Ah, another "both sides" argument.
Yes, you're right - they do kill people of every color and creed. Unfortunately, they kill far more people of color than they do anyone else, and, unlike other uses of deadly force against whites, it's more often used under what are innocuous circumstances, like a routine traffic stop or someone passing off a counterfeit bill they probably didn't even know was fake. It's not okay for a 13-year-old boy with his hands up to be shot to death. It's not okay for someone to be killed by police in their own apartment. It's not okay to beat a black man in the street. It's not okay to kneel on someone's neck until they die.
I am VERY happy with the verdict. I was telling my boyfriend just this weekend after seeing the race, age, marital status, gender, profession, and parental status of the jury and 2 alternates along with answers they gave in the jury questionnaire prior to jury selection there was going to be no way they didn't convict on at least SOMETHING. They did no disappoint me. All three of those charges only required proof that his actions resulted in the death of George Floyd. Not one of them required intent to kill him. Simply that his actions resulted in the death of Floyd. Any person with a brain and eyes could see and understand how his actions led to the death of George Floyd. Witness after witness testified about the actions the asshole did contributed to at a minimum or fully at the best to the death of George Floyd. There were countless experts who stated that though the amount of drugs in his system were a fatal level that it doesn't mean he would have died from the drugs with medical intervention. People have survived with more drugs in their system than Floyd had. The way it happens is you treat the symptoms as the arise (restart the heart, rescue breathing/ventilator, etc etc). The fact the off-duty EMT testified how she repeatedly begged the asshole to allow her to check on him before he went unconscious and several times AFTER he was unresponsive while the asshole still had his knee on Floyd's death attests to how much the asshole didn't care for his life and knew what he was doing could result in Floyd's death.
Thank you for your reply to that jerk. Very well put there!!!
Who's making what example of the entire national police force? The Chauvin case was about Chauvin, but this is a broader case about police accountability in the face of decades of police abuses, murders, and assaults that have gone unpunished and left victims without justice.
Remember that time Daniel Shaver was executed by a police officer? This is about him, too.
Police forces across the US have this problem. SO it is pretty fair to do so. in my area, we've had 2 national incidents already (Botham Jean, Atatiana Jefferson) and numerous other abuses that just stayed local.
Good cops need to start holding their own accountable instead of forming a blue line. The problem is, they rarely do.