Rigby5
Diamond Member
He was bucking, screaming, kicking, panicking, extremely paranoid, whining like a baby, and said he wanted to lay on the ground. Four guys could not get him locked in the car.You're a lying little bitch with a punk attitude. Low IQ human scum like you get shot by cops and deserve it.He was in the squad car until they took him out to murder him.How would you have put him in the squad car? You get that was the task?I would have sat him up and allowed him to remain alive
and that Floyd was resisting?
Floyd was in the back seat of the police car at one time.
Don't know why they took him back out.
Probably because they laid him down, and by not seeing out the windows, he got claustrophobic.
He was on the ground at his own request. He was in a multi-drug induced violent psychotic episode. He was already showing signs of an OD before he was on the ground.
They asked him what drug he was on but he was way too confused to answer, or just didn't want to answer. His so-called "friends" who were with him in the car wouldn't even help him by telling the police what drugs Floyd was on.
The police might have been able to save him if they knew what he was on because the police in many cities carry naloxone (Narcan) injectors in their cars, including Minneapolis.
No, he was not bucking, screaming, kicking, or anything else.
And they really had no reason to even arrest him, considering the bad money was only a minor misdemeanor.
If they had not put in in sideways laying down, then it would have been easy to just close the door and drive him to the hospital.
And how would the friends know what drugs he was trying to hide by swallowing?
Not true.
Legislation is not perfect, and is supposed to be interpreted with common sense by the police.
When the police act in such a way as to cause revulsion by the crowd, then yes that is appropriate for the jury to take into account.
That would include excesses like police tasing a 7 year old, tasing someone holding a small dog, kicking or punching someone, or hundreds of things we have seen police do in videos.
Haven't you ever heard of "jury nullification"?
The jury does and is supposed to used a wider range of values other than mere legislation.
That is not only because legislation is never exact, but also because legislation sometimes can just be completely wrong.
As for the $6 million pay out, I assume that was the shooting of Tamir Rice with a toy gun. And clearly the police were entirely at fault since they could have stopped the car 100' away, and used the loud speaker to ask him to put the toy gun on the ground before they approached. Instead they drove up on the grass 10' away from him and jumped out of their car. Well of course then it was dangerous, but it was all their own making. You can't claim self defense when you deliberately cause all the risk. In fact, if it were a real gun, Tamir Rice could have legally killed them under the excuse the police scared him by driving up on the grass like that.
Completely wrong.
Tamir was at a recreational center. People with guns generally run away from police. What the officer attempted to do is get him to run away from the recreational center instead of towards it where children were. He positioned himself there for that reason.
If you ever get any training in firearms, one of the first and most important factors they teach you is downrange. Downrange is the very conscious observation about what is behind your intended target. The reason it's important is because it's likely if you have to fire, some if not half of your shots will miss your target and could end up hitting an innocent behind it. Any shooter will tell you the more distance between you and your target with a handgun, the more of your rounds will miss it and end up downrange instead.
This park is in a residential area where houses are right next to each other. It's on a fairly busy street. The police pulled up where they did because they expected him to run. They pulled close to him so if they did have to shoot, much less chance of hurting an innocent downrange.
Rice seen the police coming. He knew they were heading towards him. He pulled the gun right when the officer started to exit his vehicle. When the officer seen the gun, he fired, perfectly legal under the definition of self-defense.
As for the "toy" part, here is a picture of the "toy" and the real gun it was replicated from:
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So which one is the toy?
Totally wrong.
The park was practially deserted, and there was no one near the pavillion that Rice was near.
And what you say makes no sense about not wanting others to get hurt because it was the POLICE do did all the shooting and it was the POLICE who could then easily have murdered more innocent by standers.
Rice did not see them coming at first.
He was facing the other way.
And he did not see them until they were almost on top of him.
And no, it is not at all legal to fire at someone just because you see they have a gun.
There has to be more indication that the person is intending to take aim and shoot.
It just having a gun was sufficient to make the person a deadly threat, then we would all have to shoot all police on sight.