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The George Floyd Police Report, Blow by Blow

from #203 - Long Island Strong | The Tim Dillon Show · #203

8 min

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Tim reads through the detailed police report of George Floyd's arrest over a counterfeit $20 bill, mocking the absurdity of the response and condemning the officers' actions as inhuman.

In this bit12 moments
  • Tim speculates Michael Hastings died of coronavirus rather than crashing his car, dismissing it as more COVID hysteria.
  • Police shouldn't respond heavily to someone cashing a fake $20 check when they ignore white-collar crime on Wall Street.
  • Tim bites the inside of his mouth and spends four days trying to fix it with salt water and ibuprofen.
  • Cup Foods isn't a real-sounding store name, and accepting counterfeit money by accident shouldn't be a crime either.
  • A forgery in progress sounds like the least dire emergency—a fake $20 bill poses no actual threat to society.
  • Officer Thomas Lane immediately pulls his gun and points it at Floyd through the car window.
  • Tim defends acknowledging good people exist in most organizations, including ISIS, against binary thinking promoted by media and government.
  • Lockdowns handed power to government while encouraging people to become informants, creating a nation of rats calling the police on each other.
  • Floyd shows no real resistance in the video that everyone has watched.
  • Floyd is handcuffed and face-down on the ground when officers put their boot on his neck, yet he's still treated as a threat deserving of lethal force.
  • Floyd calls out for his mother and says he can't breathe as he's being murdered in the street over a pack of cigarettes.
  • Police watch a man get murdered for trying to buy cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill.
Mentioned here

Derek ChauvinGeorge Floydpolice brutalityThomas LaneMichael HastingsMinneapolis Police DepartmentMike Abumuya

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