Where is the twenty-dollar bill?
That's the twenty that they said George Floyd used to buy cigarettes in a Minneapolis store. The storekeeper said is was counterfeit and called the police. The next thing I see on TV is a video of Floyd on the ground, reported to be in handcuffs and a cop with his knee on his neck. And there are three other cops standing around.
OK. They've got Floyd in the ground in cuffs in the midst of four cops. What was the greatest danger at the time? That Floyd might run away? In cuffs behind his back? With four cops ready to give chase? Even if Floyd had been combative in the squad car as reported, he was in no position to resist in cuffs with four cops standing around?
And all this for the allegation of passing a phony twenty-dollar bill. What is clear is that the action did not fit an alleged crime. What is astonishing is that Derek Chauvin, the officer now charged with murder, had the audacity to apply unwarranted and excessive force that was ultimately fatal in broad daylight while being filmed. Imagine what can happen in the dark of night with no witnesses. We've got to reeducate the nation's police force from top to bottom. They are here to serve and protect the public - the whole public
Where is that twenty-dollar bill, anyhow?
OK. They've got Floyd in the ground in cuffs in the midst of four cops. What was the greatest danger at the time? That Floyd might run away? In cuffs behind his back? With four cops ready to give chase? Even if Floyd had been combative in the squad car as reported, he was in no position to resist in cuffs with four cops standing around?
And all this for the allegation of passing a phony twenty-dollar bill. What is clear is that the action did not fit an alleged crime. What is astonishing is that Derek Chauvin, the officer now charged with murder, had the audacity to apply unwarranted and excessive force that was ultimately fatal in broad daylight while being filmed. Imagine what can happen in the dark of night with no witnesses. We've got to reeducate the nation's police force from top to bottom. They are here to serve and protect the public - the whole public
Where is that twenty-dollar bill, anyhow?
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