Calm connection with people is so important. Quite the opposite of holding others down with rage. May the horror of this incident prevent this kind of death/injury from ever happening again.

We can pray for that.

It will not! As long as there are people who want to fight with others or injure others, there will be people who will try to kill them. Break into someone's home who is armed, and the chances are the police will find a dead body after they are called. Attack a policeman or fight during an arrest and something bad might happen to you.

Well, if you break in somewhere with the intention to rob then be prepared to be defended. Same thing if you attack police, better don't. There is a reason why they want to detain you. That has nothing to do with George Floyd, race, ethnicity, orientation or believes.

People were shocked after Columbine but the only thing that's been done since then is Mass Shootings have become commonplace. Its part of Pop Culture. Now its like BTW there has been another mass shooting lets continue with our day. If anything George Floyd should be a say no to drugs campaign. Opioids kill an average of 130 people everyday, George Floyd just happened to be one. Remember the commercial where they crack an egg in the frying pan and say this is your brain on drugs? Now they can show the George Floyd video and say this is you on drugs. And make sure they notice him pissing himself. Rodney King and so many others have always been this one will bring change and it never does. Its time for the black community to start solving their own drug, gang, and thug problems on their own. Throwing money at the problems only makes them worse, the only way to get real results is lots of hard hard work. Its like you can't stop someone from using drugs unless they want to stop using drugs.

What a way to deflect from the topic. SMH

I did watch the memorial service of George Floyd on tv. It was the least I could do.

You're honestly living in cloud Cuckoo land if you don't think that this will happen again, because we all know it will. Just like it has countless times in the past, it will certainly happen again!

I don't recall anyone mourning the tragic
loss of Justine Damond, when she was
murdered by a police officer.

So...
I'll be sitting this one out.

May be fake news, but I read that George Floyd has a chequered background - multiple arrests, drugs, multiple prison time. No justification for life-threatening treatment by law enforcement but sounds like he was no Dr Huxtable.

The difference between police officers and drug dealers

is that police officers are supposed to be the leaders of change we want to see in the world.

it's true

It's not fake news...from his autopsy...
http://www.hennepin.us/-/media/hennepinus/residents/public-safety/documents/Autopsy_2020-3700_Floyd.pdf

Blood drug and novel psychoactive substances screens:
1. Fentanyl 11 ng/mL
2. Norfentanyl 5.6 ng/mL
3. 4-ANPP 0.65 ng/mL
4. Methamphetamine 19 ng/mL
5. 11-Hydroxy Delta-9 THC 1.2 ng/mL;
Delta-9 Carboxy THC 42 ng/mL; Delta-9 THC 2.9 ng/mL
6. Cotinine positive
7. Caffeine positive

Court records show Floyd was first arrested in Harris County in 1997, when he was charged with selling less than a gram of drugs.

He bounced in and out of jail and prison over the next decade, with two theft cases, three drug charges and a trespassing case.

Floyd’s last arrest was his most serious, an aggravated robbery charge involving a deadly weapon in 2007. He was accused of being part of a home robbery by six men and pistol whipping a woman in front of an infant. He pleaded guilty.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/George-Floyd-Houston-Texas-change-the-world-15322149.php#:~:text=Court%20records%20show%20Floyd%20was,charges%20and%20a%20trespassing%20case.

That's still not an excuse to kill someone though! All these excuses because he was had a criminal past, is not going to sugar coat the the fact that he died at the hands of the Police, which he did!

and yet if he hadn't been committing just another in his long list of crimes he wouldn't have been in police custody.

I also find it funny that George Floyd is the ONLY person in the United States to be positive for Covid-19, die of respiratory failure, while having respiratory-inhibiting illegal drugs in his system, and not be counted among the Black Plague victims...

that's also part of the autopsy.

You're totally missing the point, because you never answered my question, except with a question, which isn't the straight answer I asked of you. So I'll ask you again and all you have to say is a yes, or no answer, ok? Are you saying he deserved to die? Yes, or no?

He killed himself through his poor judgement and actions. Every person has the right to end their own life.

Since there was also no bruising on his throat, according to his autopsy report, his airway wasn't obstructed. Blaming the police for his death is nothing more than trying to calm the crowd. Rushing to judgement on the whole affair is an exercise in bigotry against the police created by the media and racism created by public opinion.

So he also put three Policemen on top of him too and don't forget the knee on the guys throat also? Don't talk shite!! Do you really know how stupid and absurd that sounds? Get real and stay off the Vodka, as your head is pickled!

At PSX......Wrong! Those Police used a prone position restraint that is known to KILL people. They are trained to reposition. He told them he couldnt breathe. They continued to ignore him and their training. Murderer's.
What happened to innocent until proven guilty? Anyone could have a fake bill and not know. It's happened to me. Maybe he had a past so what he deserved the chance to change.