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George Floyds family to be paid 27 million dollars

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Why is it racist? By all accounts George Floyd was a disgusting human being, however that doesn’t excuse the way he was killed by the police, which is why the government has paid compensation to his family and the officer involved is up on a murder charge. 
You could argue morally that maybe the family could pass some of that money on the victims of his various crimes when he was alive, but that’s a completely different argument. 

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I see this as a piece of false economy. Put it this way, in Scandinavia being a police officer is a profession that takes a lot of training, whereas training periods in the US depend on a few factors, but are invariably far shorter. There was a video on YouTube doing the rounds of an arrest of a drunk in Norway and you just know if the drunk had been in the USA he'd have been shot or brutalised. In other words, they're far better trained at de-escalating nonsense.

In the USA they're more likely just to be trained to shoot.

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