Seth wrote:
Floyd had been to prison several times, including once for robbing a pregnant woman with a pistol to her belly in the course of a home invasion with some other criminals. Drug possession, assault, just the usual list of pastimes innocent, saintlike human beings are known to indulge in.
Of course, since you never visit any links or read any news articles that don't originate on the far left, you wouldn't know any of that.
So G****e F***d had a previous criminal record. Do you think the cops who choked him to death knew anything about that? Do you think they could tell just by looking at him that he had been in trouble with the law before? Do you think they were psychic, that they could read a suspect's mind? I don't think so!
Besides, the only crime that Floyd was commiting at the time of his death was being in possession of a phony $20 bill. That's hardly a reason for a cop to put his knee upon a guy's chest and press down on him harder and harder until he starts gasping for air and crying out "I can't breathe," and then ignore his cries for help until finally, he dies. His death was a cold-blooded murder and you know it! Nothing and nobody can justify it, even if he was a criminal in the past, and what I've heard, he was trying to reform himself.
Just because someone is a criminal, it doesn't give somebody else a right to k**l him. The seven men who were k**led in the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre (02/14/1929) were all criminals (they were members of George "Bugs" Moran's gang), but that doesn't change the fact that what happened to them was a brutal and deliberate mass execution, especially in the way it was carried out: the hired k**lers (believed to be working for Moran's chief rival, Al "Scarface" Capone) walked into the garage disguised as policemen, and lined the seven gangsters up against a wall, as if they were going to frisk them, and then when their victims' guard was relaxed, they took out machine guns and just mowed them all down!
Of course, a man dying in police custody isn't the same thing as a gangland style "rubout," but if there's no justification for someone's death in the former, then it's just as bad as the latter.
The duty of the police is to arrest people suspected of crimes. It is not their place to k**l suspects without just cause. A police officer is not supposed to act like a vigilante. He is not supposed to play judge, jury, and executioner. His job is to ENFORCE the law, not to break it, or to take it into his own hands. If we were to allow that, then we have no rule of law, and that can only lead to anarchy. You may say we already have anarchy, with all the recent r**ting, l**ting, and unrest as a result of the Floyd k*****g, as well as similar incidents, but it may become worse if we permit the law to be violated by those we pay to uphold it.
Remember what Thomas Jefferson said: "America is a nation of laws, and not of men."