Crime posthumous pardon for George Floyd

[andnowweknow]

The people taking the time and effort to pardon a dead man for political reasons were right wing?

The people complaining about a dead guy being pardoned for non violent drug offenses are all right wing.

"Time and effort"...how long do you think this took to draft for the governor to sign?

 

[Striderxdj]

LOL. Only right wingers care about bullshit like this and start threads about it with circle jerk posts and projection about what the left wants and then votes and acts based on culture war crap instead of substantive issues.

This×100000

 

[Heisenboom]

Dead bad guy wins in the end? Amusing. Not heard a single good thing about him.

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

The people complaining about a dead guy being pardoned for non violent drug offenses are all right wing.

"Time and effort"...how long do you think this took to draft for the governor to sign?

More time than for everyone’s posting in this thread combined.

 

[CantCucktheTuck]

Chauvin did nothing wrong.

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

Chauvin did nothing wrong.

Other than not rendering aid to a man dying in his custody?

 

[A Very Serious Cat]

LOL. Only right wingers care about bullshit like this and start threads about it with circle jerk posts and projection about what the left wants and then votes and acts based on culture war crap instead of substantive issues.

You're acting like any discussion here really matters. It's all just entertainment, nothing more.

 

[Mark Hunts FIST]

If you do that because of the police officer who arrested him, you're going to have to do that for every single arrest that officer made.
I don't think Abbott will open that box.

 

[BFoe]

I'm sure the left likes and is celebrating this

Yeah, I’m good with it. I’m not a big fan of drug charges in the first place. In this case, there’s some weird circumstances and the undercover cop who busted him is corrupt and facing murder charges based on a botched drug raid which should’ve never happened, as he illegally obtained a no-knock warrant and tried to cover up that it was illegal.
In August 2019, Goines was charged with two counts of murder related to a botched narcotics raid at a home in southeast Houston. Goines' police colleague, Steven Bryant, pleaded guilty in June to federal charges of falsifying records and interfering with a government investigation in an attempt to help Goines cover up an illegally obtained "no-knock" warrant on the Houston home of Rhogena Nicholas and her husband, Dennis Tuttle.

 

[BFoe]

If you do that because of the police officer who arrested him, you're going to have to do that for every single arrest that officer made.
I don't think Abbott will open that box.

I don’t think Abott will do that either. But he should, shouldn’t he? At the very least, those cases should all be reviewed. There could be God-knows-how-many-people rotting away in prison because of a corrupt POS cop. That goes against everything our system is supposed to stand for.

edit: after digging further, I found that 1400 cases were reviewed. Sounds like Floyd deserves his pardon.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/houston-r...-cases-light-botched-police/story?id=61204009

 

[andnowweknow]

Chauvin did nothing wrong.

Regardless, he rots in prison.

 

[tenniswhiz]

What a waste of taxpayer money. Plus that’s just one of many things he was convicted for like when he attacked a pregnant woman.

Anyways, RIP Saint George.

Source on the woman being pregnant?
Something factual please.

Otherwise I agree with you.

I just happen to like facts.

 

[Mark Hunts FIST]

I don’t think Abott will do that either. But he should, shouldn’t he? At the very least, those cases should all be reviewed. There could be God-knows-how-many-people rotting away in prison because of a corrupt POS cop. That goes against everything out system is supposed to stand for.

I'm 100% in favor for reviewing any of the cases that he was involved with.
Just because its George Floyd, does not mean his case should get wiped away.
Put that energy, money into living people that are wrongly incarcerated

 

[BFoe]

I'm 100% in favor for reviewing any of the cases that he was involved with.
Just because its George Floyd, does not mean his case should get wiped away.
Put that energy, money into living people that are wrongly incarcerated

It sounds like we agree on your first and third points
I don’t think we can accurately say this is happening *just* because he’s George Floyd can we? It’s happening because of the actions of the corrupt cop who allegedly busted him.
As I dug a bit more, I I see that they actually did do a review of cases tied to this cop—1400 of them. So if they reviewed Floyd’s case, and the parole board unanimously voted to pardon Floyd, then probably Abbott should pardon him. Agree?

 

[Dan O]

As someone raised Pentecostal, this is a new kind of crazy for me.

 

[Mark Hunts FIST]

It sounds like we agree on your first and third points
I don’t think we can accurately say this is happening *just* because he’s George Floyd can we? It’s happening because of the actions of the corrupt cop who allegedly busted him.
As I dug a bit more, I I see that they actually did do a review of cases tied to this cop—1400 of them. So if they reviewed Floyd’s case, and the parole board unanimously voted to pardon Floyd, then probably Abbott should pardon him. Agree?

I have seen no evidence presented that George Floyd was wrongly convicted of the drug offense.
I'll be curious to see what evidence this parole board saw.
His record would indicate that it's pretty likely he had drugs on him.

 

[andnowweknow]

More time than for everyone’s posting in this thread combined.

It's only fair to factor in the millions of alt right Facebook users and the hundreds of hours each will dedicate to this topic.

 

[BFoe]

I have seen no evidence presented that George Floyd was wrongly convicted of the drug offense.
I'll be curious to see what evidence this parole board saw.
His record would indicate that it's pretty likely he had drugs on him.

I’d be interested as well. If it’s simply an undercover sting and there isn’t much evidence other than the testimony of the arresting officer, I’d have a whole lot of reasonable doubt about that officer’s version of events. This article says than 160 drug cases tied to this cop have been dismissed. This doesn’t look like a George Floyd thing, this is a very serious credibility issue with the arresting officer.

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

It's only fair to factor in the millions of alt right Facebook users and the hundreds of hours each will dedicate to this topic.

Not really. I’m just on Sherdog. And none of us are being paid with tax dollars to take a stand.

But if you want to, it might be fair to pardon everyone with similar charges if punishment for the crimes he was convicted of are unfair. Or acknowledge a scummy shitbag deserved the conviction in spite of subsequent police misconduct and move on.

 

[Mark Hunts FIST]

I’d be interested as well. If it’s simply an undercover sting and there isn’t much evidence other than the testimony of the arresting officer, I’d have a whole lot of reasonable doubt about that officer’s version of events. This article says than 160 drug cases tied to this cop have been dismissed. This doesn’t look like a George Floyd thing, this is a very serious credibility issue with the arresting officer.

I would say a dismissal is very different than a pardon. But we're on the same page.

Seems "rare" to get a pardon in TX.

"Current Texas Governor Greg Abbott has pardoned sparingly since taking office in 2015 (28 pardons as of April 2019), all to individuals with minor dated convictions, and less than half the number recommended to him by the Board