George Floyd

Some facts about George Floyd. He was a wonderful person except when he entered somebody's home with a gun. It was armed robbery.

These days he had health problems. He was unemployed after being fired because of the coronavirus thing.

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According to a co-owner of Cup Foods, Floyd attempted to use a $20 bill that a staff member suspected as counterfeit.

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"Floyd "did not voluntarily get in the car and struggled with the officers by intentionally falling down, saying he was not going in the car, and refusing to stand still". Surveillance footage from a nearby restaurant showed Floyd falling twice while being escorted by the officers." He became famous when a moron policeman killed him. The police officer is going to prison. And this is why we are having a civil war that's getting worse every day.

Meanwhile Fucktard Trump is doing everything he can to make the problem worse, which explains the violence near the White House.

I thank goodness I live in a farm town where everyone is nice. The American astronauts who recently went to the International Space Station picked a good day to get off this planet.

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I found this stuff at Wikipedia and some other place:

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Floyd was charged in 2007 with armed robbery in a home invasion in Houston and in 2009 was sentenced to five years in prison as part of a plea deal, according to court documents.

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On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an African-American man, died in Powderhorn, a neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. While Floyd was handcuffed and lying face down on a city street during an arrest, Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer, kept his knee on the right side of Floyd's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds; according to the criminal complaint against Chauvin, 2 minutes and 53 seconds of that time occurred after Floyd became unresponsive. Officers Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng, and Thomas K. Lane participated in Floyd's arrest, with Kueng holding Floyd's back, Lane holding his legs, and Thao looking on as he stood nearby. Preliminary results from the official autopsy found no indication that Floyd died of strangulation or traumatic asphyxia, but that the combined effects of being restrained, underlying health conditions, including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease, and potential intoxicants in his system likely contributed to his death. Attorneys for Floyd's family announced that they have requested an independent autopsy.

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Statements from the police and prosecutor

Shortly after 8:00 p.m. on May 25, Memorial Day, Minneapolis Police Department officers responded to a "forgery in progress" on Chicago Avenue South in the Powderhorn neighborhood of Minneapolis. According to WCCO, the implication was that Floyd "tried to use forged documents at a nearby deli". According to a co-owner of Cup Foods, Floyd attempted to use a $20 bill that a staff member suspected as counterfeit. According to police, Floyd was in a nearby car and "appeared to be under the influence". A spokesman for the police department said the officers ordered him to exit the vehicle, at which point he "physically resisted". In the days following the arrest, these statements appeared to be contradicted by the release of a bystander's video recording, though one video showed that "Officer [Chauvin] struggles to get Floyd out of the car". Later, the criminal complaint filed in court by the Hennepin County attorney on May 29 stated Floyd "did not voluntarily get in the car and struggled with the officers by intentionally falling down, saying he was not going in the car, and refusing to stand still". Surveillance footage from a nearby restaurant showed Floyd falling twice while being escorted by the officers.

As of May 31, the video from the body cameras worn by Lane and Kueng have not been publicly released. The videos from their cameras was turned over to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. The Minneapolis Park Police (MPP) – a different agency than the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) – had one officer at the location of Floyd's detainment who also wore a body camera. The MPP released a heavily redacted version of the officer's body-cam footage on May 28. The footage showed the MPP officer reassuring two passengers from Floyd's car that an ambulance would arrive at the scene, and telling them to "stay put". CNN noted the officer was "not facing the direction of the incident when it happened".

According to the Minneapolis police, officers "were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress", and called for an ambulance. No weapons were used in the arrest, according to a statement from the Minneapolis police. Paramedics from the Minneapolis Fire Department moved Floyd from the location and attempted chest compressions and other lifesaving measures on an "unresponsive, pulseless male". Floyd was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 9:25.