Sorry pat. The FORM of the argument can be considered deductively valid (it’s the first form you learn in logic/philosophy).
However as it applies to a slippery slope argument, it is not. The very nature of the slippery slope argument is that there is more than one UNSTATED intermediate state between a and z (and usually several possibilities). This precludes the argument as stated from being valid, since validity is a measure of strict logical entailment.
Those they can domesticate will be ok, the rest can kill each other off. I mean, no one cares about that now so who is going to care in the future?
What I mean is that they are a major obstacle to BLM’s vision of a Marxist utopia. And obviously not all are going to be killing each other off. Seems to me like BLM is about leading people in a particular direction for some purpose other than what they actually state, like perhaps turning America into some kind of leftist hellhole. Fortunately BLM isn’t so big in Canada, but we are further along the way to becoming a leftist hellhole in many ways too.
Bodycam footage of the arrest out all over now.
Make your own judgments.
add: the non Chauvin cops are probably not going to jail
They probably shouldn’t have even been fired. But will the charges get dropped?
For the other guys, I think so. But isn’t that DA too invested? Those guys are pawns in the game.
Given the media portrayal (no surprise there), the civility of the pre-ground stuff was surprising, and probably unusual for most similar situations in the big cities.
Why do you think so?
Good luck trying to find it on Youtube LOL. Putting George Floyd bodycam footage doen’t do it ROFLMAO.
With the benefit of hindsight, the egregiousness of the media portrayal (after they had access to the footage) is beyond rational description. Fanning the flames. Vile, evil.
#1 missing detail imo -Floyd was already saying "I can’t breathe’ before he was on the ground.
Because there was no investigation. And now we know they were in training and Chauvin was in charge.
Maybe he wasn’t lying though. Fentanyl/opioids can affect breathing.
EDIT: Good thing he never got those cigarettes he was trying to buy, could have ended up even worse.
Based on that alone they should go free. What can you really expect them to do?
Being a violent criminal can affect getting arrested. But don’t tell people they have the power to avoid being in that situation.
Cops didn’t know that. Also, lends (add: some, at least) credence to the “biased” medical examiner’s report.
The picture I got, painted by the media, was that Floyd said “I can’t breathe” solely due to being on the ground with a knee on his neck. But based on the video, that was obviously not the case.
He didn’t do anything violent there, he was an intoxicated man trying to spend counterfeit money.
No, but my point is that despite the fact he was saying that before Chauvin kneeled on his neck it might have been true after all.
This will be Chauvin’s defense, guaranteed.
I am not disagreeing with your point. I’m saying from the cops’ perspective, it devalues Floyd’s subsequent assertion of “I can’t breathe”, like crying wolf.
Also, they asked him if he was on something, before things got heated, because he was not exactly walking “normally”.
Essentially, all these riots, wanton destruction of property, innocent deaths even are based on the gross exaggeration of events that have not been clearly and closely examined, yet.
I hope there’s a Hell, and all those responsible burn in it.
I’m out, too pissed.
And that is why it makes no sense to charge him with 2nd degree murder. Should be manslaughter.
That is true, but doesn’t justify kneeling on his neck when he’s not moving, and later when his pulse and breathing stopped. The whole situation there was weird, why didnt they just throw him in the back of the car? 4 cops vs. one guy who is too doped up to give any real resistance, I don’t get it.
That footage(of Floyd saying he couldn’t breathe well before he was on the ground-not the body cam) has been available online for quite awhile.
If you believed the media,
