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no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
@ Adam Dalgliesh:
Never seen clearly from what we have seen publicly (maybe on cops (cams) is Floyd who is about 6’6″ and maybe 280 -300ibs was fighting with cops in the back seat of the car he was put into after he was handcuffed. Then car with the cop (Chauvin) who killed him pulled up. He helped control Floyd and he either fell or was taken to ground.
The cops individual cams should end up as part of the evidence that will help get the other cops off or convict them. For aiding and abetting they actual have do some participation in the crime either physically or by advising. If that can not be proven a lesser charge of negligence might be in order.
There never has in Minnesota been a cop convicted of murder. A case like this usually results getting a manslaughter conviction for excessive force.
If somehow Derek Chauvin does not get convicted in Minnesota, the Dept. of Justice could charge him with a civil rights violation in Federal Court. The LAPD cops who were somehow declared innocent in the Rodney King incident in 1992, were later charged by the Federal Government of Civil Rights violations. They were convicted of this and this is not considered double jeopardy.
It is clear to me from watching three different videos that they record three different periods of a prolonged sequence, lasting perhaps 40 minutes, that precede the death of George Floyd, that none of the videos record the entire sequence of events. Nor do all three together. There is evidence that two of the videos have been heavily edited. There is clearly an undetermined period of time between the first two videos and the last one.
It is only the last video that shows an officer with his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck. This video does not show two of the other officers who have now been arrested at all. One officer, apparently of East Asian, not white, race, does appear to be ‘standing guard” over the police car, the officer holding down Mr. Floyd, and Floyd himself. He or she (even this is hard to tell from the video) demands that a mob that has gathered on the sidewalk screaming at the officer with his knee on Floyd, step back a few feet from the arresting officer and Mr. Floyd.
The longest video goes on for about twenty minutes. It has no sound. It does not show anyone brutalizing or harming Mr. Floyd. It does show three individuals, only one of whom is Floyd, being arrested. However, the video gives no indication of why the three individuals have been arrested, or why or by whom police have been summoned to the scene.
At one point in this, the longest video. two figures disappear into thin air! This evident splicing of the video occurs at the point when one or both of two men seem to be arguing with a man who has just gotten out of the car–possibly George Floyd. No indication of what they are arguing about.
This video then suddenly jumps to a scene where police cars are arriving.
The video then shows policemen pulling three individuals, not one, out of the car, and placing them under arrest. One of the three looks like George Floyd.
He has been directed to sit on a sidewalk, which he does. He is then led to a police car in handcuffs. Then the video suddenly stops for no apparent reason.
The video that shows a policeman, presumably Derek Chauvin, with his knee on Floyd’s neck apparently begins, or has been edited to begin, sometime after the first, longer video ends. We are therefore unable to find out what happened that led the officer to place his neck on Mr. Floyd’s knee. Was he resisting arrest? We have no way of telling.
What is clear is that four officers didn’t suddenly arrive on the scene and start brutalizing Mr. Floyd for no reason at all. It was only at the end of a lengthy sequence of events that apparently lethal force was used against him. And only one officer, not four, applied that potentially lethal force.
Plainly, there has been a rush to judgment of all four officers on the basis of video clip, and the hysterical commentary of the media about it. This is a true media lynching. We may never know if any of the officers committed a crime. But it is almost certain that they will be convicted and sentenced to long jail terms. And they will probably be “suicided” in jail like Epstein.
Wow! She lays it out!
Isaiah 5:
[20] Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
[21] Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
[22] Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
[23] Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
[24] Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
This holds true, and will ALWAYS hold true, for black and for white; and the MSM can’t annul it.