Try this. Go to a closed door and grab the knob. Now try to pull as hard as you can. See how you body is behind your feet? That's the exact opposite we see Chauvin doing in the cctv footage (that you cited, mind you). Chauvin tried to push Floyd back into the car, until Floyd asked to be laid on the ground. You don't have any serious eyesight problems, do you? No, just cognitive?
The reports state that Chauvin put him on the ground to detain him and also state that he was dragged out of the car by Chauvin for reasons unknown..
You are literally attempting to rewrite the entire thing. It's frankly ridiculous.
Where do you imagine I said he was warranted in drawing his gun on the motorcyclist? Just because he did it doesn't make it warranted. This is an irrelevant red herring, as you introduced it to refute police not leaving a person in custody unsecured. The motorcyclist was not in custody at the time. End of your irrelevant non sequitur.
Here is what I said. Read it again and tell me where I said you warranted his drawing his gun on the motorcyclist. I said "he", ie, the police officer warranted drawing his gun on the motorcyclist:
And again, he warranted the motorcyclist to be enough of a threat that he pulled his weapon out. Despite the guy sitting on his bike in a drive way with his hands up in the air.. But then he realises he's being filmed and the guy with the phone on his front porch is suddenly the bigger threat that he leaves the guy he deemed dangerous enough to draw his weapon on was left forgotten as he launched his verbal and then physical attack on a guy sitting on his own front porch filming the officer who had entered his front yard with his gun drawn?
So unless you were the police officer involved, "he" is not you.
He literally asked to be laid on the ground. You have hearing problems too?
Did he ask to be knelt on by several grown men and killed?
As I've already told you, the fire department didn't arrive until it was over. All the police on the scene, including one across the street who couldn't see everything, and the EMTs considered it an unsafe scene. That's why the EMTs didn't attempt to resuscitate Floyd right there, losing valuable time if he has been deprived of oxygen.
The paramedics who arrived to treat him never said the crowd was unruly or felt unsafe because of the less than a dozen people (including 4 children) gathered at the scene.
Paramedic Seth Bravindar said he had to ask Mr Chauvin to get off Mr Floyd so that they could access the patient.
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Mr Bravinder said the initial call-out was deemed non-life threatening although that soon changed.
He told the court he initially thought that a struggle was taking place when he and his partner arrived on the scene, but quickly realised that Mr Floyd, 46, was limp.
Asked about video footage showing him gesturing to Mr Chauvin, Mr Bravinder said he wanted to "have him move" and this was "so we could move the patient".
His partner Derek Smith checked Mr Floyd's neck for a pulse but could not find one. "In lay terms, I thought he was dead," Mr Smith said.
"When I arrived on scene there was no medical services being provided to the patient," he added.
Mr Bravinder cradled Mr Floyd's head to prevent it from hitting the road as they transferred him to a stretcher.
They put him in an ambulance and started chest compressions.
At one point Mr Smith thought he saw electrical activity from Mr Floyd's heart and delivered an electrical shock to try to restart it. "He was a human being and I was trying to give him a second chance at life," he said.
The police supervisor had this to say in the trial:
Jurors also heard from David Pleoger, the supervising police officer on duty that day, who said he only learned later in the evening that Mr Chauvin had restrained Mr Floyd by kneeling on his neck.
He told the court that an officer should stop using the knee as a restraint once "you get control of the situation" and the suspect is in handcuffs.
"Leave someone on their stomach for too long, their breathing will be compromised, so you'll want to get them up out of that position," he said.
Nothing at all about anyone feeling unsafe. Can you show where the EMT's said the scene was considered "unsafe"?
I had always said the fire department arrived a few minutes after the ambulance had left. So I honestly don't know what you're on about now. It's like you're inventing crap with which to disagree with at this point.
So you have evidence that you knew Markle was black, just from looking at her? I watched her on "Suits" and never knew. Maybe you have evidence of some other black person who fully passes for white being the victim of racism? If not, you're just full of shit.
My god, the racism just keeps continuing.
You're lying again, even according to your own citation. Or is that your poor reading comprehension again?
I linked her words. There's even video.
Go on, keep rewriting history and reality. It's literally as though you get all your news and facts from weird sites on Facebook or something.
Nothing but lies. Man, you really can't stand a black woman who think differently than you. Not like you aren't hateful to everyone who disagrees with you.
She literally did those things.
Just like Chauvin literally knelt on a man's neck until he died. That's not a lie.
Sometimes, some people are just bad.
If you say so.
Again, learn to read. "Blacks were better under Jim Crow, but only in specific ways..." Citing every way they weren't better doesn't refute Owens' claim.
You mean in regards to the family unit?
While ignoring how under Jim Crow, families were forced to flee racism and segregation, thereby eroding what wealth they had managed to accumulate (given the rights of whites to simply take what they wanted and destroy black businesses and had done so), seeing the family unit then essentially break down over the years as a result of crippling poverty, systemic racism and lack of rights..
Sure, if that's how you define "better", you do you.
So she's not enough black, huh? Weren't you just complaining about her saying that about Markle? Hypocrite.
Okay, at this point I really do need to ask.
What makes you think or believe that it's acceptable to use Owen as though she is a weapon of colour for you to trot out?
I think she's a fraud. It has nothing to do with the colour of her skin. I also think Trump is a fraud. It has nothing to do with the colour of his skin. I think they are frauds because of their character and actions.
She is the one defining who is black enough when she made those comments about Markle. Remember. You are the one who parroted those remarks:
So you have evidence that you knew Markle was black, just from looking at her? I watched her on "Suits" and never knew. Maybe you have evidence of some other black person who fully passes for white being the victim of racism? If not, you're just full of shit.
And now you are projecting yourself onto me again.
Check yourself in the mirror. I'm not the one saying someone is black enough or not black enough. You are.
Excusing cherry-picking because that's all you found in a search designed to find just that is intellectually dishonest. It obviously wasn't clear, as you still haven't answered the very simple question.
Do you agree that not all Confederate flag wavers are racist?
If so, we agree. Cheers.
No. I don't agree.
I think if you are walking around carrying that flag and knowing it's history and use, then you are accepting of its usage and history and thus, part of the problem and feeds the systemic racism that plagues society.
Understand now?
No, your comment only attempted to justify your racism. And you're still lying to justify it. You are literally saying that skin color alone makes someone's opinions somehow invalid. That is literally racist. Own it or quit being that crappy person.
And you are using Ms Owens colour as a tool to project your own bigotry and racism and somehow suggesting that her colour makes her opinion more valid.
See how that works?
