No, the channel is not a source of solid evidence. No context is provided, the source's motives are profit driven, no third party sources are provided to be able to verify its content and the vast majority of the material is pro-police.
I dislike the channel as a source of evidence, period.
Cut the passive aggressive attitude.
Odd, as the sources I provided also contained statistics, and within them links to more data and statistics, I've even quoted those statistics directly in post as well.
Where have you seen "equal handling to all colors"?
The statistical data of police interactions in the US shows that black males are more than twice as likely to die at the hands of the police than a white male, yet they are half as likely to be carrying a gun at the time. You dismiss race as a cause of this, so it's quite reasonable to ask why you dismiss it as a cause and what you think the cause is.
I agree, but that's not the point you made. You said they were the real problem in regard to violence in the US, I asked you why and that has not been addressed. Every country has gangs and ghettos, yet the US is almost unique in regard to its level of gun violence, so what makes US gangs and ghettos unique in that regard?
That's not context. who had a weapon ready, what was the case. Provide us with the details, ideally with a credible source so we can look into it ourselves.
To be honest. I really don't care what you think about me, and that's not unique to you either. I have no control over
Indeed, but the point is to recognize them and address them, not embrace them.
That's a start.
I know, you have now said that a number of times. The question is why did they, and why did them not stop and readdress the situation?
I have ASD, so no I don't always pick up on it.
Let's look at your opening post in this discussion, and even removing the biased language you used in general terms we get this:
"As for Floyd... he would have died anyways without the police help. He had foam around his mouth and was screaming of breathing problems way before being pinned down. I don't have any sympathy towards him. A criminal buried in a golden casket and cities got burned... disgusting."
'he would have died anyway'
'i don't have any sympathy for him'
'a criminal buried in a golden casket'
'disgusting'
In this opening salvo you removed any blame from the police, blamed the victim and referenced the utterly unrelated point of his past life. I hate to break it to you, but that's defending the murder of George Floyd and defending police brutality.
It's only since members in this thread have challenged you on this that you have started to walk it back.
You missed that before they pinned him down they ignored an individual in clear distress, a point that he repeatedly and politely said to them, a point that the passenger in his car repeatedly and politely told them. Something that you hand wave away as being 'really annoying' was in fact a quite clear indication that he was not alright. That cause of him being in distress is also irrelevant, and the police's go to action for being annoyed should not be brute force and dangerous restraint.
The fact of the matter is that George Floyd was in fact apologetic to the police, respectful (referring to them as Mr. Officer and Sir repeatedly) , clearly fearful of his life (please don't shoot me was said multiple times), clealry in distress and altered. Points they ignored and just tried to stuff him in the car.
I would suggest you read the full transcript from the police bodycams, which supports all of the above, and clearly shows a man in distress, who regardless of any past crimes or suspected crimes, was willfully failed by the police, and failed repeatedly.
BodyCam Transcript.
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthe...b81216735f2203a08cb/optimized/full.pdf#page=1
He didn't need to be pinned in the first place, they failed to de-escalate the situation, they failed to provide medical attention when they knew they couldn't find his pulse, they made conscious decisions over the course of minutes that resulted in the death of a human being. A human being you said you had no sympathy for and described simply as a 'criminal'.
It also came to light in yesterdays evidence that the officers did block a trained EMT from assisting...
"Genevieve Hansen, a trained emergency medical technician (EMT) and Minneapolis firefighter, said she identified herself as a first responder and demanded officers check his pulse when she saw George Floyd on the ground.
Hansen then called 911 to report what she saw.
Hansen lives within walking distance of Cup Foods and was taking a walk the evening of May 25, 2020. When she approached the corner, she saw the police lights and heard a woman across the street screaming they were killing him.
She was concerned by what she saw. “He wasn’t moving, and he was cuffed. And three grown men putting all of their weight on somebody is too much,” she said. “The first thing that concerned me was his face was smushed into the ground. Swollen. It appeared swollen to me.”
She noticed that Floyd had an altered level of consciousness and wasn’t moving despite Derek Chauvin’s knee on his neck.
Her main focus was how she could gain access to the patient or direct offers to provide treatment, she testified.
“I already assessed that he had an altered level of consciousness what I needed to know was whether or not he had a pulse anymore,” she said.
She identified herself as a firefighter to former officer Tou Thao, who said if she was really a firefighter she would know better than to get involved.
Hansen never saw officers take a pulse, but she could not entirely see all four of them. "
...they dismissed a trained first responder, who may well have been able to save George Floyds life, or at the very least give him a chance. A trained professional, who clearly saw he was in distress and in danger was ignored!
https://edition.cnn.com/us/live-news/derek-chauvin-trial-day-two-testimony/index.html
