Re:Police bodycam footage shows arrest of George Floyd for t...
by smt88 on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @03:12AM
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Let's consider this logically.
You imply that this video exonerates the police in some way. In order for this video to exonerate the police, it would have to prove that:
1. Four police officers with guns could not safely arrest an unarmed Floyd.
2. Floyd's respiratory distress (likely caused, as Floyd himself said, by Covid-19) was not affected at all by the officer kneeling on his neck.
Given examples around the country/world of police departments that arrest low-level, non-violent criminals without kneeling on their necks and killing them, it's hard to see how #1 could be true.
If you think that these statements are true, perhaps you could share how this video proves them, rather than trying to justify a very unorthodox claim by citing the collective wisdom of the audience of /r/ActualPublicFreakouts.
> ...Reddit, which I'd call a mostly pro BLM community are almost all against George Floyd from this video.
Reddit is not representative of anything, and /r/ActualPublicFreakouts isn't even representative of Reddit. It's also not at all "pro BLM", based on the all-time top posts[1].
I'm also unclear why it matters whether this video is changing the minds of people who visit /r/ActualPublicFreakouts. I don't know what kind of person enjoys watching videos (mostly) of people in extreme distress, but I'm personally not interested in their collective opinion of law enforcement reform.
You imply that this video exonerates the police in some way. In order for this video to exonerate the police, it would have to prove that:
1. Four police officers with guns could not safely arrest an unarmed Floyd.
2. Floyd's respiratory distress (likely caused, as Floyd himself said, by Covid-19) was not affected at all by the officer kneeling on his neck.
Given examples around the country/world of police departments that arrest low-level, non-violent criminals without kneeling on their necks and killing them, it's hard to see how #1 could be true.
If you think that these statements are true, perhaps you could share how this video proves them, rather than trying to justify a very unorthodox claim by citing the collective wisdom of the audience of /r/ActualPublicFreakouts.
> ...Reddit, which I'd call a mostly pro BLM community are almost all against George Floyd from this video.
Reddit is not representative of anything, and /r/ActualPublicFreakouts isn't even representative of Reddit. It's also not at all "pro BLM", based on the all-time top posts[1].
I'm also unclear why it matters whether this video is changing the minds of people who visit /r/ActualPublicFreakouts. I don't know what kind of person enjoys watching videos (mostly) of people in extreme distress, but I'm personally not interested in their collective opinion of law enforcement reform.
1. https://www.reddit.com/r/ActualPublicFreakouts/top/?t=all