permafrost wrote:
Think hard.... the demonstrations and attention was never because Floyd was a fine person, it was about the cold blooded murder in public by a cop who had more felonies pending then floyd had ..
So very simply, the unrest was not for floyd, it was about floyd..
And of course some rat bastards who took advantage of the situation to grab the goodies while they good..
The death of George Floyd was not "cold blooded murder", it wasn't premeditated, and the cop held responsible did not have any "felonies pending", he had 17 complaints on his record, 16 of which were closed without discipline, the remaining complaint resulted in two letters of reprimand.
Floyd had a police record, he was arrested 9 times on various charges, including aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, possession with intent to distribute, theft, and others. He was a drug user, and was under the influence at the time of his death. Floyd served 8 jail terms, and for the aggravated robbery, he was sentenced to five years.
For perspective:
On May 25, 2020, a white cop unintentionally caused the death of a black criminal,
the white cop was convicted of unintentional 2nd degree murder and sent to prison.
The black criminal was hailed as a national hero, he was deified, buried in a gold coffin,
His face appeared in murals, on billboards, placards, and busts of him were created.
The ensuing violence protesting his death spread to all major cities in the US and into countries around the world.
The summer 2020 riots resulted in some 15 times more injured police officers, 30 times as many arrests, and estimated damages in dollar terms up to 1,300 times more costly than those of the Capitol riot. George Floyd rioters were found to have used more sophisticated and dangerous tactics than did the Capitol rioters, and in some cases weapons of greater lethality.
-Authorities have pursued the largely Trump-supporting Capitol rioters with substantially more vigor than suspected wrongdoers in the earlier two cases. Many accused Capitol rioters, unlike accused participants in the other riots, have been held in pretrial detention for months – with one defendant serving more time than the maximum sentence for the charge to which he pleaded guilty. Some allegedly endured solitary confinement and other mistreatment.
-With authorities applying lenient prosecutorial standards in many major cities torn by the summer riots, the vast majority of charges last year were dismissed, as were charges in the Inauguration 2017 unrest. Charges have to date been dropped in only a single Capitol riot case.ABC: Over 60,000 officers assaulted in 2020, with 31% sustaining injuries: FBIOn Jan. 6, 2021, during the rioting at the capitol building, a black cop shot and killed an unarmed white woman.
Ashli Babbitt was a 14 year USAF veteran, her job was in intelligence, she served in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Qatar.
The black cop who killed her was hailed as a national hero.
Ashli Babbitt was branded a "domestic terrorist".
In the Utopian/Marxist world of democrat politics, justice has two faces.