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    TR> Reports are that Floyd had just tried to pass a couple of counterfeit   
    TR> $20 bills.   
      
   I.e. a misdemeanor -- not a felony.  He might have not even been aware   
   that it was counterfeit.   
      
    TR> Which may be why the cops had come in contact with him to begin with.   
      
   Struth.   
      
    TR> Secondly, although the treatment of him during the arrest was   
    TR> in-excusable, and the cop who was kneeling on him such that it put him   
    TR> in dire life threatening danger should be prosecuted, Floyd is hardly   
    TR> the stuff of martyrs.    
      
   It was not just inexcusable, it was criminal.  And Floyd has become a   
   martyr as a result of the fact that the crime was so clearly and   
   publically documented.   
      
    TR> According to his past record he was a convicted felon. He had arrests   
    TR> for drug possession, theft, and was convicted of an armed robbery in   
    TR> 2007 for which he was sentenced to five years in prison. In the course   
    TR> of that armed robbery he held a gun to a woman's stomach and threatened   
    TR> to kill her if the money wasn't forthcoming!   
      
   I.e. a decade ago and something that should not have even been a part of   
   the current incident.   
      
   He had been living a good and legal life since he was released from   
   prison.   
      
    TR> Theft, various counts of possession of cocaine, criminal trespass, and   
    TR> he also used several aliases. According to a toxicology report he had   
    TR> fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system when he died.   
      
   Those are drugs sometimes prescribed for pain management.  The question   
   might be whether or not the presence of those drugs was prescribed or   
   not.   
      
    TR> He and the cop responsible for his death knew each other and worked   
    TR> together. They were on some sort of security team at a night club.   
      
   Which might elevate the murder charges to first degree if Chauvin had a   
   beef against Floyd at that club.   
      
      
    TR> Questions of `how did Floyd get such a job with his record'....`was   
    TR> there some sort of grudge between him and the cop who caused his   
    TR> death?' won't come up anytime soon.   
      
   OH?  People who have served time should not be hired in spite of having   
   no record or offenses for years?  Is that your considered opinion?   
      
    TR> Anyway, none of that matters to the left....they were looking for an   
    TR> excuse to get a free new plasma tv and a bunch of top shelf whiskey,   
    TR> and Floyd is a bolt out of the blue for them.   
      
   What does left or right have to do with looters.  They are opportunist   
   criminals and should not be equated with peaceful protesters.   
      
    TR> His death was unnecessary. Even prosecutable. But not in any way an   
    TR> excuse for murder, looting and arson.   
      
   His "crime", if there was one, was not in any way an excuse for murder.   
   There is never any excuse for looting and arson -- but you should not   
   paint all of the thousands of peaceful protesters with that brush.   
      
                                  Dale Shipp   
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