{"id":176071,"date":"2020-09-11T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/11\/rats-turn-on-each-other\/"},"modified":"2020-09-11T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T00:08:00","slug":"rats-turn-on-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/11\/rats-turn-on-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Rats Turn on Each Other"},"content":{"rendered":"
The police officers charged in the Georgy Floyd murder are beginning to turn on one another<\/a>.<\/div>\n

What can I say but, “Pass the Popcorn.”<\/p>\n

The four former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd’s killing<\/a> appear to be turning on one another, with each offering significantly different versions of the infamous arrest that acknowledge Floyd should not have been allowed to die that day but also deflect the blame to others.<\/p>\n

The four men have said in court documents that they all thought someone else was in charge of the scene on May 25 \u2014 with rookie officers arguing they were deferring to a veteran, and the veteran saying he was simply assisting in an arrest that was in progress. All have said in court documents that the relationship between the veteran officer \u2014 Derek Chauvin \u2014 and the others is at the heart of the issue, as each officer perceived their role, and who was in charge, quite differently. Chauvin was the officer shown with his knee on Floyd\u2019s neck as he struggled to breathe in videos of the ill-fated arrest.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are very likely going to be antagonistic defenses presented at the trial,\u201d Earl Gray, a lawyer for Thomas K. Lane, wrote in a legal motion filed here this week. \u201cIt is plausible that all officers have a different version of what happened and officers place blame on one another.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s nice when people who are ordinarily beneficiaries of the corrupt “Thin Blue Line” start turning against each other.<\/p>\n

Here’s hoping that they all screw each other into a jail cell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The police officers charged in the Georgy Floyd murder are beginning to turn on one another. What can I say but, “Pass the Popcorn.” The four former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd’s killing appear to be turning on one another, with each offering significantly different versions of the infamous arrest that acknowledge Floyd …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,364,407,526,398,486],"class_list":["post-176071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-evil","tag-justice","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-racism","tag-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}