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As if this wasn’t bad enough already... theguardian.com/us-news/2020/m…
This is the main officer seen in the video with his knee on #GeorgeFloyd’s neck for NINE minutes:
And this is the second officer visible in the video:
And this news cycle is very bad news for Amy Klobuchar’s veep prospects, despite the statement she quickly put out.
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Remarkable info coming out of this presser: Gov. Tim Walls, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter and now MN attorney general Keith Ellison ALL alleging outside forces, domestic and possibly foreign, have post-Tuesday infiltrated the state, and are
in organized fashion setting fire to historic businesses in communities of color, and causing mayhem. Ellison cited the widely circulating video of a white man in a gas mask holding an umbrella who was caught by protestors on video breaking windows.
And the governor says he has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, and fully mobilized the MN National Guard for the first time in 164 years. This is a continuing story and presumably we will begin hearing it echoed in other cities.
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When Donald Trump said “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” know that he was quoting notorious Miami police chief Walter Headley, the Bull Connor of Florida, who violently put down civil rights protests in the 1960s. He knows what he’s doing.
More about that here: nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
And his obit, which points out Headley was the original Mr “Stop and Frisk.”
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This new video of the killing of George Floyd is more damning than the first. Nothing that has emerged has shown what Mr. Floyd supposedly did to cause a grown man to put his body weight on his neck. Prosecutors should provide further explantion for the lack of arrests.
This case is as inexplicable as the shooting of Breonna Taylor, whose home police burst into after midnight and fired off multiple shots. As inexplicable as the chasing down and shooting of Ahmad Arbery by armed men. These deaths are all inexplicable; two of them on tape.
The accumulation of anger, frustration, grief and helplessness is why this country is erupting tonight. What I’m seeing and hearing in Minneapolis and New York and from everyone I know is that Black Lives Matter is merging with a blunt and emphatic demand: Stop Killing Us.
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