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CU Medallion [60535]
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I find a lot of issues
May 25, 2021, 1:59 PM
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With making Floyd a hero. The guy was laced up on Fentanyl. The cop was as dirty as dirty, but we are making a dope head into a hero. It’s somewhat sickening to me and the message it sends to the younger African American Community. Did he deserve to die, absolutely not. Did his life choices head him the direction of the cop, yes.
Again don’t call me an cop apologist or whatever. I just think having a Super Bowl parade, murals and White House visit for Floyd sends a really bad message to the drug ravaged communities.
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Orange Blooded [3006]
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So fentanyl is like PCP?***
May 25, 2021, 2:01 PM
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Heisman Winner [120948]
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Don't be obtuse.....***
May 25, 2021, 2:02 PM
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Was Floyd invited to the White House at some point?***
May 25, 2021, 2:02 PM
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All-In [26716]
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Obama had him over to shoot hoops
May 25, 2021, 2:08 PM
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And ask his opinion on Iran ...
Whether to send the pallets of money in $20s or $100s
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CU Medallion [60535]
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OK***
May 25, 2021, 2:44 PM
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Agree.***
May 25, 2021, 2:24 PM
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All-In [42763]
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You a fan of Jim Morrison's music?
May 25, 2021, 2:35 PM
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Or any band of the 70s? How about politicians who have been #### near worshipped, like Dubya and Trump? Booger sugar fans.
I get your point and I don't think he should be regarded as a hero. But he's not the first for America, and we've elevated many white folks who were dopeheads to hero status... whatever "hero" may mean, I guess.
How they gonna give him a White House visit?
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Re: You a fan of Jim Morrison's music?
May 25, 2021, 2:59 PM
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Which white folks went dopehead to hero?
Don't cite any Hollywood types - not buying into those people as heroes. No sports icons either.
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Soo...
May 25, 2021, 3:23 PM
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Name a white hero but it has to be within your parameters of what defines a hero?
Isn't that the problem with the OP? No one called George Floyd a hero.
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CU Medallion [60535]
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The optics and treatment of his
May 25, 2021, 3:27 PM
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“Legacy” as a victim. His family all standing around like he is a Medal of Honor winner. It’s just all too much.
Liberals are really bad with optics cause optics never fit a narrative. The narrative is all cops are bad and need new training and less lethal force…..ok, so so they parade around a family of a fentanyl laced drug addict (family, so Prod is happy) to prove their point. It’s absolutely absurd.
The optics are that taking drugs and fighting/resisting a cop are ok. You can get a second chance or fourth or fifth if you are laced on Fentanyl and resist arrest.
It’s the optics. Obama was the worst at optics. Liberals are terrible with optics because all they do is lead with emotion and pleasing the crowd.
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CU Medallion [60535]
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also, fentanyl, which is not permanently
May 25, 2021, 3:30 PM
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related to Floyd is killing people by the dozens. It’s being laced in cocaine and killing the poorest of the poor in SW MI, WV, Chicago, Austin and many other cities. No one gives a crap till a cop kills someone. It’s all about the narrative and optics. They do not care about you me or anyone. It’s all optics. They think they are doing good when they really are just pandering and making it all worse
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Re: also, fentanyl, which is not permanently
May 25, 2021, 3:32 PM
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And how many people die from the booze you and I throw down every weekend?
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CU Medallion [60535]
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That deflection. Start another thread with
May 25, 2021, 3:34 PM
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Prod about alcohol.
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No it's not...
May 25, 2021, 3:35 PM
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You're issue is over substance use when you do it, too. You just choose a different substance. We can discuss other issues with Floyd but the substance usage is irrelevant.
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CU Medallion [60535]
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You want to compare Fentanyl with
May 25, 2021, 3:37 PM
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alcohol or even marijuana or maybe even something like DMT.
There is no comparison. None. Look at Meth heads and Fentanyl dopes. It’s another level.
You need to get out of the house more.
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I can do just as much damage with the right amount of booze
May 25, 2021, 3:39 PM
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We can argue strength of the substance all we want, but given enough of it, that's irrelevant. Would you be saying the same thing if Floyd were drunk?
You've admitted on here to being drunk and breaking the law. So have I. The substance issue is irrelevant in this case and didn't contribute to the incident.
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Re: I can do just as much damage with the right amount of booze
May 25, 2021, 4:29 PM
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No you cannot. And you are showing ignorance around drunks and their effects. Just stop.
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Excuse me, sir...
May 26, 2021, 10:52 AM
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But I am a ####### EXPERT when it comes to my experience around drunks and their effects. If they gave out PhDs for it... I could pretend I was NC_Tiger.
My point is that any substance that can impair your judgment and actions is dangerous given the right amount. One is not more serious than the other.
Hell, if we really want to play this game, alcohol is more dangerous than weed.
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Orange Blooded [4356]
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Cata, have you actually watched the entire video?
May 26, 2021, 10:45 AM
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Not condoning the officers actions, but Floyd was a complete fukktard, and the police were excessively patient with him.
Gross error in judgement by the cop at the end? Of course. Dirty? Probably
Did Floyd’s actions and substance use exacerbate the situation and set the stage for his own death? Unequivocally yes
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Re: Cata, have you actually watched the entire video?
May 26, 2021, 10:49 AM
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Your admission of this:
Gross error in judgement by the cop at the end? Of course. Dirty? Probably
Eliminates this:
Did Floyd’s actions and substance use exacerbate the situation and set the stage for his own death? Unequivocally yes
We expect police to be a level above the suspects. Several levels, actually. I don't agree with making Floyd a hero figure, but nothing he did before--nothing--justifies what happened with the officer afterwards.
We have millions of officers around the nation who face similar situations every day and they bring the suspect in alive.
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It is both***
May 26, 2021, 10:58 AM
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And?***
May 26, 2021, 10:50 AM
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All-In [42763]
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You know what's also bad optics, though?
May 25, 2021, 3:31 PM
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Kneeling on a handcuffed guy's neck until he dies while he pleads for you not to kill him.
Get rid of those optics and you won't have to worry about the other ones.
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CU Medallion [60535]
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Did you not read my OP?***
May 25, 2021, 3:33 PM
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Yeah, you're missing the point.
May 25, 2021, 3:36 PM
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Your beef is with the "optics" and I get it, and I'm glad you recognize the wrongdoing of the officer. But that's the point. That's the only point. Eliminate these repeated wrong actions by the officers and there won't be any grandstanding like this at the White House.
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Re: I find a lot of issues
May 25, 2021, 2:48 PM
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I plan on showing my support by committing aggravated robbery today in the name of George Floyd. Anyone have a pregnant wife I can hold at gunpoint?
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Re: I find a lot of issues
May 25, 2021, 2:59 PM
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Did you see the WH got a large box of super-glue from Amazon delivered? You know why, right?
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Re: I find a lot of issues
May 25, 2021, 3:29 PM
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Did George Floyd bang your wife or something?
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CU Medallion [60535]
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No. I work almost DAILY
May 25, 2021, 3:33 PM
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at community centers and low income housing neighborhoods that will see this as a victory when it is sickening.
My “real job” suffers cause I spend more time at Mack and Bewick (worst area in Detroit) than you have ever spent at Boy Scouts. I see it and I live it. He is now a hero and it’s sickening
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Re: I find a lot of issues
May 25, 2021, 3:34 PM
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What would Jesus think? He’d Probly think a man had his life sadly snuffed out and that is a shame. He would probably be saddened for the family that lost a loved one. He would not care about his “record, or past drug use”. JC had no problem hangin with hookers drinks and hash heads and other members of society that were looked down on by some
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Re: I find a lot of issues
May 25, 2021, 3:51 PM
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Not white Jesus. White Jesus wears his best suit every Sunday, only uses the King James translation, votes republican, and unapologetically defends law enforcement.
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That was good...***
May 26, 2021, 1:46 PM
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Re: I find a lot of issues
May 25, 2021, 3:47 PM
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“We are unique in that we are the only people that fight and scream and demand support and justice from the people in our community that are up to no good. You would be hard-pressed to find a Jewish person that’s done five stints in prison, that commits a crime and dies while committing a crime and the Jewish people champion and demand justice for, the same can be said for white Americans and even Latinos.” -- Candace Owens
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I can see your point, however, the way I view it
May 25, 2021, 4:02 PM
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is that they are not so much propping him up as a hero, honoring anything he did, as so much as using him as a face of what can happen. I haven’t really heard anyone heroically describing his as a person so much as remembering him as an example of what can happen. It is a lot though, and gets tons of coverage, so I can understand being exhausted from the messaging.
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It's all political and a plot by Marxists to divide the
May 25, 2021, 5:23 PM
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people. They make it a black vs white issue instead of what it really is. (The government vs us.)
More whites are killed by police than blacks. A policeman walked scott-free after executing an unarmed white man on his knees. A police gang invaded a marine's home and shot him dead in the middle of the night. The media never talks about those though.
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