George Floyd. Good Guy.

George Floyd’s Criminal Past

- George Floyd moved to Minneapolis in 2014 after being released from prison in Houston, Texas following an arrest for aggravated robbery.
- On May 25, 2020, Floyd was arrested for passing a counterfeit $20 bill at a grocery store in Minneapolis.
- Floyd has more than a decade-old criminal history at the time of the arrest and went to jail for at least 5 times.
- George Floyd was the ringleader of a violent home invasion.
- He plead guilty to entering a woman’s home, pointing a gun at her stomach and searching the home for drugs and money, according to court records.
- Floyd was sentenced to 10 months in state jail for possession of coc aine in a December 2005 arrest.
- He had previously been sentenced to eight months for the same offence, stemming from an October 2002 arrest.
- Floyd was arrested in 2002 for criminal trespassing and served 30 days in jail.
- He had another stint for a theft in August 1998.

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So with the above being said, he sounds like a good guy right?

Now if this had been anyone else, most reactions to this instance would be he was a criminal. Now of course police using excessive force is not something any of us should be skipping over, the officer in question clearly used excessive force that was not needed. However when we now have this mass demonstration of George Floyd being deemed like this man was a kind and law abiding citizen to the rest of us is just wrong. Having graffiti put up around the streets advertising this man as some kind of idol, to be looked up to is down right wrong on so many levels.

What really really leaves me gobsmacked is the following occurred to this man, not a word:

Timpa's death in the parking lot of an adult video store came after he called 911, saying he was off his medication for schizophrenia and depression and needed help. Questions about what happened in the moments leading to his death have swirled as city officials argued against the release of the body camera footage, according to the Dallas Morning News, but a judge on Monday sided with news outlets who had sought to make the video public.

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HE called the police to protect the public against himself possibly becoming an issue to them because he knew he was off his medication. Yet they come and pin him down, an unarmed man, make sick jokes about him and lean on him for 14 minutes until the man dies. Then they make fun of him and ending it with "I hope I didn't kill him". They did kill him.

Now where in earth is the moral ground of justice?

A career criminal gets more attention and outcry just because of his colour than a white man who was medically sick.

ya, police are kind of terrible in america these days...

"We are the victims! WE ARE!"

What the hell is wrong with you?
Every piece of police brutality is a piece too much! This is no theory-game "why happened it right now and with these circumstances". This is just another drop. You can give the answer to yourself if this was a drop which made the bucket overflow.

And the world watches.

BTW: the riots seem to have slowed down, didn't they?

originally posted by: wheresthebody
ya, police are kind of terrible in america these days...

When you deal with the worst in society every day it brings the worst out in you.

a reply to: BlackProject

Floyd could have kidnapped the Lindberg baby in his past, that still doesn't make it right that he was murdered.

If you want a protest movement for Timpa, start one.

It really amazes me how so many people can only process one issue at a time, it's like their brains malfunction if they think about too much at once.

A saintly pillar of society, an apostle and Kind soul, never an unkind word, he was.............edit

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
a reply to: BlackProject

Floyd could have kidnapped the Lindberg baby in his past, that still doesn't make it right that he was murdered.

If you want a protest movement for Timpa, start one.

It really amazes me how so many people can only process one issue at a time, it's like their brains malfunction if they think about too much at once.

Yes this is an obvious, it certainly does not make it right anyone is killed by the police. They are there to arrest and then for that person to see his or her day in court, not die. That goes without saying here.

I do not wish to protest over Timpa, what I am shocked at is that this happens to George Floyd and the whole world breaks. Where was the justice and reaction for Timpa? I dont have to start a protest to see that nothing was done for this man. Just because of race.

originally posted by: BlackProject
I do not wish to protest over Timpa.

You're just as bad as the people you're calling out then.

originally posted by: jjkenobi

originally posted by: wheresthebody
ya, police are kind of terrible in america these days...

When you deal with the worst in society every day it brings the worst out in you.

At that point police should be psychologically tested and yet they are just left to get worse. Being effect by your job should not come into it. If you work as a chef and one day the stress gets to you and stab someone with a knife, would you say the high stress situation brought out the worst in him? I would say the person had psychological issues. There is no right for doing what the police have done in these two situations or many others of the same nature.

This is probably the main reason stuff like this happens, no testing of police force is being done over time, no check up of their sanity and whether they can do their job safety anymore.

a reply to: jjkenobi


It's really not complicated.

If they can't handle the pressure, they shouldn't have gotten the job.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: BlackProject
I do not wish to protest over Timpa.

You're just as bad as the people you're calling out then.

Guess you are the troll of this forum now.

I am pointing out the disregard for past history that no one acted on. If this news was seen by millions and no one acted on it, then that just shows that again those other then the black community was used to seeing this kind of thing so much so, it was just another day.

So do not talk nonsense.

What upsets me are all the people doing protests in his name asking justice for his horrific death and treatment by the officials.
But where were they during Floyd's life? When he probably needed them the most?
Help him get out of his situation, getting him back on the right path.
I mean, his life decisions weren't bad, they were just catastrophic and pretty much determined his end days.
The only ones really suffering are his family, for the past years seeing their child growing up like this.
What will happen with the next victim, I doubt anyone of these protesters have learned a thing except loot, destroy and acab.
btw. where are the protests for David Dorn? Oow right he was a black cop shot by a black guy, that doesn't count.

originally posted by: BlackProject
I am pointing out the disregard for past history that no one acted on.

By people just like you who were/are outraged and did nothing.

a reply to: BlackProject
In the Tony Timpa case, he was a kid that didn't take his meds for schizophrenia and actually called them to help him.
The police mocked him after they killed him and were aware that they were responsible for killing him when the medics took him away.
Worse yet was the Kelly Thomas murder... where the police beat him to death with their fists. One cop quoted in a recording as he pulled his gloves on...'You see these? These are going to F _ _ _ you up!'

White man Killed by White police, so it don't fit the agenda of the msm.

Nothing for them to race bait people, this is how they work disgustingly..

The injustice part about it the media and White Guilters couldn't care about
it has to be race related first! so they can put in the headline
Colour kill Colour

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: BlackProject
I am pointing out the disregard for past history that no one acted on.

By people just like you who were/are outraged and did nothing.

The point is here clearly his attorney did something, CBS documented on this, did something, American citizens saw this and yet no one protected this man. So just because some left wing cult like organisation use this moment to promote their own message to the world, this is doing something? Thats totally ignoring whats going on here. They are not standing up for him, they are using this to promote themselves. This is why like another poster wrote here, where was they to help George while he was alive?

There is far more situations of police brutality ending in deaths of other races than black race. Also black on white crime, black on black crime far out-weight any other crime stats out there.

originally posted by: Fisherr
White man Killed by White police, so it don't fit the agenda of the msm.

Nothing for them to race bait people, this is how they work disgustingly..

The injustice part about it the media and White Guilters couldn't care about
it has to be race related first! so they can put in the headline
Colour kill Colour

Spot on.

originally posted by: BlackProject
They are not standing up for him...

Just like you.

There is far more situations of police brutality ending in deaths of other races than black race.

And? Kinda proves my point about how thinking about more than one thing causes cerebral short circuits.

Floyd WAS a druggie and a career criminal that assaulted a pregnant black woman by threatening her with a gun to her baby belly...but he never should've died as he did.

This is exactly what they should of said of Floyd, "My heart goes out to his mother," Mata said. "I would hate to lose a child but what killed that man was 20 years of drug abuse."