Originally Posted by Darkoz View Post
FNC giving Floyd's criminal past is just a bit of victim shaming that's why.

The conservative slant is this was a miscarriage of Justice, police brutality, everyone agrees Derek Chauvin should not have held his knee for 8 minutes over Floyd's neck BUT... oh Floyd was a criminal anyway.

It's the equivalent of exposing rape victims former sexual history.

It's designed to come up with an excuse for the unexcusable. The video is so compelling that no one wants to get caught saying Floyd was not mistreated so yeah but he had a past.

How relevant is his past to this case. Almost certainly any mention will be deemed inadmissible during Chauvin court trial.
I've had a problem with trigger happy cops for decades. To many of them have gone scott free by prosecutor's failing to charge. I have a problem with police unions protecting bad cops. I don't think a cop has to make a kill shot when a suspect with a knife is not within striking distance. I'm for reforms in these areas but not for defunding police departments.

A white cop killing an unarmed black man is a rare event. Happened only 9 times last year. But about 7000 blacks were killed by other blacks last year. Where is the outrage, the protests? Do you understand the magnitude of difference in cops killing blacks vs. blacks killing blacks? It seems "Black Lives Matter," when one is killed by a cop, but "Black Lives Don't Matter" when blacks kill blacks. This is the stinging hypocrisy of the left.

The hard left don't care how many blacks kill blacks. They only care to scare blacks into voting democrat.