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    Default The death of George Floyd in police hands, Minneapolis, 25 May 2020

    To my astonishment, I searched for George Floyd on the forum, and his name has not yet been posted. It needs to be. Please do share your thoughts, feelings, and logic (if there's any to be found!) here.


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    Default Re: The death of George Floyd in police hands, Minneapolis, 25 May 2020

    The absence of strong moves to prevent these atrocities over such a long time period is beginning to look like policy

    Who benefits? Race hatred, destabilisation and violence serve an authoritarian surveillance police state agenda.

    I cannot understand why people put up with this - horrifying.
    we have subcontracted the business of healing people to Companies who profit from sickness.

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    Default Re: The death of George Floyd in police hands, Minneapolis, 25 May 2020

    Perhaps it's best to start with a conventional mainstream account of what happened.

    https://nypost.com/2020/05/28/everyt...-george-floyd/

    (The above URL has the some of the original video on it, with Floyd stating he can't breathe. I wasn't watching it, just listening to it, and it is quite hard to digest.)

    Here’s everything we know about the death of George Floyd

    It was a routine police call for a run-of-the-mill crime — someone passing a bogus $20 bill at a deli.



    But the ensuing death of unarmed black man George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis cops, and the resulting riots, have once again forced a divided nation into a bitter self-reckoning.

    The cops involved were axed and President Trump himself has pledged an expedient investigation by federal law enforcement — but that has done little to quell searing outrage that’s lit up social media, left buildings at ground zero in Minneapolis torched and necessitated the Minnesota National Guard.

    It all started when restaurant bouncer and aspiring commercial driver Floyd, 46, tried to buy groceries.

    Floyd — a Houston native who had previous scrapes with the law and moved to the Twin Cities to start fresh about six years ago — went to the Cup Foods on Chicago Avenue South around 8 p.m. for the food run.

    That’s around the time cops got a call from a store clerk that there was a “forgery in progress” — someone was trying to pay for groceries with a counterfeit $20 bill, a non-violent offense.

    Surveillance footage from a nearby restaurant shows police arriving shortly after 8 p.m. and approaching a black minivan where Floyd is sitting with two other people.

    Two officers walk up to the vehicle, its passenger door already open, and one shines a flashlight inside.

    The second officer approaches Floyd and tells him to get out of the vehicle, prompting a brief struggle before Floyd exits the vehicle. Meanwhile, the passenger and a woman sitting in the back seat are seen getting out of the minivan.

    Moments later, Floyd is seen, hands cuffed behind his back, being led to the side of a building by the two cops.

    Floyd appears to be speaking to the officers but does not appear to resist.

    A second police vehicle arrives as Floyd is escorted across the street to a waiting patrol car.

    One surveillance video from across the street shows him stumbling and falling as the two officers lead him to the waiting squad car, according to footage obtained by KMSP-TV.

    Bodycam video taken by a responding Minneapolis Park Police officer shows two other officers interviewing witnesses near the scene.

    The video is heavily redacted and largely muted, but it appears the two individuals being questioned were the man and the woman who were in the van with Floyd.

    What happens next is still uncertain — but the next time Floyd is seen on video is a viral clip shot by bystander Darnella Frazier, which shows Floyd already pinned down by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, a white cop seen pressing his knee into the back of Floyd’s neck while he lies face-down in handcuffs.



    Chauvin had been the subject of 10 prior conduct complaints over his 19 years on the force but had never faced disciplinary action.

    In the span of nearly four minutes, Floyd can be heard telling police at least a dozen times that he can’t breathe and asking Chauvin to take his knee off his neck — as bystanders, including the grocery clerk who initially called 911, plead with the officers to let Floyd get up.

    “Please, I can’t breathe,” he said.

    “Get up, get in the car,” one of the cops is heard saying while Floyd remains pinned down by Chauvin.

    “I will, I can’t move,” Floyd responds.

    He then stops moving altogether.

    Police called EMTs around 8:30 p.m. and they arrived in six minutes to find an unconscious and unresponsive Floyd, according to Hennepin County Healthcare EMS Chief Marty Scheerer.

    Paramedics and police eventually flipped Floyd over while he was still cuffed, placed him on a gurney and into an ambulance, where a responder released his hands.

    Their decision to “load and go,” rather than triage Floyd on the spot, was likely based on their race against time, Scheerer said, adding that responders were likely unaware of how severe the situation had become.

    Despite medical officials reportedly spending an hour trying to revive Floyd, he was pronounced dead at a local hospital at 9:25 p.m.

    Police initially claimed that he “suffered a medical episode while struggling with officers,” but Frazier’s video soon put the lie to that claim.

    “They killed him right in front of Cup Foods over south on 38th and Chicago,” the 17-year-old later said on Facebook. “No type of sympathy.”

    The following day, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, visibly enraged by footage of the incident, announced at a press conference with Police Chief Maderia Arradondo that all four officers involved had been fired.

    “Four responding MPD officers involved in the death of George Floyd have been terminated,” Frey said on Twitter. “This is the right call.”

    In a separate tweet Tuesday, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called the incident “sickening.”

    “The lack of humanity in this disturbing video is sickening,” Walz wrote. “We will get answers and seek justice.”

    Frey lashed out again Wednesday, calling on Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman to arrest Chauvin, something a spokesman said Freeman’s office is “discussing.”

    Meanwhile, the FBI announced that it would investigate the incident in a joint probe with state authorities. And Trump on Wednesday pledged that the feds would conduct an “expedited” investigation.

    “At my request, the FBI and the Department of Justice are already well into an investigation,” he tweeted.

    On Thursday, Frey followed up by arguing that Floyd “would be alive today if he were white.”

    Angry protesters nonetheless took to the streets of Minneapolis, targeting local stores and a police precinct in the city.

    Outrage over the case spilled over into the sports world, with NBA stars LeBron James and Steph Curry taking to social media to express anger over Floyd’s death.

    James posted side-by-side images on Instagram of Chauvin pinning Floyd and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem before a San Francisco 49ers game — his high-profile protest of police brutality against black Americans.

    “This…. Is Why,” the post said in explaining Kap’s protest.

    Former NBA star Stephen Jackson, a friend of Lloyd’s thanks to their striking physical similarities, said he was devastated by his death.

    “I jumped up, screamed, scared my daughter — almost broke my hand punching stuff because I was so mad,” the 42-year-old former Net told NBC’s “Today.” “It just destroyed me, and I haven’t been the same since I seen it.”

    New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo also chimed in during his daily coronavirus press conference Thursday, calling Floyd’s death “frightening.”

    “If I was a prosecutor, I would look at that case from the first moment,” said Cuomo, a former state attorney general and Manhattan prosecutor. “There is a criminal case there.”

    Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, provided more personal commentary on the case on CNN Thursday when asked about the continuing protests.

    “I want everybody to be peaceful right now, but people are torn and hurt because they’re tired of seeing black men die, constantly, over and over again,” he said.

    “And I understand, and I see why a lot of people doing a lot of different things around the world. I don’t want them to lash out like this,” he added. “But I can’t stop people right now, because they have pain. They have the same pain I feel.”

    “I want everything to be peaceful, but I can’t make everybody be peaceful.”
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    Default Re: The death of George Floyd in police hands, Minneapolis, 25 May 2020

    From Jim Stone:

    There is a LOT wrong with the "murder video" that proves these guys really did act this out and there was no killing

    The videos are hard to keep linked and are declining in quality as they repeatedly get deleted by Youtube.
    1. You can tell when the ambulance arrives and the officer gets off the victim there was no pressure being applied.

    2. When the ambulance arrives, rather than tend the victim, (the official reports state the ambulance was warned he needed medical attention and was unresponsive,) they did not tend to him immediately on the ground, instead they loaded him onto the gurney without checking a damn thing, pushed him into the ambulance and drove off. There's a HUGE problem with that.

    Standard EMT procedure in this case is FIRST to take his pulse and administer CPR if needed RIGHT WHERE HE IS FOUND LAYING especially when (according to the story line) they were notified he was "unresponsive" and needed an ambulance. EMT's do not load people onto the stretcher first, they first get the person stable if possible and then load them. No one at any point, no officer and no EMT ever checked the guy's pulse. That there alone proves it was a crisis act, done by people who were not professionals knowledgeable enough to even fake it good.

    3. Since no one checked the guy's pulse, how did the cops know he was not going to wake up in the ambulance and raise hell? I can't begin to describe what a screw up that was, and to top it all off, in ALL CASES, conscious or not, the cops pick people up up and throw them in the back seat. They would not have called an ambulance at all, having never checked his pulse. He'd have been loaded like a side of beef and taken to the station.

    4. The appalling "I am so proud" show by the "officer" at the end was obviously done for the sole purpose of angering the public.

    So here we have a story where the neighbors never knew he was a cop, where the victim was never checked at all, just loaded onto a stretcher, when he could have woken up and caused a problem. The police will NEVER DO THAT, THEY WILL NEVER DO THAT EVER, FAKE COPS, FAKE EMT'S FAKE STORY.

    5. AND THE PUNCH LINE: THEY WERE BOUNCERS AT THE SAME CLUB AND CLEARLY KNEW EACH OTHER. "HEY GEORGE: DO YOU WANT TO DO A HIGH PAYING GIG?" "SURE DEREK, I'M A LITTLE LOW ON CASH SINCE CORONA CLOSED THE CLUB, I'M GAME!
    This story is another box of fruit loops, and now some in Minnesota's government are calling to declare "racism" a public health emergency like COVID. TOO OBVIOUS.

    WHERE WERE ALL THE OTHER COP CARS? IN REAL SCENARIOS THEY MOB A SCENE LIKE THIS, FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE!



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    Default Re: The death of George Floyd in police hands, Minneapolis, 25 May 2020

    Removing my post it seems I didn't follow the "rules" of the thread. So sorry
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    Default Re: The death of George Floyd in police hands, Minneapolis, 25 May 2020

    I spent some time talking to dd20 about this last night. It's all over her TikTok and social media. Her age group is pretty hot about it. (Not saying others aren't, but she's particularly aware of her peers, and I share this to give perspective of her generation, which is often not represented on forums like this. This kind of platform is a bit out-dated for them.)

    One thing about social media and the increasing use of phone cameras and sharing things instantly is that it really makes stuff like this very visible. In the US, camera phones increasingly expose racism And many young adults are saying "We should be past this already."

    And they have a right to be to be angry. Everyone does. Here's a news report with several clips of what happened:

    She showed me some of the many videos of the protests being circulated on TikTok. (I can't link them...they were on her phone.) But I was struck with the huge number of people--we're talking hundreds to thousands!--and the unusual diversity of the crowds. There's a lot of anger in her generation building up around this.

    Many of them refuse to condemn the rioters. While many have the initial reaction that looting and burning buildings should not be tolerated, they're asking, "If nothing else has worked, then what are they left with? what else are they supposed to do to get this to stop?"

    Then you have police firing tear gas into crowds that were doing nothing but standing and shouting...I'm talking about a good 50 yards away from the police line. And the officers involved haven't even been arrested.

    This entire situation has been, and is continuing to be, documented via social media apps and phone cameras. It's being updated and shared quicker than news can keep up. More so than any other event of this nature. And this is particularly impactful for the young adults that live via social media, not the network news.

    And this makes it extremely hard to control the narrative. Those that want to control that information can't stay ahead of thousands of young adults that are constantly creating and sharing new information. The more they try, the more they "overplay their hand," as Bill as has said.

    On another side, I wonder how much unrest with regards to the economic impacts of the lock-downs have played into this. People are struggling to get food, and here this poor guy gets murdered for trying to get food. The disparities against lower income and the struggling working class have been revealed, and that alone has made many people angry. They're ready to lash out. And then this happens.

    So you have a young, energetic generation that has not been around long enough to become jaded, coupled with state-of-the-art, real-time updates that is impossible to control. And you have older generations who recognize that they have been intentionally repressed and oppressed, and where many are now at a point where they have nothing left to lose.

    Interesting things happening.

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    Default Re: The death of George Floyd in police hands, Minneapolis, 25 May 2020

    An exchange between some of the mods just now.

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    Sarah, great post on the George Floyd thread. Kudos to dd20. (If I was a Minneapolis black, I might be rioting too. I really might.)
    Sometimes, anger is justified, just like one can [sometimes] justify war. There's actually quite a lot of overlap (rioting = war), but that's really taboo to talk about.

    Gracy May
    I watched that video yesterday, and was horrified.
    That looked like cold blooded murder to me.

    Bill
    It was. Take off the uniforms, and that cop (and his bystanding colleagues) would all be behind bars by now.
    That's the way to quell the riots. Not with rubber bullets, but by immediately bringing the offenders to court. Like, yesterday.

    Gracy May
    Yep, his protective buddies are all accessories.
    Yes!
    Makes my blood boil just thinking about it again.

    Sarah Rainsong
    Absolutely! ANY other person would automatically be in jail. These guys should be in jail right now, and there is no reason for them not to be.
    Makes my blood boil too.

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    Default Re: The death of George Floyd in police hands, Minneapolis, 25 May 2020

    Mel Fabrigaz posted this on Facebook... *shrugs*

    https://www.facebook.com/1284108081/...7992662389844/

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    Default Re: The death of George Floyd in police hands, Minneapolis, 25 May 2020

    Quote Posted by Gwin Ru (here)
    From Jim Stone:

    There is a LOT wrong with the "murder video" that proves these guys really did act this out and there was no killing

    The videos are hard to keep linked and are declining in quality as they repeatedly get deleted by Youtube. YouTube is going out of style very fast, and quickly deleted videos is a testament to the censorship of YouTube/Google, not whether or not this is a false flag.
    1. You can tell when the ambulance arrives and the officer gets off the victim there was no pressure being applied. You can tell from the videos that all of that officer's weight was on Floyd, well before the ambulance gets there.
    2. When the ambulance arrives, rather than tend the victim, (the official reports state the ambulance was warned he needed medical attention and was unresponsive,) they did not tend to him immediately on the ground, instead they loaded him onto the gurney without checking a damn thing, pushed him into the ambulance and drove off. There's a HUGE problem with that.

    Standard EMT procedure in this case is FIRST to take his pulse and administer CPR if needed RIGHT WHERE HE IS FOUND LAYING especially when (according to the story line) they were notified he was "unresponsive" and needed an ambulance. EMT's do not load people onto the stretcher first, they first get the person stable if possible and then load them. No one at any point, no officer and no EMT ever checked the guy's pulse. That there alone proves it was a crisis act, done by people who were not professionals knowledgeable enough to even fake it good. What that proves is that there is a huge problem. This

    3. Since no one checked the guy's pulse, how did the cops know he was not going to wake up in the ambulance and raise hell? I can't begin to describe what a screw up that was, and to top it all off, in ALL CASES, conscious or not, the cops pick people up up and throw them in the back seat. They would not have called an ambulance at all, having never checked his pulse. He'd have been loaded like a side of beef and taken to the station. Except, it's not in ALL CASES. There are many instances of when cops call ambulances for suspects. And they left him handcuffed, there wasn't a concern about his waking up in the ambulance. Really, I think this is stretching.

    4. The appalling "I am so proud" show by the "officer" at the end was obviously done for the sole purpose of angering the public. This is a man who has gotten away with a lot of crap. He's on a power trip.

    So here we have a story where the neighbors never knew he was a cop, where the victim was never checked at all, just loaded onto a stretcher, when he could have woken up and caused a problem. The police will NEVER DO THAT, THEY WILL NEVER DO THAT EVER, FAKE COPS, FAKE EMT'S FAKE STORY.

    5. AND THE PUNCH LINE: THEY WERE BOUNCERS AT THE SAME CLUB AND CLEARLY KNEW EACH OTHER. "HEY GEORGE: DO YOU WANT TO DO A HIGH PAYING GIG?" "SURE DEREK, I'M A LITTLE LOW ON CASH SINCE CORONA CLOSED THE CLUB, I'M GAME! Or how about a bit of animosity between previous co-workers? Just as likely.
    This story is another box of fruit loops, and now some in Minnesota's government are calling to declare "racism" a public health emergency like COVID. TOO OBVIOUS. Why? Why another public health emergency? They can't even control the narrative on the one they've already got!

    WHERE WERE ALL THE OTHER COP CARS? IN REAL SCENARIOS THEY MOB A SCENE LIKE THIS, FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE! They didn't need other cops. They would only have more cops if they called for back-up. He was not resisting. They didn't need help. And at least two of the cops had already been in trouble before. It's highly possible they didn't want interference.
    This is real. This kinda crap happens all too often. There are way too many other incidents of very similar scenarios happening to throw this out as fake. The reasons given for it being a false flag really seem to be grasping at straws to me. Not everything that creates unrest is a false flag. Sometimes, it's legitimately upset people.

    And I'm one of them.

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    Default Re: The death of George Floyd in police hands, Minneapolis, 25 May 2020

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    Mel Fabregas posted this on Facebook... *shrugs*

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    Mel Fabregas is a Flat Earther. "Question Everything" has its reasonable limits.

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    Default Re: The death of George Floyd in police hands, Minneapolis, 25 May 2020

    Quote Posted by viking (here)
    Mel Fabrigaz posted this on Facebook... *shrugs*

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    Quote Since when are EMTs armed or dressed like police? On the left, these are the two individuals who came out of the ambulance. Did not perform CPR. Did not administer oxygen. They just took Floyd and left. And on the right...a lot of similarities between the two. Question everything.
    Because the EMTs were through the fire department. Those are fire department uniforms.

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    Default Re: The death of George Floyd in police hands, Minneapolis, 25 May 2020

    Think - agent provocateur

    Just some thoughts. . Lots of possibilities here.

    Was this another Jesse Smollett case, gone wrong?

    Let's assume this was a set up (as suggested in some of the posts above) The cop and George knew each other and this was a setup to start a race riot in USA. (Wouldn't be the first time folks)

    In the original setup, George was supposed to be taken to jail. But the cop decides he can't trust George, or maybe really doesn't like him, or perhaps George doesn't know the whole plan and is a patsy - anyhow, the copy kills George. For me it's impossible to watch that video and not see that the cop's intent is to kill. He knows people are watching and recording - he doesn't care. He doesn't look angry. He probably isn't. Just a guy doing his job. Since he knows he's being recorded, he probably knows whoever hired him for the job will protect him.

    Mission accomplished. Race riots in full swing, one more reason to shut down our country since the Covid-19 hoax of shut down is wearing thin.

    According to Wikipedia:
    An agent provocateur (French for "inciting agent") is a person who commits or who acts to entice another person to commit an illegal or rash act or falsely implicate them in partaking in an illegal act, so as to ruin the reputation or entice legal action against the target or a group they belong to. An agent provocateur may be a member of a law enforcement agency acting out of their own sense of duty or under orders, or other entity. They may target any group, such as a peaceful protest or demonstration, a union, a political party or a company.

    An agent provocateur may be a police officer or a secret agent of police who encourages suspects to carry out a crime under conditions where evidence can be obtained; or who suggests the commission of a crime to another, in hopes they will go along with the suggestion and be convicted of the crime.

    A political organization or government may use agents provocateurs against political opponents. The provocateurs try to incite the opponent to do counter-productive or ineffective acts to foster public disdain or provide a pretext for aggression against the opponent.

    Historically, labor spies, hired to infiltrate, monitor, disrupt, or subvert union activities, have used agent provocateur tactics.

    Agent provocateur activities raise ethical and legal issues. In common law jurisdictions, the legal concept of entrapment may apply if the main impetus for the crime was the provocateur.
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    Default Re: The death of George Floyd in police hands, Minneapolis, 25 May 2020

    Mod note from Bill:

    I'd intended this thread to offer an opportunity to focus on
    • The political domino effects of this incident
    • The ethics (and maybe history) of rioting
    • The issues of the racial divide in the US, and what may be next (race war, says Alex Jones in today's live broadcast, on right now)
    • The corruption (or lack of action) in law enforcement, and even
    • The extent to which the President should get involved.
    There's an opportunity here for some really interesting, thoughtful, and in-depth conversations. Please show Avalon at its best. THX.

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    Default Re: The death of George Floyd in police hands, Minneapolis, 25 May 2020

    I can't find the right words to reflect my feelings and opinions about how wrong it is. It is within the mind's of the police in the USA to act this way. I am sure that there are similar issues in other countries.

    Perhaps the root of the problem is that police are not paid enough and/or trained in the correct manner.

    Let's be honest here - every time they go to work - IT"S A JOB - they are putting their life on the line for a job. Even in the simplest of scenarios.

    Have you ever had to stand near a coned off area of a busy street where the only issue is traffic cones to detour traffic? One second where a driver is not paying attention and you could be killed.

    Why are police not paid more or trained better or receive different training than they do? ( I am not educated in regards to their training.)

    It seems to me that many of the problems that exist could be fixed with a different approach and different methods. But perhaps it is not part of the overall plan.

    I feel that TPTB have been manipulating things throughout this pandemic to eventually evolve the situation to countries imploding to internal riots.


    I think that we need more of the leaders of the countries to stand together against those who rule above them. One country alone trying to change the structure of the world sticks it's neck out.

    We do need the world to come together similar to a one world government - just not the one that is currently trying to take our rights away.

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    Default Re: The death of George Floyd in police hands, Minneapolis, 25 May 2020

    The Illuminati and their Controlled Media Machine has been trying to start a race war since civil rights became legislation, and has always failed. In fact, the opposite has happened. There are more today who never even think about racism than ever before. Young people would be shocked at the attitudes prevalent in the 50's and 60's. We have come a long, long way, and do not need setbacks.

    We are in different waters now, and any publicity given to this incident, including this thread, is only fanning the flames of the programmed unfortunates, the ones looting liquor stores. This is exactly what the Bastards In Power want.

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    Default Re: The death of George Floyd in police hands, Minneapolis, 25 May 2020

    Quote Posted by Gwin Ru (here)
    From Jim Stone:

    There is a LOT wrong with the "murder video" that proves these guys really did act this out and there was no killing

    The videos are hard to keep linked and are declining in quality as they repeatedly get deleted by Youtube.
    1. You can tell when the ambulance arrives and the officer gets off the victim there was no pressure being applied.

    2. When the ambulance arrives, rather than tend the victim, (the official reports state the ambulance was warned he needed medical attention and was unresponsive,) they did not tend to him immediately on the ground, instead they loaded him onto the gurney without checking a damn thing, pushed him into the ambulance and drove off. There's a HUGE problem with that.

    Standard EMT procedure in this case is FIRST to take his pulse and administer CPR if needed RIGHT WHERE HE IS FOUND LAYING especially when (according to the story line) they were notified he was "unresponsive" and needed an ambulance. EMT's do not load people onto the stretcher first, they first get the person stable if possible and then load them. No one at any point, no officer and no EMT ever checked the guy's pulse. That there alone proves it was a crisis act, done by people who were not professionals knowledgeable enough to even fake it good.

    3. Since no one checked the guy's pulse, how did the cops know he was not going to wake up in the ambulance and raise hell? I can't begin to describe what a screw up that was, and to top it all off, in ALL CASES, conscious or not, the cops pick people up up and throw them in the back seat. They would not have called an ambulance at all, having never checked his pulse. He'd have been loaded like a side of beef and taken to the station.

    4. The appalling "I am so proud" show by the "officer" at the end was obviously done for the sole purpose of angering the public.

    So here we have a story where the neighbors never knew he was a cop, where the victim was never checked at all, just loaded onto a stretcher, when he could have woken up and caused a problem. The police will NEVER DO THAT, THEY WILL NEVER DO THAT EVER, FAKE COPS, FAKE EMT'S FAKE STORY.

    5. AND THE PUNCH LINE: THEY WERE BOUNCERS AT THE SAME CLUB AND CLEARLY KNEW EACH OTHER. "HEY GEORGE: DO YOU WANT TO DO A HIGH PAYING GIG?" "SURE DEREK, I'M A LITTLE LOW ON CASH SINCE CORONA CLOSED THE CLUB, I'M GAME!
    This story is another box of fruit loops, and now some in Minnesota's government are calling to declare "racism" a public health emergency like COVID. TOO OBVIOUS.

    WHERE WERE ALL THE OTHER COP CARS? IN REAL SCENARIOS THEY MOB A SCENE LIKE THIS, FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE!



    Stellar work here... just to add some things I am also suspicious of:

    1. Mr Floyd's head shot being used for the media appears adobe photoshopped ( look at the outline of the body against the background)

    2. The timing by MSM to re-start racial tensions is perfect from an agenda promoting perspective: Ie CV lockdowns ending, along with several statistics/stories/prominent individuals speaking out in revelation of the obvious CV 19 hoax.

    3. Recent Jimmy Fallon public apology for black face incident that occurred 20 years ago.

    4. Mainstream Media recent focus on CV 19 racial disparity stories.

    5. Certainly fits into global elitists plan to enhance social unrest, racial tension, divide and conquer.

    6. Knee to the back of neck -is this standard procedure when subdueing a suspect and It would be lfor one suffocate from a knee to the back/side of head while lying prone with head turned[/COLOR].

    (ADDENDEUM: I was wrong here and was reminded by Christian of Cardiac Sinus Syncope - Please note (hopefully disregard) my regretful pushing of the this issue in future posts. (Apologies were rendered in private)

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    Default Re: The death of George Floyd in police hands, Minneapolis, 25 May 2020

    CNN crew arrested while covering the riots in Minneapolis. No reason given by police for the arrests.

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    Default Re: The death of George Floyd in police hands, Minneapolis, 25 May 2020

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    CNN crew arrested while covering the riots in Minneapolis. No reason given by police for the arrests.

    … Just a point of order... Here you have a white officer arresting a black reporter which I am sure is just a coincidence

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    Default Re: The death of George Floyd in police hands, Minneapolis, 25 May 2020

    TOTALLY disturbing all right. This happens to both whites and black people more and more than is publicised.

    The police that were watching this animal killing this man, are Factually, assesery to murder. they had a hand in it.

    Now I have a Question. What if George Floyd Had a police officer pinned to the groud in such that way?

    I think the other police would have filled him full of bullets. And called it attemted murder of an officer on duty.

    Two tier justice system Perhaps?

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    Default Re: The death of George Floyd in police hands, Minneapolis, 25 May 2020

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    CNN crew arrested while covering the riots in Minneapolis. No reason given by police for the arrests.

    Just when you think they would be putting their best foot forward, they instead choose to continue earning the hate and disrespect.

    The tragic thing is that this applies to good cops out there as well. Ultimately, their job can not be done through force, citizen cooperation is required. That’s what the numbers say.

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