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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Aug 5, 2020, 02:14 PM Aug 2020

Tucker Carlson Thinks 'We're Still Not Precisely Sure How George Floyd Died'

The death of George Floyd was well documented by onlookers and security cameras, and two separate autopsies determined that his death was a homicide. But that didn’t stop Tucker Carlson from trying to act like new body cam footage leaked to the Daily Mail this week somehow changes the story completely.

Tucker started the lengthy opening portion of his show on Tuesday acknowledging that Floyd’s death was a monumental event in American history, and then went straight to acting as though we really know nothing about this case at all.

“On Memorial Day weekend of this year, a man called George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis, and America has not been the same since. It may never be the same. In the months following that incident, Floyd’s death has been used to justify a nationwide convulsion of violence, destruction, looting, in some cases killing, and all of that in addition to unprecedented levels of political upheaval. The wholesale reordering of our most basic institutions,” Carlson exaggerated.

“Floyd’s death changed everything. It was a pivot point in American history. No matter what side you’re on, that’s very clear at this point. So with all of that in mind, the significance of the event in mind, it’s striking how little we really know months later about how exactly George Floyd died. The official storyline is clear, it couldn’t be clearer. Established news organizations state as a matter of factual certainty that Floyd was, in the words of NBC News and so many others, quote, murdered by a Minneapolis police officer.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tucker-carlson-thinks-still-not-015048132.html

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Tucker Carlson Thinks 'We're Still Not Precisely Sure How George Floyd Died' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2020 OP
Well... Mike Nelson Aug 2020 #1
NO! It was obviously auto-erotic asphyxiation. ret5hd Aug 2020 #3
Good observation... Mike Nelson Aug 2020 #9
Racist White Supremest Tucker Carlson Says What MagickMuffin Aug 2020 #2
Illegal to pick a "Black Female" for VP . . Iliyah Aug 2020 #4
Well, Fucker, grumpyduck Aug 2020 #5
What would be good... tonedevil Aug 2020 #6
Did you see the way George Floyd's neck wedged itself under that poor cop's knee? Aristus Aug 2020 #7
Would it have been ok for the cop to kneel on his neck for almost 9 minutes The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2020 #8

The Velveteen Ocelot

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8. Would it have been ok for the cop to kneel on his neck for almost 9 minutes
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 02:27 PM
Aug 2020

while he begged to be allowed to breathe, if somehow he'd managed to survive?

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