By DY_nasty Go To Postthis is not revolution energy
Seen more revolution energy on the right, honestly. Proud boy gangs pretending they’re militias etc etc.
Honestly looking at the laws of the state for the Breonna Taylor case, it's obvious to me that those involved would get off. There needs to be wide spread change to the legal protection and recruitment of police. If you can't be held legally accountable for bad behavior then it's impossible to hold bad actors accountable. It sucks but I hope this BLM movement actually results in widespread change. I'm not holding my breath though.
By DY_nasty Go To PostI think the big question mark now is who actually shot the cop 😂
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/29/kentucky-grand-jury-tapes-breonna-taylor-422864
A week later...
Grand jury was never asked to mull homicide charges in Breonna Taylor case
Kentucky's attorney general said the only charge he recommended to the grand jury was wanton endangerment.
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Amid outrage over the long-awaited charging decision, Attorney General Daniel Cameron said he would agree with a judge’s order to make public a recording of the proceedings, and that he wouldn’t object if members of the panel want to speak publicly about their grand jury experience.
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A week later...
You're asking for a 1.5% budget decrease mister
Maybe we'll just add in some non-enforced anti-chokehold regulations to boot! Keep it up
Maybe we'll just add in some non-enforced anti-chokehold regulations to boot! Keep it up
In the surveillance footage, Mr. Floyd can be seen laughing with employees and shoppers as he moves around the store, at one point holding a banana and at another point pulling out what appears to be some cash. The video was taken about an hour before he was taken away on a stretcher and about two hours before he was pronounced dead at a hospital.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/us/christopher-martin-cup-foods.html
Mr. Martin testified on Wednesday that he had spoken briefly about sports with Mr. Floyd when he entered the store and that Mr. Floyd had appeared to be on a drug of some kind.
“It kind of took him a little long to get to what he was trying to say, so it would appear that he was high,” Mr. Martin said.
After selling Mr. Floyd some cigarettes, Mr. Martin said he realized that Mr. Floyd had given him a bill with some “blue pigment” on it that made him think it was counterfeit. At the time, Mr. Martin said, the store had a policy that clerks who accepted a fake bill had to pay to replace it themselves. He asked a manager what to do and a manager told him to go to Mr. Floyd, who was sitting outside in a car, and ask him to come inside, which Mr. Martin said he tried to do twice.
The longest-serving police officer in the Minneapolis Police Department said on Friday that Derek Chauvin had violated department policy by kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes as he lay handcuffed on his stomach.
Lt. Richard Zimmerman, who leads the department’s homicide unit and responded to the scene of Mr. Floyd’s death after he was taken away in an ambulance, testified in court that what Mr. Chauvin had done was “totally unnecessary.”
“Pulling him down to the ground facedown and putting your knee on a neck for that amount of time, it’s just uncalled for,” said Lieutenant Zimmerman, who joined the department in 1985.
Lieutenant Zimmerman testified that officers are taught to move handcuffed people out of the prone position as quickly as possible — by turning them on their side or sitting them up — and that officers had never been trained to kneel on people’s necks while they were handcuffed and lying on their stomachs.Full acquittal incoming
“You need to get them off their chest,” he said. “If you’re lying on your chest, that’s constricting your breathing even more.”
By reilo Go To PostFull acquittal incomingwould you say you were angry when you were trained Lt. Zimmerman?
By aka Espi Go To PostIs Cher posting a meme or just lying to herself?Her entire twitter is like a fever dream: https://twitter.com/cher
By FortuneFaded Go To PostHer entire twitter is like a fever dream: https://twitter.com/cherBetween this and black samurais I think I’m done with slaent for the day
By aka Espi Go To PostBetween this and black samurais I think I’m done with slaent for the dayif our answers frighten you, then you should cease asking scary questions.
An emergency room doctor who tried to save George Floyd’s life for 30 minutes before pronouncing him dead testified on Monday that he believed Mr. Floyd had likely died of a lack of oxygen, bolstering a central argument of the prosecution.Full acquittal incoming
Testimony in the trial of Derek Chauvin resumed Wednesday with the former officer’s defense team arguing that George Floyd saying, “I can’t breathe,” while police attempted to load him into the squad car was a form of resisting arrest.Resisting arrest by dying. Is this really what we need lawyers for?
By reilo Go To PostResisting arrest by dying. Is this really what we need lawyers for?If we couldn't exonerate cops for murdering the lower classes for no reason our society would fall apart
Attempted to load him into the car? How? Dude was on his stomach with a knee in the back of his neck.
By Lunatic Go To PostY'all going to do your heads in caring what lawyers say to get their clients what they want.
Tobin, a Chicago-based physician who is a renowned expert on pulmonology (medical issues involving the lungs and respiratory system), testified that Floyd died of a low level of oxygen.
Tobin testified Floyd's position was akin to being caught in a vise between the pressure from the officers atop him and the street below, interfering with his ability to expand his left lung. Tobin said the weight of Chauvin's knee on Floyd's neck compressed his airway, also compromising his breathing.So when Floyd said he can't breathe he meant it? Interesting
https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/y3dm3m/cops-caught-on-video-holding-a-black-army-lieutenant-at-gunpoint-then-pepper-spraying-him?__twitter_impression=trueCaron Nazario was driving his newly-purchased Chevy Tahoe home when two police officers pulled him over in Windsor, Virginia, whipped out their guns, and started barking orders.
With their weapons raised, the officers demanded that Nazario, a Black and Latino man, get out of the SUV. Nazario looked in the mirror and saw he was being held at gunpoint, then placed his cellphone on his dashboard to film the December 5 encounter. He repeatedly asked to know what was going on. At one point, he even admitted to being afraid to leave the vehicle.
“Yeah, you should be,” one of the officers responded.
Nazario, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, was coming home from work and in full uniform at the time.
Nazario slowed down his vehicle within seconds of the police pursuing him and activated his turn signal. Because it was dark, Nazario also drove for less than a mile—below the posted speed limit—until he reached a well-lit BP gas station, where he pulled over. In all, it took about 1 minute, 40 seconds for Nazario to pull over after Crocker initiated the stop, according to the lawsuit.
Still, the cops claimed in a report Nazario was “eluding police,” had a dark window tint, and lacked plates, so officers treated the incident as a “felony traffic stop,” or a traffic stop they believed to be risky. One of the officers admitted later that they knew why Nazario had pulled into the BP—it happened all the time, and was a maneuver often used by people of color, according to the lawsuit
Even uniform getting stunted on...
Smart man not moving his hands to open the door. He knew those dudes were ready to pop off. Fuck I can't even imagine dealing with this shit. I'm so lucky I wasn't born in America. The thought of being killed just from an interaction with a policeman is so foreign.
By blackace Go To PostI really need to see the mental gymnastics on this one.
Even uniform getting stunted on…
By Dr Espi Go To PostI really need to see the mental gymnastics on this one.
He received an order and disobeyed.
