CNN: All four officers involved in George Floyd killing invoke 5th Amendment rights

[Mike 03]

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TEXT: All four (former) officers involved in the death of #GeorgeFloyd have invoked their fifth amendment right against self incrimination, Mike Freeman, Hennepin County Attorney, told CNN's @miguelmarquez following the press conference this afternoon.
Dianne Gallagher, CNN Correspondent
@DianneG

[uponit7771]

1. There's video, they can stay quiet ... a prosecutor with no conflicts of interest MUST come in

[Roland99]

2. Wonder what the president's thoughts are on the Fifth Amendment

"The mob takes the Fifth Amendment," Trump said at a campaign event in Iowa later that month. "If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?"

[LiberalArkie]

3. 3 of them did nothing to stop the one. I guess they are afraid of being killed by fellow officers

if they say anything.

[Locrian]

4. thats a very good point

we forget about the brown-shirts that will come after anyone that "rats" or "snitches" on the others.
It truly is a gang type mentality.

[gratuitous]

6. If that happened

It would be a pretty good indicator, in my opinion, that the horrible things cops have said about them are justified. "I totally hate having to be an accessory to a murder, but I don't dare rat out my brother cops or I'll be the next body at the morgue." Did you become a cop to kill citizens? Because it kind of works out that way whichever path you take.

[George II]

22. One of them, the one closest to the murder, is BLACK!

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Wow,not surprised one bit.

Freeman just needs to go.

To all our Relatives and Friends in the Twin Cities,stay safe.

[Tipperary]

7. Gonna take a page from everyone who always puts down the south...

and say how happy I do not live in Minnesota.

[LanternWaste]

8. How incredibly helpful and unifying.

But at least you have the excuse to rationalize this illustration of integrity simply by saying "well... they did if first!!!"


"How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty..."

[Tipperary]

10. Yep, you said it perfectly.

Thank you!

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Been away for fifteen years,

like many tried to do my part to change Peoples minds that we are all in this together.

Mpls PD has always had a nasty Racial bent to it. As a Suburban Police Chief once said,it seems the Mpls PD is just the control mechanism for the White Rich Folks out here in the Western Suburbs who own most of Rental Property in Mpls.

[Tipperary]

11. The chief is a black man, right?

I must be missing something.

[stillcool]

12. you think because a police chief..

is black, the cesspool of a police department is squeaky clean? What country do you live in?

[Tipperary]

14. I would hope he has some knowledge of things. The black people I know do have such knowledge.

What country do YOU live in?

Did you watch his statement?

[stillcool]

16. I live in the United States..and no I did not

watch his statement. You, found it important to point out that this police chief was black. Why that makes a difference to you, is what I referred to. The knowledge of blackness (?) doesn't change the political apparatus of a town, county, city.

[Wellstone ruled]

15. Sorry,the chief I

referenced was a White Chief in the Richest Western Burb. BTW,this Chief forecast this some twenty years ago because of the In Place Training and selection of Recruits.

[Initech]

13. It's 1992 all over again.

Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

[Fresh_Start]

17. Body cams will speak even if they don't nt

nt

[jorgevlorgan]

18. did they have body cams?

[dware]

24. Yes, they had body cams and supposedly, the investigators are in possession of them. nt

[oldsoftie]

19. Fine. Try them separately. At least the FIRST guy is going down hard.

Bank on it

[BlueIdaho]

20. Fine - charge them all

Let them grind up their pension money paying lawyers.

[dsc]

21. well barring them being idiots of course they did

Given that we have video and eye witnesses we shouldn't need them to speak. Like all people facing criminal charges, as they hopefully are, they get to take the fifth.

[localroger]

23. Of course they did. A baby lawyer would have told them to.

They are clearly guilty of major crimes. There is no advantage to them for saying anything they are not absolutely compelled to say and either confessing or adding lying to the cops or perjury to their list of crimes.