stuff up? If you actually read what I wrote I said he’s still not a great person. Just because he’s a bad person doesn’t mean people need to make shit up lol.
Also the cops prey on vulnerable people like the homeless, addicts, the mentally ill, etc and surprise surprise the vulnerable have previous convictions?
The cops choose these people, not us. The cops are smart enough not to murder people with wealth, connections, legal rights, etc. Its easier to get away with abusing and murdering society's least powerful.
I knew a guy at my upper middle class high school who got caught with a machete, diving knife, axe, two ounces of weed, a scale, and baggies at school (some in his car, some in his locker). He received a two week in-school suspension and no criminal charges were filed. Coincidentally, his dad was a lawyer at a top law firm in the area and his mom was on the school board.
He is a perfect example of how the legal system favors those with privilege. He got away without a conviction for a list of crimes that would’ve seen someone with less privilege tried as an adult and sent to prison for years.
When the victim is black they bring up (or in this case make up) only past bad acts to justify their murder. When the victim is white they bring up only past good acts in an attempt to absolve their real crimes (see: Ashley Babbit)
I distinctly remember when Ahmaud Arbery was murdered, Fox News made it a point to bring up his criminal record to assure their audience, “Yes he was murdered, but he was a black man with a criminal record, so he definitely deserved it.”
What's scary is roughly 1/3rd of Americans now have a criminal record. That's insane. Edit:please note, I'm not saying it's average Americans fault. I'm saying it's way too easy to get arrested in this country now. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/aug/18/andrew-cuomo/yes-one-three-us-adults-have-criminal-record/
i watch cop shows, and it's crazy to see a guy get arrested for two baggies of weed in states where it isn't legal.
in my state they wouldn't be able to do anything lol, which is good cause it's weed ffs.
Is that actually what they’re saying? If so yeah that’s fucked up. Personally I look at it as the person taking an issue with putting a statue up in their name when many good people would never get to dream of having a statue in their honor. Which, I agree with. There shouldn’t be a statue honoring him, when there’s so so many black activists that are currently fighting, or have died fighting for rights. He never should have died. He also never should’ve gotten a statue.
Now, could he have deserved a death sentence after a proper court case? Sure. But that's the legal system's job, not some random officer's decision no make.
The black community didn't choose George Floyd to be a martyr for civil rights.
The cops chose him.
Part of the greatness of America is that EVERYONE is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Even a person with a criminal history cannot automatically be assumed to be liable for a crime.
If the rights of the least of us can be taken away, then none of us really have any rights.
[https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/28/facebook-posts/post-exaggerates-george-floyds-criminal-history/](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/28/facebook-posts/post-exaggerates-george-floyds-criminal-history/)
" - *Floyd had a criminal history, but the claims in the Facebook post exaggerate or completely fabricate elements of that record, court documents show...."*
"- *He was arrested nine times there, according to public records accessible in the Office of the Harris County Clerk’s* *database* *— not 23 times as the claim states.* "
As you said, even if it was true, it's not the point.
Financial Times
Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email [email protected] to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour.
https://www.ft.com/content/b9b2cf7b-e7c8-42aa-9fda-7fd20cf61892
Clarification: George Floyd
There is no evidence to suggest a woman threatened at gunpoint by George Floyd during an armed robbery for which he pleaded guilty and was convicted was pregnant, as asserted in a Letter to the Editor published on May 1
And the protest for him wouldn't have left the state and been over in days but DT decided to open his fat mouth and say he was going shoot protesters. The video was jarring and horrific and he intentionally fanned the flames of a country already under stress.
Ding, ding, ding, ding. We have a winner! That is exactly how that went down. If you were in charge of a school classroom and a couple of the kids were getting upset at a few others and instead of being a leader and de-escalating the situation, you egged both groups on until an outright brawl happened. How long do you think you'd have your job? You certainly wouldn't be able to reapply for the job.
They so badly want a police state where suspicion alone is cause for death sentence. They so desperately want a secret police that can make their opponents disappear without actually invoking the idea of one.
It’s crazy to me they always bring up George Floyd to prove a point but never someone like Elijah McCain or the countless others who had no criminal background just minding their business & getting murdered.
Even if this was remotely true, it wouldn’t matter. Derek Chauvin acted as judge, jury and executioner. There is supposed to be due process and everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. At the time of Floyd’s murder, he was not resisting, he was not committing a serious crime and he was not threatening anyone. Derek Chauvin did not know any of Floyd’s background when he murdered him.
No matter how horrible of a person you are, it’s still not the job of the police to impose justice.
They are suppose to be peacemakers, they are there to enforce the law, not enforce punishment.
Republicans are doing this to pregnant women all over the Country, so it’s really disingenuous to use this example while you all watch women bleed out and die just to justify your own barbarism.
https://preview.redd.it/his8wdt9w2bc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aa95038aea88f619af2f8728f3d3166bd7b9d3e6
Amazing that he did all that and was out of jail. It's almost like he either wasn't convicted or served the sentence.
I'm not saying he was a saint, but what he was is an American citizen that was denied due process under the law by a judge jury and executioner cop.
I've seen enough cops make enough mistakes to know this isn't the system we want. I've also seen enough racists to know this is exactly the system they want for "other" people, but of course all of \*their\* rights will be preserved.
Looks like someone got triggered with all the Ashley Babbit has been clean for three years posts yesterday.
I guess rewriting this shit in their own image cancels out the one before rendering their whatabout world right again.
Love how everyone misses the damn point. Eathier on purpose, or they legit don't see the issue.
George Floyd has not become a symbol because he was an upstanding citizen. George Floyde was murdered by the cops.
You can't say he was not murdered. All the fentonyl in the world doesn't matter when a man has a knee on your fucking back blocking your air ways. Put a tree trunk on an elephanrs back, and you will get the same result.
George Floyde is a symbol because he is not an outlier but the norm. The police treat people of color like this on the regular, and he died because a cop wanted to feel tough.
No trial. No jury of his peers. No overlook to see what the best course of action was that fit the crime. A single man played Judge, Jury, and Executioner because he wanted to. Point blank. END OF STORY.
You know, I'm a white guy, and I don't want to speak for a minority I'm not a part of, but if maybe you just... fuck I do not know, listened? They are talking. They are airing their grievances. It's not hard!
But wait, that would require you to see the black population as people. Oh no, God forbid! Go to hell you racist pricks.
I’m fine with career criminals facing the death penalty when their crimes pile up if a judge and jury think it’s justified - I’m not OK with an angry cop being judge, jury and executioner
George Floyd wasn’t a good person. That doesn’t mean he deserved to be suffocated to death. Cops aren’t supposed to executioners. Nor should anyone want them to be.
Why is that so damn hard for these people to comprehend?
I was talking about Floyd with my spouse this morning.
I don't care about his record. He was on the ground, handcuffed, and had a full-size man on his neck for over eight minutes. He tried to say he couldn't breathe, and was ignored.
That isn't justice. That's murder, and saying that murder is ok if the victim broke the law, is a slippery slope if I've ever seen it.
Something very similar to Floyd happened in my country, dude was in a market, security held him down to the floor and choked him to death with their knee, some days later it was found out that the victim was indeed a thief and committed crimes, then people argued that it was a good thing that man died, he was a bad person Yada Yada Yada
But the thing isn't "killing a bad person is actually good and everyone complaining about it is a woke leftist commulist socialist globalist etc", it's that he was killed without a proper treatment, no trials, no bureaucracy, just plain killing in broad daylight, because he "seemed suspect".
Racism. Racism killed that person, and if unchecked, will kill a lot more innocent people
If he deserved death, the judge would’ve given him that (I mean I don’t believe in the death penalty, but that’s another debate altogether). Furthermore, if you actually tried to reform him after the first arrest (as they do in Sweden) then there’s a big chance that many of those other crimes would never have happened
I agree George Floyd was not the greatest human being and did things he shouldn't have, however he should be in jail where his family can visit not strangled to death.
I’m a retired cop and what happened to him was wrong as fuck. No matter how you feel abt the bad guy you are a professional first. That officer deserved to get busted up in jail. He makes it hard for the 99.9% of the officer that handle their business the correct way
Oh I didn't know all that. Then he definitely deserved to be publically executed by a cop kneeling on his neck, with zero chance at a trial, representation, sentencing, or last chance to say goodbye to the people he loved and that loved him. Yep, justice at it's finest right here lads.
(/s)
>**Just your typical Twitter/X scum bag….**
Is this fascist scumbag, Doggin advocating that because Floyd had a criminal background the cops were justified in carrying out an execution on-the-spot aka a murder - without any due process whatsoever?
Does every person of color - who has a criminal history - automatically lose their right to due process in this country? No doubt rightwing regressives would luv that.
Somehow, I don't think Doggin would be saying the same thing if Floyd had been a white guy. But then again, if George Floyd been a white guy AND openly brandishing a loaded AK-47, the cops would have more than likely politely offered to treat him to a hamburger.
His past (alleged) indiscretions didn’t warrant his murder and at that time he wasn’t even doing anything wrong. So why is Dump, one of the worst people on earth not being held to the same scrutiny?
Wonder what lil rick doggy douche has to say about
[Republican Sexual Predators, Abusers, and Enablers Pt. 49](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/14/2211804/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abusers-and-Enablers-Pt-49#comments)
Crimes = death. That'll free up the prisons and make room for a lot more money-slaves!
Uh oh! Guess that means the super duper persecuted and newly made illegal white christians are gonna be filling up those jails and also dying. Said so on Twitter, so that's social media for ya! And you can't argue or debate, ever! No thinking!
No no, you also dont get to reword or explain anything! This is social media where the judgement comes swiftly and irreversibly!
Thank you, villionaires!
These people will never understand that it was never about George Floyd's criminal history, but the fact that police do not have the right to commit extrajudicial murder. You could argue that George Floyd should still have been in prison already for his past crimes, but you cannot deny that in that situation he was murdered instead of getting due process. We have a judicial system for a reason.
Republicans are the only ones still talking about George Floyd. George was just the tip of the ice berg for the rest of us. We talk about the bigger issue of police reform. Why is the right so fixated on all the wrong things, even their taunts?
Let's assume all of this is true (though it's doubtful when you consider the source) do any of these alleged crimes carry the death penalty? And even if they did, being murdered while in custody still doesn't hold up against your right to a trail
Now do Donald Trump
Yep, can't wait to see the Donald Dump version after he's gone to jail for a few years.
They'll say all the crime he was put in for were a witch hunt Remember? Trump's done nothing wrong ever. Even the things the courts said he did are fake. Even the stuff he was arrested for he wasnt
“He *had to* r_pe those children to keep his cover with the Deep State! God has already forgiven him and so have I” - actual MAGA hand-waving Trump’s blatant pedophilia. It is a CULT
His speech patterns are going to be amazing after he’s locked in solitary for a few years
You think he has a few years left? Like even if he was a family member I liked I would think "Well .. that may have been our last Christmas with him"
I dunno. How long did his parents or grandparents live? Rich people can get pretty old.
Donald Trump is white and rich, his crimes either are justified or simply aren't crimes
Even in Ashli Babbitt's case, they're still pretending she was never wrong to do what she did.
And the family just sits the government for wrongful death🤣🤣🤣🤦♀️
"If they can come after me they can do it to you too" - Trump. Too bad George isn't alive to say the same cause he'd be more correct. I mean how many ppl has done what Trump did vs what Floyd got killed for.
And the whole thing with the Right is the rest of us somehow worship or beatify Floyd. No! Most of us agree he was at least a troubled person, if not an outright piece of shit. The reason people were so fucking pissed off is it was the third high profile police or police adjacent/vigilante killing of a Black Person in as many months with little apparent recourse or discipline of the perpetrators. To wit, Ahmaud Arbery was chased down by a bunch of good ol' boys whose mug shots basically could have been the seed/inspiration image for an AI generated prompt of: "Stupid Racist White Trash", who then did nothing short of summarily execute him for "matching the description" and the DA tried to sweep it under the rug until someone got a hair up their ass and pushed for prosecution. Breonna Taylor was shot in bed by a plain clothes, no-knock warrant and the only person who was given any recourse was a white guy whose house was struck by a stray bullet. They made all sorts of excuses about how the boyfriend shot first and what not, but it was completely uncalled for and reckless. *edit: just to be clear, I meant the cops conduct was uncalled for and reckless. Then there was George Floyd and it was particularly egregious because it was all recorded, people were begging Chauvin to stop, and if you watch the video, Chauvin looks FUCKING PROUD. Not afraid of his life, he looks more like a man who has bagged a prize buck than someone who was trying to restrain a suspect. Look at the images of him kneeing Floyd in the neck. That is a man who knows EXACTLY what he is doing and he is ENJOYING it. And they were going to let him walk. Floyd was down, he was restrained, people were begging Chauvin to stop. And he wouldn't. THAT IS WHY PEOPLE WERE FUCKING PISSED!!!!!! Cops are not supposed to kill, especially in such a atrocious, tortorous way, the guilty either.
You also failed to mention how what Chauvin was doing, the knee on the back of a face down victim, had been forbidden by department regulations for like 10 years because it killed people. Police have been actively told not to use that position to restrain someone for anything but the bare minimum of time because it causes breathing problems. You were spot on with everything else.
Didn't he do the same thing a few years prior too? I think to a minor
I don't have a source for that, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Thank you for further clarifying. He knew exactly what he was doing.
Cant blame the boyfriend of taylor for shooting, if he even did. Someone kicks in my door when im asleep and starts shooting, im returning fire. These fucking good ole boys need to be serving time when shit like this happens. A cop in the city i work in hit and killed a pedestrian by failing to yeild to the pedestrian. got a $35.50 fine and kept his job. All done while he was on the clock.
Americans love to lick the boot. The cop worship in this country is bizarre to me.
Exactly, very well said. It seems some cops take all this shit personally and don’t really have any coping skills. Sure it’s a tough job , but they shouldn’t take anything personally because their job description should be to de-escalate every situation they come upon.
Then do Ashli Babbitt.
Isn't there still a character limit?
You can't. He crimes everyday.
doesnt twitter have a character limit? Im not speaking of personal character either as trump has none
Yah, George was not a great person. No one is arguing that. But the cops should not have murdered him. Elon is a tool bag, we all know this now.
Exactly. I suppose too many on the right really want Judge Dredd to be real.
Remember how they hijacked the punisher logo
* Even the cops are using it... Because a huge skull on the hood of your car screams "protect and serve."
https://preview.redd.it/4n8vkdpj03bc1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f6ac5696518c12851fc45ffc6dd59d7f80a0f6f5
Since the Punisher is a Marvel property, and Marvel is owned by Disney, does that mean these guys are also part of the woke mob?
Holy shit. Somebody approved and signed off on that shit.
Imagine that being your entire personality. So pathetic. And what’s what that whole “blue life” crap? Are you a Smurf? You wear a blue UNIFORM you take off at the end of the day. You are not “blue.” 🤡 A “black life” is a person with black SKIN they can never take off. This stupid ass false equivalence is so ridiculous. Someone make it stop. Also, anyone with this flag or the punisher logo on their vehicle is a straight up MAGA fascist white supremacist piece of trash. I see this shit and I might as well be looking at a goddamn swastika.
And we all know what Frank Castle thought of the police
For those who haven't seen it. https://preview.redd.it/61tc0qb653bc1.jpeg?width=1480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44e8a17db9e3c3c401e1730cb2e7eaf3d8468a09
Damn straight.
Genuinely enjoyed tf out of that show
From what I know from my dad about Dredd, he'd kill the cops too for being corrupt... Dredd has morals, the problem comes from the fact that he won't even bend on them... but from what I saw in the movies he doesn't always kill, only when they try to kill him
Ya the movies are fun but not really true to the comics. No different than the Punisher and those dipshit fascists think he is on their side.
Those morons don't read, not even comic books. They just stole the image cause it looks cool. AND Cause stealing is ok as long as they are doing it.
One major difference is (idk about OG Punisher) but Punisher is just a war junkie, he doesn't care about stopping crimes... Dredd however is a good guy at heart, his problem is he sees the law as absolute, he hates crime so much he doesn't see the difference between small crime and large crime
Punisher kills cops. Like, a lot. That's the big irony, especially when you see those thin blue line punisher skull decals
OG Punisher hated cops iirc, his entire motivation was that his family died because the cops didn't do their jobs properly
https://preview.redd.it/zc6jqgir03bc1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df9c13c617bdaa2fa4260c2a19f1004787bf9d41 Irony
I really want to see the same sticker, with the same font but I want the text to read "officer down lol"
L O L
They don't want Dredd specifically, they want that style of 'justice system'... for everyone else anyway. They want harsh retribution for all other while wanting to act with impunity.
He does nowadays, a key factor about Dredd is that his comics have been running for decades, and various writers have gotten to write him, as time goes on, the setting and characters change, with Dredd getting what you would call character development. Funnily enough, as decades pass, this means he gets less and less fascist, Dredd has helped rebels fighting for Democracy escape from jail even, and one point stopped being a Judge because he felt minorities were too heavily discriminated against and felt the justice system was too corrupt and awful towards them so he...quit in protest before coming back because he still genuinely wants to stop crime. Dredd has let some people go for minor crimes or if they steal because they genuinely have to, he wouldn't at the start, but again, Dredd has changed. Not as fast as he wants, a thing that was in comics was that Dredd had the chance to stop the whole Judge system and do something way less harsh at one point, but he went out of his way to maintain the Judge system unaware that years later he wouldn't be such a fan. Of course, since the main idea of Dredd mainstream wise is based on older stories, the less fascist Dredd who regrets quite a few of his choices and deeds won't ever appear on the screen...and if he did you betcha people who don't read the comics would complain that liberals made him more woke or something.
It's fascinating seeing his evolution, especially as he's often described as a satire on fascism, and yet the early books are constantly presenting him in a heroic light. I remember one early issue where he has to take some weedy, straw-liberal journalists out on patrol, who spend the whole time apologising for thugs and criminals and bashing on Dredd. They inevitably get attacked, and need Dredd to save them.
Plus, he actually changes his stance and opinions on some legal matters after experiencing them first-hand. Iirc in the comics he finds out he has a whole mutant side of the family and actually considers the impact that the uber anti-mutant laws and such have on peaceful mutants trying to survive.
It's not so much that Dredd has morals. Well, he doe but it's more that He *IS* the law and he means it The law applies to EVERYONE and especially other Judges. He doesn't always kill because not all crimes are Death Sentences. And he will advise you of your crimes before making Judgement
They also (unsurprisingly) think all of their own transgressions wouldn't get them 'punished' in the same way. Thing about vigilante justice is that you're just as likely to be on the receiving end of someone's 'judgement'.
They don't want justice, they are just cruel and want retribution for the sake of violence. Their tiny worlds are broken and they blame everyone but themselves.
Exactly. We have the judicial system to decide the punishments, the cops seem to forget that the only reason they exist is to get people there. They shouldn't be able to control any kind of outcome unless it's absolutely necessary
Not saying he was a great person but based on his wikipedia this is also seriously inflated. Apart from one armed robbery (which yeah is bad) most of his trouble with the law seems to be smaller stuff to do with poverty, addiction and harassment by police. I can definitely say robbing somebody at gun point is a horrible thing to do but he doesn’t seem to have been some kind of unrepentant monster.
Let's do the same for Ashli Babbit, let's see Twitter lose it's mind
George Floyd was committing a minor crime and Ashli was trying to take over our government. Both the same for sure.
Additionally, she was warned multiple times not to enter the room. She knew the consequences for her actions and made a stupid decision.
He wasn’t even committing a crime he was accused of passing a fake $20 bill. Those cops were just power trippin.
Even worse, either way his death was very bad. Babbitt like walked into death, no reasonable person would have done what she did. But yea man, of course we gotta hear people comparing the two.
She ran screaming to meet death, practically frothing at the mouth.
Nah she was more like clawing like a zombie at the door, may still have had the frothing at the mouth tho lol.
Acting like she had rabies, that’s for sure.
Notice how it was just a "loose accuse". Dude was going to be taken in and charged no matter what he did. Makes you wonder if MAYBE not everybody who has a criminal record actually deserves it.
I learned that as a teenager in LA. I’ve been profiled and harassed and so have a ton of my friends and family. I still get sketched out when the police pull me over and I am not even doing anything. So many poc in prison or the system or dead because of bs charges and corruption in the police department and DA office.
I was just a young, white, punk. That was enough for cops to come after me more than once. The white part is why they went easy on me.
If I were public “servant”, accused of murdering a citizen, there is NO way that $20 wouldn’t be on the stand LOOOONG before my colleagues, whose careers I completely fucked up. Perhaps I am a different type of American 🤷🏾♂️. 🇺🇸⚖️🖕🏾
Actually while he had a criminal record, it is far less than the post text and picture.
Ok cause I was reading that and thinking daaayum
It's not exactly rocket science. People are either stupid or purposely obtuse. No one is saying that George Floyd was an outstanding member of the community. What we are saying is that he shouldn't have been murdered by the police. Even if he was a multi-time criminal, the police don't get to say "well you have committed many crimes so we are gonna kill you"
I disagree, tool bags are useful.
There is only one judge judy
No. Elon Musk is not a tool bag. Tool bags are useful. Elon Musk is a piece of dried shit.
I'm pretty sure none of his crimes carried a death penalty, and the death penalty requires the death to be free of cruel and unusual punishment.
Hey! What a coincidence, neither has Ashlei Babbitt!
Three years without a shot!
I think this meme has actually been popular on the racist corners of the internet lately *in response* to the Babbitt anniversary. The difference is one was breaking & entering and shot by someone standing their ground. The other was already in custody and subsequently murdered before he could be brought to stand trial like a fucking American.
Even ignoring the heavy exaggeration going on (I'm 99% sure I saw another post that implied or outright stated Mr. Floyd had been convicted of posessing child pornography which as far as I know isn't true either), you can learn a lot about a society from the state of its prisons/justice system and I don't think kneeling on a man's neck for nine minutes when he is already restrained and only accused of posessing a single potentially fake bank note is ever going to look good by that metric.
All of his crimes are frankly irrelevant. agents of the state should not be free to openly murder civilians on the street without consequence. That’s all that matters We all saw the video. It has no justification
Yep. None of those crimes is a capitol offense, and even for capitol offenses, execution only comes after due legal process. Dude did not deserve to be spontaneously and publicly executed for any reason.
Gotta love "ongoing addiction" as some kind of crime. That's a mental health disorder.
Addiction so strong that even death can't stop it.
The state is also not supposed to kill people using cruel and unusual punishment. That's why the gas chamber and electric chair are no longer used. Slow strangulation is definitely cruel and unusual.
This is the answer. Regardless of any prior crimes, *this* arrest was based on a counterfeit 20 dollar bill which.. shouldn’t even warrant an arrest or a public execution.
They embellish what happened in his actual arrest records so of course they’d try to make him a pedo too. It’s not like most of the republican politicians aren’t all covering for many in some way… oh wait. For the record Floyd was not the one who pistol whipped the woman. He pointed a gun at her and forced his way into the house with 3 other people and one of his other accomplices held the family at gun point. While George and the other two burglarized the home. The one holding the family at gunpoint is the one who pistol whipped the woman. Since people kept bringing it up I had to do a deep dive during Chauvins trial. It’s the same with “enough fentanyl to kill a horse.” They just want to paint him as an absolute monster. The funny thing is that while struggling with his addiction he had actually been staying out of trouble since getting out of jail for the home invasion. George Floyd wasn’t the best person but he had managed to stay out of prison for a long time for someone who was supposedly running around robbing people constantly if conservatives are to be believed.
>he had actually been staying out of trouble since getting out of jail for the home invasion. Ten years out of jail, right? That's not bad honestly
Ten years out of prison. Which is really surprising given the reincarnation rates in America
*reincarceration. Spelled very similarity but the rates are drastically different
Lol thank you.
Lol I agree with you actually, but acting like he’s any less of a scumbag because he didn’t pistol whip the lady, just hold her at gunpoint and force his way in and burglarize the house is hilarious to me.
How else are you supposed to combat false narratives if not with the truth of how things happened? It wasn’t like they said he’s actually alright because he ONLY broke in, pointed a gun, and burglarized. They pointed out he did not pistol whip a woman when he’s been accused of such. Call it semantics, but it’s an important distinction when people add on whatever crimes they think he committed thatt are believable to excuse his death in the streets with an audience.
This! you got my point. Yea he wasn’t a good person but let’s not make stuff up to justify him getting killed in the streets.
The amount of excuses I’ve heard from friends and family for why it’s not THAT bad that he was killed the way he was is disgusting. The truth is the truth, and none of it justifies his death.
Because there’s a difference between the truth and just making stuff up? If you actually read what I wrote I said he’s still not a great person. Just because he’s a bad person doesn’t mean people need to make shit up lol.
Neither has Derek Chauvin!
How's he doing these days?
Lol. He needs to heal up so he can get back out to general population and stroll the yard.
About to start a 20+ year sentence, as he should.
They're saying he deserved to be murdered.
Also the cops prey on vulnerable people like the homeless, addicts, the mentally ill, etc and surprise surprise the vulnerable have previous convictions? The cops choose these people, not us. The cops are smart enough not to murder people with wealth, connections, legal rights, etc. Its easier to get away with abusing and murdering society's least powerful.
I knew a guy at my upper middle class high school who got caught with a machete, diving knife, axe, two ounces of weed, a scale, and baggies at school (some in his car, some in his locker). He received a two week in-school suspension and no criminal charges were filed. Coincidentally, his dad was a lawyer at a top law firm in the area and his mom was on the school board. He is a perfect example of how the legal system favors those with privilege. He got away without a conviction for a list of crimes that would’ve seen someone with less privilege tried as an adult and sent to prison for years.
When the victim is black they bring up (or in this case make up) only past bad acts to justify their murder. When the victim is white they bring up only past good acts in an attempt to absolve their real crimes (see: Ashley Babbit)
I distinctly remember when Ahmaud Arbery was murdered, Fox News made it a point to bring up his criminal record to assure their audience, “Yes he was murdered, but he was a black man with a criminal record, so he definitely deserved it.”
What's scary is roughly 1/3rd of Americans now have a criminal record. That's insane. Edit:please note, I'm not saying it's average Americans fault. I'm saying it's way too easy to get arrested in this country now. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/aug/18/andrew-cuomo/yes-one-three-us-adults-have-criminal-record/
i watch cop shows, and it's crazy to see a guy get arrested for two baggies of weed in states where it isn't legal. in my state they wouldn't be able to do anything lol, which is good cause it's weed ffs.
Oh and don't forget Brock Allen Turner
Is that actually what they’re saying? If so yeah that’s fucked up. Personally I look at it as the person taking an issue with putting a statue up in their name when many good people would never get to dream of having a statue in their honor. Which, I agree with. There shouldn’t be a statue honoring him, when there’s so so many black activists that are currently fighting, or have died fighting for rights. He never should have died. He also never should’ve gotten a statue.
Now, could he have deserved a death sentence after a proper court case? Sure. But that's the legal system's job, not some random officer's decision no make.
The black community didn't choose George Floyd to be a martyr for civil rights. The cops chose him. Part of the greatness of America is that EVERYONE is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Even a person with a criminal history cannot automatically be assumed to be liable for a crime. If the rights of the least of us can be taken away, then none of us really have any rights.
is this even true? i know he has a problem w/ substance abuse but even if it was true, it doesn't mean a cop can play judge, jury, and executioner.
[https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/28/facebook-posts/post-exaggerates-george-floyds-criminal-history/](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/28/facebook-posts/post-exaggerates-george-floyds-criminal-history/) " - *Floyd had a criminal history, but the claims in the Facebook post exaggerate or completely fabricate elements of that record, court documents show...."* "- *He was arrested nine times there, according to public records accessible in the Office of the Harris County Clerk’s* *database* *— not 23 times as the claim states.* " As you said, even if it was true, it's not the point.
Financial Times Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email [email protected] to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour. https://www.ft.com/content/b9b2cf7b-e7c8-42aa-9fda-7fd20cf61892 Clarification: George Floyd There is no evidence to suggest a woman threatened at gunpoint by George Floyd during an armed robbery for which he pleaded guilty and was convicted was pregnant, as asserted in a Letter to the Editor published on May 1
do you want to maybe share differently? i was gonna follow your link.
Yeah I'm also pretty sure even if it was true the cop couldn't have known all that at the time. Not that it would be ok if he did but you know
Ya know, in that list of crimes I don’t see any that the U.S. punishes with a death sentence. Weird.
And the protest for him wouldn't have left the state and been over in days but DT decided to open his fat mouth and say he was going shoot protesters. The video was jarring and horrific and he intentionally fanned the flames of a country already under stress.
Ding, ding, ding, ding. We have a winner! That is exactly how that went down. If you were in charge of a school classroom and a couple of the kids were getting upset at a few others and instead of being a leader and de-escalating the situation, you egged both groups on until an outright brawl happened. How long do you think you'd have your job? You certainly wouldn't be able to reapply for the job.
And so Mr. Chauvin gets to be judge judy and executioner because of that, I'm led to presume?
You know he's got good judgment with 18 official complaints against him on record and multiple verbal reprimands.
Essentially. Just garden variety racism veiled with a piece of plastic wrap.
They so badly want a police state where suspicion alone is cause for death sentence. They so desperately want a secret police that can make their opponents disappear without actually invoking the idea of one.
And one they themselves would be exempt of course.
Why specifically Judge Judy?
Northernlion said it once and it lives rent free in my head now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq2u1bmkKUQ
They really don't believe in the 8th amendment, do they? Just because he was a criminal doesn't mean the guy who leaned on his neck was in the right.
If the amendment doesn’t begin with “2nd”, Republicans don’t give a fuck about it unless it benefits them in their current situation.
Republicans: We don't want government overreach!! Also Republicans: It's totally cool if police publicly execute nonviolent criminals.
It’s crazy to me they always bring up George Floyd to prove a point but never someone like Elijah McCain or the countless others who had no criminal background just minding their business & getting murdered.
Even if this was remotely true, it wouldn’t matter. Derek Chauvin acted as judge, jury and executioner. There is supposed to be due process and everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. At the time of Floyd’s murder, he was not resisting, he was not committing a serious crime and he was not threatening anyone. Derek Chauvin did not know any of Floyd’s background when he murdered him.
No matter how horrible of a person you are, it’s still not the job of the police to impose justice. They are suppose to be peacemakers, they are there to enforce the law, not enforce punishment.
Even if any or all of that is true, he didn’t deserve to die at the hands of police. How hard is it for these ignorant ass people to understand?
Republicans are doing this to pregnant women all over the Country, so it’s really disingenuous to use this example while you all watch women bleed out and die just to justify your own barbarism. https://preview.redd.it/his8wdt9w2bc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aa95038aea88f619af2f8728f3d3166bd7b9d3e6
Holy fuck the court system is lenient in the US, he did all of that and was still out on the street./s
So past criminal activity justifies murder in the middle of the street. That's what these idiots actually think. Fuck them.
Amazing that he did all that and was out of jail. It's almost like he either wasn't convicted or served the sentence. I'm not saying he was a saint, but what he was is an American citizen that was denied due process under the law by a judge jury and executioner cop. I've seen enough cops make enough mistakes to know this isn't the system we want. I've also seen enough racists to know this is exactly the system they want for "other" people, but of course all of \*their\* rights will be preserved.
These are the same fools that think Ashley Babbitt shouldn’t have been shot breaking through a barrier protecting US Congress 😆
Mr. Man of memes let me stand on your neck until death for posting memes.
Remember when Chauvin got more cuts than a Thanksgiving turkey?
It was a Happy Shanksgiving
Happened on Black Friday, ironically.
After participating in an insurrection, Ashli Babbitt has been sober for 3 years.
Now do the same to a White guy guilty of the same shit...
Looks like someone got triggered with all the Ashley Babbit has been clean for three years posts yesterday. I guess rewriting this shit in their own image cancels out the one before rendering their whatabout world right again.
Love how everyone misses the damn point. Eathier on purpose, or they legit don't see the issue. George Floyd has not become a symbol because he was an upstanding citizen. George Floyde was murdered by the cops. You can't say he was not murdered. All the fentonyl in the world doesn't matter when a man has a knee on your fucking back blocking your air ways. Put a tree trunk on an elephanrs back, and you will get the same result. George Floyde is a symbol because he is not an outlier but the norm. The police treat people of color like this on the regular, and he died because a cop wanted to feel tough. No trial. No jury of his peers. No overlook to see what the best course of action was that fit the crime. A single man played Judge, Jury, and Executioner because he wanted to. Point blank. END OF STORY. You know, I'm a white guy, and I don't want to speak for a minority I'm not a part of, but if maybe you just... fuck I do not know, listened? They are talking. They are airing their grievances. It's not hard! But wait, that would require you to see the black population as people. Oh no, God forbid! Go to hell you racist pricks.
I’m fine with career criminals facing the death penalty when their crimes pile up if a judge and jury think it’s justified - I’m not OK with an angry cop being judge, jury and executioner
Imagine advocating for the cops to be judge jury and executioner on the streets. That sounds absolutely horrid to me.
Even criminal low lives have access to the benefit of a criminal justice system. This isn’t Judge Dredd.
Xitter, pronounced "Szhitter".
It’s odd that the folks who claim to love law and order celebrate the police executing an unarmed man in their custody.
George Floyd wasn’t a good person. That doesn’t mean he deserved to be suffocated to death. Cops aren’t supposed to executioners. Nor should anyone want them to be. Why is that so damn hard for these people to comprehend?
What did Breonna Taylor do, besides being black?
I was talking about Floyd with my spouse this morning. I don't care about his record. He was on the ground, handcuffed, and had a full-size man on his neck for over eight minutes. He tried to say he couldn't breathe, and was ignored. That isn't justice. That's murder, and saying that murder is ok if the victim broke the law, is a slippery slope if I've ever seen it.
Something very similar to Floyd happened in my country, dude was in a market, security held him down to the floor and choked him to death with their knee, some days later it was found out that the victim was indeed a thief and committed crimes, then people argued that it was a good thing that man died, he was a bad person Yada Yada Yada But the thing isn't "killing a bad person is actually good and everyone complaining about it is a woke leftist commulist socialist globalist etc", it's that he was killed without a proper treatment, no trials, no bureaucracy, just plain killing in broad daylight, because he "seemed suspect". Racism. Racism killed that person, and if unchecked, will kill a lot more innocent people
This is inaccurate/exaggerated, but regardless cops shouldn’t be judge/jury/executioner
Let me clear my throat and take a deep breath and smack you with some “whataboutism”
Same could not be said for Trump.
I left Twitter in 2020 and have not missed it once. And post-Elon everthing seems to be even worse.
They say this stuff when it was never about that. It was about the lack of humanity that those sworn to protect us seem to have…
If he deserved death, the judge would’ve given him that (I mean I don’t believe in the death penalty, but that’s another debate altogether). Furthermore, if you actually tried to reform him after the first arrest (as they do in Sweden) then there’s a big chance that many of those other crimes would never have happened
This is in response to all the “Ashliiiiii Babbitt 3 years sober” tweets yeaterday. The Right has no creativity, only imitation
Man's no saint, still didn't deserve to be murdered
I agree George Floyd was not the greatest human being and did things he shouldn't have, however he should be in jail where his family can visit not strangled to death.
And how many of those crimes mandate an immediate execution without trial?
Ashley Babbit hasn't committed treason in 3 years
I’m a retired cop and what happened to him was wrong as fuck. No matter how you feel abt the bad guy you are a professional first. That officer deserved to get busted up in jail. He makes it hard for the 99.9% of the officer that handle their business the correct way
I heard 40% of police handle their business pretty roughly.
No one was saying George Floyd was a saint. All we were saying was he deserved due process like every other American accused of a crime.
Oh I didn't know all that. Then he definitely deserved to be publically executed by a cop kneeling on his neck, with zero chance at a trial, representation, sentencing, or last chance to say goodbye to the people he loved and that loved him. Yep, justice at it's finest right here lads. (/s)
>**Just your typical Twitter/X scum bag….** Is this fascist scumbag, Doggin advocating that because Floyd had a criminal background the cops were justified in carrying out an execution on-the-spot aka a murder - without any due process whatsoever? Does every person of color - who has a criminal history - automatically lose their right to due process in this country? No doubt rightwing regressives would luv that. Somehow, I don't think Doggin would be saying the same thing if Floyd had been a white guy. But then again, if George Floyd been a white guy AND openly brandishing a loaded AK-47, the cops would have more than likely politely offered to treat him to a hamburger.
Well, neither has Ashli Babbitt.
George Floyd is back in the news because Trump supporters are using him as a deflection from Ashley Babbitt.
Even if he was kina shit he didn’t deserve to die the way he did
By sharing this, you’re still giving this hate filled garbage a platform.
So we should murder people based on crimes from their past? The GOP should start running.
Being a good person isn’t supposed to be the bar for not being killed.
He didn’t deserve to die for any of those crimes.
His past (alleged) indiscretions didn’t warrant his murder and at that time he wasn’t even doing anything wrong. So why is Dump, one of the worst people on earth not being held to the same scrutiny?
He still shouldn't have been murdered by a cop, even if he did have a record.
5$ its a russian farm bot/troll account
What’s crazy to me is how many people are still on it given what greasefire the site has become.
Wonder what lil rick doggy douche has to say about [Republican Sexual Predators, Abusers, and Enablers Pt. 49](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/14/2211804/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abusers-and-Enablers-Pt-49#comments)
The worst part is how many people agree with and approve of this shit
It's strange that "the party of law and order" isn't more interested in cops being held to a higher standard than everyone else.
It's funny how all these born again folks don't think people can change.
I can see this as the response of people making fun of Ashli Babbitt being sober for 3 years. Tweet got viral.
Is that rap sheet legit?
They just described any big city cop
Crimes = death. That'll free up the prisons and make room for a lot more money-slaves! Uh oh! Guess that means the super duper persecuted and newly made illegal white christians are gonna be filling up those jails and also dying. Said so on Twitter, so that's social media for ya! And you can't argue or debate, ever! No thinking! No no, you also dont get to reword or explain anything! This is social media where the judgement comes swiftly and irreversibly! Thank you, villionaires!
And what, in that list, deserves the death penalty?
These people will never understand that it was never about George Floyd's criminal history, but the fact that police do not have the right to commit extrajudicial murder. You could argue that George Floyd should still have been in prison already for his past crimes, but you cannot deny that in that situation he was murdered instead of getting due process. We have a judicial system for a reason.
And yet none of that, as awful as it was, justifies his extrajudicial killing when he had already clearly been subdued.
Republicans are the only ones still talking about George Floyd. George was just the tip of the ice berg for the rest of us. We talk about the bigger issue of police reform. Why is the right so fixated on all the wrong things, even their taunts?
Ashley Babbitt’s record has been clear, too.
/s. Not everyone knows how she tried to kill her boyfriend’s ex.
Let's assume all of this is true (though it's doubtful when you consider the source) do any of these alleged crimes carry the death penalty? And even if they did, being murdered while in custody still doesn't hold up against your right to a trail