For those who believe Floyd didn't die of someone kneeling on his neck. I think a good question is would he have died in that instant if he was just sitting in his car?
Posts from Semigoodlooking in thread „Police shootings and general behaviour in the USA“
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@JAN started on this forum doing a piss poor impression of Bajo. Now he has morphed into doing an excellent impression... in tone if not in content.
That said, I think some of us a glossing over Jan's comments about police also being killed. There's no doubt these guys and women are doing a tough job and the MSM is doing a horrible job at showing both sides of the story. Let's remember there are always two sides. That said, I don't want to seem like I am ignoring what happened because I fully agree with the idea behind the protests, if not the results. There are too many police officers who get a power kick and abuse their position.
Bill Maher, who I typically can only tolerate, did a good piece on this a few years back.
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Interesting thread, Europeans having opinions about racism in American are as precise as an American outlook on , for instance, bloody sunday. or the independence of Scotland . As well meant as it might be, we would not know what we are talking about.
Why on Earth not? You really believe someone in the United States could not study and learn about Bloody Sunday and inform intelligent opinions on it? That's all anybody in the UK would be doing, and in fact anybody in Ireland too at this point. I cannot have an opinion about Ancient Greece because I am not Greek?
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Blacks and hispanics commit the most crimes in the United States is a fact. However, violenet crime is associated with poverty and more blacks and hispanics are in poverty than whites. It's a viscous circle that the country has struggled for decades to get out of. It's systemic to its core and until the economic problems are addressed the criminal ones will almost certainly remain.
It's the same as protests here. Many people probably have the right intentions, whether you disagree or not. You have that percentage that hijack them with something to gain. That does not remove the legitimacy of this protest though. There were protests in the UK because of it, no riots. I 100% support the idea of the protest in the United States, but cannot support the result.
In the end, this was a case of polic brutality and it's cut and dry. What difference does it make what the man had done. Even if he had just murdered 15 children, there was no need for the cop to kill him because the situation was under control.
I understand @JAN is on the opposite side of the debate to many of us and differing points of view are valuable, it's the classic left vs. right that has divided the USA. However, we should all be able to agree there was no reason for that death to happen.
