-=> On 08-13-20  10:08,  Aaron Thomas <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Re: It is what it is <=-


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

 AT> It's easy to tell others how to do their job, but Derek Chauvin has a 
 AT> lieutenant to answer to.

 AT> Cops give appearance tickets to people who were caught speeding, or
 AT> running a  red light. But certain offenses require the suspect to be
 AT> detained &  processed.

Exactly my point.

 AT> Counterfeiting is not like a speeding ticket. It's like stealing
 AT> someone's  credit card and then trying to use it. People speed by
 AT> accident, but they  don't counterfeit by accident.

And there is no evidence that Floyd counterfeited anything.  He is
accused of passing a counterfeit note -- which could easily have been by
accident.  Nothing has come out since to imply otherwise.

 AT> I'm confident that a police sergeant isn't going to take a suspect to
 AT> the  police station for processing if he doesn't have to. You seem to
 AT> be arguing  that counterfeiting is as harmless as a traffic violation.

I am not arguing that counterfeiting is harmless, but that is not what
Floyd was suspected of.  Passing a counterfeit bill is not a serious
offense until it is proven that it was with knowledge of it being
counterfeit.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
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