Originally <a href='https://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/showthread.php?p=30225052'>posted</a> on 04/20/2021:
As a mostly reformed SBR agitator, I have a few thoughts
From researching this very thoroughly, it is very clear that Floyd committed armed robbery in a 2007 home invasion
He was identified as the one who put a gun in the women's stomach, although it might not be true that she was pregnant
He pled guilty and only served around 4 yrs, which I find abhorrent
The rest of the crimes that we know of were mainly drug charges
He certainly has had frequent run ins with law enforcement in his life, which increases his chances of running into a psycho cop like Chauvin, who is one of many criminals with a badge
As far as Chauvin, he is a piece of garbage
I don't even care if he actually killed him or not, he can rot in jail
That video is sickening, despite Floyd's shortcomings
Chauvin has messed with people his whole " career", so if he ran into a guy who was more vulnerable to dying when he abused him, I have zero sympathy for Chauvin
For both of these guys, the same old phrase applies
"If you play with fire enough, eventually you get burned"
Obviously Floyd got the worst of it
I am far from perfect and have made plenty of mistakes in my life
All I can say is the more times you do things that are dangerous to yourself or others, the higher your chance of something bad happening to you, WHETHER IT IS JUSTIFIED OR NOT
It's just the way it works in life
That's my worthless 2 cents worth
As a mostly reformed SBR agitator, I have a few thoughts
From researching this very thoroughly, it is very clear that Floyd committed armed robbery in a 2007 home invasion
He was identified as the one who put a gun in the women's stomach, although it might not be true that she was pregnant
He pled guilty and only served around 4 yrs, which I find abhorrent
The rest of the crimes that we know of were mainly drug charges
He certainly has had frequent run ins with law enforcement in his life, which increases his chances of running into a psycho cop like Chauvin, who is one of many criminals with a badge
As far as Chauvin, he is a piece of garbage
I don't even care if he actually killed him or not, he can rot in jail
That video is sickening, despite Floyd's shortcomings
Chauvin has messed with people his whole " career", so if he ran into a guy who was more vulnerable to dying when he abused him, I have zero sympathy for Chauvin
For both of these guys, the same old phrase applies
"If you play with fire enough, eventually you get burned"
Obviously Floyd got the worst of it
I am far from perfect and have made plenty of mistakes in my life
All I can say is the more times you do things that are dangerous to yourself or others, the higher your chance of something bad happening to you, WHETHER IT IS JUSTIFIED OR NOT
It's just the way it works in life
That's my worthless 2 cents worth