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The best quote I heard about the BLM / Floyd protests:

"Too many people are saying, "It's terrible that innocent black men died, but this property destruction has to stop!"

when they should be saying, "It's terrible that there is property destruction, but the death of innocent black men has to stop!"."



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A reminder to everyone for all time so we can stop seeing these stupid ass comments and we can all move on with our lives:

The punishment for no crime in the US is state-sanctioned public execution.


> George Floyd was not innocent.

Remind us all what crime he was convicted of. A $20 bill was alleged by a shop clerk to be counterfeit. There is no evidence either that it was, or that it was known to be counterfeit.

> He then resisted a lawful arrest. His death was entirely self inflicted.

Hard to self-inflict murder. "It wasn't murder!" - if his death was due solely to his alleged actions, and not due to excessive and inappropriate force by the police involved, then an officer would not have been charged with and convicted of second-degree murder. Nor would prosecutors not only charge the police involved, but move to increase charges and sentencing requests due to the "unnecessary and particularly excessive cruelty being inflicted upon [Floyd] by the officers". Weird.


Why was kneeling on his neck for nine and a half minutes necessary? There were four officers there. We all watched the video. I'm not aware that your other claims have been proven true.




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