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You don't hear much about him anymore.
The article says he was a violent criminal, but then says police arrested 9 times for drugs and theft. So not violence then.
There's also a pic listing his sentences -
including 10 months in 1998 for armed robbery, and
5 years in 2007 for 'armed robbery of a pregnant woman in her home'
I'd class armed robbery as a violent crime.
But his past record is largely irrelevant in the case of the cops choking him .
*edit*
Reading on, the sentences listed in the pic are dubious, to say the least.
Yes it was irrelevant to the case, but the media were making him out to be some kind of saint. Would you put a bloke on a pedestal who had 9 drink driving offences, and consider him to be a lovable rougue? The law is the law and we all have to abide by the rules, plus the article was written by the perception changing Snopes website.
I think most people know George Floyd wasn't a saint, but even the woman in the link who found the way people were trying to turn him into one "despicable" admits that "No one thinks that he should have died in his arrest" and that has to be the overriding consideration surely?
That information makes it understandable and alright then that he was choked to death by a policeman’s knee in public.
Thinking on this, more of these quick judicial processes should be adopted in the UK? We could do with a clear out which wouldn’t cost the country billions in keeping the no good ****ers behind the doors.