These four cops have been railroaded.

Seems that at least three have, but it's feeding time at the zoo/safari.

My goodness, the man has a rap sheet and did time...

Cyni, I'm not making any judgments about what happened in the incident.

That being said, my "rap sheet" probably makes George look like a piker. I guess that's why the FWPD treats me with "extreme prejudice," and they probably should given my abilities.

For the record: I've been charged and convicted with operating a motor vehicle when intoxicated. Did less than 24 hours in lockup, paid the fines and court costs, did whatever alcohol classes, and that is my whole criminal history.

When my now-late retired step-dad from the FWPD came to get me, they wouldn't let him in due to the fact that his little "retired badge" was setting off their metal detectors. I guess I was 40-something at the time.

Once I was on the right side of the barricade, the dressing-down that Harold gave the cowardly desk sergeants was EPIC.

As I recall, that was during the early Clinton years. That's it.

Well... I've been arrested for multiple other "crimes." Did a night or so in lockup several times. No formal charges, no time. Ever.

Murder, attempted murder, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, refusing to cooperate with law enforcement, assault and battery, attempted suicide, money laundering, conspiracy to commit, etc. Never charged. Never did it.

The last time that I was in lockup, I ended up getting a pretty good dressing-down myself from an old employer wanting to know why I called in an "outsider" into the mix. I didn't do that either.

A client's step-daughter, that's a wannabe cop, saw my name on the internet and told Jay about it, he sent his wife down with the bail money and I ended up having to repay twice the spiff that a bondsman would've charged.

Hell, they were within a couple of hours of having to release me on my own recognizance, I was kinda having fun with the young, tattooed up punks. You'd have thought that I was Al Capone.

Had more respect from those young kids that I get in real life.

Ended up with 29 weeks of PeeCee/non-violence training. Gave me something to do on Thursdays or whenever it was. The leftys from the CNV were sure glad to get me out of their hair. I can think and follow rules to the extreme.

It's nothing but a game for me.

Throwing beer bottle away in an alley was a dastardly crime and cost me $20. I pled guilty as sin.

Two vehicular arrests. Speeding $40. Changing lanes too slowly $20.

Ashamed of all three.

My wife didn't divorce me when I shot a man in the face who was trying to rob me, only after some old gal who was texting her grand kids while driving that couldn't wait for five minutes that damn near killed me.

MDs told Teri that I wasn't expected to live, and if I was unfortunate enough to do so, that I'd never walk again.

I'm still here, and able to walk, most days. I can even wipe my own butt.

(Edit) I'll never be ashamed of anything that I've done in my life. Survivor guilt? Sure. That's between me and the Creator.

(Edit2) Ashamed of all three.

I've only got one to be ashamed of. A DUI that my retired step-dad cop had to come get me. He never scolded me for my indiscretion, as a matter-of-fact, he drove my work truck for me when I wasn't allowed to.

The report he got was that I had committed "2 counts of assault on a police officer with a deadly weapon." which was a bogus charge to begin with, was immediately tossed at trial, yet what runs through a cops head when he sees this sort of information on his cop car computer ? The claim made in the original arrest was the over charging of offenses that cops typically do in order to get a plea deal out of the person charged.

So, what I'm trying to point out is that there's a chance that anyone getting stopped by a cop can be brutalized or treated like a murderer based upon an unfounded charge, that wasn't even tried by a court let alone a conviction rendered.

Floyd was known personally and via criminal record by the cop. There is a list of what coroner found in blood of Floyd.

I have read those comments and think I saw a record of prior offenses that included the use of a deadly weapon. The charges and convictions that I viewed were all 10 years old (if I recall correctly).

Then the autopsy report indicated hypertension, recent use of amphetamines and cocaine and etc. It also is alleged that he resisted getting into the cop car.

None of the above puts a kill order on the guy even if he's a dirt bag. The bottom line in my opinion is that these instantaneous outbreaks of random law breaking and vandalism, beat ups, and shootings without considering "all" of the facts, other than the man was black reduces the justice system to an inconvenience.

When innocent people are attacked at random by a mob of malcontents the 2nd Amendment needs to be employed immediately. More often than not these people that are treated forcibly by the police have criminal records, are belligerent, and usually a physical threat to the cops. This situation is amplified when the person being arrested is whacked out on some drugs or alcohol.

I know from personal experiences that cops can be unnecessarily brutal to people they are arresting. At the same time I can understand their mental frame of mind when dealing with riff raff every day and wishing to go home at the end of shift to be with their family.

A very volatile condition exists.

This situation is amplified when the person being arrested is whacked out on some drugs or alcohol.

We found that to be the case when working concerts in Chicago.

We all carried handcuffs and we used them. ;)

the police will not play nice forever

James R. Thompson was the federal attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. This included Chicago.

He cleaned up most of the corruption in the Chicago P.D. His reward was serving four terms as Governor of Illinois.

They even named the new State of Illinois Building after him.

That building was a monstrosity with southwest facing glass. It overheated in summer and was hard to heat in winter, since it had a huge open area above the lobby that extended all the way to the top floor. ;)

One way gliberals (e.g. those peopling the 'mainstream' media) weaponize their chosen Big Crises is hacking all context away from them. The context here is that blax are always out of control with crime in cities, so -- considering -- this affair on its own steam is routine and forgettable.

If blax want respect they need to earn it. Meanwhile they can't expect the world to stop every time one of their lowlife criminals gets a little frontier justice.

These mobs are yet again taking part in a mass terrorist action on the nonblack races as they have since at least the 1960s. If anything Chauvin and company are just giving them a taste of their own medicine. The Floyd affair isn't the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing for crying out loud! Same on Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin and so on down the line.

If blax want respect they need to earn it.

They were complaining that after eight years of Obama as POTUS they were no better off.

The one thing we have found to be the most helpful in life is to pick yourself up by your own bootstraps.

That takes some real effort. And from what I know about many blacks, effort is non-existent for the most part due to drugs and alcohol.

One black guy I worked with knocked up his girlfriend. We asked if he was going to get married? He said, "She just wans what she's got coming."

We shamed him into marrying her. I would imagine the child is now grown up. I do not recall if it was boy or girl. ;)

here's texas monthly (a leftist magazine) telling us about george's houston years ~

www.texasmonthly.com/news...d7313-88a1b88aae-53250099

www.texasmonthly.com/news...d7313-88a1b88aae-53250099

I quickly read thru that article.

George Floyd was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He has paid the price that many others have paid. :-/

I wasn't on the scene yet I think even a resisting subject that has been cuffed can not be executed. The rush to judgment is more probable with so many smart phone video available even though much of Floyd's arrest wasn't shown, at least before the riots started. When the protests begin to turn into a riot the pleasantness and pampering end immediately.

Ethnicity is irrelevant when protests turned into riots threaten lives and property. The intelligence level or age of the perpetrators of chaos is irrelevant as well. Many parents of youth that have involved themselves in the rioting should know that as this scenario plays out they may be making funeral arrangements for their offspring.

blax are always out of control with crime in cities,

I knew a black guy in Chicago who was dealing coke. He would smoke weed when making deliveries.

One time he got pulled over on a traffic stop. All the cop needed was to smell the weed. He got him out of the car, searched it and found the bags of coke. I think they sent him back to the joint. But that was many years ago. ;)

To some degree the article was more honest than others that have ignored his past completely.

At the LEGAL TRIAL afforded the cop. HIS PAST HISTORY WILL BE FRONT AND CENTER AND ALL OF IT IN OFFICIAL RECORDS.

Citizens are awash in violent indignation, burning, looting, terrorizing the entire country.

Anyone with a modicum of racial awareness, would question, if the colors were reversed, would we be here debating?

The answer is NO, the country would not be burning down.

I know from personal experiences that cops can be unnecessarily brutal to people they are arresting.

Indeed....

Question, reverse the colors, would the country be burning down????

If NO, why is that the case???

A nignog smoking weed while making deliveries 8 hours a day.

I doubt he was making deliveries 8 hours a day. He usually went out when he had 5 or 6 stops to make. I do not think he did that every day. ;)

esp. multiplying that by how many hundred or thousand.

I am not sure how much he was going thru every week. Maybe a key. Just not sure. He had the connect for certain. ;)