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He also changed and is now extremely devout evangelical, which seems why Pat Robertson defends him.

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but they have not changed.

No one dies as a “suspect” in a counterfeit check incident.

Kroll is a criminal.

That's not an excuse for a summary execution.

no one knelt on his neck, and the cops even got him something from Burger King because he was hungry.

of people targeted for extinction by a racist system.

Also, he paid his debt PLUS surely nobody thinks the murderer cops KNEW all that while they were doing this, and lets say they did, do tey get to execute people in the streets for past crimes even ones the person has PAID their debt for?

Nah, we are past all that, the military is coming for us...Putin is winning at the moment

Insubordination?
Fomenting violence?
Just asking.

He refers to protesters as "terrorists' and implies that Floyd deserved to die?

And that this killing happened because the government didn't give the police more money and employment?

Show up at their next Union meeting and just fire everyone there.

If you support this trash, you have no reason wearing a badge.

I feel the same about Donnie Dollhands voters.

I could name you 100 Republicans that would cut taxes for the rich, screw the poor and put conservatives on the bench... however, they picked this guy.

There must be punishment for that choice.

That would be another matter completely and does not justify murder. What a COP out.

Are they saying that anyone who is "considered" a criminal is fair game now? Cops get to be the judge, jury and executioner?

That statement was an insult to our system, (as we knew it) and dangerous.

NO WAY!

He should keep his racist mouth shut and lose his job.

the Minneapolis police force needs to be fired, and the entire structure needs a total revamping

just Pissing people off MOAR Now.

yup

look at the demonstrations in Amsterdam

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victims.

All the force of law. But they're the victims.

Ain't that just the way of it?

It's not that the police do bad things. It's that anyone not cheering for them is a terrorist and out to get them.

Fuck Kroll and any and all who think like he does.

and in on Union Business Leave of Absence,the City Attorney as well as the Chief of Police could pull his leave. If he is still gaining Seniority as a Sworn Officer with the Mpls PD,seems to me he is exposed to discipline.

You know that he will pick those words up and either Tweet or repeat them the next time he speaks.

Derek Chauvin's past with 18 complaints and a string of dead bodies as well.

as it's the standard SOP following each and every police murder: lay out the case that the victim was sub human and had it coming

If you have a criminal past it's ok to murder them? That's justified for officers to ignore his rights, and use undue force restraining someone who isn't resisting, and isn't threatening them? I think that battle will be easily a losing one, and union police officers needs to get another chief for their union.

By the time the country has exploded into wall to wall protests, the entire world has seen what is going on and many countries have had sympathetic protests as well, it's far too late to try to get away with that.

Any sensible person ought to know he can't lean on the same old blame the victim nonsense this time around. What an embarrassment to the police union and Minneapolis. What a blatant illustration of the systemic rot that plagues so many police departments. Bob Kroll has got to go.

Stop digging. And after that screed, you might just consider pulling the hole you're in over yourself. Minneapolis Police Union members: Is this the man you want representing you to the world? Does he speak for you? The longer the union members leave him in this position, the more his words stick to you.

Even if the arrest had been for these crimes, the police still wouldn't have the right to murder him.
In fact, I've heard of mass shooters who got a burger instead of a public lynching.

Don't even go fuck yourself, you don't deserve the pleasure.

Just crawl into a sewer, if you can find some rats that can tolerate you, and never show your face again.

Sincerely,

S

I am sorry I even had to see this crap.

I was on a jury in rural WA state years ago and it was mostly a all white area but some mexicans worked in the orchards or vineyards. One of them got arrested for attempted rape. He had a job, custody of his teen daughter because his ex was on drugs but was making low money so had no money for bail.

By the time I saw him he had been in jail for months, lost his job, his house he rented and his daughter.

There was zero proof against him, literally zero and even the woman said he didn’t touch her. They arrested him because when he went to his girlfriends house she wasn’t there, didn’t tell him her daughter (18) was going to be there and in the dark he accidentally laid down next to her on bed in living room. As soon as he realized she was there he jumped up and went to other room. The girl woke up with a button unbuttoned, which could have happened rolling over in her sleep, she even admitted he never touched her.

And yet me and a few others had to fight for him to go free, the conservatives on the jury wanted to keep him in jail because of his color. They said the police must know his past he did something in his past. And we said we are not there for his past nor do we know it. We are here for now and what is happening now!

We set him free but by then he had lost everything because of bail.

NEEDS to be removed from ANY decision making!!!! How can he be removed? Union vote?

that there was an added death penalty. A painful one too.

They are trying every angle of justifying the murder.

unless the police were psychic there is no way they could have known his record, and his actions were complaint.

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I’m not sure how that justifies the use of deadly force for a fraudulent $20 bill (it doesn’t).

The cop will have a good well financed defense. Racists from all over the world are probably contributing to the defense fund set up by his union. And you can say that his past record is irrelevant. And I would agree but will the judge? The defense will maintain that with knowledge of Mr. Floyd's record they felt that his treatment was justified. If I were on a jury I would never buy that but who knows. As we know a lot of cops get off.

FFS. Why do they always think this is an excuse? Due Process remains the same.

The protests should go to Kroll's office front door.