(05-28-2020, 08:49 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(05-28-2020, 07:46 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Empathy is not using emotion as evidence.

Empathy is nothing more than being able to understand a different perspective, inclusive of the emotions involved.
Putting yourself in the other person's shoes.

(05-28-2020, 07:54 AM)jj82284 Wrote:

(05-28-2020, 07:24 AM)TJBender Wrote: Except that there's video showing Floyd not resisting anything. It's funny how unrelated video in the Arbery case somehow exonorates (or at least strongly mitigates) three white men cornering and murdering a black man, but the video we have here of a pig kneeling on the neck of a man who was compliant while three other officers look on doesn't matter. Even if we go to the extreme and say that he was somehow, at some point, resisting arrest, kneeling on his neck until he dies is not the sort of tactic taught at the police academy.

Frankly, I think law enforcement in this country could use an enema.

In the Video, you can hear an older black man talking to Floyd, telling him "just get up and get in the car.  I told u u cant win" etc.  So that strongly lends itself to support the thesis that Floyd resisted arrest.  

Now, that in no way justifies or excuses the 4 minute holding a guy by his neck while handcuffed.  Again, I think that officer is guilty of negligent homicide @ a minimum.  But as to why the situation initially escalated, theres evidence to support a resisted arrest and no evidence to support a random targeting based on skin color.