@AngryCodger : Ooooh! Oooh! Oooh! Pick me ! Pick me! I know!!

@ClaudeK : Interesting point.
After 9/11, a lot of Muslim = terrorist talk ramped up because we didn't loudly and consistently and repeatedly over and over and over hear Muslims speaking up against terrorism.I can see how some communities will continue to have a negative view of all police until the good completely overwhelms the bad.

@ClaudeK : No worries, I wasn't offended. And I don't disagree that cops who stay silent while their peers do something bad are part of the problem, and that the near-military, tight-lipped structure of any police force exacerbates the problem. I assume my relative isn't one of those, but without watching them day-to-day, I really have no way of knowing for sure. They've expressed many times that crime isn't a race issue but is typically a poverty/low education issue, so I hope they're decent.

@starbound64 : Your throat is part of your neck.

@starbound64 : Do you mean protest peacefully like Kap did by taking a knee during the National Anthem?

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a few words from Candace Owens:No one-not a single solitary person defended or excused the death of George Floyd, so why is this rioting happening? Because that is what the media wanted. Because it's what they have trained us to do since the mid 60's, when they married us to the Democrat Party. The race riots of the late sixties should served as a lesson: when black Americans began looting, burning, and rioting in Detroit and Chicago, the white business owners abandoned those flourishing cities, plunging them into the poverty and crime-ridden hubs that we see today. When we riot, we harm NO ONE BUT OURSELVES. To all of you MORONS who couldn't see this coming and did exactly what the left wanted you to do, drumming up the rhetoric with claims that blacks are constantly under threat and there is no way forward- just who exactly did you think you were helping when you said that? YOU DESTROYED BLACK LIVES. Now, as always, the result will be that black neighborhoods are decimated, black people are arrested, and black families are impoverished, while white liberal politicians will stump on our issues, pretending to be our shoulders to cry on. They will tell us it's because of systemic oppression and we will believe it and repeat the same ******** again, EVERY FOUR YEARS.
The truth is that WE DO THIS TO OURSELVES. We allow our black youth to be programmed by a satanic media that tells them that they will never be anything, and life will never be fair so they MIGHT AS WELL lead lives of anger and crime.
Our inability to THINK through emotional tragedies is our biggest curse, and the Democrat Party's biggest blessing.
But I'm a coon, right? Well I must be a coon with a crystal ball since I keep accurately predicting EXACTLY what will happen every election cycle.
You want me to show some compassion? Why don't you show some brain cells, and STOP allowing entire generations of our black youth to be ROTTED by the racist white liberals that own and operate the mainstream media.

@leslie110 : As long as you're on your own time and not the dome of an employer.

@starbound64 : It wasn't during a game so I guess they weren't on the 'dome' of the employer.

@CCubs : I guess we will wait until the autopsy to find out the cause of death.

There are published news reports that one of the officers was involved in something , a couple of years ago, that resulted in an excessive force lawsuit that was settled by City of Minneapolis.

@leslie110 : He was in their uniform.

@starbound64 : So if someone is wearing a uniform they are getting paid? That's not how it works.

@starbound64 : It is pretty clear what the cause of death was. I am not denying that.
THE THROAT IS PART OF YOUR NECK.

Didn't I read that the man was in handcuffs at the time the officer used his knee on Mr. Floyd's neck as other officers stood around doing nothing?