I Am Going to Say Something Controversial

Are we 100% certain that George Floyd’s heinous murder was because of his race? Or was psycho cop, just being a psychopath, regardless of the color of the victim’s skin? To me, this hasn’t been established. Everyone just assumed it was racial. The only one who knows for sure is the murderer. Only he knows what his motive was to take George’s life. Maybe we will find out at his trial, but until we do, I’m not convinced that this was racial. He had 18 previous complaints against him. If the media were proper journalists, we’d know what those complaints were, and who made them. We are missing information, and more people are dead because of the riots, and assumptions that it’s about race.

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hartfire

George Floyd had done nothing wrong and nothing even remotely provocative. He ofter zero resistence and literally begged for 8.76 minutes to be allowed to breathe.

If these officers were ordinary psychopaths they would never have passed the training to become cops.
If any of them had become spychopaths since qualifying, the changing behaviours would have shown up in previous incidents.
Since sociopaths number one in twenty of the general population, the chances that all four police officers were psychotic is next zero.
Given the statistical frequency of racist murders committed by police,
there is no other possible explanation.

Of the four police, the one who murdered George Floyd was white.
George had committed no crime, offered no resistence or protest when the police unlawfully grabbed him, and begged to be allowed to breathe for 8.76 minutes before he died. Under these circumstances, such a death is not manslaughter; it is deliberate, cold, sadistic and calculated murder.
Of the three police who stood by, watched, and did not intervene to save George, two were white and one was Chinese or Asian.

Yaking all these facts into account, there can be no doubt that the [i]only[/i] possible motivation was racism.

Carissimi · 70-79, F

While I agree it was cold blooded murder, I don’t think you have proved the motive. It very well could be racist, or it could be something else. As for the other three? Now that I know one of them (or maybe two), had only been a policeman for four days. He was a complete rookie with zero experience. He was also the one who said, “should we turn him over?” He was asking the experienced cops. He also was the one who tried CPR on George. If you have ever been the new guy on a job, you know you defer to the experienced workers because you don’t really know what you are doing for the first few weeks. A rookie cop is not going to go against three experienced cops. I think with the rookie, is he was purely inexperienced, and he attempted to tell the others what they should do, but psycho cop wouldn’t let up. I think the rookie will get off. @hartfire

hartfire

@Carissimi Well, let's see. George Lloyd was from out of town and none of the cops knew him personally. He was a normal, heterosexual family man, with nothing in his manner which might be seen as an opportunity for a gay-hate crime. He was a Christian who did not dress or behave like a Muslim; so it wasn't a religious-hate crime. He was an American with an American accent, so it wasn't a crime of hatred for a foreigner. Having ruled out the chances of all four cops on the same team being psychopaths - that leaves no other possible explanation. If you can come up with one, I'd like to hear and consider it.
I disagree with your assessment of the rookie's behaviour. When I was a rookie aged-care nurse, my bosses put repeated and heavy pressure on me to force-feed a demented woman who was refusing to eat. My training taught me that even if someone is demented, they have the legal right to refuse to eat and that it is a crime to force feed anyone. So I refused to do what three layers of bosses in the heirarchy demanded of me. I was fully prepared to be sacked. Instead, they moved me off the dementia ward.

Carissimi · 70-79, F

I said “psych cop” not “cops.” He worked with the one who killed him 10-years ago. Apart from what I saw on the videos, which shows cold blooded murder, the motive is just speculation. You have your opinion on the motive, and that’s okay, but it’s still an opinion, not fact. We may never know the true motive, but I’ll wait to hear the evidence before coming to a conclusion about motive.

If the older white guy, who was knocked down by the Buffalo police, was black instead of white, you can be sure it would have been called racist. Police brutality is not confined to one race, therefore just jumping to conclusions that something is racist is a knee jerk and potentially dangerous reaction, in my opinion. More whites were killed by police in 2019 than blacks, it’s just that one race gets all the media attention. @hartfire

hartfire

@Carissimi The thing is, blacks are only 13% of the US population, but twice as many blacks are killed by police (without provocation or lawful justification) as whites. This statistic has remained fairly stable for a very long time. Even the fact that no government has sought to do anything to prevent this kind of crime is a form of passive racism. It's facile to say that there could be another cause, but it's also naïve.

Carissimi · 70-79, F

It’s also a fact that 6% of black men commit 50% of the crime. @hartfire