My Ride into South Minneapolis This Morning

[cmg]

Failure of training. It's not about how to overpower someone.

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by cmg

Failure of training. It's not about how to overpower someone.

Disagree..it's about power and control and total lack of compassion for this hand cuffed guy..I'll bet this isn't the first instance of police brutality by these cops..ah, it's not...

The former Minneapolis police officer seen in a video with his knee on George Floyd's neck had 18 prior complaints filed against him with the Minneapolis Police Department's Internal Affairs, according to the police department.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/28/us/mi...oyd/index.html

[OtayBW]

Originally Posted by cmg

Failure of training. It's not about how to overpower someone.

Isn't this a repeat condition?

[R3awak3n]

Originally Posted by oldpotatoe

Disagree..it's about power and control and total lack of compassion for this hand cuffed guy..I'll bet this isn't the first instance of police brutality by these cops..ah, it's not...


https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/28/us/mi...oyd/index.html

A truer and more accurate thing has never been said.

When there are know problems with someone/a group of people, and nothing is done about it for years then it is not surprising that what happened did indeed happen.

[OtayBW]

Originally Posted by trener1

I am absolutely NOT shocked.
I have been living in a big city all of my life I have seen up close and personal how police behave.
The bad apples argument is B---S! this culture starts at the top and works it's way down to the beat cop.
And if my post offends anyone sorry, but NOT sorry.

I'm really not sure what you're referring to, but I assume that you think you know/knew exactly what I was thinking in my post. So, good luck with that...

[trener1]

I thought that you were shocked that a cop would brutally murder someone in cold blood in broad daylight.

If I misunderstood you then I stand corrected.

[cinema]

mourning for americas most bike friendly city. thanks for the images. stay safe

[Gsinill]

The same folks that claim they need guns to defend themselves from the government have no issue with the lack of any checks and balances on the microlevel (LEOs) until it involves what many consider murder.

"Yes sir, no sir, 3 bags full sir" knowing that you lose 100% of the time challenging a PO.

Freest country in the world

[mcteague]

White guys with guns protest stay at home orders and the cops just stand there. Wonder what would happen if black protestors also exercised those 2nd amendment rights? Think the police would act the same?

Tim

[benb]

I'd have been shaking my feet out of the clipless pedals on this ride, but maybe I wouldn't if it was my hometown and I was familiar with the area.

This whole thing is crazy. What blows my mind is how small the transgressions are that lead to these police actions combined with the way they think they have total immunity even when there is a crowd of people shooting videos of the interactions. We've had pervasive smartphones with video capabilities 10 years now and yet there still seem to be people who are oblivious to the fact that any bad act they take part in on a city street is going to get recorded.

The main officer involved had more on his record.. 18 complaints but also involvement in 3 other shootings, one of which was fatal. The fatal one there were a whole bunch of officers shooting and the suspect was shooting back so that's a different story, but he'd done things like respond to a domestic disturbance and shoot one of the partners before.

[NHAero]

I wondered the same when I saw the images of the protesters with long guns inside the Michigan State Capitol building.

Originally Posted by mcteague

White guys with guns protest stay at home orders and the cops just stand there. Wonder what would happen if black protestors also exercised those 2nd amendment rights? Think the police would act the same?

Tim

[Jaybee]

Originally Posted by cmg

Failure of training. It's not about how to overpower someone.

Failure of humanity and empathy.

[charliedid]

Originally Posted by cinema

mourning for americas most bike friendly city. thanks for the images. stay safe

I know you didn't mean to be but talking about bikes in this context seems a bit inconsiderate. This has nothing to do with bikes.

Context is everything.

[mistermo]

Originally Posted by mcteague

White guys with guns protest stay at home orders and the cops just stand there. Wonder what would happen if black protestors also exercised those 2nd amendment rights? Think the police would act the same?

Tim

They did. Yesterday.

[ColonelJLloyd]

Thanks for sharing, onekgguy.