Do you actually think Chauvin will get a fair trial?

Is it uniquely American? Not really. The U.S. is in the middle of the pack, but that's still way too high on the list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_by_country

These are also two very different topics. Sokar pulled into the discussion a topic about police-involved shootings in the U.S., the numbers of which are driven almost entirely by gangster culture leading young men down a path of criminal activity and violence that police are then forced to confront, putting those young men in the line of fire with each other even more frequently than with police. When 6% of a country's population commits over 50% of all homicides, there's a cultural problem that needs to be addressed with that 6%, i.e. this isn't a problem with a large number of incompetent, or racist, etc. cops. It's a problem with a pervasive culture that breeds violent criminals within certain regions (for which skin color is a byproduct, not a cause).

https://moviechat.org/bd0000082/Politics/604a86c0b6eeb763cc82d99d/The-Hard-Truth-About-Police-Shootings
https://moviechat.org/bd0000082/Politics/604a86c0b6eeb763cc82d99d/The-Hard-Truth-About-Police-Shootings?reply=604c4fd360e35279fd2e7b7d

The other topic that may be more pertinent to the Chauvin-Floyd situation is police shootings involving unarmed suspects, of which there were only 27 in 2019 (although "only" 27 is still too high). And most of these involve situations where the suspect was a known criminal being approached for breaking the law and then resisting arrest, and in a number of them the officer using poor judgment or panicking and making a fatal, career-ending mistake. But cops do make mistakes far too often, which does bring up a question of adequate training. They are only human, however, and putting a human being into a tense situation greatly increases the probability of a mistake being made, no matter how trained or experienced they may be.

But not even that is entirely relevant to the Chauvin-Floyd event since it wasn’t an officer-involved shooting. In this case, at least in my mind, this was more about emergency professionals (all the cops, EMTs, and everyone else involved) failing to recognize that a suspect, who was rightly being detained for criminal activity and resisting arrest, was experiencing medical distress, quite possibly due to Fentanyl and a pre-existing heart condition. Regardless of the cause, and even if Chauvin didn’t actually restrict his airway with the maneuver he’d been trained to employ, he and the other professionals on the scene never bothered to check and see if Floyd was actually experiencing a medical problem. At a minimum this is negligence.

Even more importantly than the impending outcome of Chauvin’s trial, and directly relevant to dackbar’s question, it suggests that this precinct (and probably many others) needs to take a hard look at their training, because there was no excuse for the outcome. How everyone involved missed that Floyd was experiencing a real medical emergency is hard to fathom. While not a perfect fit, I suspect Chauvin's walking away with at least second-degree manslaughter, possibly the other two (although I highly question that second-degree murder is appropriate).

Anyone who thinks he's skating out of this because of his skin color isn't paying attention to reality.
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You can hide behind that. But you damn well know you agree with republicans far more than you agree with democrats.

Anywhere else, your post would've been removed instantly. That's why you're on this board. Most of the posters on here like the lax rules compared to other sites that have real moderation, which has turned this platform into a right-wing extremist haven.

Repubs did lose about as badly as possible though, so I can see why you wouldn't want to be labeled as one.