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Did you actually watch the George Floyd video? It's horrific in a way that echoes through a generation. How is that not newsworthy? You think it's engineered

Did you actually watch the George Floyd video? It's horrific in a way that echoes through a generation. How is that not newsworthy? You think it's engineered outrage? I say it's objectively outrageous.

andyxor 5y ago
I watched the entire trial, video is only one piece of information which was taken out of context and repeated to no end. It's very easy to make superficial judgements and be outraged before knowing all the evidence. Media outlets such as NYT are exploiting this to gain clicks and ad revenue.
Huwyt_Nashi052 5y ago
The injustice was largely engineered. It was deliberately misrepresented. The MSM would have you believe this was an angel of a man murdered by police as he begged for his life. He was a career criminal with a lethal combination of drugs in his system, with Covid-19, trying to discard baggies of drugs during the arrest, who had been testing police with claims of "I can't breathe" long before anyone went anywhere near his neck as a deceitful ploy to avoid arrest. But the MSM will only show you the "right" part of the video. It's been going on for a long time now. The Michael Brown one was extraordinary - the police officer was lucky to escape with his life and yet the MSM presented Brown as a gentle giant slain in cold blood. It's all very fatiguing.
- yakz 5y ago
  The injustice of murder was engineered? What counts as injustice to you?
  - Huwyt_Nashi052 5y ago
    The consensus that this was an unjust "murder" was absolutely engineered. If it wasn't so deliberate, why aren't the facts in my previous comment widely known by the typical naive young activist radicalised into marching in the streets for BLM? Injustice is bronze statues erected to glorify feral black criminals in a country where White children brutally murdered by radicalised blacks barely make the local news.
yongjik 5y ago
FWIW, GP believes George Floyd wasn't killed by the police, so their perception of reality is... a bit at odds with many people in the US. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26926389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26926389
- andyxor 5y ago
  yes, there was plenty of evidence for reasonable doubt, including lethal dose of fentanyl combined with meth in Floyd's system, his chronic BP and sick heart, it's in official coroner report. Unfortunately the jury gave in to the raging mobs and politicians calling for violence in case of a "wrong" verdict, not to mention one of the jurors turned out to be BLM activist. Let's just hope Chauvin's verdict gets thrown out on appeal as it was a travesty of justice.

andyxor 5y ago

I watched the entire trial, video is only one piece of information which was taken out of context and repeated to no end. It's very easy to make superficial judgements and be outraged before knowing all the evidence. Media outlets such as NYT are exploiting this to gain clicks and ad revenue.

Huwyt_Nashi052 5y ago

The injustice was largely engineered. It was deliberately misrepresented. The MSM would have you believe this was an angel of a man murdered by police as he begged for his life. He was a career criminal with a lethal combination of drugs in his system, with Covid-19, trying to discard baggies of drugs during the arrest, who had been testing police with claims of "I can't breathe" long before anyone went anywhere near his neck as a deceitful ploy to avoid arrest. But the MSM will only show you the "right" part of the video. It's been going on for a long time now. The Michael Brown one was extraordinary - the police officer was lucky to escape with his life and yet the MSM presented Brown as a gentle giant slain in cold blood. It's all very fatiguing.

yakz 5y ago
The injustice of murder was engineered? What counts as injustice to you?
- Huwyt_Nashi052 5y ago
  The consensus that this was an unjust "murder" was absolutely engineered. If it wasn't so deliberate, why aren't the facts in my previous comment widely known by the typical naive young activist radicalised into marching in the streets for BLM? Injustice is bronze statues erected to glorify feral black criminals in a country where White children brutally murdered by radicalised blacks barely make the local news.

yongjik 5y ago

FWIW, GP believes George Floyd wasn't killed by the police, so their perception of reality is... a bit at odds with many people in the US. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26926389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26926389

andyxor 5y ago
yes, there was plenty of evidence for reasonable doubt, including lethal dose of fentanyl combined with meth in Floyd's system, his chronic BP and sick heart, it's in official coroner report. Unfortunately the jury gave in to the raging mobs and politicians calling for violence in case of a "wrong" verdict, not to mention one of the jurors turned out to be BLM activist. Let's just hope Chauvin's verdict gets thrown out on appeal as it was a travesty of justice.