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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLest we forget.....This is how authorities initially reported the death of George Floyd
Link to tweet
leftieNanner
(14,997 posts)Except a man's knee and his evil intent.
I heard about this on NPR this afternoon.
Xavier Breath
(3,524 posts)peppertree
(21,529 posts)The only things we'd be able to see are "On Monday evening....a male believed to be in his 40s....he died a short time later."
MerryHolidays
(7,715 posts)peppertree
(21,529 posts)"Harm to ongoing matter," as Jabba-the-Barr liked to put it.
IcyPeas
(21,740 posts)jmowreader
(50,451 posts)A medical person (usually an MD) has to declare someone dead. When the cops haul in someone they killed, hes not dead yet until a doctor says he is.
wnylib
(21,146 posts)dead on arrival.
Chauvin would never have been held accountable if not for witnesses and the bystander video. Plus the marches and protests demanding justice.
MerryHolidays
(7,715 posts)I can barely see through the tears as I watch the family press conference....I cannot believe that this was what "law enforcement" could put out. But then, again, I guess I'm naive.
Thank the good lord for cell phone cameras.
Mr. Floyd: I hope today is the first day of the avenging of what happened to you. Hopefully, it will lead to many more changes. RIP, Sir.
Nevilledog
(50,676 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,849 posts)dalton99a
(81,065 posts)Nevilledog
(50,676 posts)ecstatic
(32,566 posts)for their "in-custody deaths." Just swap out the dates and address. I wonder why the hospital name isn't important? Too inconvenient or too transparent?
stillcool
(32,626 posts)if not for a girl with a cellphone.
Hekate
(90,189 posts)StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)distress. Officers called for an ambulance"... so what if they forgot to mention the 10+ minutes between the time they put him in handcuffs and they called for an ambulance and how and why he suddenly found himself "in medical distress."
And yet people still insist we give cops the benefit of the doubt and take at face value their claims that their victims were a threat and they had no choice but to kill them.
ProfessorGAC
(64,419 posts)...is why he was arrested in the first place.
A guy intentionally passing counterfeit bills waited around for the cops to show up?
Seems he could have been a VICTIM of counterfeiting, just like the store.
Simply getting his info so he could be questioned later would have been appropriate.
But, they make no effort to explain why he was arrested & cuffed.
They arrested a potential victim of a counterfeiter, handled him roughly, then let a senior officer kill him.
I guess trying to explain why an arrest was their first reaction would have screwed up the fantasy they wrote.
sop
(9,946 posts)agency, news organization, court, prosecutor or elected official.
FakeNoose
(32,346 posts)It's not always possible, but it's a godsend when the bystanders can do it.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)Anyone who wrote, edited, reviewed, approved and published that load of complete bullshit should be charged with obstruction of justice, fired from their positions, forfeit pensions and benefits and be barred from holding any law enforcement positions for the next 25 years.
Being party to the coverup is not quite as bad as Chauvin's callous murder...but in other ways it is far worse. That kind of bullshit description and cover-up must be exposed, those responsible for perpetuating it must be disciplined and there must be real pain in the accountability for it.
The thin-blue line MUST GO, and ALL who actively protect the guilty by smearing the truth or outright lying must be made a terrible example to scare the rest straight. Body cams and video are fine, but full accountability to the public-facing information teams is just as important.
RVN VET71
(2,686 posts)takes your breath away.
Its the typical approach to covering up police crimes against citizens.
But Chauvins jury was listening painfully and carefully to witness testimony and also noting the fact that Chauvin refused to testify. The evidence and testimony was just overwhelming. The jury (very diverse, I believe, with men and women, black and white) new Chauvin killed Floyd, killed him slowly, painfully, and with evident knowledge of the danger he was putting the helpless man in.
Personally, I expected him to be found guilty of manslaughter. I am both surprised and happy to find that they found him guilty on all counts.
betsuni
(25,128 posts)ecstatic
(32,566 posts)No cam? No possibility of justice.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,059 posts)While they didn't kill anyone, they guilty of attempting to cover up a murder.
wnylib
(21,146 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,670 posts)Serious crime there.
Outright lies.
Then...roll the video.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,535 posts)I could have sworn something happened between the arrivals of police and the ambulance.
people
(612 posts)How many thousands of dishonest and totally skewed police reports are there like this that underlie criminal convictions and guilty pleas? We will not ever know.
Jay25
(416 posts)WestIndianArchie
(386 posts)Whoever wrote this should be facing jail time too!
Demovictory9
(32,323 posts)peppertree
(21,529 posts)In the Apartheid era, after beating and torturing black victims to death, the report would often list the same cause of death over and over:
"Fell down stairs"
niyad
(112,434 posts)Coventina
(26,853 posts)progree
(10,864 posts)On the morning of May 26, 2020, Minnesota police spokesman John Elder sent a brief press release regarding a death that had occurred the prior evening.
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Two officers arrived and located the suspect, a male believed to be in his 40s, in his car, it continued. He was ordered to step from his car. After he got out, he physically resisted officers. Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress. Officers called for an ambulance. He was transported to Hennepin County Medical Center by ambulance where he died a short time later.
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Hours after that initial statement was released, bystander videos (including from then-17-year-old Darnella Frazier) and security footage from the scene of the incident began to circulate online, revealing crucial details omitted by the police departments original version of events.
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It is deeply concerning that the information initially circulated by the Minneapolis Police Department early Tuesday morning did not fully reflect the horrifying circumstances surrounding George Floyds death, Council Member Jeremy Schroeder said at the time. The original news release did not in my view accurately convey the facts or the role of the officers in this tragedy.
In an interview with the Star Tribune the night following Floyds death, Elder stated, We try very hard to get information out as quickly as possible that is wholly honest and correct. There is no way Im going to lie about a situation that is on body camera and is going to prove this department to be disingenuous.
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Also among the first prominent figures to speak out in response to the video of Floyds death was then-presidential candidate Joe Biden, who praised the firing of the officers involved and urged the FBI to investigate in a tweet posted on May 26, 2020.
George Floyd deserved better and his family deserves justice, Biden tweeted at the time. His life mattered.