@springyzone wrote:
Yes of course, police shouldn't be judge and jury or allowed to kill, but it can be a high risk occupation and when you put people into high paced, high stress situations, sometimes things happen, bad decisions are made on the spur of the moment.
I've known of cases here where people have threatened police with knives and been shot dead, then public opinion has been-why didn't they do this or that instead. I know Floyd wasn't doing that but he resisted arrest, which is a bit of a dicey thing to do.
We don't have to be okay with an outcome and I think police recruitment and training in USA could be a lot better, but that doesn't mean we have to promote Floyd into some sort of neutral victim. He was a thug, a pretty worthless thug. He didn't deserve to die that way but that still doesn't mean he is any loss to society. And why his family should get $35 million I do not know. It won't bring him back and I doubt they deserve that much.
We all know of people who have been killed unjustly in some way. Maybe hit by a drunk driver etc. What compensation do their families get? Precious little. I know in Floyd's case he was killed py a policeman but if that's worth $35mill, then what should a drunk driver killer be liable for? Surely it should be good for a million or so. But it is not, you rarely find the victims collecting anything like that.
well of course in some cases bad decisions happen in the spur of the moment
however in mr floyds case the cop was in no danger, had backup on scene.
backup who btw allowed mr floyd to be murdered right in front of them
no cop interviend to stop the 'bad' cop from killing him
that sends a message all cops are bad, not really a message the police want being the 'go to' way the public view the police
people should feel calling the police or cops will get proffessional men and women responding
not vigilantes who shoot first and ask questions later in the knowledge if they stuff up they are protected by the thin blue line from any punishment (unless its so bad it cant be fixed by a simple payout)
i watch a lot of USA police screw up videos and it seems to be they really dont fear any repercussions from bad policing
even if they get fired, they just join another station to carry on as before
the black lives matter movement
from the hundreds of bad police videos ive seen, its more often than not a black cop doing the bad things
im glad our police are usually better trained but even here its pretty obvious if your dark skinned you will get different treatment than us white folk
