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Heartstrings

(7,349 posts)
Wed May 27, 2020, 12:23 PM May 2020

From a friend in Minneapolis....


True evil walks this Earth in human form. A man made a decision to kill another man begging, pleading for his life. I personally don't want that man walking free. I don't want that man under house arrest. I want that man behind bars for the rest of his miserable, horrible, pathetic life. I want that man further than gone. That man "tried" to incarcerate a man for lesser crimes and killed him with no mercy. We see the true criminal. Don't let the real criminal walk free.

I personally won't be able to trust any criminal justice system around here if he even SORT OF walks free. I'm disgusted. I'm heartbroken for any victims of this type of unwarranted police brutality. I'm sick to my stomach of humanity.

Police officers are supposed to protect and defend not be the ones anyone of ANY COLOR SKIN should fear. I don't want to live in a world where someone has to fear if they're going to die for being pulled over because they were racially profiled or for walking down the street. Or fear being killed by police for writing a bad check!

The officer's job was to detain and bring him in. He and the rest of the MPD failed.

The MPD failed everyone in that moment. You stand as a department and hold each other accountable. Four officers and none of them did anything to stop it. You are supposed to stand for justice and instead you all stood for the very thing you're supposed to defend and protect the public from.

George Floyd, I'll never forget your name and what happened to you. I pray for you and your family. Rest in Peace.

We as a community should be furious. We as human beings should demand justice for this horrific crime. We as people of this great state of Minnesota and citizens of the United States have the power to create change and set a standard for what happens when the scales are not balanced.

Please remember that power is given. We as citizens give power to the police and all authorities by obeying them. This system will only work if the police and all other authorities follow the standards that are set for them by us, the people. We have the ability to stop recognizing that power if they continue to fail us.

We demand a higher standard or we will no longer recognize the power given to you by yours truly.

Your move.

#justiceforGeorgeFloyd #BlackLivesMatter #higherstandards #citizenshippower #AllPowerToThePeople
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From a friend in Minneapolis.... (Original Post) Heartstrings May 2020 OP
This is only going to get Wellstone ruled May 2020 #1
I've been trying to find that photo.... Heartstrings May 2020 #2
Posted about two hours ago on this board. Wellstone ruled May 2020 #5
Found it in another op! Heartstrings May 2020 #4
If coworkers, the department and safeinOhio May 2020 #3
EVERY American tazmaniac May 2020 #6
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
1. This is only going to get
Wed May 27, 2020, 01:06 PM
May 2020

uglier by the hour. As the Video's circulate,the fuel of anger is gathering and is it going to be the Guy from the Police Union who throws the Match?

Just the photo of Cops for Trump stirs action in many a neighborhood.

safeinOhio

(32,673 posts)
3. If coworkers, the department and
Wed May 27, 2020, 01:58 PM
May 2020

DAs didn’t cover for them, it would not happen. That is why cops suck. Not just the bad actors, all of them.

tazmaniac

(114 posts)
6. EVERY American
Wed May 27, 2020, 03:30 PM
May 2020

should be so outraged at what happened to Mr Floyd!! All the police involved should have been arrested immediately-if their transgression was obvious enough to get them fired immediately it certainly was obvious enough to arrest them immediately too!!

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