[ April 18, 2024 ]
We must address how a bad cops such as Derek Chauvin and Thomas Lane get to stay on the force despite a long record of violence and abuse. Lane was hired despite a criminal record.
Blaming all cops for the failures of Democrat mismanagement compounds the horror of the George Floyd’s death.
Virtually every official in Minnesota with influence over the Minneapolis police and the decision to keep Derek Chauvin on the force despite his alarming record is a Democrat: the governor, the attorney general, the Minneapolis congresswoman and the mayor. The city council consists of 12 Democrats and a Green Party member. The Democrat Party is the “system” that protected the bad cop and led to George Floyd’s death. (more here)
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Where are the hearings?
Chauvin, the officer involved in Floyd’s death, was involved in the death of another citizen while Amy Klobuchar was prosecutor. Chauvin was one of six officers who fired on and killed Wayne Reyes in 2006 after Reyes reportedly aimed a shotgun at police after stabbing his friend and girlfriend. While the death happened during Klobuchar’s tenure at the helm of the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, Klobuchar did not criminally charge other police involved in the more than two dozen officer-involved fatalities.
Where are the hearings?
Related: ‘Institutional racism’ among police: Let’s look at the numbers
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REVEALED: Minneapolis cop charged in George Floyd’s killing was hired despite having a criminal record with seven convictions and a slew of traffic violations
- Thomas Lane, 37, was convicted for criminal charges and traffic violations seven times before becoming a Minneapolis police officer
- They included obstructing legal process and one charge of damaging property
- He had also previously worked as a juvenile correctional officer and assistant probation officer
- Lane is now charged with aiding and abetting the murder of George Floyd during an arrest on Memorial Day
- He was a rookie cop who was on one of his first full-time shifts
- Lane held Floyd’s legs as senior officer Derek Chauvin was kneeling on his neck and Floyd said he couldn’t breathe
By Frances Mulraney For Dailymail.com, 6 June 2020
Thomas Lane, 37, is charged with aiding and abetting George Floyd’s murder. He had his own list of criminal and traffic convictions before joining the police force
One of the three former police officers charged with aiding and abetting the murder of George Floyd had a string of criminal offences and traffic violations before he became a cop.
Thomas Lane, 37, of St. Paul, was charged on Wednesday afternoon in relation to Floyd’s death, which happened when he was on his fourth full-time shift as a police officer.
Before he joined the force, Business Insider revealed that Lane had racked up a slew of traffic violations and became an officer despite having a criminal record.
Lane was convicted of seven charges in total, among them obstructing legal process and one charge of damaging property.
He had also worked a variety of jobs in the service industry before he was hired as a police officer.
Lane’s personnel file has been released by his former employer, the Minneapolis Police Department, but with many sections redacted.
His file notes that Lane left high school before graduating and then held at least ten jobs between 2010 and 2017.
During this time, he pursued his GED and a college degree as he worked as a laborer, a telemarketer, a server, a bartender, a security guard, and a sales associate.
In 2017, he began a job as a juvenile correctional officer and assistant probation officer, the file states.
Thomas Lane is seen here to the far right holding down George Floyd’s legs during his arrest as the man said he could not breathe. This was on his fourth full day as a police officer
Lane is one of four former Minneapolis police officers arrested and charged with the death of George Floyd, pictured, which sparked protests across the world
+7Lane is one of four former Minneapolis police officers arrested and charged with the death of George Floyd, pictured, which sparked protests across the world
The Minneapolis Star Tribune noted that Lane’s attorney on Thursday said he ‘previously worked as a juvenile counselor at a few “juvenile places” in the Twin Cities and once received a community service award from Mayor Jacob Frey and Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo for volunteering with children’.
However, during these years Lane was also compiling a laundry list of convictions from dozens of criminal charges and traffic violations, being convicted of seven of the charges in total.
Speeding, obstructing traffic and two parking meter violations were among the four related to traffic violations but he also faced more serious criminal charges on several occasions.
When he was 18, Lane was charged with two counts of obstructing legal process, damaging property, unlawful assembly, and disorderly conduct but details of the incident are not available.
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ShareHe was convicted on two of the charges: obstructing legal process and one charge of damaging property.
Six years later, he had another run in with the law in March 2007, after throwing a party and being found guilty of hosting a noisy gathering.
Lane started as a police cadet in 2019 and was a rookie on the force, only on his fourth full-time shift, when on Memorial Day he was one of the first officers to respond to claims that George Floyd, 46, had attempted to use a counterfeit $20 bill.
During the arrest, Lane’s training officer Derek Chauvin, 44, was filmed kneeling on Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes as he said he couldn’t breathe.
Chauvin remained on Floyd’s neck even after he had fallen unconscious and while Lane is heard asking if Floyd should be rolled onto his side, he and the other two officers present – J Alexander Kueng, 26, and Tou Thao, 34 – did not intervene.
Lane now faces 40 years in jail after being charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder – unintentional – while committing a felony and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter, culpable negligence creating unreasonable risk.
Former Minnesota police officer Thomas Lane, one of three officers charged with aiding and abetting in the murder of George Floyd, is seen in an artist’s sketch attending a court hearing on Thursday. He has an unconditional bail of $1million or $US750,000 with conditions
Derek Chauvin, pictured left, is charged with second-degree murder of George Floyd. The other three former officers, J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao (pictured from second left to right) have been charged with aiding and abetting ChauvinThe former cop is being held on an unconditional bail of $US1 million or $US750,000 with conditions.
In his first court appearance Thursday, Lane’s attorney argued that he was barely off probation and suggested he could do little to sway the much more senior officer Chauvin, who is charged with Floyd’s murder.
‘What was he supposed to do? Tell Chauvin to get off?’, said Lane’s attorney, Earl Grey.
Grey referred to Lane as ‘a good guy,’ and pointed to his inexperience in contrast with Chauvin’s status as a 20-year veteran.
He reminded the judge that his client had asked repeatedly, ‘Shall we roll him?’ and it was his client and his alone who got into the ambulance and attempted to resuscitate Floyd with CPR.
He requested an interim hearing and the judge noted that he was setting bail as he had done for Thao and Kueng, who had appeared in court just before him; $1million unconditional and $750,000 with conditions including that he have no contact with Floyd’s family.
However, in Lane’s case that may be reviewed pending a hearing regarding the strength of his case.
Defense attorney Earl Gray speaks to the press on Thursday after representing former Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane in his first court appearance in Minneapolis
+7Defense attorney Earl Gray speaks to the press on Thursday after representing former Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane in his first court appearance in Minneapolis
Officers Lane and Kueng were the first to arrive at the scene at 8.08pm, May 25 when someone made a 911 call reporting a man for buying merchandise from Cup Foods with a counterfeit $20.
Floyd was parked in a car just around the corner when the officers arrived. There were three people in the car, with Floyd in the driver’s seat. As Lane began speaking with Floyd through his open window, he pulled his gun and asked Floyd to show him his hands.
Floyd placed his hands on the steering wheel and Lane reholstered his gun.
The footage goes on to show Floyd complying with all the officers’ requests – getting out of the car, sitting on the ground, being handcuffed.
The probable cause statement notes that as he sat on the ground, ‘Floyd said, ‘Thank you man,’ and was calm.’
Thomas Lane is seen here in CCTV footage during the arrest of George Floyd on Memorial DayIt was only when Lane stood Floyd up and tried to get him into the squad car that the man ‘stiffened’ and fell to the ground.
The statement said, ‘Mr. Floyd told the officers that he was not resisting but did not want to get in the back seat and was claustrophobic’.
Chauvin and Thao arrived in separate squad cars at this point and all four officers began trying to push Floyd into the car as he, ‘repeatedly said that he could not breathe.’
At 8.19pm Chauvin pulled Floyd from the car and he went to the ground face down. Keung had his back, Lane held his legs, Chauvin placed his knee on Floyd’s neck in an act that has reverberated around the world.
Floyd said, ‘I’m about to die,’ he repeatedly called for his ‘mama’ and said he could not breathe but they held their positions as Chauvin pressed the life out of the father of two.
After five minutes Floyd stopped moving, after six he fell silent and stopped breathing. Lane said he ‘wanted to roll him on his side.’ Kueng check his wrist and found no pulse.
Still they held their positions. Two minutes later at 8.27pm Chauvin finally relinquished his pressure.
Video of the death has sparked protests against police brutality around the world as some call for police forces in the United States to be defunded.
The city of Minneapolis is now looking to drastically change its police department after the incident highlighted cases of extreme force used by their offices during arrests.
On Friday, the city banned the use of chokeholds as at least five city council members voiced support for disbanding the police department entirely and creating a new system involving community support, medical workers, and social workers.
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3 years ago
UNIONS people. UNIONS makes sure ANYONE can stay and keep their jobs, even if they are pedophiles, criminals, or lazy and even if they don’t or are not allowed to work, they still get paid. LOOK AT THE NYC TEACHERS’ UNION.
UNIONS are as corrupt as the Politicians they pay.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
BINGO, Pamela, we have a winner, I figured it out!
Death was JUST NORMAL for these cops, it happened all the time. Nobody ever got charged or fired:
Chauvin, the officer involved in Floyd’s death, was involved in the death of another citizen while Amy Klobuchar was prosecutor.
So the Minneapolis cops did it again, to Lloyd this time, the same as always. BUT the federal Dems needed an outrageous brutality, to justify their planned riots.
And bingo, the Minneapolis cops came through with a convenient outrage, just at the right time.The rest, is history.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
You can’t make a totalitarianism omellet without breaking a few Floyds.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
“Klobuchar did not criminally charge other police involved in the more than two dozen officer-involved fatalities.”
Murder central, the go-to place for larceny. From where did Klobuchar acquire her wealth? Police payoffs?
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Nancy: “Hi Amy, we need some dirty cop brutality videos. White on black”
Amy: “Oh yeah, your helper called, and I’m already on it. You want old stuff or new stuff”
Nancy:”It has to be really fresh, and juicy, and right now”
Amy: “Well I know how to do that, I’ll get back to you.”
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
I have to disagree that this was planned. DEMS had plenty of opportunity to nail these cops prior to this. DEMS don’t care about blacks or anyone else. DEM, Klobuchar is another example of that. All they care about is themselves, lining their pockets and keeping minorities down and racial division alive.
Trump has made inroads with the black vote and other minorities so DEMS need to change that. Time is running out. Nothing has worked to bring Trump down. Sure enough, DEMS are blaming Trump for Floyd’s death, and trying to make Trump the racist. Think in terms of opposites – blaming OTHERS for what they (DEMS) are guilty of. It is a constant theme with DEMS. Obama formalized that.
DEMS need blacks and other minorities to keep voting for them. DEMS have NEVER cared about human rights or civil rights of non whites unless they can use it to their advantage. DEMS are trying to twist this situation and spin it to their advantage and question Trump. People are easily manipulated with the help of the msm media. It’s really unfortunate that people only think in terms of simplistic sound bites. DEMs aren’t known to be super bright people. That is coming out with the Russia nonsense against Trump. Today’s DEMS and RINOS are known to be shameless liars. Now both can unite and virtue signal to one another to help bring Trump down.
There is no way that I believe that a white cop or a cop of any race would want to go to prison for the sake of getting Biden or a substitute DEM elected. That cop might as well put a gun to his head and get it over with. For the time he does last in prison, it will be a living hell.
Had Trump been removed as President, DEMS wouldn’t have cared what these cops did. It was a coincidence this happened and they have it on tape. Any of the previous white cop on black crimes moved forward because it was taped and if need be, selectively edited and played over and over again to get people riled up. These cops are finished! Remember, never let a crisis go to waste.
Chauvin should have been disciplined, fired or charged a long time ago. Instead things were covered up and life went on. No one cared. Below is Chauvin’s record as a cop. They don’t disclose specific offenses. So no, I don’t agree with you on this one. Chauvin was an unplanned, coincidental, useful idiot.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Felix “I have to disagree that this was planned.”
Well that’s OK, I was just spinning a theory to see how people responded. It IS tempting to think that just as the Dems needed a reason to riot, this event happened. My speculations center on that. The planning may have been about needing a cause, and scanning the recent policing events to find one that could justify riots. And if I was given the job to find such an event, I would look at ‘dirty’ police departments.
I don’t think the whole video was staged, but I don’t rule that out either.
3 years ago
Reply to
FemaleTRUMPFan
Agreed. Such “surface contamination” is a good reason why unions and politicians should practice social distancing from one another.
Mark Twain said it best, “There is only one way to look at a politician and that is down.”
3 years ago
You know your wrong about everything associated with a story when you’re smearing a guy as a “criminal” for:
*speeding
*blocking traffic
*parking violations
*damage to property — at age 18!
He held down the legs of a drunk, drugged, abusive suspect, the subject of a citizen complaint, who was resisting arrest to a much greater extent than any published video reveals, and who’s cause of death was COVID-19 and underlying causes associated with bad lifestyle choices and slow suicide.
It’s D-Day. We have a Civilization to save.
3 years ago
Reply to
Chris Wolf
You are absolutely correct. Half the boys in my high school class were that way.
3 years ago
Remember the riots, arson, and looting after a black cop from Somalia – Mohamed Noor shot Justine Damond ( white Australian who was not wearing a slave burka ) in Minneapolis?
– Mohamed Noor reached over his partner and shot her .
3 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
Yes, one of the MANY events I refer to in my previous post. I’m weary of the human race.
3 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
Public pressure forced them to charge Noor and convict. His white partner was not very cooperative and never charged as best I can remember. I thought that was very odd.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
The Muslims in Minneapolis are trying to get the savage sprung out of prison. Tells you most of what you need to know.
3 years ago
Reply to
oceanfloor1
It’s only a crime when shooting another Muslims. Kafirs don’t count.
3 years ago
Reply to
Rusty
…not completely corrupt….when a Imam thinks a Muslim is not being true to their mission, following the Qu’ran, they order other Muslims to kill them. If they refuse to do that…then they are killed.
Read the small book: Jesus, Jihad, and Peace by Michael Yousseff. He is a former ME muslim who became a Christian, came to America and formed THE CHURCH OF THE APOSTLES in Atlanta, GA.
Best book on the ME that I have ever read….and he also tells what our politicians have been doing to accommodate them and bringing them in to America. The Bush traitors are especially interesting.
3 years ago
Reply to
oceanfloor1
Agree. And the first Muslim democrat/socialist gay president imported 200,000 yearly legal and illegal muslims and deported christians back to ISIS to be slaughtered after they tried to make it to America http://offtrade.net/cnmnews/islamonazi-deports-christians/
And those who dared to help were threatened to shut up and MSM would not cover it !
3 years ago
Reply to
oceanfloor1
Agree. And the first Muslim democrat/socialist gay president imported 200,000 yearly legal and illegal muslims and deported christians back to ISIS to be slaughtered after they tried to make it to America http://offtrade.net/cnmnews/islamonazi-deports-christians/
And those who dared to help were threatened to shut up and MSM would not cover it !
3 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
Yes, I do remember that. Police brutality is indeed a systemic problem in this country. Thanks for acknowledging that. Go ahead and take a knee.
3 years ago
Reply to
Mr. Mojo Risin'
When a black Somali moslem threw a small white boy off the 3rd floor shopping center balcony in Minneapolis – there were no riots, arson, nor mass looting. : did he yell Allah Akbar?..
3 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
Hey taxpayer22, I must agree with you……….there are so many injustices, and just a few gets world attention……listen to Candace Owens, the Floyd man had a criminal background as well as the cop…………….what a mixed up world…….
3 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
Yes, interesting question. Why do we hold police officers to a higher standard than violent thugs? I’ll have to think about that. I’ll get back to you.
3 years ago
Reply to
Mr. Mojo Risin'
Because the enjoy the legal protections of the presumption of good faith on the part of public servants.
Remove the protections that allow Congress-critters off the hook constantly and maybe you’ll see some changes.
3 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
Agreed. I don’t seem to recall whites trying to burn the place down in that incident.
If you or I had Lane’s record of a lack of self-control, an attempted purchase of a firearm on the open market would be declined.
3 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
how about the black guy that gunned down grandma and grandpa at the cemetery while they were visiting their son’s grave? remember the white riots after that one? remember al sharpton and the “reverend” jesse jackson speaking at their funerals? remember john elway saying how we need to do more to protect white people from black criminals, and launching a white-awareness program in the nfl?
3 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
When laws do not apply to those who make them, people are not being governed, they are being ruled. Make no mistake, these executive orders are not laws. They are royal decrees from a dictator..
3 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
1. Design alert system (get someone else to, w/e) that issues alerts when it receives a report of new Black-on-White attacks
2(a?). Start online campaign of daring these sympathizers to sign up for alerts
2(b?). modify step 1. to make alert platform allow for some degree of anonymity, or illusion thereof
3. ??????
4. PROFIT!
3 years ago
I BLAME THE REPUBLICANS
– some way, some how, this must be their fault
It cannot POSSIBLY be corrupt Democrats in the Minneapolis cop shop.
3 years ago
So? One bad guy hired by incompetents kill another *guilty* bad guy and everybody booboos about it from now on? Use it for an excuse to riot and tear down the country, when things like that, or worse, happen all the time?
Give me a break. I could care less about either one of them, especially Floyd.
I also have to wonder about anyone who ‘stands with’ or is ‘in solidarity’, especially anyone with low melanin…what a bunch of foolish sheep.
3 years ago
everyone seems to ignore the black looking cop.
3 years ago
Reply to
mackykam
Or could he be a MULSIM or a MUSLIM convert?
He has the traditional Muslim facial hair.
From left to right: J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane, Tou Thao and Derek Chauvin 
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3 years ago
So…
Minneapolis cop,
Democratic cop.
3 years ago
What do Wuhan, China and Minneapolis, MN have in common?
They’re ruled by one political party with zero accountability.
I always wanted to know what life in Communist China was like. Now I can just go to Minneapolis to find out. Thank you.
3 years ago
Reply to
Worsethanitlooks
In addition to that, A.G. Ketih Ellison will do his best to implement Sharia Law in Minnesota through community policing if the police are defunded. Then they can set up laws to be what they want them to be based on what the community wants. You will have no-go zones.
3 years ago
Reply to
Worsethanitlooks
Don’t forget Californication, where, in the last senatorial election, you could vote for anyone as long as they were a member of the Communist, oops Dem0nrat party because the only people listed on the ballot were Dem0rats.
3 years ago
Reply to
Worsethanitlooks
You’re more likely to find out what “life is like” in Mogadishu than China – with thousands of Somalis having been imported to elect congress-mooslime Ilian Omar AKA Ilhan Nur Said Elmi.
3 years ago
More and more I’m sensing a false flag
3 years ago
Reply to
Lunch_Money
Evidence that cops were maybe doing a hit on George Floyed
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2679826965674142&id=100009405945371
3 years ago
Minneapolis PD is a Democrat run LE organization. Those policemen were hired by Democrats, trained by them and turned out to the streets with policies written by them and they wouldn’t know what it’s like to work for a Republican mayor. They haven’t had one since 1973.
3 years ago
“the system is Racist / Guilty”, my bippy.
Police killings of unarmed Black Americans down 42.86% in Trump’s first 3 years in office compared to Obama’s last 3 years
3 years ago
Reply to
dingo
More whites are killed by blacks than whites killing blacks.
Black on black crime doesn’t matter to black people.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Or matter to the Democrat mayors, governors, congress representatives or senators. If its done to a black by someone white, hold on to your hat from the storm.
3 years ago
Reply to
dingo
Most people have forgotten the black flash mobs that became common during Obama’s reign. Those mobs were testing the system to see if the law and the retailers would do anything. They didn’t. Simply connect the dots between those flash mobs and the large scale rape of Minneapolis and NYC we saw last week. None of the early flash mobbers were caught or charged. When you condone lawless behavior you get more of it.
3 years ago
There’s a “peaceful protest” leader threatening — on FOX no less — to go to the Diamond District on 47th St. tonight with gasoline. W.47th is looters’ paradise. If this is a credible threat, I don’t trust Karl De Blasio to protect this block or any of the rest of Midtown. Not at the “peaceful” kneel-in on Monday either, in that Broadway bottleneck between Times Square and Columbus Circle.
Unless they decide they can do more damage via unearned guilt at this point, the violence will continue.
3 years ago
Reply to
oceanfloor1
it was only a matter of time before the mob started to go after Jewish businesses.
3 years ago
Reply to
Worsethanitlooks
They will go after any business. They are more and more emboldened when there are no consequences to speak of.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
In blue cities. In red states, one strategically placed shotgun blast stops it.
3 years ago
Reply to
Worsethanitlooks
The mob did a bee line for Jewish establishments in California.
3 years ago
Reply to
oceanfloor1
Cuomo and DeBlazio are too busy blaming one another. Both will look for a federal and FEMA bailout. They’d better not bail them out. They were already bankrupt before this happened.
Poor Ivanka… she is especially DENSE! I doubt she would have ripped, “cancel culture” if she had not been dropped as a speaker first. She really doesn’t connect with reality and her education “listening tours” feel on her deaf ears. Higher education as well as K-12, has become more and more tyrannical and propaganda driven. She lives in a magical utopian dream world, riding daddy’s coat tails for notoriety.
Ivanka Trump rips ‘cancel culture’ after she’s dropped
as commencement speaker
By Jon Levine June 6, 2020
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“Our nation’s campuses should be bastions of free speech. Cancel culture and viewpoint discrimination are antithetical to academia,” she said. “Listening to one another is important now more than ever!”
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A joint statement from Wichita State President Dr. Jay Golden and WSU Tech President Dr. Sheree Utash offered no explanation for why she was dropped as a speaker.
…
https://nypost.com/2020/06/06/ivanka-trump-calls-out-cancel-culture-after-being-dropped-as-speaker/
3 years ago
Reply to
oceanfloor1
Remember, the diamond district is mostly a Jewish industry in NYC. De Blasio has singled out Jews several times in his comments over the past few months. Does one actually believe that he would defend Jewish businesses?
3 years ago
This photo was taken today in Seattle. Try finding a black face or a sign referencing Martin Luther King. I couldn’t. America is being played by the Left. This has nothing to do racial equality or justice for black people. Most of the white useful idiots in this picture live in mostly white segregated neighborhoods, hundreds of miles from any actual black neighborhoods. And many of them work in tech companies that employ few if any black folks. Hypocrisy matches on.
Inconvenient Facts Dept:
The racial composition of Seattle in 2016 was 65.7% white, 14.1% Asian, 7.0% Black, 0.4% Native American, 0.9% Pacific Islander, 2.3% from other races, and 5.6% from two or more races. 6.6% of the population is Hispanic or Latino of any race.
The residents of Seattle are committed to justice for Black and Hispanic America as long as they don’t have to live or work with them. Hypocrisy matches on.
3 years ago
WASN’T THE MUSLIM SOMALI COP WHO GUNNED DOWN THAT AUSTRALIAN CITIZEN IN HER PAJAMAS A FEW YEARS AGO HIRED BY THE SAME CITY ????
3 years ago
Let’s just be real honest, the cop that killed Floyd had a record, and Floyd himself had a record ……..both were wrong in the past………neither are real, real innocent…………..enough said……..now go home and think about this……..
3 years ago
In this case and others, unions are responsible for hiring and then maintaining rotten people. Kind of like the teachers union, another largely Democrat institution that has produced our current rioters. Talk about chickens coming home to roost. Democrat policy is failed policy for us all.
3 years ago
Reply to
Eric
The situation isn’t going to change until the Unions are held by statute financially responsible for their actions in keeping Bad Cops on forces.
This isn’t just a Minneapolis problem but a problem nationwide, and not just with Police Unions but with every single Public Employee Union that has made it too difficult to get rid of incompetent and just plain bad public employees.
It’s too late in the Floyd matter for the Unions to be brought into the settlement, unless such an action is accomplished through the Courts. But it is time, and past time, for this to be made a matter of Public Law where the Unions bear a significant portion of the financial burden.
If you look at every single occurrence of this type there’s always an extensive record of disciplinary action where the union has prevented the firing, a firing which would have occurred as a matter of course were it a private company involved.
3 years ago
Lane was the only one who requested to roll Floyd over. Prior issues or not, sounds like the better of the bunch. Also, as a new hire, was under Chauvins authority.
3 years ago
Since this latest event by the Minneapolis Police Dept how come I haven’t heard mentioned by anyone about the incident that occurred a coupla yrs ago with Justine (last name escapes me)? A Somali cop gunned her down while sitting in the passenger seat of his police car. The MPD has got to straighten out their act…IMMEDIATELY!!
3 years ago
Way back in 1971, a NYPD detective told me, their Personnel Screening Unit was approving for hiring, men with felony criminal records. At the time, I dismissed this as incredulous. But over the years it has come out to be the truth. There was even two guys with family connections to organized crime,hired who rose to detectives only to use their positions to commit crimes. All this denigrating of hiring standards stems from the liberal drive for diversity. So, when I heard about the dreck hired by Minneapolis P.D., I wasn’t surprised.
3 years ago
GLORY OF HERO! HE CRUSHED THE BLACK BEAST!
3 years ago
Derek Chauvin – THE LAST HERO! :)))))))
3 years ago
3 years ago
Based on this story….I would say Floyd’s family are going to end up very, very wealthy…..
…and all the business -especially the small businesses – are going to be able to sue the living hell-o out the State, County, and City.
They don’t have to worry about “defunding” the police….they won’t have enough money to pay them or the street cleaners for that matter after all the law suits.
3 years ago
Floyd’s physical size is never reported and he is only pictured with the officers on top as he was held to the ground. Omissions such as this looks like narrative building.
3 years ago
Siting “traffic tickets” and loitering in a public park or spray painting a traffic sign as a teen are dis-qualifiers for being a cop? Little skimpy there.
I see no felony convictions but he did get his GED & wuz getting some college which shows he turned his life around and found purpose/inspiration to better himself.
While a probationary officer, he’s under the supervision/control of his Field Training Officer.
The other two ‘minority’ officers will be given reduced sentences for plea bargains to testify against the white guy. Were they ‘senior’ to the arresting officer or tell him to stop?
All of which would not have been necessary – IF – the black criminal on meth would have submitted to the arrest.
3 years ago
Siting “traffic tickets” and loitering in a public park or spray painting a traffic sign as a teen are dis-qualifiers for being a cop? Little skimpy there.
I see no felony convictions but he did get his GED & wuz getting some college which shows he turned his life around and found purpose/inspiration to better himself.
While a probationary officer, he’s under the supervision/control of his Field Training Officer.
The other two ‘minority’ officers will be given reduced sentences for plea bargains to testify against the white guy. Were they ‘senior’ to the arresting officer or tell him to stop?
All of which would not have been necessary – IF – the black criminal on meth would have submitted to the arrest.
3 years ago
pamela, they deserve a fair trial by jury before you lynch them on your site and poison the jury pool. $100 says the evidence that the jury will hear will lead to a hung jury.
3 years ago
Was that cop hired by a Republican or a Democrat?
3 years ago
Since when did shooting someone in self-defense and having traffic violations make one a ‘criminal’? This article is not up to the standards Geller should be writing.
3 years ago
Sorry, but in no way am I going to defend either a bad cop or a criminal who died as a result of resisting arrest. Chauvin & Co. were doing their business, and Floyd was being Floyd. Had he not resisted, he would be alive today.
I don’t care about Lane’s personal history. He did not cause this to happen. Look at Floyd’s history, and you could tell that this would happen eventually.
There is no need to protest Floyd’s death. There was nothing unusual about it. It is not because he was black, as many in the Minneapolis area are as well. Most never have a problem, buut we must also note that population-wise, the more black people there are, the higher the crime rate will be. The people in high crime areas demand protection, and that is why there are more cops there than “some” would want. Others wish there were more.
The people elevated in the Black Lives Matter movement are mostly unworthy criminals. They exist in White nd Hispanic communities as well, but nobody in the other communities is going to defend them because they are criminals. The black communities, to large degree, shield these same criminals, while demanding justice. Sorry, but this is an “either-or” situation. You can’t have your cake, then take mine.
3 years ago
Remember kids, if you vote democrat, the “Police” will MURDER you, no matter your color ;).
