George Floyd: The Big Lie
Taki´s Magazine,
by
Jim Goad
Original Article
Posted By: zephyrgirl,
8/10/2020 7:33:06 AM
Since that whole “George Floyd” thing happened in late May, the end of this month will officially mark one full season of nationwide (and, even worldwide) rioting to protest the perceived racial injustices of this Noble Blackman’s unfortunate passing. We were led to believe right out of the gate that racist white cops hunted down and seized this chocolate-tinted gentle giant for no other reason than the color of his skin, slammed him to the ground, and then knelt on his neck long enough to asphyxiate him despite his repeated pleas that he couldn’t breathe.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MattMusson 8/10/2020 7:38:52 AM (No. 504963)
The first casualty in War is the Truth.
No one cares what Floyd did. The only thing that matters is the picture with the knee.
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A reasoned, calm discussion of the incident with George Floyd.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 8/10/2020 8:06:05 AM (No. 504986)
Everyone on this forum has known about The Big Lie for months.
Unfortunately - - the elites - - our betters - - who are way more sophisticated and way smarter than we are - - haven't caught up yet. And they probably never will - - because they don't want to.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Clinger 8/10/2020 8:12:41 AM (No. 504991)
I said that nothing I didn't know that might come out would make me think that it was ok for St. George to die under Chauvin's knee held down for several minutes after he was restrained and no longer resisting. I'm not counting all 8 min 46 sec or whatever it was but at some point he stopped all motion. Furthermore I say no urgency when it was obvious Floyd wasn't alright.
What I will accept as a change based on the whole video is how fine a line I imposed on the officers in my judgement of what is right. I still think Chauvin went too far, I do see why the I can't breath words meant nothing. This isn't a case where the police did everything well and someone died in their custody anyway but this is far from the narrative of a racist execution.
I still see the larger point that by leveraging high profile cases to make the argument for systemic police violence where the victims are stoned felons who were resisting arrest they inadvertently prove the exact opposite. You can't fine one case where the victim is a decent person, not one? What's that tell you?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/10/2020 8:39:06 AM (No. 505007)
It's hard to believe Floyd was even still alive after hooping on the fentanyl let alone have heroin and meth in his system at the same time. And shame on that Minnesota AG who concealed the body cam footage so he could push his narrative that the police officers choked Floyd to death. And shame on the msm for bloodying the country with its false narrative. And shame on the dims for going along with it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 8/10/2020 9:03:37 AM (No. 505039)
On the other side Floyd's death did make Pelosi and democrats look stupid taking a knee wearing colorful African garb towels to show solidarity with blacks to keep their votes.
George Floyd killed George Floyd how he did it is another story. The cops were dumb and unprofessional.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Catfur27 8/10/2020 9:06:14 AM (No. 505040)
...its like the Rodney King scam....the media only showed the part where "poor inocent Rodney" got beat up.....they did NOT show the whole picture....where prior to being pinned down he was acting like a a raging animal ....
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
lakerman1 8/10/2020 9:10:31 AM (No. 505046)
If there is a legal obligation for the police to administer Narcan or some other medication to treat an overdose person in custody, then one mistake was made. Do we know if the police had Narcan?
Everything else was done according to police procedure.
Keith X. Ellison will not get murder convictions. He has said that. He blames that on 'smart lawyers.'
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
BillW. 8/10/2020 9:12:45 AM (No. 505051)
No matter. Floyd's suicide by cop worked like a charm, for using it, the left "never let a crisis go to waste."
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 8/10/2020 9:30:43 AM (No. 505077)
The mob was ready to go with the next cop-involved death. If it wasn't Floyd, it would have been somebody else, or some other incident.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/10/2020 9:49:06 AM (No. 505096)
Except for getting Keung’s and Lane’s ethnicities reversed (Keung is half black; Lane is white) this was a very good explanation of what really happened. It is interesting to note that that grandstanding faker Michael Baden can come in over the top and cause an amendment to a medical examiner’s report. We know that Baden didn’t even do a physical autopsy of George Floyd.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Laotzu 8/10/2020 10:23:29 AM (No. 505145)
I have always wondered how somebody who can't breath can say, "I can't breath."
Isn't that what the whole choking education program was about -- we need to be aware of people at our dinner table pointing at their throats because they can't talk because THEY CAN"T BREATH?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mc squared 8/10/2020 10:59:06 AM (No. 505212)
How many BLM protestors know anything about Floyd's arrest and death other than his name and 'he dint do nuffin'? It was just the spark needed for the Commiecrats to pillage and burn in an election year.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 8/10/2020 11:03:57 AM (No. 505218)
I am disappointed the author didn't elaborate that the steps Derek Chauvin took by putting pressure on his neck was to stabilize him. I read another article about this and it stated that when someone is on drugs like this, that person could suffer a massive heart attack without restraint. Police officers sometimes have to use that procedure to stabilize the person.
When my mom had her first chemo appointment for brain cancer, she went into massive seizures. Previously, she had radioactive seeds implanted as another way to fight the cancer. Her oncologist hadn't experienced anything like it and thought maybe the radioactive seeds weakened her brain and allowed the chemo to seep in. The reason I am bringing this up is because they had to put her in a coma to stop the seizures. At the time, I thought to myself "you have to put her in a coma to stop her seizures?" It didn't make sense but it worked. Sometimes medical procedures have to be used that don't seem quite right.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
qr4j 8/10/2020 11:04:41 AM (No. 505221)
Gentle giant, my pa-toot!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 8/10/2020 11:32:57 AM (No. 505257)
Another one of Ben Crump's race-baiting Big Lies. Ben Crump was the person who caused a non-controversial self-defense shooting in central Florida to turn into a fraudulent media circus, trying to hang George Zimmerman, who did nothing wrong at all.
And now, Ben Crump has created a new Big Lie. George Floyd died of a drug overdose, with a heart attack adding to his problems, while the police were trying to arrest him. Those LDotters who have been reading the articles posted here have known the truth for 5 or 6 weeks, or maybe longer.
The officers did nothing wrong at all, and had no impact on Floyd's death. If they ambulance they called for him had arrived 10 minutes sooner, Floyd would likely still have died from his drug overdose and heart attack and his Excited Delirium event, but the officers would have probably been off the hook.
Ben Crump is pure evil.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 8/10/2020 12:20:47 PM (No. 505319)
If you resist arrest the consequences are on you. I don;t like police brutality but if you resist arrest, it's on you.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
felixcat 8/10/2020 1:00:27 PM (No. 505369)
Well, let's hope that Heather MacDonald apologizes for early on agreeing with the mob that Chauvin murdered Floyd. Really disappointed she caved into the Left's narrative so quickly. Same for Mark Levin on his radio show blasting Chauvin and fellow ex-cops. Both should have just said the limited video we have so far doesn't look good but let's not jump to any conclusions.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Annie Xango 8/10/2020 2:40:45 PM (No. 505495)
#18 Hannity jumped all over that too...giving his bona fides as a martial artist that they killed him by putting the knee on his neck...don't know if he has backed off on that now or not..??
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
stablemoney 8/10/2020 3:15:42 PM (No. 505534)
I do not allow the media to lead me to believe anything.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 8/10/2020 9:05:09 PM (No. 505772)
The article gives a good summary of the truthful events but leaves out the critical issue of police experience with people in a similar condition. People on these types of drugs are DANGEROUS. They are paranoid, confused, aggressive, unpredictable, and can have insane levels of strength. The average person might just walk away from the weird person or try to help them. The police are tasked with a job; to protect the public and apprehend criminals. Floyd has to be dealt with and that meant he had to be arrested. He could have exploded into violence at any moment and the officers were VERY aware of that. He was uncooperative and that made restraining him and controlling him dangerous. They showed an amazing amount of restraint and called for medical assistance but there is little else they could do for him. They applied a reasonably gentle and LEGAL restraint to keep him from getting up. It may have looked bad but was not and was entirely justified by his behavior.
Most people do NOT realize the danger. They wouldn't want people they know treated like this but the people they know probably wouldn't overdose on fentanyl either and the police wouldn't HAVE to go to such extremes. A typical person would probably run away from such a situation. We have the police to act in our stead and face the situation for us. We don't want to see the ugliness that some people bring to society. Floyd was a person who brought such ugliness and we WANT AND NEED the police to deal with it. It isn't always pretty but it is necessary. We need to respect that the overwhelming majority of the time, police behave well within their training and reasonable expectations for the situation. We need to be careful about second guessing them because we are willfully clueless about the nature of the things they have to confront for us.
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