WestCanMan

No. The public outrage obviously required it, lots of people had already been murdered as a result of the riots, but in all honesty I think that what Chauvin did was too much, and someone died, so too bad for him. I just don't agree with the riots and murders, and I think that people who cry for Floyd and don't care about Timpa are worthless assholes.

Everything that he sid was non-factual. He's been lying about them from the start. Grow up. Grow up. So hundreds of Ottawa cops, who were right there on the street for days with tens of thousands of truckers, all say one thing and Trudeau says the exact opposite, but you say that Trudeau wasn't lying.... I think that you've just proven the quality of your talking points all by yourself. Don't ride your skateboard, don't stop playing soccer with your hands, just ask yourself why you're hurling sandbox insults and telling lies on behalf of the PM. What has he done for you?

I'm not surprised to see you say such a thing. It's a liberal thing. Liberals are disgusting liars all. The extremely violent protests with the billions of dollars in damage from looting and arson were characterized by the MSM as "mostly peaceful protests". That talking point was universally used by all of the MSM. People were even murdered by BLM protestors, but our own PM calls the truckers racists and vandals and won't meet with them, but he used BLM as an example of protestors which met his lofty standards. Sorry but you're not the MSM, you don't just get to hate monger and lie unchecked here. Chauvin did exactly what the cops did to Tony Timpa. Three of those cops were charged with misdemeanours and not found guilty. https://www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-officers-dont-have-qualified-immunity-in-tony-timpa-case I'm happy to see Chauvin go to jail, but anyone who was upset by Floyd's death and not upset by Timpa's death is a racist or a total moron.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/31/canada-trudeau-denounces-anti-vaccine-trucker-protests Trudeau is a liar and a disgusting hate monger. There were a hundred thousand people taking part in demonstrations all across the country and he's educing them all to what couple of people were not even credibly accused of.

Lack of tolerance is becoming a huge problem in this country over the past few years. That's not just my opinion, it's evidenced in the vax-Nazi sentiments here and the PM's paranoid, hate mongering rants. Ever since 2015 western separation and Quebec separation have become actual issues, and now vaccine mandates have become a rigid, government-enforced version of intolerance as well. If things don't start getting better soon we're going to start seeing a lot of un-Canadian things happening.

If anyone answered this question, I didn't see it. I was wondering the same thing. That was the case with Ambrose, but I don't know if that's always the case. When it happened I think that it was a one-off but I don't know for sure.

I'm not sure what the deal was with him. All of a sudden he just started making a lot of sense one day, he was a real threat to steal conservative votes, next thing he was dead. I never liked Layton or any other NDP up until the last year of Layton' life. It's like he had some kind of epiphany when he found out that he was sick.

You should watch it anyways, in order to fully understand the Floyd situation. When people say that there's no evidence that Floyd's murder was racially motivated, it's because they saw Timpa get murdered exactly the same way. No one jumped to the conclusion that racism had anything to do with Timpa's murder. What does that mean? He watched Global News and thought that it was real? I think there's an epidemic of that around here.

No, it's your job to be up to speed on a topic that you're weighing in on. Everyone knows that Rayshard punched a cop, stole his taser and then shot it at his face. CNN never said "If Rayshard wasn't being stupid, he'd still be alive." They just keep saying that the cops should have let him go. Ditto for Brionna. M Browne. Etc. If you didn't know that, don't blame me. I wasn't your teacher. The theory is that when Floyd stops struggling/resisting, they let him up. All he had to do was lie still for a few seconds.

No, you guessed that racism was a motive, along with CNN et al. That's not speculative understanding, it's speculative, period. Everyone who didn't condemn the rioting in 2020 supported it because of the racism claim. Outside of that it was just another Tony Timpa story, and no one on the left gave a fuck about Tony Timpa. Are you a vax-Nazi? I can't even keep track. There are a lot here. My credibility wasn't in question at all there. You mistakenly accused me of not having the photo I mentioned. Question my character all you want, I give enough cites to prove everything I say. You must be pimping the vax then. Stop it. It was there the whole time, you just didn't look. I was referring to the fact that they get paid every time someone watches one of their ads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tony_Timpa There's video online, if you care to watch.

Dude, you really need to see the Tony Timpa video. It's the epitome of what can happen in that exact scenario. Timpa actually called the police himself because he was off his meds and he got high on coke, and was having an anxiety attack. Some security guards and cops kneeled him to death over the course of about 15 minutes. You won't even be able to watch it all, it's sickening.

Google "every single minute of CNN's programming from May 2014 until January 2017, and May 2020-Aug 2020." Glad to see that you're doing well as a father. If you watch the dashcam footage, you can see that Floyd started it off as poorly as possible. The police came and knocked on his window and he freaked out. They were asking him to show his hands over and over, he just kept reaching over, fumbling around under the passenger seat with his right hand. He obviously had no clue what cops would be worried about in that scenario. The cop actually pulled a gun on him at that point. The situation escalated from 0 to 100 in the first 5 seconds of Floyd's interaction with police on that day. TBH, that's probably got more to do with why black people lost interest in Floyd's case than when he was alone in the car saying "I can't breathe".. They saw ten seconds of the video and they were like "OMFG, this guy was just an idiot. Even a white dude in a Rolls in Beverly Hills coulda got shot by cops right there."

You don't have a specific understanding of Chauvin's motivation, period. Sure, but if you have no actual reason to say that something is racist then you shouldn't say it. I could call you racist all day if that wasn't the case. It's pretty bad for our civilization if every discussion or topic devolves into baseless, snotty insults. So what you're actually saying is that you made an incorrect accusation. Then you went on to talk about my credibility. Nice try. All that actually happened is that your credibility remained unchanged when you were busted for making an incorrect accusation against me. That's like 'par' for a leftist. FWIW, it wasn't 'my ad', it was Goebbels' ad. I actually had to monetize their idiotic propaganda in order to make that point against them. Twice, now that you watched. I feel dirty now, like a person would feel if they accidentally donated to islamic state.

I've heard that Houston is a loony toon leftist city but I've never been there.

When cops are getting murdered it's a really huge deal. If you live in an area where cops are getting murdered, you're living in an area where people don't want to invest money or buy homes. It's economically crippling. It's not being "politicized". It's "absolutely proper" to make a big deal about officers who gave their lives for their community. Anybody who's against that is f_____ in the head.

Is it fine for CNN to tell young black kids that hating cops is reasonable? Is it fine for CNN to tell young black kids that examples of black people being shot after punching and tasering cops is 'just an example of police brutality & racism"? I'd never tell my kid that. I'd never let anyone else tell my kid that. Listen to the cops. Be polite, even if they're wrong. Have your day in court if you must. Rayshard and Floyd were in no danger of being blamed for a murder that they didn't commit. One was guilty of driving impaired, one of them passed some counterfeit money and maybe he just needed to answer some questions. Neither of them had any reason at all to fight. They'd both be doing their thing right now if they were polite to the police.

The problem is that you just don't have a basic understanding of the situation. Something isn't racist just because you don't like it. It's just something that you don't like. You were busted for jumping to conclusions, now you just don't want to admit it. I don't care, I wasn't expecting you to admit the error of your ways.

It's actually a very serious problem that people resist arrest the way that Floyd did. If Floyd hadn't resisted the way that he did there's a zero % chance that he'd be dead at the hands of Chauvin. If Rayshard hadn't resisted the way that he did then the police would have had no reason to kill him. In Floyd's case, resisting still shouldn't have had to result in his death, but he increased the chances from 0.00% to something. And why? He didn't want to get busted for using counterfeit money? Or possibly get off without even a single charge? CNN and CTV aren't doing people any favours by ignoring the danger posed by resisting.

You said that something probably inspired Chauvin to lean more heavily on Floyd. That requires some kind of insight into Chauvin's mind. Let's just both admit that you don't have any insights into Chauvin's mind. FYI I'm not the one engaging in speculation at all. CNN and CBC dolts have been speculating, or rather declaring, since the very beginning, that Floyd's murder "had to be racism because of how callous it seemed". I say with absolute certainty that racism wasn't necessarily the cause of Floyd's death, based on the callousness alone, because Tony Timpa's murder was committed exactly like Floyd's, and Timpa's definitely wasn't racist. If Chauvin and Floyd had a bad history, then that's not necssarily based on racism either. It could be based on the fact that Floyd, the guy who pointed a gun at a pregnant woman's belly during a home invasion, was still an asshole. In fact, it could be based on Floyd's own racism. FYI black people are racist too. There are restaurants and churches all over the US where white people aren't allowed to enter. Leftists did nothing but declare that they absolutely knew that racism was the cause of Floyd's death until the bodycam footage came out. Suddenly their bubble was burst and the riots fizzled immediately. If Ellison had let that bodycam footage out earlier then a lot of harm could have been averted.

Maybe he feels like there will be more scrutiny now than there was in 2020. Also, Dems only believe in elections that they win. They contest everything else. Just remember that before the 2020 election even happened, Hillary was recommending that Joe shouldn't concede the election if he loses. What a difference a day makes.

Your stat shows "law-enforcement deaths" which is not the same as "murders of law-enforcement officers". It includes traffic accidents, friendly fire, heart attacks, etc. Everything that kills them when they're on the job. I can't even really speak to those stats because in 2020 they also counted covid in that death toll. The officers in New York were KIA. Not even in a shootout, a guy just walked up and assassinated them for being cops. It wasn't "politicized". Sorry, but that's a revolting comment. I can't even believe you posted that here.

Exactly. It's all a polling issue. The Dems fared much better with their dolts when they were playing at law and order for 1 day than they did after 3.5 years of supporting riots, arson, looting, assaults, and murders. Pelosi, after 100 days worth of riots, arson, looting, assaults and murder, far away from her gated community: "Sorry but we're not sending the National Guard to your low-rent neighbourhood ? Suck it up, peons." Also Pelosi, after 2 hours of rioting at the Capitol: "WE NEED 20,000 NATIONAL GUARDSMEN HERE FOR 100 DAYS! ONLY PEARL HARBOUR AND 9/11 COMPARE TO THIS!!! THIS IS SEDITION AND TREASON! PEOPLE HANG FOR THOSE CRIMES!!!"

Why? What do you know that no one else knows? Are you honestly speculating that you know what Chauvin was thinking in that moment? Because if you are, that's just your own ignorance speaking.

OMG now the apocalyptic damage makes sense. Canada can never recover from this. We might as well just drink some CBC Kool Ade and end it all.