With all that's going on in our nation, now this. . . The death of this man is a horrible thing that absolutely needs to be addressed; the video is so hard to watch.  However, what do the rioters think they are accomplishing???   It's not about Floyd now, it's about THEM.   With the alcohol and music and dancing I saw the first night, it was like a big ole party.   With lots of profanity and vulgarity.  I just don't get it.

As a MN resident, I am so embarassed and heartbroken for what is going on.

I want to see those officers charged 110%, everyone was on their side. Now we are shutting businesses down in fear of being burned to the ground. Its sad and pathetic.

I want someone to check the bank accounts of the cops who are blatantly guilty.  I also want to know what their leaders (who are democrats...)(I don't care if they're green n purple) are doing to stop this...oh wait...silence.

This is a media frenzy designed to press the divide.  TOO many people are coming together right now.  They need division.

Notice COVID is non-existent in the stories now.  Didn't work...find something else. 

Tearing up thousands of innocent lives (might or might not be death involved, haven't followed closely) because of one horrendous death doesn't add up to me.  I don't get what destroying a city does to fix anything except add to negative stereotypes.   There is a huge lack of RESPECT for every last thing in that city....people or property. Sad.  

What I can't believe is the number of people condoning this violence. There is a guy on Instagram I follow. He is an artist. He makes amazing silver jewelry, much of it western style. He condoned this behavior and when I politely explained why I could not condone this behavior and was going to unfollow him, he hit me with "everyone needs a safe space" indicating I was invading his with my comments. I guess I was but he has a public account and he posted a picture of burning buildings with idiots standing and cheering in front of them and HE needs a safe place? What about the business owners and their employees I asked. Then he hit me with I thought you unfollowed me. Well, I always reply when some one else sends a comment to me. 

I'm glad you started this thread. I've been getting some REALLY interesting articles and comments on this whole topic. I'd like to start posting them here if that's not overstepping. 

Trump tweeted that there was a need to crack down on the rioting in Minneapolis.  Hillary accused him of inciting violence against U.S. citizens.  When you deal with Democrats all reason goes by the wayside.

Yep, now the guy posted he does not condone destruction of businesses. Well then why did you post that particular picture? Idiots. He is so dumb! Does he think they wouldn't burn his business to the ground if he was doing business in that city? Ugh, the stupidity is mind numbing!

OK since nobody took my head off for asking, I'm going to bring some information here.  FB is lighting up with information. 

Re: Murder of Mr Floyd.

Please people be aware this is another false flag (FF) event. Not a FF that Mr Floyd didn't die and wasn't murdered. All evidence says that is true. FF means the whole thing and now the riots are coordinated events.

Please be safe. POTUS will get to the bottom of this very soon. Pray for our country and all our people. <3 Read below.

This comment was found in another group but has some good points:

Not sure who posted this, but pretty observant views of person who did. If true, how much more horrible this act was. Truly is Noteworthy and worth the read if you watched the footage.

Staged Event???
These officers were involved with something, I’m not sure exactly what, but something is just not adding up.

I think there is at the very least the “possibility”, that this was a filmed public execution of a black man by a white cop, with the purpose of creating racial tensions and driving a wedge in the growing group of anti deep state sentiment from common people, that have already been psychologically traumatized by Covid 19 fears.

Historically, in election years and in politically contested areas or in groups, racial or gun violence incidents are becoming common place. Considering the rising approval rating of President Trump in the black community, an event like this was unfortunately “Predictable”
Consider these points and contrast them to every other police brutality incident you've ever seen.

The filmed portion of the incident was about 10 minutes long. In that amount of time, three officers are holding one handcuffed man down. You only know that because of the pictures taken from across the street. You can't see the other two officers in the video because they are behind the vehicle. During 8 minutes of the entire video, the officer has his knee on George Floyd's neck, which is not taught or approved by any law enforcement agency.

Additionally, other than the Asian officer speaking occasionally to the crowd of bystanders, there is no communication from any of the officers to Mr. Floyd. No talking, no shouting. When have you ever seen a police brutality video without police shouting?

Additionally, the police had no goal. They weren't trying to subdue him for arrest, he was already handcuffed and all they needed to do, was place him in the back of the car. There is no plausible explanation for taking him to the ground and having three men on top of a handcuffed man, a knee placed on his neck. Mr. Floyd presented no threat and was not resisting. The only goal that there appeared to be was exactly what happened: “To be filmed brutally killing a black man”.

Think about this, these officers did not care about being filmed, in fact the officer stared into the camera with soulless eyes and an emotionless face, reminiscent of an assassin, as he knowingly killed an American Citizen.
None of the officers spoke among themselves or did they speak to Mr. Floyd. They did not respond to his pleas for life. They just sat and kneeled on him until he was passed out and then waited an additional 4 minutes after Mr. Floyd lost consciousness to ensure that Mr. Floyd was dead and could not be revived.

The bystanders are verbally communicating to the officers, that he isn't breathing. Unlike any other similar incident, you never see the officers getting on police radios. You never see or hear them calling dispatch for backup. No other police units arrive on the scene and ?strangely enough, the crowd does not seem to grow either.
The scene does not end until an ambulance arrives and they unceremoniously flop him on a gurney. At no point does anyone in a uniform ever check his vitals. “As if they aren't remotely curious about the situation they are in” BTW. who called the ambulance and for what reason? Because if the reason was that Mr. Floyd was having a medical issue, they wouldn't have still been crushing his neck.

Shortly after the video went viral, a fake Facebook page supposedly belonging to the officer, at the center of the murder appears and pictures are uploaded that say "Stand your Ground" and "Trump 2020". A picture of the cop with a red ball-cap that says "Make America White Again". A friends list populated with obvious sock accounts and people clearly not his friends. This is the same kind of fake Facebook stunt that happened with a group made to look like support for the men involved with the Ahmed Aubrey case.

Is it mere coincidence that this happens the week after “race” becomes a major political issue after the Biden "You ain't Black" gaffe, started to threaten the black vote the Democrats so desperately count on?

Additionally, there is substantial video evidence to arrest at least one officer now. Why would the local authorities not charge him immediately, unless there was a political advantage not to!

Is it mere coincidence that this happens right about the exact moment the COVID-19 fear campaign falls apart, and after it has psychologically traumatized the entire country and got everyone at each other's throats and suicide attempts are spiking? Is it mere coincidence that this happens after the Auhmed Aubrey case... Which somehow eluded the mainstream media completely until two whole months after he was killed? When has that ever happened? Timing issue? Is it mere coincidence that Supreme Race Baiter Obama was making videos a couple weeks ago connecting COVID with "Systemic Racism"?

FINALLY....???? this entire scene plays out with the cop car and license plate that says "POLICE". The plate was perfectly framed for maximum subliminal impact. This also means he was literally just 1 foot away from the back seat of the police car and these cops thought it was smarter to kill a black man on camera, than to pick him up and move him one foot into the back of the police car.

You can draw your own conclusions, but this appears to have all the earmarks of George Soros. Please open your eyes!!!!

Thanks to Chris Tanner for photo and research

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https://kstp.com/news/george-floyd-fired-officer-overlapped-security-shifts-at-south-minneapolis-club-may-28-2020/5743990/?cat=1&fbclid=IwAR3lSZy_Xmj0s2iMxxsFdYMyZhFHmukctPlABkdHYf0AxHw_tVGRgzqmRYA

"Chauvin was our off-duty police for almost the entirety of the 17 years that we were open," Santamaria said. "They were working together at the same time, it's just that Chauvin worked outside and the security guards were inside." 

5 INVESTIGATES has reached out to Chauvin's attorney and the Minneapolis Police Department, but they could not be reached for comment at the time this story was published.

 

George Floyd and Derek Chauvin

KSTP's complete coverage 

Although the two overlapped working security on popular music nights within the last year, Santamaria can not say for certain they knew each other because there were often a couple dozen security guards, including off-duty officers.

Santamaria says she did not recognize either one of her security guards in the video showing Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck not far from where they used to work.

"My friend sent me (the video) and said this is your guy who used to work for you and I said, 'It's not him.' And then they did the closeup and that's when I said, 'Oh my God, that's him,'" Santamaria said. "I didn't recognize George as one of our security guys because he looked really different lying there like that."

Santamaria still operates La Raza 95.7 FM radio station in the same building that houses El Nuevo Rodeo, but a power outage has knocked them off-air as a result of Tuesday's protests. The Latino owned business is two blocks east of where protests erupted in front of the Minneapolis Police Department Third Precinct and spilled into nearby businesses. Like their neighbors, the building's glass doors are shattered and now covered in graffiti. 

"All of the neighborhood has come out to volunteer and clean up and lend a hand," Santamaria said.

Santamaria says they are still updating the Latino community on their Facebook page until they can get power back.

Derek Chauvin, the police officer responsible, has been arrested.   Just saw this on the internet. 

He'll prob get the Epstein treatment in jail and live on his private island the rest of his life....  J/S

How could sopmeone be so idiotic and moronish to even suggest that this was a "staged" event?? That's striahgt out of the Q-Anon, 4 Chan playbook to make such an accusation.

The only people dumber than the person that wrote that are the idiots that believe it.

The alt-right has stooped to low dealings before and the panderers like dan bongong, laura ingrate, rush dumbaugh and Faux News keep pusing for the alt-right to go even lower. To call the murder of this man at the hands of the policie a "staged event" is as low as they can get.

My God! Do you people have any decency??

Yikes! I did not mean to punch the love button below. I find jd&edz post funny. I was wondering when and what cr$p he would spew.

lol, I just figured out how to make that little like face go away. 

This was MURDER I dont see nothing staged at all just murder, you can see it in the eyes of this police officer not a care at all what he was doing to this man, the other police officers just didnt give a rats butt about this man laying on the ground with this evil mans knee on this black mans throat. 

The coldness of the whole screams set up to me. I have seen cops when they feel threatened and that is NOT how they act. They scream, they get very tense, they seem on the edge of a loss of self control. Every. Time. THIS was so controlled, so cold that I wouldn't be surprised if it was a set up which to me makes it an even worse crime. 

i can not understand it . i just don/t nor the looters and vandals   

i agree with shoot looters  they are criminals making a very bad sitituation worse

i do not understand why these cops did that killed a man   murder

Have you seen the video of the paramedics loading him up in the ambulance?  None of what happened in that video is even remotely showing the apperance of trying to save that mans life, something is not what it seems.

Aren't you tired of being lied to?  I sure am.

Man, I apologize! I took it to mean Mr. Floyd was set up to be murdered. On purpose, that it was meant to be on film. Like a mafia hit. 
I absolutely believe he was murdered for real. 
but I believe it was in the coldest, deliberate way. Which makes it all the MORE horrifying. Those cops did it ON PURPOSE, not because they felt theeatened

In Wichita Kansas in the year 2000 the Carr brothers (black) murdered an innocent woman in her driveway.  They weren't caught and sometime later broke into the home of five (white) very decent young people, one of them a school teacher.  They were having a friendly get-together.  These brothers treated them in the most horrendous way, making them strip naked, raping them and forcing them to have sex with each other.  They killed their dog who was no threat to them.  They then took them to their respective ATM's, drained their bank accounts, then drove them to a snowbank and shot them all in the head.  One of the girls survived because the bullet actually deflected off her barrette.  She walked naked to a house a mile way and got help.  It was too late for her friends but she survived to identify the Carr's.

So there were no riots, no looting, no protesters, only shock.  The Carr brothers were sentenced for death but of course it was commuted to life by the do-gooders who seem to think taxpayers should feed them for the rest of their lives.  This was soooo much worse than what happened in Minneapolis but people stayed civil.  The whole race thing is Democrat propaganda gone wild and why shouldn't racism swing both ways if that's the way they want to play this game.  Why is it only racism when it involves white on black.