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It is reported that this same cop has had three prior,
violent “run-ins” regarding his police conduct not being
appropriate, but here he is again, kneeing someone to death
over a trifling nonviolent offense.
And where are the other three police officers? They are
standing by as mute witnesses to one of their own, callously
and inhumanely, murdering a person who still has the right
to protest and prove his innocence.
But for this white cop, placing his knee on the neck of
a black man seems racially perverse and almost as if he got
pleasure from inflicting such torment, knowing that the
dying man was no threat to him or to himself.
For that white cop, what mattered was that he was in
control and he was going to inflict maximum harm on this
“perp” and if that meant death and dying under his knee,
well, so be it.
Why didn’t one of his police buds tell him to stop and
get off this guy’s neck and place him in a squad car? Why
did not one of them have the guts to tell this Neanderthal
cop that he was doing harm and that he needed to get off
this guy’s neck?
Why? Because it is the unwritten code that the boys in
blue do not interfere with a fellow cop and much less
“squeal” on them.
The three other cops could have remembered their
slogan of, “To Protect and Serve” but in this case, serving
and protecting this soon to be dead black man was apparently
not of any consequence to any of them.
Imagine if all three of the onlooking cops (or even
one of them) has the strength of character to stop this
murder and to physically confront this murderer from
executing an innocent man.
Imagine. When the other body cam footage is shown to
the public, I contend that it will show that this cop
brutalizing this man, intentionally abandoning all taught
principles of containment; and was so fixated in snuffing
out the life of the hapless, handcuffed man, that the last
thing he thought of was protecting the civil rights of his
prisoner.
And you wonder why so many black and brown people are
highly suspicious of cops because the rotten ones cause so
much psychic pain and residual fear.
Yeah, all four of the cops were fired and their police
union will do the usual song and dance of urging the public
not to judge them until all of the evidence is in; and there
will be the usual lawsuits against the City of Minneapolis
for police brutality.
This band of four rogue cops will find other
employment (probably with other police departments!) and
they will lament and rue how badly they were treated by the
media.
But an apology from the knee jerk killing cop to the
family of George Floyd? That won’t be in the cards.
The murder of George Floyd was eerily similar to the
chokehold death of Eric Garner in New York City some five
years ago and, in that case, the killing cop was not charged
with murder.
Will a grand jury indict the killer cop for murder
and will a probably near all-white jury condemn him for this
public execution? Only time will tell.
This murder, done by an agent of the City of
Minneapolis, only graphically reinforces the latent
knowledge that black people possess and that is America was
originally never designed to accommodate or welcome them…
and much less afford them equal protection of the law as
their birthright.
Contact Lafe Tolliver at tolliver@juno.com
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