So that whole argument hinges upon you uncritically accepting bureaucratic whitewashing? Really?
Government bean counting is not the same as what actual Americans think. Why, does everything your government does reflect the thinking of a majority of Aussies?
You really cannot accept that a person with Syrian ancestry would be considered "white" legally in the US? And isn't it interesting how you believe the law should be ignored if it goes against your own racial prejudice.
That's kind of telling, don't you think?
Legally, Syrian Americans are considered white in the US. I get it.. Red blooded Americans like you can't understand how a Muslim would be considered "white", given your previous response:
Correction, Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa was a Syrian Muslim, not white.
But he is actually white.
Anyway, that guy surrendered after being shot in the leg. See, the "white" guy was shot.
Tell me... Would he have been shot in the leg if he had been black? If a black man shot so many people, would it have been a simple leg shot in the end?
No idea why you keep saying "not shot or tased". Neither was Floyd, so it's anyone's guess how you imagine these cases are relevant. Where's the drugged up white guy with positional asphyxia?
Oh right, I already posted two of them ages ago:
http://sciforums.com/threads/george...lty-of-the-charges.164217/page-7#post-3671646
No criminal charges filed against the officers in two strikingly similar situations to Floyd's, including cause of death findings, but the victims were both white. That blows your sorry cherry-picking out of the water.
Deliberately obtuse. How totally unexpected..
Why weren't they charged? They killed him and Farah.
Which is probably why the same civil rights lawyer involved in Floyd's case, is going after the police in Florida. It defies logic that police in the US can keep getting away with killing people in this way.
And it still does not take away from the over-policing and higher rate of killing of black males by police in the US. You have police departments and officers who are getting away with absolutely crap and killings and add another layer of racial bias to the mix. It's why black males are twice as likely as white males to be killed by police. It's not acceptable, whether you are white or black or of any ethnic background. It is absolutely unacceptable and I cannot for the life of me understand how you or anyone can defend it.
See the aforementioned post for two direct comparisons to Floyd's:
http://sciforums.com/threads/george...lty-of-the-charges.164217/page-7#post-3671646
The white guys don't get charges pressed against the officers.
Why not? Why weren't they charged? Do you think it's acceptable that they weren't charged?
Speaking of the cctv footage seen by the dispatcher, you didn't notice how Chauvin was pushed back suddenly and had to lean forward with his body weight to try to keep Floyd in the car? If not, just more of the many things you seem to completely miss.
And then he used his hands and dragged him out of the car. No one has been able to explain why he did that. Given he refused to testify, we'll never know. Maybe he's waiting for a book deal.
What part of "the officers likely didn't know where the ambulance was" don't you understand?
And which part of the 'the officers did not tell them that the patient had already left' didn't you understand in any of it?
Please learn to read. I didn't excuse anything. In fact, I actually said "that cop wrongly detained the filming man". Hint, that's the opposite of excusing it.
I also told you that the motorcyclist wasn't in custody, so it doesn't refute what I said earlier (hence bullshit), about police not leaving an arrested person unsecured. Try to pay attention.
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?
I can't help it if you don't understand how muscles and body weight work. The cctv footage seen by the dispatcher you cited clearly shows Chauvin struggle to keep Floyd in the car. I can't help it if you're blind and you were duped by the prosecution conflating when the officers decided to quit trying to fight to get Floyd in the car, and laid him down like he asked them to. Remember, guy whining about claustrophobia?
Oh, so now you're going to argue that they were helping him with his claustrophobia by dragging him out of the car and kneeling on his neck until he died.
Could you be more ridiculous?
I have some idea how clueless you are about the realities of policing.
Crowds have been increasingly attacking police since 2016.
I guess you can be.
There were less than a dozen people. All were either filming, begging them to get off his neck and/or calling 911.
The fire department who responded to the scene described them as upset but not unruly. Video footage of the scene shows they were not unruly. Any more excuses you planning on making?
You obviously have no idea how muscles, body weight, or even simple reasoning works. You don't try to yank someone out of car to immediately try to shove them back in.
Read what I said and then try that again.
