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[–] InTheWideningGyre 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
How do we know the Autozone guy was a cop and not antifa? The photo of the cop doesn't look exactly like him. It's hard to tell from just the eyes, but his brow ridge looks different.
[–] Tevelyn [S] ago
We don't. It's strong circumstantially evidence. But we don't know for sure
[–] Drenki ago
Floyd was arrested because he was suspected of forgery, right? Passing counterfeit bills or bad checks, I wonder.
[–] Tevelyn [S] ago
I don't know. speculating about all that feels like the weeds. One of the big hallmarks of left vs right is that people on hte left are just fine with knee jerk reactions and thinking emotionally, and conservatives usually want to wait to get all the information before really forming an opinion, which can make conservatives look really uncaring to all the emotionally volatile leftists.
[–] nwguy 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
George Floyd had a heart attack after fighting with cops for 20 minutes
[–] undertheshills ago
Fuck off. You have a better shot of convincing voat that the murder of floyd was staged before you got anyone here to beleive that pinning someone like that for 12 minutes is an okay police tactic in any situation other than one cop pinning a killer or something untilhe gets backup. I'd rather be shot than choked with a knee to the neck for 12 minutes.
[–] Tevelyn [S] ago (edited ago)
thats actually pretty impressive. He'd probably need to be on enough pcp to kill an elephant to pull that off.
That being said, a bunch of people piling on your back and cutting off bloodflow could cause a heart attack pretty easily.
edit I don't actually care why he died. It's not an important factor in this.