Minneapolis Cop kills handcuffed black man with knee on his neck (house, purchase)

[Milwaukee City]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TRgucHzU0o


Minnesota Nice ;

[cjseliga]

Originally Posted by wamer27

A lawyer friend commented that getting a murder charge is going to be next to impossible, as you have to prove the intent. Basically, they'll say they didn't mean to kill him and were taught to use knees on necks to subdue someone and never knew it would kill him.

At the very least, there is going to be a wrongful death lawsuit filed (if it hasn't already) from Floyd's family against the officers.

[faranbrygo]

What wretched examples of the calling. My dad was a cop, and I attended the academy myself. I have no sympathy or mercy for bad cops. Lock them up. Maybe they'll survive the pen, maybe not. They earned that.

[Ghengis]

Originally Posted by cjseliga

At the very least, there is going to be a wrongful death lawsuit filed (if it hasn't already) from Floyd's family against the officers.

no, the Minneapolis tax payer will foot the bill for this as they should and so regularly do, to the tune of a few million dollars a year for the past 15 or so years.

[Ghengis]

from 2013...

https://www.pintas.com/blog/minneapo...ce-misconduct/

Police brutality lawyers at Pintas & Mullins Law Firm report that the Minneapolis City Council recently approved a $3 million settlement with the family of a man that died in an incident with the city’s police officers. The man, 28-year-old Cornelius Smith, passed away in 2010 at the downtown YMCA.

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Following his death, Smith’s family filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging the officers used excessive force which eventually led to Smith’s suffocation. According to the suit, the officer’s used a controversial tactic referred to as “physical prone restraint” while trying to subdue Smith.

This tactic involves holding the arms and legs with varying pressure (depending on the circumstance) while the person being restrained lies on their front, in a face-down position. If the pressure to the back of the body is too forceful, it can become difficult to take in oxygen. Current Minnesota state law will ban prone restraint beginning in August 2013.

[jacktravern]

Originally Posted by phlinak

First, I live in Alaska NOW but I don't "like" Alaska, it's just where the work is.

Second, before I moved to Alaska, I lived on the East Coast under Philly, DC, and Baltimore PD for almost as long as you've been alive. Yet, unlike you, I managed to be stopped for DWB, only a handful of times.

Your turn.

Terrific news by you. The point is, I've been stopped a bunch for various reasons, and somehow have come out unscathed. It's really not that hard if you LISTEN and don't act like an idiot causing the cops to have more fear than they already have. And the one time it even went so far as to get put up against the car and patted down is because my friend in the front passenger seat had a bit of a smart mouth.

[leoliu]

Originally Posted by Ghengis

must have been too tall of an order to lift Mr. Floyd the three feet into the cop car with only three people.

what a gang of cruel animals in the MPD force...MPD chief should be held accountable for recruiting these salvages to serve its people......

[1greatcity]

I’m from St Louis, where we experienced the unrest centered in Ferguson following the killing of Michael Brown by local police.
The video of that pleading man being suffocated to death has left us all shaken to the core. Sickened. People of Minneapolis: We totally understand your outrage and the public demonstrations. Those police officers— the very people whose job is protecting the citizens of your city— are nothing but racist murderers. They must not get off with a slap on the wrist. They should be punished to the full extent of the law. Truly a sad time for Minneapolis—and for America.

[jacktravern]

He must've really pissed these cops off and they responded with force that he never thought would happen. In the heat of it, they got a little carried away. But does anyone notice that much like the Rodney King situation, the other 2 occupants got out of the car completely unscathed.

I'll be curious to hear the whole story when it comes out. AT most 2 cops will likely see prison, but likely get sentences somewhere between Jason Van Dyke in Chicago's 7 year sentence, and less that the 20 years the cop got in the Walter School shooting. Anybody who thinks they are going away for life on Murder 1 is delusional, emotional, and has no concept of law.

ANd then of course the family will get a pay day. It's funny how these guys that get killed, are never worth much, and in fact are worth a lot more dead than alive

[Ghengis]

Originally Posted by leoliu

what a gang of cruel animals in the MPD force...MPD chief should be held accountable for recruiting these salvages to serve its people......

Chief Arrandondo is relatively new to the position and once successfully suedthe Dept for their discrimination culture along with four other black officers. He appears to be fighting for change and fired the four officers at relatively breakneck speed.