Nope. Because if you have a former CIA agent telling you that what they witnessed was an instance of unequivocal police brutality ("murder" was the term used), then chances are it's a pretty clear cut situation.
Uh huh. Now...wait for it...The coroner's report that YOU cite revealed fentanyl intoxication, methamphetamine use, and coronary artery disease.
But concluded the cause of death remained asphyxiation.
And not a single one of them is relevant to the point that a police officer using unnecessary force, despite protests from bystanders, despite pleading from the suspect, continued to perform an action which had a high risk of permanent injury or death. It was not justifiable.These are facts. His purchase of cigarettes is also a fact. Fentanyl leading to respiratory distress is also a fact - and that's when it's used at medical doses, nevermind to get high. Whether or not he was using counterfeit currency is an open question. Whether or not he resisted arrest is an open question.
Good, the protesters are arguing that it shouldn't be.Restraining a suspect by kneeling on their neck is furthermore legal in Minneapolis. One could argue that it shouldn't be (and I would agree with that) or that the officer did it incorrectly (maybe, I'm not an expert). But nothing I wrote was false or racist.
And yeah, it was. Whinging about a victim's drug use or criminal background every time someone is the victim of a police lynching is pretty textbook as far as the system's response in terms of media management. Which is why we keep joking that every store that gets burned down smoked weed.
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You've spent more time on this forum criticising a minority of protesters who are looting rather than condemning a substantial number of police departments who are being actually violent against peaceful demonstrators.
Ya got an agenda or something there, bud?