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2020-06-24 -PC Follies

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-24 03:12|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Haitian Artist Woodly Caymitte Creates Incredible George Floyd automobile dashboard statue.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-06-24 03:50|| 2020-06-24 03:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Patron Saint of Pregnancy Violence?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-06-24 04:50|| 2020-06-24 04:50|| Front Page Top

#3 It follows the pattern of various Left wing movements. All of which explains why they want to destroy ~~history~~ their record.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-24 06:41|| 2020-06-24 06:41|| Front Page Top

#4 IMO, it was only a matter of time before George Floyd killed somebody.

For all we know, he might have already. Nevertheless, just like Jeffrey Epstein, just like Lee Harvey Oswald, you gotta keep the prisoner alive because you never know what kind of testimony he might offer.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-06-24 12:26|| 2020-06-24 12:26|| Front Page Top

#5 #4 So sorry. But when violence becomes necessary, there is no such thing as 100% safe procedure. So, your statement is, simply, irrelevant to the occasion.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-24 12:49|| 2020-06-24 12:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Agreed that suspects risk their lives when they resist arrest and I'm not passing judgment on Derek Chauvin. But the goal must be to keep the prisoner alive and, with four cops against a prisoner who was already handcuffed, the optics are not good.

But I will go further. In California some years back, voters passed a ballot proposition mandating life in prison without possibility of parole for anyone convicted of three felonies. This was the famous "three strikes" law. Since then our politicians have done their damnedest to circumvent the will of the people with regards to this law. They even passed another law that reduces a number of felonies to misdemeanors. Well, that's California for you. But I am staying on topic.

You see, if George Floyd had been subject to "three strikes", he would have already been doing life in prison and we would have been spared all this nonsense.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-06-24 13:45|| 2020-06-24 13:45|| Front Page Top

#7 #6 I agree it's nonsense.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-24 13:50|| 2020-06-24 13:50|| Front Page Top

#8 If the police hadn't killed him then it is likely some other criminal would have: "Death by 'natural causes' because some people naturally get shot..."

Posted by magpie 2020-06-24 14:02|| 2020-06-24 14:02|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, he's been clean and sober for two weeks now. That's something...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-24 16:44|| 2020-06-24 16:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Those who want to deity GF, should check out his rap sheet although I doubt it would make a difference. It doesn't fit their narrative.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-06-24 17:32|| 2020-06-24 17:32|| Front Page Top

#11 Well, he's been clean and sober for two weeks now.

File under major silver linings that never occurred to me.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-06-24 18:49|| 2020-06-24 18:49|| Front Page Top

#12 It really should be three strikes and a public burning or impalement. We need to provide concrete, visible examples. Or here in Houston, it should be a glass jar in this lovely mild Texas sun.

Posted by Silentbrick 2020-06-24 19:48|| 2020-06-24 19:48|| Front Page Top

#13 He and Chauvin worked at the same nightclub. I have to wonder if Chauvin wanted to ensure Floyd didn't talk, because Floyd knew Chauvin was dirty. Nothing else could explain the stupidity done on camera by a member of the uniformed police.

Posted by Old Patriot 2020-06-24 22:12|| 2020-06-24 22:12|| Front Page Top

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