George Floyd Good Read

[Wales-Bales]

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 .


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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.

[Feedback]

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.

does this application of law apply to the police? If so, you'll agree they just can't go round killing people, or treating those who they are charged with custody of with such utter contempt as displayed to Floyd.

[az city]

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.

With no due respect, that's bollocks. You are advocating treating people differently in the George Floyd circumstance based on their past. And that is unacceptable.

[Wales-Bales]

With no due respect, that's bollocks. You are advocating treating people differently in the George Floyd circumstance based on their past. And that is unacceptable.

Where have I said that? The criminal case is entirely separate from the opinions that people have of him as a person, and they have no influence on the outcome of the prosecution.