Please. The battle line on the Civil Rights Act was not R vs D. It was between legislators from, or outside of states that were part of the historical Confederacy.
All of that might mitigate things somewhat, but generally one takes one’s victim as he finds him, vulnerabilities and all. Even racism is not the issue here. The real issue is whether the officer’s action in keeping Floyd down with a knee on his neck was justified or not. Right now, it’s hard to think so. But we’ll see as the evidence is further examined.
How does any of that justify murder?
Perhaps. Its hard not to find intent when you can’t find the victim’s pulse but continue to apply pressure to his neck. No evidence of premeditation has been made public (and seems unlikely to exist), but there seems to be support for a killing that was not merely accidental or incidental.
You know, I saw a picture of the involved police and it looks like they are 4 distinct ethnic backgrounds which surprised me with all that has happened.
Even if he had preexisting health problems, no way was his death unrelated to what the police did to him.
What relevance does any of this have? If you think that the races of the cops involved or the race of the wife of any of the cops has any bearing on whether or not this was a racist killing, then I can’t help you.
I don’t know.
That’s not true. Justice Brennan tried to rule that any law which determined an offense according to race violated equal protection, but that view was never adopted. In Loving v. VA, a couple’s interracial marriage subjected them to a felony criminal charge. That was 53 years ago.
I think this story is about bad police methods, not racism.
Please stop with this inaccuracy. Republicans did not lead the civil rights movement. The biggest difference was between progressives and conservatives and Southerners vs. Northern congressmen. There was no Southern Republican opposition to civil rights because there were no Southern Republican congressmen then. It changed very quickly. The civil rights movement was led by Northern Democrats and progressive Republicans. We all recall Jimmy Carter stating in 1971 that the time for racial discrimination was over, while Reagan started out in politics opposing open housing and went on the oppose the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
No. The lawyers say: “You take your victim as you find him.”
Eisenhower, at least, played a pretty significant role. He may not have been the most eager champion, but i’d say what happened in the 1960s is directly related to Eisenhower essentially accepting after Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that the Federal government had a significant role in race relations, and in particular in enforcing desegregation.
Actually Eisenhower was tepid on Civil Rights and disagreed with the Brown decision. Yes, he sent federal troops to Little Rock but Faubus had forced him to act.