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wildskater96 t1_itn407x wrote

Reply to comment by helloisforhorses in Former officer in Floyd killing pleads guilty to state charge by the-dasdardly-puppet

I live about 20 minutes from where Floyd was murdered. There were definitely people defending Chauvin and saying Floyd deserved to die. The area he was killed is known to be "ghetto" so the "well he's a criminal who cares if he dies while breaking the law" crowd were very vocal around here. Almost as much as I heard outrage over Floyd being killed.

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sennbat t1_itn6tqo wrote

Its interesting what their criteria are that make someone a "criminal" and their death unimportant, and how little it has to do with whether the person in question committed any crimes. (They adore many people who have committed crimes, they just dont see those people as criminals....)

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wildskater96 t1_itn8rm0 wrote

Absolutely! These are likely the same people that cheered on DeSantis and flying "illegals" to Martha's Vineyard just being cruel human beings they are.

We are supposed to be better than what happened to Floyd. We are supposed to have higher standards than the "criminals". And we're not supposed to stand for being cruel to others even if they are abominations of life. Looking at you GOP. They are much more criminal than Floyd ever was if you ask me.

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helloisforhorses t1_itn4q58 wrote

I could certainly be recalling it through rose tinted glasses, but I’m in uptown and both in person and online my recollection at least through the end of summer was that all but the most vocal racists were in agreement that floyd was murdered. Then fox news starting worming into people’s brains to make them forget what they saw

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Chief_Givesnofucks t1_itn82ru wrote

Nah, he’s right. There was plenty of sentiment that either we, the public, are missing something that happened before the camera starting rolling or it was accidental or that if it was on purpose he had it coming. And the Thin Blue Line movement grew leaps and bounds that day.

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wildskater96 t1_itn7y74 wrote

Hey that's a fair assessment. I didn't mean to sound like you weren't in tune with the situation. I probably got the opposite memories as you due to a couple things.

  1. I was essential through COVID so I continued to work around people, and of course got to hear people's views about COVID and then Floyd since it happened right about the time COVID shutdowns started to happen here

  2. I work in construction and most people I've dealt with over the past 4-5 years praise Trump to the point I want to vomit

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helloisforhorses t1_itn8fel wrote

Fair enough, we could have just had our fingers on different pulses.

I was basing it on my conservative family seemingly agreeing it was awful in June but then changing tune by september.

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CuzTyler t1_ito53fc wrote

We had a lot of chuckle fucks up in Blaine who were defending the police.

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baldobilly t1_itweh12 wrote

The most outrageous thing is that the police department rigged the initial autopsy report to try to blame Floyd for getting murdered... .

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