🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱ok, let’s agree on the fact that police needs real reform and have another police, so they could investigate each other’s misbehavior and not covering every situation like “we investigated ourselves and concluded that we did nothing wrong”. Police should be held to way higher standards than regular people, and corruption/unlawful behavior should result at least triple punishment
while the last part of triple punishment deserves some debate (not because i disagree but just because its not nuanced enough). The rest I agree with in principle.
I would argue polie should just not have qualified immunity anymore, and in exchange for that we pay them as much as we need to to hire them to put their lives at risk. I am ok paying them MORE if they are actually held accountable.
but I disagree with this, that not what happened, nobody chocked Floyd, quite the opposite, there is footage that they tried to help him before even ambulance arrived, the famous viral video when cop was kneeling on the neck - it’s just wrong perspective of this particular video, body cam showed that cop was holding his knee on shoulder blade which is not a chocking hazard, but they decided to build wrong narrative and didn’t bring this footage
Even if we take away the term choking from the equation to give you the benefit of the doubt there.. doesnt matter. After the moment he was clearly lifeless and people said he was looked dead on camera begging them to help him. from that moment they still “pinned him down” for 9 more minute while he lay there dead/lifeless/unconscious. The fact that after 9 minutes of him being dead they finally decided to “help” him is too little too late.
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