Why Zohran Mamdani won and New York will pay a terrible price
- By JimR-OCDS
- General Politics
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Cops have to detain a person before they can determine if the person needs psychological help or not. CopsThat's my point. Cops don't always HAVE TO be involved with a "mentally sick" person first.
You may be surprised to learn that just because someone is having a psychotic episode does not mean they will be arrested.
The bitter irony of this is off the chart. To call Floyd's arrest "de-regure" is not offensive so much as stupid. There has been no indication from any police body that having his knee on his neck was necessary. The mere fact that you are totally unaware of the rules of engagement around force for police officers is clear that you have no idea what you're arguing, talking about, or even viewing on TV.
If you're not going to address my point and just keep repeating what you've already said you're not a part of a "discussion".
are trained on how to handle mentally ill people, whether you believe it or not.
As someone who studied self-defense, the move the cop put on George Floyd was a move taught in my
self-defense class, where we had prison guards and cops as students. Only 30% of the cop's weight was on Floyd's
neck, the other 70% was on the leg that was on the ground. The one cop who testified saying she was not
taught that in the academy, now admits she lied, it was taught. The stupidity comes from those who are not trained
but only saw the video. Also, the autopsy report showed that Floyd had large amounts of drugs in his system;
Medical examiner: George Floyd had 'fatal level of fentanyl' in his system, but is 'not saying this killed him'
New court documents filed this week in the case against four Minneapolis police officers accused of murdering George Floyd provide new context to how he died. While the state medical examiner determined that Floyd’s death was a homicide due to the officers’ actions, new documents this week...
Anti-police sentiment is at play here.
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