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He was always a scum bag and drug addict! He was also a big guy and had wrestled with cops in the past! His last rodeo with the cops they were taking no chances of his brutality! He was quoted as saying "I can't breathe" 27 times! Ya can't do that with a 'choke hold'! But his family is 27 million richer minus lawyer fees. So they aren't on welfare anymore! -
Sorry guys, it's the wrong George Floyd,Comment
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I didn't look at the vid(I had doubts right off). I was wondering how he could ever have got to be on t.v. If that was the real George Floyd, it must have been before the steroids. There were no steroids, he was just huge. His lips had muscles. It's maybe too bad that he died. A guy that big could have played a unique part in a movie. Like the Hulk guy. Lou Ferrigno.
Last edited by dryheat; 05-01-2021, 09:55.If I should die before I wake...great,a little more sleep.Comment
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The real George Floyd Jr., that is the one who died in Minneapolis, couldn't say he never had a chance. He went to Jack Yates high school in Houston where he was a superb basketball player; captain of a team that played for the Texas state championship, and wasn't bad at football. Yates is a tough school but he did ok there. After graduation he got a scholarship to play basketball at a junior college in Florida. After two years there he got a scholarship to play at Texas A&M's Kingsville campus but left after a year. After that it was all down hill. Drug addiction and a life of mostly petty crime but some big ones too resulting one scrape with the law after another.
One thing almost every one of these killings by the police have in common, the suspect resisted arrest. I'm not making excuses for Chauvin, he was guilty of at least manslaughter, but if Floyd had gone quietly he'd be alive today (if the dope or some other gangster didn't get him that is.)Last edited by Art; 05-02-2021, 05:55.Comment
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Americans are not a docile people and that may not be the worst thing in the world.
Something I never understood from the Chauvin/Floyd incident--what were they waiting for? 4 guys have him on the ground, waiting for... something. What though? In the event, some of the younger ones sense something was going wrong.Comment
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You've got me, I've wondered about that too. It's been a long time but in the old days with situations like this, after you got the old boy cuffed you just put one person on each corner, picked him up, and heaved him into the back seat.
I understand Floyd and Chauvin at one time worked security at the same night club so maybe there was some bad history there...who knows.Last edited by Art; 05-02-2021, 03:51.Comment
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One more thing; people who resist just because they don't want to go to jail, or because they panic usually calm right down at the booking desk. It doesn't always happen but its the way to bet. Its like they say to themselves "ok, I'm here now and they tend to cooperate. It doesn't mean they don't lie, they just aren't combative, or at least not combative enough to cause a problem. Their are exceptions but that's usually the drill after they've in the holding cell.Comment
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I wondered that too. The pinning happened after they tried to put him in the car. That was when Floyd appears to have freaked. I thought he may have been pinned down while awaiting a wagon instead of a cage car. Wrong on my part because had it been so, that would have been key to the defense.2016 Chicago Cubs. MLB Champions!
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Wondering the same as Art- did those two have some history?Comment
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the working together is old news,
it was brought up and dropped right after the event,
can't have them knowing each other professionally off the clock and paint him as a racist,,,,Comment
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Working at the same place and working together or even getting along are different things. For whatever reason it never came up at trial, because one man was dead and the other wasn't talking.Comment
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