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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,388 posts)
Thu May 28, 2020, 04:30 PM May 2020

A murderer lives here': Graffiti outside the home of cop who knelt on George Floyd's neck

Protesters gathered outside the home of the white former police officer who was filmed pinning a black man to the ground by his neck before dying moments later in police custody.

Derek Chauvin, 44, knelt on George Floyd's neck for eight minutes during his arrest on Monday, despite the man begging him to stop and bystanders warning him he was 'killing' him.

People descended on his home Wednesday and scrawled the word 'Murderer' on his driveway, as protests over Floyd's death entered the second day in Minneapolis.

A sign was propped up at the end of his driveway reading 'People don't kill people, cops do' as calls mounted for the fired cop to face murder charges over Floyd's death. A murderer lives here': Protesters scrawl graffiti outside the home of white cop Derek Chauvin who knelt on George Floyd's neck for eight minutes until he passed out and later died.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/exclusive-a-murderer-lives-here-protesters-scrawl-graffiti-outside-the-home-of-white-cop-derek-chauvin-who-knelt-on-george-floyds-neck-for-eight-minutes-until-he-passed-out-and-later-died/ar-BB14Hcdb?li=BBnb7Kz

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A murderer lives here': Graffiti outside the home of cop who knelt on George Floyd's neck (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 OP
Good for the sign-maker! CaliforniaPeggy May 2020 #1
Which means that Igel May 2020 #2

CaliforniaPeggy

(156,969 posts)
1. Good for the sign-maker!
Thu May 28, 2020, 04:32 PM
May 2020

Whoever painted the sign was pulling no punches. Right on the money!

What that cop did was murder.

Igel

(37,613 posts)
2. Which means that
Thu May 28, 2020, 05:02 PM
May 2020

these 4 fine upstanding citizens are either all police or they're not people:

https://krocnews.com/4-men-involved-in-minneapolis-gang-war-sent-to-federal-prison/


Since they don't seem to be cops, it means that the graffiti artiste doesn't consider them to be fully human. Which was the same problem the police in Minneapolis seemed to have wrt Floyd.

We often become what we hate.

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