There are plenty of dirty Black cops too. This should not be about skin colour. The Police in America are out of control They even attack press and tv journalists with impunity.

There are some Dirty Hard criminals out there, we cant be policed by the Salvation army FFS!

I know who i want protecting me and my family.

as i tried to say earlier, why is is only the u.s we are exercised about? the fact that many u.s. cities are horribly violent, nobody will deny. and i suggested that plod has become demoralised and occasionally these nasty events happen, often because people resist arrest because of draconian u.s. law about repeat offending. note, im not defending what happened, just pointing out the hypocrisy involved

and if the plod in the u.s. is 'out of control' the police in majority black nations are more so, given the appalling numbers of people killed by plod in jamaica, and many other windies states. ive never heard any complaint from anyone about this

and please dont give me the flannel about black people congregating for their own safety. the 'black flight' from places like chicago is well known.

as for plod'attacking press and tv' have you seen what goes on in russia? or china? but there will be no marches about this. if you want to complain about state brutality toward its own, the u.s. is a long way down the list.

sorry 80 had been " charged " over 12 years and 35% found guilty.

Homicide by other black men.   Go figure!

thats not it. this is a very bad example of plod behaving badly. my point was that it happens all the time elsewhere and nobody gives a flying witches fart about 'black lives' when black men kill their own, as they do in huge numbers in the u.s. and by plod in other places where the police are almost all black.

I do not shed a tear for a man who pushed a gun into a woman's stomach. I do feel sorry for all those mothers who worry every day if their sons and now even their daughters will come home safely. At the same token I feel outrage that a policeman and his colleagues could kill anyone like this and would have got off with it if it had not been filmed.

America has huge problems. it is not about black people. They have their own problems.

https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1268575677286154246

Unreal cop gropes her breasts,then lets her go hopeing she doesn't stands still then three other cops run over and beat the sh1t out of her and hand on head again,absolute vermin..

"pandemic of racism"

Corona mutated into racism

Yes and no elis.

They had been working for months but unfortunately under the supervision of Chauvin. They were probably under probation prior and then maybe off probation and in their first technical full week. It was not their first week on the job.

Any sympathy for them comes in the fact that he was their role model and reporting officer. Can you imagine working in lets say an office and some older geezer gets up on the top rung of a step ladder stretches on tiptoe to get a file or asks a young person to do it. Would you tell the senior man to stop immediately because he is not only braking health and safety law but risking serious injury? Not a great example perhaps but how do you tell a murderous thug who is your boss with 18 odd complaints for use of excessive force and has been involved in death of suspects to get the fcuk off his neck?

I hope the two junior officer do get convicted. I am not sure about how they get punished. The other officer was also some sort of sadist. He was a senior man with plenty of complaints against him for violence too. I would not expect much leniency for him. Chauvin I believe should be charged with murder in the first degree. He knee he was squeezing the life out of Floyd.

i havent really followed this case , but i think ive heard that he pulled a gun on a woman?, now  forget about his death for a moment, and just think of the former, if that was done here, everyone would be saying absolute filth, id be 1st to tie the noose etc etc, deserves all he gets, and weve all said this about loads of  offenders  on this forum, now nearly 90% of this country is paying homage to this guy.

not paying homage to him elis.

The issue is an out of control militarised Police Force. How different are they from the Chinese? Tear gassing peaceful protesters?

There are plenty of white people joining the protests. it is not a black and white issue. There is a lot of injustice in America and poverty. Did you see the old white guy get thrown to the ground by a pig this morning? The rest of the pigs walked over him and claimed he tripped over his own feet? Do we want to see that sort of behaviour?

One of them a fresh rookie and supposed to over rule a 20 year veteran.

two of the officers had only been working a few months. Hard to overrule a thug who is in charge of you. I have to agree but they said nothing, they were part of it. The other cop was more experienced and should have know better and had the authority to do something. Black people get shot and killed in America just for looking like someone who is wanted.

DIDNT HAPPEN... NUTCASE.

Listen people please dont bombard me with abuse

NUTCASE

One of the suggested to Chauvin that Floyd be rolled on his side. Chauvin disagreed. I just can't see this guy being given 40 years

Don't disagree with that. Not sure myself how you deal with people involved.

i know what you mean whispering, and i didnt mean that you were paying homage to him personally, but it does annoy me when all this stars etc come out etc, and we hardly here a whimper about all these shocking stabbings that occur in this country,

Whisperingdeath

Thrown to the floor??  That's just not true is it?

or shall we just move on? forget that one?