Canada2017 said:
J.B.Katz said:
Buddha Bear said:
Now that the perpetrator has been found guilty it will be interesting to see how the other 2 officers trials play out.
I don't necessarily believe the other 2 officers are guilty of anything, given it was their first week on the job. Will need to watch the trial to better understand. One of the officers even questioned Chauvin's actions, and Chauvin shut him down.
Kind of difficult for a cop to go against his superior officers instructions when it's their first week on the job. We'll really see if our system works as well as some thinks it does in the coming months.
A year and I still can't fathom what was going on in the man's head while he snuffed the life out of another man with his body. That's some sickass power trip. Since he pled the 5th we'll never know.
95% of the posters here wanted prison time for this rogue cop.
However jinxy if would be nice if you showed this same kind of outrage when cops are killed, children slaughtered by gangbangers , or an elderly white couple is murdered in a cemetery by a black guy.
But you won't of course...you can't.
As you are a full on racist.
I see this point made time and again on this board, whataboutism involving killings of other sorts.
There is no analogous whataboutism in your examples. What Chauvin's conviction represents is different because it is the outlier: a cop convicted of killing a citizen.
When non-LEOs kill somebody we expect the same justice: an arrest and a trial. But when it involves LEOs we often do not get an arrest or trial. That's the difference, and that's why *****ing about one and not the other is not hypocrisy or racism.
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.” (The Law, p.6) Frederic Bastiat