Minneapolis ex-officer who knelt on George Floyd's neck is in custody and faces a murder charge

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When I say “racist” I’m talking about people who consciously embrace and defend them.
Huge numbers of people do that too. It’s actually fashionable nowadays to tout one’s hostility to white people or “the west” (same reference). It’s unpopular to have negative views of blacks or “Indios” (if they’re Spanish speaking) but it’s popular to be patronizing toward them.

The question isn’t whether one has biases or preconceived notions about others. The question is whether one actively wishes them harm or acts to do harm.
 
Huge numbers of people do that too. It’s actually fashionable nowadays to tout one’s hostility to white people or “the west” (same reference). It’s unpopular to have negative views of blacks or “Indios” (if they’re Spanish speaking) but it’s popular to be patronizing toward them.
I’m not sure how this is in tension with what i said. It’s certainly possible to be a racist against white people, and no claimed that racism is a phenomenon exclusive to white American conservatives.
 
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I never said you did. I only said that racism is practically pervasive. Some forms of it have been fashionable at different times. Other forms at other times.
 
Independent Autopsy says “asphyxiated”, so add that into the whole mix:


And I’m glad they did this. At a trial, they can have “expert witnesses”.
 
Anyone can be racist. No matter the race, sex, educational attainment, age, religion and so on.

However it’s one thing to think racist thoughts and admit to oneself that it’s wrong and another to put one’s knee on someone else’s neck until they’re dead.
 
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Most people defend their own prejudices though. The Trump supporters and Trump detractors are proof of that on here. Not sure this is unique or special about people with racial prejudices.

If I look down on you because you are a liberal, is that better than if I look down on you because you are white? I shouldn’t look down on you at all.
 
If I look down on you because you are a liberal, is that better than if I look down on you because you are white? I shouldn’t look down on you at all.
No, that is better. Ideas can be bad and reflect negatively on someone’s character, unlike physical features. Some ideas are so bad that they elicit justifiable shunning. Someone’s skin color is just a physical feature. They can’t control it and it has no bearing on their character, whereas someone being a Nazi (to take an extreme example) is a legitimate reason to look down on them.
 
However it’s one thing to think racist thoughts and admit to oneself that’s it’s wrong and another to put one’s knee on someone else’s neck until they’re dead.
We don’t know, of course, whether that was the cop’s motivation or not.
 
I only know of the Homeland Security officer killed. Was there more.

You might want to check your own, or your English, or something. You said, “those who get more upset about protests than the murder of a black man.” So based on your statement and the use of the indefinite article, it can only refer to the current protest and George Floyd."
 
Here are some racist things I have seen around here
I have been here a long time. I do not think I have ever seen one of those things said here.
Independent Autopsy says “asphyxiated”, so add that into the whole mix:
This might be a difference in definition. The new report describes the asphyxia, not as loss of breath, but loss of blood. Either way, the initial one and this one allow for the officer to be charged in his death. I do not know if the exact mechanism will be an issue.
 
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Well if someone says something racist I think it’s best to call them on it.
I have recently been accused of wanting to bring back segregation and believing that blacks are inferior because I posted something that went against the dominant narrative. You think that’s fair?
I didn’t see it either. That said, I seriously doubt that’s how things happened in that discussion.
 
No he’s pointing out how stupid the “My spouse/significant other/friend is a person of color, therefore I can’t be racist” defense is.
As a black person told me today when we discussed this. “Asian ain’t Black. Hispanic ain’t Black.” when talking about the 2 police officers that stood by and did nothing. “Maybe they feared Chauven as well”
Yes Chauven being married to a minority woman has nothing to bear on the topic of whether he’s a racist. Gotcha.
It is interesting that she has filed for divorce and immediately has asked to have her last name changed.
 
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Autopsy performed later by Dr. Baden, renowned pathologist, said otherwise.
 
It is usually more prudent to not suppose such as that until and unless you have the facts.
 
There are more factors that will be looked at, I heard about it briefly earlier, EMS may have trained the police in some aspects of how they treat someone in custody and also, apparently, there seems to be some time gap that is not on video… they may have put him in the cruiser but Floyd is 6’6" which is pretty tall, so they took him out of the cruiser as it was cramped… even the NY Times has an article on this.
 
Do you mean you have read every post, or you have seen every possible racist thing here?
 
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