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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere were 3 officers on top of George Floyd, not just the one!
https://m. A new video capturing the moment George Floyd was detained by members of the Minneapolis Police Department appears to show multiple officers on the ground with him. The angle of the video, which is circulating on social media, has not been seen previously.
The footage was filmed from the opposite side of the street from where a white officer pressed his knee onto Floyd's neck in the Memorial Day incident. The new video appears to have been recorded just prior to the initial video.
Floyd died Monday night after an officer pinned him to the ground and put his knee on Floyd's neck for about eight minutes. Previously released footage shows Floyd, a black man, pleading with the officers.
"Please, please, please, I can't breathe," he said. "My stomach hurts. My neck hurts. Please, please. I can't breathe."
Using previously reported footage of the moment Floyd was arrested, Google Street View imagery and statements from police, NBC News Social Newsgathering team verified the new video, which appears to show Floyd in the custody of three police officers.
The footage was filmed from the opposite side of the street from where a white officer pressed his knee onto Floyd's neck in the Memorial Day incident. The new video appears to have been recorded just prior to the initial video.
Floyd died Monday night after an officer pinned him to the ground and put his knee on Floyd's neck for about eight minutes. Previously released footage shows Floyd, a black man, pleading with the officers.
"Please, please, please, I can't breathe," he said. "My stomach hurts. My neck hurts. Please, please. I can't breathe."
Using previously reported footage of the moment Floyd was arrested, Google Street View imagery and statements from police, NBC News Social Newsgathering team verified the new video, which appears to show Floyd in the custody of three police officers.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-video-appears-show-george-floyd-ground-three-officers-n1217476
He was handcuffed on his stomach, on the ground with 3 men on top of him!
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There were 3 officers on top of George Floyd, not just the one! (Original Post)
herding cats
May 2020
OP
But all 4 of them should be charged with murder. If you're a party to a crime...
BComplex
May 2020
#4
Exactly: How can the enforcers be so quick to execute a man without having evidence . . .
MagickMuffin
May 2020
#10
Doremus
(7,261 posts)1. Cold blooded murderers.
LiberalArkie
(15,713 posts)2. Did he accidentally discover a $20 bill counterfeiting ring?
sheshe2
(83,734 posts)3. Lock them all up!
BComplex
(8,035 posts)4. But all 4 of them should be charged with murder. If you're a party to a crime...
what's good for the goose ......
If citizens have to play by those rules, so do the people who make the rules have to play by them.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)6. Exactly.
They wouldn't cut the rest of citizens any slack. Let them pay for their crimes.
Arkansas Granny
(31,514 posts)8. Yes. What's sauce for the goose . . . .
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)5. Fkn A right, cats
Rachel showed this newly available footage last night and there was nothing to say except holy fuck you motherfuckers
They wont escape justice, that just cant happen
NOPE NOPE NOPE
malaise
(268,916 posts)7. I saw it
Murder one
HipChick
(25,485 posts)9. Murdered for $20?
Possible counterfeit? Possible, not even proven..
MagickMuffin
(15,936 posts)10. Exactly: How can the enforcers be so quick to execute a man without having evidence . . .
of where the bill came from?
For all we know Mr. Floyd could have gotten the bill from a ATM. And I don't know all the facts but this I do know, George Floyd was executed for being black.
Cirque du So-What
(25,927 posts)11. Some people are never satisfied
We offer up one cop for everyone to focus their rage until he's acquitted, but NOOOOO! That's not good enough for yoy. Now you want two more who appear culpable! We'd rather see whole neighborhoods burned to the ground than do what's right from the beginning.