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Here's Fascist gently caress A and B doing their Normal poo poo.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2021 05:09

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https://www.insider.com/derek-chauvin-trial-minneapolis-police-officer-quit-over-trial-reaction-2021-4

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Ashley Collman
Mon, April 12, 2021, 3:25 AM
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A Minneapolis police officer monitoring a protest. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images
Insider spoke with a former Minneapolis police officer who quit days before Derek Chauvin's trial.

He said he believed rioting would break out at the close of the trial and he feared getting killed.

Chauvin's trial over George Floyd's death began March 29, and witnesses have been testifying.

Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.

A former Minneapolis police officer who quit the department days before the start of Derek Chauvin's trial said he did so fearing there would be riots in the city no matter the outcome.

The officer, a former sergeant, spoke on the condition that he not be named, but his identity is known to Insider.

The former officer said he was up for retirement soon and worried about his safety in what he predicts will be "riots and more destruction" when the jury reaches a verdict, which could happen this month. Chauvin's trial in Minneapolis began March 29.

"If Minnesota had the death penalty and Chauvin got it, people in Minneapolis are still going to riot," the officer said. "They're still going to burn the city down."

"I don't want to get myself hurt or killed," he said.

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Protesters outside a burning building in Minneapolis on May 28. John Minchillo/AP
Chauvin is standing trial in the death of George Floyd, the Black man who died last May after Chauvin knelt on his neck for several minutes during an arrest. Chauvin was immediately fired from the Minneapolis Police Department, along with the three other officers who were present at the arrest.

Floyd's death reinvigorated the Black Lives Matter movement and prompted demonstrations both in Minneapolis and around the world. While the protests were largely peaceful, there were incidents of rioting, including multiple nights of violence in Minneapolis.

In an indication of the tensions between racial-justice protesters and the Minneapolis police, protests once again broke out in the city and surrounding areas on Sunday night following the news that a 20-year-old Black man had been fatally shot during a traffic stop.

Chauvin faces charges of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. The trial for the other three officers, each charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and manslaughter, is scheduled to start later this summer.

An exodus at the Minneapolis PD
The former officer Insider spoke with said he was part of an exodus of officers from the department since Floyd's death.

In November, The Washington Post reported Chief Medaria Arradondo of the Minneapolis Police Department as saying that more than 100 officers had left the force since Floyd's death - more than double the number lost in a typical year. The Minneapolis Star Tribune put that number at more than 10% of the entire force.

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Demonstrators with signs honoring George Floyd at a protest outside Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis on March 28. Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images
"The morale in the department is the lowest I've seen it in almost 30 years," the officer said.

He said another motivating factor for his exit was how police leaders had handled the fallout from Floyd's death, adding that he believed officers didn't feel supported by the administration.

"I've never seen such a weak form of leadership," he said.

He specifically took issue with the department's new guiding principle of "do no harm."

"People are afraid to do their jobs," he told Insider. "Nobody wants to use force in the department anymore," he added, saying it put officers at risk of getting hurt.

"There's no support from our leadership. We're a sinking ship, and I'm not going to be on it."

The former officer said Chauvin wasn't following protocol in kneeling on Floyd's neck, but said he believes Floyd died of a drug overdose.

At Chauvin's trial on Monday, a cardiologist testified that Floyd did not die of a heart attack or a drug overdose, but from a "cardio pulmonary arrest" caused by the "position that he was subjected to."

A Minneapolis city spokesman said he was "unable to discuss any aspects of the trial or case" because of a judicial mandate. The city now handles the police department's press inquiries after the city council voted to remove the department's public-information officer after Floyd's death.

# ¿ Apr 14, 2021 05:17

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Ghost Leviathan posted:

They really are just crying that they can't kill people without consequence anymore.

That's the vibe I got for sure.

# ¿ Apr 14, 2021 05:40

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For our next witness we will be bringing in a phrenology expert

# ¿ Apr 14, 2021 20:22

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Velocity Raptor posted:

Don't cops get a lot of poo poo from the other inmates in prison as well?

Lol this is actually kind of bullshit. The level of ignorance lost people have about prison dynamics is fairly high.

I mean no disrespect but generalities don't usually hold weight in prisons. Guards and white supremacists are basically hand in hand colluding. So the fact that derek chauvin killed a (insert favorite anti black slurr here) means he is a protected hero by the guard-supremacist alliance that exists in many prisons and the black/nation of islam gangs,, asian gangs, and hispanic gangs are not going to knife derek chauvin as they'd lose their drug pipeline which allows control of the majority of prison functions and prisoners.

Sorry for my all over the place explanation. There really is no good way to get my point across without delving deep into prison culture in a way that forum posting just wont relay. I haven't been in any prisons etc but being in the Army made me more receptive to the knowledge on the invisible side of this issue.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2021 01:23

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Jaxyon posted:

I'd really be interested in a prison culture post/thread because we incarcerate more than anyone in the US and because of that it's a really serious part of the US and US politics that most [white] people are blind to.

There was a prison stories thread which I think was on SA which had a lot of poo poo in it.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2021 02:08

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Less Fat Luke posted:

https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1384624882600796167

Jesus Christ Nancy

Edit: Also I don't know what "The Recount" is, it's just the best quality clip I could find of this. Hope it's not some Nazi org or something.

Nancy can barely pretend to be a human being while doing this pandering

# ¿ Apr 20, 2021 22:55

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Literally Kermit posted:

I�m not entirely clear on how juries for big cases work, and it probably changes state to state: how many jurors and alternates are there for an active trial? Is �52� his overall all number in the section process, I presume?

Iirc there were 2 alternates selected. But a legalgoon can probably explain better

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I for one am Glad the federal government is going to step in to white supremacist gangs in the police forces of this country.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2021 05:28

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