-=> On 08-12-20  07:21,  Aaron Thomas <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Re: It is what it is <=-


 DS> they had been given a fake $20 bill.  No one ever attempted to determine
 DS> whether or not Floyd had known that the bill was fake.

 AT> That's for a court to decide! Do you think the cops are gonna pull a
 AT> lie  detector out of their trunk and hook it up to a suspect at the
 AT> scene? 

It would have very easy for the cop to have given Floyd a warrant to
appear in court instead of cuffing him under gunpoint.

 AT> Guilty until bail is posted - that's the way it's always been. Not
 AT> just for  blacks either!
 
That has never been the way it has always been.  It is innocent until
proven guilty in a court of law.

 DS> It is believable that having a gun pushed in your face would cause most
 DS> people to "flip out".

 AT> Believable by who? Anderson Cooper? Brooke Baldwin? I've had guns
 AT> pointed to  my head before - even by police. Flipping out is a stupid
 AT> move. I didn't flip  out and I survived to tell my story.

Every person is different.

 AT> Do you want our cops to stop carrying guns? To stop using them? What
 AT> good will they be without guns?

The British do pretty well without carrying guns.

 AT> Do convenience store clerks flip out
 AT> when they get guns  pointed to their heads? 

Sometimes they do, sometimes they yield to their training of go ahead
and let the guy have the money.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
                              (1:261/1466)



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