I went to my 3rd BLM demonstration today.

[guillaumeb]

Hundreds of people, mainly students, from the Oak Lawn Il area.

At the end of the march, we all knelt for 8 minutes in tribute to Mr. Floyd. It was a very long, uncomfortable 8 minutes kneeling on the hot pavement.

But as I knelt there, all I thought about was how George Floyd was slowly killed by an out of control cop for 8 excruciatingly long minutes. I chose to kneel Floyd did not.

This was not a shooting, where the death arrives nearly instantly, this was a cold blooded killing perpetrated by a man who calmly knelt on another person's neck and ignored the pleas for mercy. Ignored the dying man calling out to his mother.
Denied Floyd's very right to life.


And this killer was watched, and protected, by 3 equally culpable cops.

Imagine taking 8 minutes to kill another person. 8 minutes of Chauvin calmly kneeling, hands in his pockets, as Floyd slowly died.

[uponit7771]

1. K&R, the other cops were not "rookies" they've been on the force for a year minimum

[stillcool]

2. really? That 4-days bit...

wasn't true? I got to go look. Thanks!

[guillaumeb]

3. And all of them are trained in their job.

And the law. Plus, they were being filmed.