Floyd's death is divisive to Republicans because a) he resisted arrest, and c) a riot took place. Basically they'd rather not address b) Chauvin kneeled on his neck for nearly 10 minutes. I imagine many Republicans have not even watched the video, or worse they have and decided to change the narrative. B does not justify C, but I'd have to assume they prefer to pretend B does not exist.
And the ME said he would have been dead from the drugs in his system in a short time but it absolutely should not have happened. OTOH, he shouldn't be presented as a hero and he didn't have any serious crimes once he moved to Minnesota. Helluva job by Chauvin as a training officer, eh?
The crowd did NOTHING to stop the cops and I found that odd- nobody wants to be shot, but they would have to kill everyone and grab the phones & destroy the surveillance cameras in order to get away with it and even then, they'd probably have to clear the whole block. Do you really think nobody in that crowd had a gun? Statistically, I dont think it's likely and I'm not posting that because of racism, it's because so many have guns when they shouldn't AND it's likely that someone was a legal carrier. Even if the crowd had been white as a sheet of paper, SOMEONE would have had a gun.
Riots solve nothing, with the possible exception of destroying buildings and neighborhoods that the city wanted to remove but didn't want to spend the money upfront.
I would like to see cities form groups specifically for interacting with citizen groups for the sole purpose of dealing with these problems before they're out of control, but emotional people don't care about that and they will not wait. Where are the citizen groups, anyway?
I don't know a lot about Minnesota's government and don't want t ouse news blathering about it but I'm not sure it's right to blame Republicans- MLPS is run by Democrats and it was Democrats who destroyed the cities- DFL in the state legislature has a one member advantage. MLPS PD had/has bad officers (I think most PDs do, even if they say they're working on the problem)- multiple cities outside of MLPS had nothing to do with it, yet they suffered.
Wait- a moment of silence for Chauvin? Why?
