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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsClip shows police telling Floyd to get up and into the car.
But they don't get off of him. How is he suppose to get up?
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Clip shows police telling Floyd to get up and into the car. (Original Post)
LiberalFighter
Mar 2021
OP
He's not. Cops routinely give conflicting or impossible-to-comply-with commands to justify
WhiskeyGrinder
Mar 2021
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Walleye
(30,935 posts)1. Police often give conflicting instructions.
Ive heard them do it. One says lay on the ground, the other says stand up. when people say just do what the police tell you to do, its sometimes impossible.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,304 posts)2. He's not. Cops routinely give conflicting or impossible-to-comply-with commands to justify
using force.
Aristus
(66,274 posts)3. "That's right, Captain: I ordered him into the car, and he didn't comply.
Yeah, okay, fine; my knee was pressed deeply into his neck. But come on, Captain! That's just details. It was a clean bust! Honest!"
Beachnutt
(7,267 posts)4. And when he was in the car all the way they kept saying get
in the car...
HE WAS IN THE DAMN CAR.
everyonematters
(3,432 posts)5. That was a bystander who was telling him that, not the cops.
He was the witness from this morning.