George Floyd murdered by cops

[walrus]

There was a case in nyc a while back where someone was trying to commit suicide by cop and was standing in a busy area with a gun pointed at a cop. The cop has his gun drawn and didn’t fire. He talked the guy down. They played some bystanders footage or it could have been the cruiser cam but I always remembered that. The guy was pointing his gun at the cop and for whatever reason he new the guy wasn’t going to shoot, he was just looking to get shot. It was impressive to see I don’t know if any of you remember it. I think that would have been a justifiable shooting. I’m glad it turned out the way it did. This country has a lot of fucked up shit going on but we have a lot of positives. I used to have cocktails with a Bank of America executive who came here from Africa as a kid. Obviously he was very bright, I knew him through a friend who owned a restaurant, we used to play cards and smoke cigars. He used to tell us how his father had to travel half a day to get water for the family. I’m just saying I hope all the good isn’t lost in this because there is a lot of it. I’m not trying to gloss over the problems, but there is a lot of good out there.

[TIC]

the police are just another group. another division. treat each person by their own actions not by the label or group as a whole