Subj : Floyd
To   : Alan Ianson
From : Lee Lofaso
Date : Mon Jun 08 2020 05:36 pm

Hello Alan,

>LL>Face it. Murder is murder. Kneeling on anybody's neck for eight
>LL>minutes and forty-six seconds will kill them. Kid or not. All four
>LL>of them should have been charged with first degree murder, then
>LL>convicted and sentenced for said crime.
>
>What is the difference between 1st and 2nd degree murder in the US?

Life and Death.

A conviction of 1st degree murder means we get to kill the condemned
with the state's blessing.

A conviction of 2nd degree murder means we have to let the condemned
live behind bars for the rest of his days.

>This was a brutal murder but it wasn't premeditated (AFAIK).

The man was in custody, and in restraints, posing no threat to either
himself or to others. How could it not have been premeditated? You are
talking about a guy, in restraints, being pinned down by a cop who is
kneeling on his neck, for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, while three other
cops chose to do nothing to save the poor soul.

Some have called this a good old-fashioned lynching, given the fact
it was a black man who lost his life at the hands of a white man who
clearly had it in for him. The others who helped him do it are just
as guilty. Four [former] cops, three of them white and one of them
Asian. Would have made fine KKK members in the good ol' days.

--Lee

-- 
It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken

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