Three teenage, black youths were J-walking in a suburban community, with no vehicle traffic, and no sidewalks.  Two officers approached the teens, put one of them in handcuffs and arrested him.

 
The teen was charged with J-walking, assaulting an officer (while there was no evidence on the video of this entire event), an obstruction.

 
If this is not systemic racism, do not know what is?  How in the world could something like this EVER happen?  J-walking, in a Tulsa suburban community?  Would the result be the same, had the police officers come across three white teens?  I think not!

 
So what systemic breakdown could have caused this blatantly racist act?

...in Houston in 2004 for allegedly trying to sell a cop less than a gram of cocaine.  The only witness was the cop so it was a case of "he said, cop said."  The prosecutor originally offered Floyd two years in prison if he pleaded guilty. Floyd balked, but finally agreed when the offer was reduced to 10 months.  Had he gone to trial, he would have faced serious time.

 
Last year, the cop was arrested for lying to get a search warrant by creating a fictitious informant in order to raid a house where there was supposed to be drug dealing.  The house was raided - the cops shot to death a husband and wife...and their dog!!  No drugs were found. The couple seems to have been wholly innocent.

 
The cop was charged with murder on the grounds that the raid and therefore the deaths would never have occurred without the search warrant. The Harris County district attorney subsequently sought to overturn 73 cases, including Floyd's, in which the cop was the only person who witnessed the supposed drug transaction.  There are 91 people who were convicted as the result of search warrants where the same cop was the affiant for the search warrant.  That brings the total to 164 possible false arrests.  By only one bad apple!!!

 
Do I think the problem is systemic?  My fucking opinion doesn't matter.  But the opinion of Harris County Attorney Kim Ogg DOES matter.  On George Floyd running into a nightmare officer in Houston as well as in Minneapolis, she said:
"One of those horrible coincidences which I would say are NOT JUST A COINCIDENCE BUT PART OF A SYSTEMIC PROBLEM.  She is a District Attorney; her opinion matters a lot more than mine...or Jack's.

 
http://www.thedailybeast.com/gerald-goines-the-monster-cop-who-encountered-george-floyd-in-houston
http://www.click2houston.com/video/video/2020/06/05/ogg-discusses-goines-case-involving-george-floyd/

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