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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
He (the cop) looked disturbingly content and relaxed. Certainly not afraid or anything.
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Maybe I'm way off on this, but the only thing I can think of is that this type of restraint is their policy, or more specifically he thought he was correctly applying restraint and would therefore be exonerated from the subsequent medical distress? Watching it again, I get that feeling that he legitimately felt like he was doing the right thing. The immediate firing of everybody involved suggests otherwise, but this video is as bizarre as it is heinous.
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The big picture: The man, identified as George Floyd, was being arrested for alleged forgery and appeared to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs, according to a police press conference Monday night. Police say he resisted arrest before suffering from “medical distress."
John Elder, the police spokesman, told the Tribune that the technique used was not a department-authorized chokehold.
Minneapolis police kill black people at a rate 13 times higher than white people — one of the largest racial disparities in the U.S., according to U.S. crime data collected from mappingpoliceviolence.org.
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Minneapolis mayor (young, good looking white guy):
https://twitter.com/user/status/1265359374010273792
And he had a Facebook live condemning it. So it seems like this is going about as well as it could at this stage? He should maybe setup some kind of taskforce to figure out why his police department likes killing black people so much but at this rate the FBI will do that for him.