4 Minneapolis officers fired in death of black man after video shows officer pinning

[Lenny]

I'm sure everyone has heard about this. There are updates and y'all are welcome to post them here.

Not only am I disturbed about someone being murdered, but it also bothers me that government puts itself above the law. If anyone else did the same thing, they would be immediately arrested for murder. Yes, they are looking into charges NOW, but the police didn't police themselves THEN.

I wonder how this would have turned out if it had not been filmed? How many instances are their in history before current technology that have been hidden from the public?


Minneapolis officers fired in death of black man after video shows officer pinning knee against his neck

Four Minneapolis police officers linked to the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white officer pinned his knee against the suspect's neck as he struggled to breathe, were fired Tuesday, Mayor Jacob Frey said.

"This is the right call," Frey added in a statement on Twitter.

Frey and Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo addressed the incident Tuesday afternoon. Initially, the officers involved had been placed on paid leave but their status was soon changed to an outright firing.

Four responding MPD officers involved in the death of George Floyd have been terminated.

This is the right call.

"When Mayor Frey appointed me as chief of the Minneapolis police department, I was very steadfast and strong on what our department vision, values and culture change would be moving forward. One of those pillars is sanctity of life," Arradondo said. "We know there are inherent dangers in the profession of policing but the vast majority of the work we do never require the use of force."

The incident, which was caught on film, caused a huge uproar and prompted calls for dismissal almost immediately.

The FBI also has been called to investigate the incident.

READ MORE AND WATCH THE FILM HERE:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/fbi-call...l-media-of-white-officer-kneeling-on-his-neck

 

[Backyardski]

I hadn’t watched the video before, that was nothing short of murder and accessory to murder for the other cops that let that happen. What a f’n coward the other officer was to allow it, that killer should have been tackled off the guy. That was messed up.

 

[Bannedjoe]

It's starting to look like another Ferguson out there.

 

[road squawker]

let the looting begin,................ Jus Sayin

 

[Lenny]

I hadn’t watched the video before, that was nothing short of murder and accessory to murder for the other cops that let that happen. What a f’n coward the other officer was to allow it, that killer should have been tackled off the guy. That was messed up.

That's right! The other cops should have arrested him for attempted murder!

 

[Lenny]

let the looting begin,................ Jus Sayin

Yep. Like after the Rodney King beating, the news medias got them riled up and you know the rest!

 

[Lenny]

It's starting to look like another Ferguson out there.

Yeah, just like the L A Riots. And the news medias LOVED it!

 

[Backyardski]

That's right! The other cops should have arrested him for attempted murder!

Yes, or the least he could have done is said “hey man, he’s unresponsive, we should check for breathing or a pulse and get the knee off the neck for a second”. A small attempt would have saved his job, reputation and possibly freedom. That was a long time after he passed out until he got off him, plenty of opportunity to step up. He was cuffed and had two other cops on his body and legs (saw the other two in a different video from another angle) and he wasn’t resisting. The guy on top of his back should have noticed the breathing stop. With Ferguson there were differing accounts, this one appears clear. For trying to pass a fake $20! Even if he had shot people, you cuff and shackle and throw them in the car. Drugs, mentally ill, or any other reason shouldn’t matter.

The looting and burning isn’t the most productive form of protest but people are pissed and if this cop walks that stuff will spread like a virus. I hate that people blame all cops, the great majority are out there risking their lives to keep order. Abusive policing puts everyone at risk. Obviously, peoples stress levels are up with the economy, virus, uncertainty about what’s to come. Those burning embers better be tamped out quickly.

 

[Bannedjoe]

Nothing shows your anger and frustration like stealing diapers from Target, and burning down an auto parts store.

I mean, besides burning your own home to the ground.


Just an observation.

When a black man kills a black man, the blacks don't get all bent out of shape.
When a white man kills a black man, they all lose their minds.

Who's more racist?

Don't get me wrong though, I think it's always tragic when an overzealous cop kills someone, especially when surrounded by his just stand and watch peers.

 

[waybomb]

Riots ain't the way to do it, but WHAT, EXACTLY, will stop these rogue cops who think they ARE the law. Their bosses are always sorry when these things happen; tell you what, it starts at the top.


Like the no-knock incidents. It's crazy. If somebody busted into my house, they are getting shot. Until I run out of shells. Then they kill me and justify it.



I don't care if it's whiteonwhite, whiteonblack, blackonwhite, blackonblack, cops are not the law, are not the judge, are not the executioner.



The cops involved are absolute power trip bozos. And there are too many like this. One of my best buddies growing up turned into one of these a-holes. He doesn't see it in himself. I no longer associate with him.

 

[Jim_S]

In 2006 Amy Klobuchar Failed to Charge Police Officer Derek Chauvin After Shooting Death of Native American – On Monday that Same Officer Killed George Floyd
By Jim Hoft
Published May 28, 2020 at 6:28pm

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...-american-monday-officer-killed-george-floyd/

In 2006 Amy Klobuchar, then a district attorney, failed to file charges against Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin after he shot and killed a Native American man.

On Monday that same police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on George Floyd ‘s neck for seven minutes and killed him.

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In 2006 Amy Klobuchar, then a district attorney, declined to bring charges against a cop who had shot and killed a Native American man.

Two days ago that cop, Derek Chauvin, murdered George Floyd.

Amy Klobuchar needs to resign.

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Officer Derek Chauvin had 10 complaints filed against him during his 20 year career as a police officer.


The Washington Times reported:

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who is in the running to be presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden’s running mate, found herself under fire Thursday for not prosecuting years ago a Minneapolis police officer who this week was videotaped kneeling on the neck of an African-American suspect who died in custody…

…During the eight years she was a Minnesota prosecutor, prior to winning her Senate seat, Ms. Klobuchar passed on opportunities to prosecute Mr. Chauvin and several other officers accused of dubious conduct, according to reports in The Guardian newspaper and left-wing outlets such as The Daily Kos and the Young Turks.

Mr. Chauvin had 10 complaints filed against him during his nearly 20-year career in Minneapolis, according to an archive kept by a private group, Minneapolis’ Communities United Against Police Brutality.

 

[Bannedjoe]

Sadly, I just saw the unedited video.
This cop needs strung up by his balls and tortured with a million paper cuts, drawn, quartered, run through a meat grinder, then dissolved in acid.

The cop sat there pinning his neck with his knee, and repeating, well, get in the car!
How the fuck could he, he was pinned.

After the "perp" was either passed out or dead, he sat there continuing to pin him for minutes on end.
Even after what appears to be the black guys bladder releasing.

The looting and rioting mob/monkey like behavior is dead wrong, and just as dead wrong as this/these cops.

But this cop should be wiped from existance along with his his fellow officers.

If you haven't seen this shit: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8hGKB5QDhw[/ame]

 

[Lenny]

Just an observation.

When a black man kills a black man, the blacks don't get all bent out of shape.
When a white man kills a black man, they all lose their minds.

Who's more racist?

That's right. Remember the Reginald Denny beating, which was black on white was not shown very much but during the same time, the Rodney King beating, which was white on black was shown over and over and over and over and over. The news medias did that intentionally to cause riots. Is that free speech? Not according to the 1919 supreme court ruling, “Shouting ‘Fire’ in a theatre.”

 

[Lenny]

A friend of mine posted this on Fakebook this morning. I've been pointing this out for years.

If you have 10 bad cops and 1,000 good cops but those 1,000 good cops don't turn in the 10 bad cops. you have 1,010 bad cops.

 

[mla2ofus]

I guess you have to be a shrink to understand why people get so angry they destroy businesses in their neighborhood. Or as was pointed out in Ferguson, a lot weren't residents of the area. The remaining businesses should give a lesson on this behavior, file bankruptcy and leave the area. Then maybe the locals would put a stop to outsiders extreme behavior.
Mike

 

[Lenny]

I guess you have to be a shrink to understand why people get so angry they destroy businesses in their neighborhood. Or as was pointed out in Ferguson, a lot weren't residents of the area. The remaining businesses should give a lesson on this behavior, file bankruptcy and leave the area. Then maybe the locals would put a stop to outsiders extreme behavior.
Mike

Good comment. As Albert Einstein put it, "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

 

[Jim_S]

Minneapolis cop who knelt on handcuffed black man George Floyd charged with 3rd degree murder, manslaughter
By Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News

https://www.foxnews.com/us/minnesota-gov-tim-walz-on-george-floyd-violence

Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer seen kneeling on George Floyd's neck until he could not breathe, has been charged with 3rd degree murder and manslaughter, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced Friday afternoon.

Freeman said the evidence against Chauvin includes video from a bystander's cell phone, body camera footage as well as statements from witnesses and a preliminary report from the medical examiner.

"We felt in our professional judgment that it was time to charge and we have so done it," Freeman said.

He later added he expected additional charges to be brought against the other officers involved in the incident, but did not go into detail.

Chauvin's arrest follows three days of protests across Minneapolis that led to looting, violence and a police precinct being torched.

Freeman also defended the speed of the arrest against Chauvin.

"This is by far the fastest we have ever charged a police officer," Freeman said. "Normally these cases take nine months to a year. We have to charge these cases very carefully because we have a difficult burden of proof."

Two hours earlier, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz promised swift justice in Floyd's death, but also pleaded with protestors who have set fire to Minneapolis to stop, so the city could restore justice and order.

"I won't patronize you as a white man about living those experiences... but I am asking you to help us," Walz said. "Help us use humane ways to get the streets to a place where we can restore the justice so that those who are expressing rage and anger and demanding justice are heard, not those who throw fire bombs into businesses."

Walz added that that the looting and violence was counterproductive to the ultimate goal of seeking justice for Floyd and that underlying issues involved in Floyd's death could not be addressed until there was calm.

"We can't have it because we can't function as a society and I refuse to have it take away from the attention of the state," he said.

Walz also referenced Philando Castile and other black people who have died in Minnesota at the hands of police.

“Their voices went unheard, and now generations of pain is manifesting itself in front of the world,” Walz said. “And the world is watching.”

About a half hour ahead of Waltz's press conference, President Trump tweeted, "The National Guard has arrived on the scene. They are in Minneapolis and fully prepared. George Floyd will not have died in vain. Respect his memory!!!"

Floyd, 46, died in police custody Monday night.

He had been arrested after an employee at a grocery store called police to accuse Floyd of trying to pass a counterfeit $20 bill.

Floyd, who is black, was then handcuffed by Chauvin, who is white, and pushed to the ground. A cell phone video shows Floyd's head is turned to the side and he does not appear to be resisting. Chauvin has his knee pressed to the back of Floyd's neck for several minutes as Floyd is seen gasping for air and begging Chauvin to stop. He does not. Bystanders are also heard shouting at Chauvin to take his knee off Floyd's neck.

Tou Thao, the second officer seen in the video, does nothing as Floyd struggles for several minutes before going limp.

Together, Chauvin and Thao have had more than a dozen conduct complaints against them in the past, but have not been formally reprimanded.

The two other officers were at the scene were Thomas Lane and Alexander Kueng.

All four have been fired.
The video footage of Floyd's death ignited simmering racial tensions in the city and has shined a light on the use of force by police officers against black residents.

In an early morning tweet, Trump vowed military support for the governor following another violent night of protests in Minneapolis, which included a police station being set on fire and a crew from CNN being arrested on air.

"I can't stand back & watch this happen to a great American City, Minneapolis," Trump tweeted. He took that moment to also criticize the city's democratic mayor. "A total lack of leadership. Either the very weak Radical Left Mayor, Jacob Frey, get his act together and bring the City under control, or I will send in the National Guard & get the job done right."

He followed up his threat with a tweet that was censored by Twitter.

"These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won't let this happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and I told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you."

The president's tweet, which implied that protestors in Minneapolis could be shot, came with a notice from Twitter that said the president's tweet violated its rules against glorifying violence. The company also blocked users from liking or replying to the post, though people were still allowed to retweet it if they added a comment of their own.

Separately, the state's attorney general, Keith Ellison, condemned Trump for his late-night tweets and said they stoked the "angry cycle" of violence in Minneapolis.

"Calling people thugs and calling on people to get shot stems from the same sort of attitude that resulted in the death of George Floyd," Ellison said on "CBS This Morning."

Late Thursday, a police spokesman confirmed that staff evacuated the Third Precinct station, the focus of many of the protests, "in the interest of the safety of our personnel." Video showed protesters entering the building where fire alarms blared and sprinklers ran as fires were set.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said he ordered police to vacate the Third Precinct before it was overrun by protestors.

"The symbolism of a building cannot outweigh the importance of life, of our officers or to the public." Frey said early Friday, noting that he had made the call after learning that there "were imminent threats."

Protestors could also be seen setting fire to a police department jacket and cheering.

Floyd's girlfriend of three years, Courteney Ross, told the Star Tribune, if Floyd was alive, he would be hearbroken by what was happening in his city.

"Waking up this morning to see Minneapolis on fire would be something that would devastate Floyd," Ross said. "He loved the city. He came here [from Houston] and stayed here for the people and the opportunities. Floyd was a gentle giant. He was about love and about peace."

Demonstrations against police brutality also spread across to several cities from Memphis and Los Angeles.

In Louisville, Ky., seven people were shot with one in critical condition after hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the city's Metro Hall demanding justice for Breonna Taylor. The protest erupted just hours after Mayor Greg Fisher held a town hall about Taylor's case and community relations with police.

On March 13, the 26-year-old EMT was asleep in her Kentucky apartment when she was shot eight times by Louisville Metro Police Department officers who said they were executing a "no-knock warrant," only they did so at the wrong house. The "trap house" they were looking for was more than 10 miles away from Taylor's apartment.

You can find Barnini Chakraborty on Twitter @Barnini.

 

[Lenny]

Freeman also defended the speed of the arrest against Chauvin.

"This is by far the fastest we have ever charged a police officer," Freeman said. "Normally these cases take nine months to a year. We have to charge these cases very carefully because we have a difficult burden of proof."

REALLY!!! How long would it have taken to arrest a civilian who did the same thing???

 

[Jim_S]

REALLY!!! How long would it have taken to arrest a civilian who did the same thing???

Between 30 and 45 seconds

 

[Lenny]

By the way, I called my senators, congress-critter and the president's office to demand a law that says NO ONE is exempt from laws.

Ya think they'll pass a law that puts themselves under the law? Yeah, right!

 

[road squawker]

... edit...Riots ain't the way to do it, but WHAT, EXACTLY, will stop these rogue cops who think they ARE the law. Their bosses are always sorry when these things happen; tell you what, it starts at the top...
The cops involved are absolute power trip bozos...

The Governor, the Mayor, and the Chief of Police are all democrats.