George Floyd - America so f**ked up

You`re deliberately putting the worst possible and misleading interpretation of events here.  You`re like one of the "protestors" whipping up anger from the mob.
Blake was not shot as he turned away to his car.  He was not shot, when his actions were clearly visible to the police. 
He was not shot when the police could see that he was unarmed.
He was shot when he opened his car door and reached inside, leaving the police to ponder what he was reaching for, and a couple of seconds to respond.


I don`t think anybody on here feels that Gas 365 is inherently racist.   Apart from you.

I hope they are not getting paid for refusing to work 

My reaction to that is “I wonder what it must be like to be paid millions whilst having the ability to down tools when you feel like it”. We need unions and frameworks to be able to do the same, God knows I would have liked to have just walked out in protest at how this country has been run over the years.

If the hard of thinking can’t see that this is an entirely different scenario to the George Floyd incident then there is no hope basically. Might as well just take the Police’s weapons off them and tell the American public to flagrantly dis-obey the law because the Police date not uphold it because Joe Public are going to kick off and go on strike if they do.

I think the likes of those basketball players would get a nasty shock if America Police went on strike for 24 hours. The only people who would win would be the hardcore criminals.

Clearly unarmed...were you there? Yet again, it’s easy to pontificate on what should have happened from behind a keyboard when you were not potentially facing your own mortality if you made the wrong decision. I’ve seen one left winger say that the cop should have shot him in the leg to neutralise him, like the cop is playing flaming call of duty on a PlayStation and not riddled with panic at what this guy could be up to.

I don’t know what to make of the other situation as the story seems to change with every telling. You tell me the Police stood and laughed as he shot black people in the head, the BBC tells me he was being chased by a mob and shot when he was being attacked. Who do I believe? Oldie, who most likely was safe at home behind a keyboard all night, or the BBC who are more likely to have had correspondents who were there? If it’s the way you tell it oldie then obviously him being ignored is outrageous and more examples of cop bad behaviour, if it’s the way the bbc tell it then imo he has the right to defend himself if being attacked and in a country where civilians are armed if you are going to attack someone then you need to come correct or you’ll have your head blown off. Any sane law abiding person would have barricaded themselves in for the night, if you’re going to go out there protesting or rioting then you have to take some responsibility for that. It’s not right but as I say, America arms it’s citizens and as a result you have to take measures to secure your own safety and the best way of doing that is to stay at home. It’s important to note the cops picked him up later, no doubt the left wing will come up with some tin foil hat slaverings about how the racist Police have made up that news and have really given this 17 year old some sort of medal for national service.

What's awful about this, is that blacks have been killing white cops, white cops killing blacks, whites killing whites, etc etc etc over there for years. Every day this happens. I'm not sure this is so much a race issue (although they have a real problem with this in the US) as it is a gun issue.

Because any idiot can wander into a corner store, pick out a 9mm, flash some id, and walk out. It's their right.

And if you were a cop over there, dealing with these idiots, I'd be very twitchy every time I arrived at any incident.

Would they? As Eric said they had plenty of chance to shoot him when they had their benny hill-esque chase as he went round the car, they only shot him at the point his hands were concealed. As it happens, it sounds like he was reaching for a knife. Why would such an upstanding citizen even have a knife in the side of his car door. Why would he want a knife? It wouldn’t be to attack some Police officers with would it? Crikey you lot are desperate to normalise disobedience in the face of the law. If you had your way the proletariat would be armed to the teeth and the people in charge of keeping order would have no weapons and their hands tied behind their backs, everyday life would be like something out of the purge. People with these sorts of ideals make me think we need less liberalism and not more because we simply can’t be trusted with it.

The facts remain oldie, this guy resisted the Police, if he had not he might have lived, like the thousands, nay tens of thousands, of non-white people who are arrested in racist America every day without incident. That’s what we should be angry about, that his dopey actions have cost more lives as a result of rioting and protest because black people should be able to flagrantly disobey armed Police. We don’t need apologists who advocate for disobedience which then causes things to escalate and people getting shot.

Oh, you are one of those obsessed with money, that explains a lot.

38 car attacks by right wing racists. Amongst 500 incidents since George Floyd.

That's where the violence bis coming from.

m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/white-vigilantes-kenosha_n_5f4822bcc5b6cf66b2b5103e?ri18n=true