What video did they watch?

Chauvin clearly murdered Floyd. This is another case of Republicans denying facts and there is probably racism in here, too.

Views on Chauvin verdict via @CNN poll:

Democrats:
97% satisfied
2% dissatisfied

Republicans:
53% satisfied
40% dissatisfied
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) April 28, 2021

46 percent of Republicans think the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict is wrong pic.twitter.com/d6b5FW3FaB
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 25, 2021

Another misleading Trump ad

This is the supporter of Biden and Black Lives Matter who appeared in a Trump ad, cleaning up after violence while a narrator extolled Trump's greatness. He's speaking up. Backstory here: https://t.co/G6rTVS6NdL https://t.co/EhoqxO2rSO
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 6, 2020

93% of of racial justice protests have been peaceful

The media overemphasizes the violence and the looting because they are more photogenic on TV.

About 93% of racial justice protests in the US since the death of George Floyd have been peaceful and nondestructive, according to a new report https://t.co/wLtHdlqF2s
— CNN (@CNN) September 5, 2020

93 percent of protests nonviolent. This is an important read from a sweeping report https://t.co/bQ0Xp0UiNv
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) September 4, 2020

Portland is peaceful after Trump’s troops leave

Trump wanted violence to put in his campaign commercials.

Trump said the Feds were in Portland to "protect" rather than "provoke." But the retreat of the Feds for two nights running, replaced by state police, resulted in peace breaking out. No rubber bullets, no injuries. Pretty clear who was provoking violence. https://t.co/tSrxvuClUh https://t.co/rNOcNc1qnu
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) August 1, 2020

Portland courthouse protests stay peaceful with feds gone https://t.co/wEphssXqqu
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 2, 2020

Calm returns to Portland as federal agents withdraw https://t.co/cLX03gAkLB
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 1, 2020

White supremacists are instigating riots

Riots in downtown Richmond, Virginia over the weekend were instigated by white supremacists under the guise of Black Lives Matter, according to law enforcement officials. https://t.co/sxu3i28qjR
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 28, 2020

Police: 'Umbrella Man' was a white supremacist trying to incite George Floyd rioting https://t.co/bwMhjPpD1r
— Wesley (@WesleyLowery) July 28, 2020

More police racism

Some news via @rorylaverty in NC: After Wilmington police officers were recorded using racist, violent language, the DA says his office will dismiss 89 pending cases involving them + asked people from other cases linked to them to contact him with concerns about racial bias https://t.co/t2xcKxZP56
— Mark Berman (@markberman) June 25, 2020

My God.

Fired NC police officer on tape:

"We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them (expletive)”…“I can’t wait. God, I can’t wait.”

Civil war to “wipe them off the (expletive) map. That’ll put them back about four or five generations.” https://t.co/BAuWQe5xI2
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) June 25, 2020

New: NY police officer seen putting man in chokehold over the weekend has been arrested and charged with “attempted strangulation” and “strangulation,” says NYPD.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) June 25, 2020

The “just a few bad apples” argument weakens with each passing day. https://t.co/rN7iafKkLl
— Midwin Charles (@MidwinCharles) June 25, 2020

His name is Carlos Adrian Ingram Lopez.

He cried out for his grandmother as police handcuffed him face-down for 12 mins. He couldn’t breathe.

He was killed by police two months ago, but body cam video was just released—officers must be held accountable. https://t.co/l6NnwdwkiH
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) June 25, 2020

Three police officers stopped this man on the side of the road, accused him of suspicious activity, picked him up, slammed him down, broke his wrist, handcuffed him while he was screaming — then realized they had the wrong man.

Because – skin color…
pic.twitter.com/awfLk2DNRP
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) June 24, 2020

One of the most painful things about the #ElijahMcClain story is it happened nearly a year ago & many of us are just finding out about it. Literally can’t even imagine the number of unarmed black lives that have ended that went unnoticed. https://t.co/lEO3h99gCy
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) June 24, 2020

The same officer was caught on video in 2014 pistol whipping a teenager and knocking the child’s teeth out. Now he chokes out a man and is suspended w/o pay. They know who the “bad apples” are. That’s why the problem is systemic. https://t.co/fkfeZJhUH5
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) June 21, 2020

Trump attacks the Buffalo protester who was injured by police

The man who was pushed to the ground by police has a brain injury.

Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old protester who was pushed by two Buffalo, New York, police officers earlier this month, has a fractured skull and is not able to walk, his lawyer said in a statement provided to CNN https://t.co/5anz3qUqZM
— CNN (@CNN) June 16, 2020

The WSJ told Trump that the 75-year-old protester shoved by police in Buffalo, Martin Gugino, has a brain injury and can't walk. Trump called him a "professional agitator," made some additional baseless insinuations about him, and said this. https://t.co/mSijb32Dwu pic.twitter.com/NG3E1bqNjX
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 19, 2020

While debunking OAN's false claims about the 75-year-old protester injured by Buffalo police, I stumbled across Facebook video shot by an activist which suggests that the protest might have been infiltrated by an undercover officer disguised as a protester https://t.co/rvZUXNSIQy
— Robert Mackey (@RobertMackey) June 17, 2020

.@kwelkernbc: Is it incumbent upon the president to have facts before he tweets out a conspiracy theory about a 75-year-old man?

McENANY: The president did have facts

WELKER: It's a baseless conspiracy theory

McENANY: It's not [it is] pic.twitter.com/c3lzx6niBz
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 10, 2020

Trump lies about Obama, Biden and policing

He said they did nothing. He’s a liar…again.

His speech was worthless and he used the white supremacy keyword “heritage” at the end to appeal to the bigots in his base.

So that was weird. And my GOP source was correct in that there was no substance in Trump’s “police reform” announcement. It was mainly a ramble, praising himself, attacking President Obama and Democratic mayors and droning about the economy while gushing over police and violence.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) June 16, 2020

So the EO "bans chokeholds" except when the police want to use chokeholds?
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 16, 2020

The 116-page 2015 report of Obama's "Task Force on 21st Century Policing" is still up on the Department of Justice website: https://t.co/nFpgpHBq8s https://t.co/f52Eziy9cm
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) June 16, 2020

NEW: Dwayne L. Palmer & his mother, Rose, were among the families who met w/ Pres Trump for about an hour. Palmer told me Trump was sympathetic but used a lot of "platitudes." "Kind words," he said. "But, speaking for my family, we are beyond kind words. We want to see action.”
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) June 16, 2020

Before his lies, he met with families of people who were killed by police.

NOT TRUE what @realDonaldTrump said that @BarackObama & @JoeBiden did nothing! The Obama admin had 21st Century Policing enforced by the DOJ & its Civil Rights Division. Pattern & Practice & body cams were part of the accountability then. Trump abolished the Civil Rights office
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) June 16, 2020

Trump claims Obama and Biden "never even tried" to address these problems during their eight years in office. That's not true at all.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 16, 2020

Trump says Obama didn't reform policing. But Obama did and then Trump ditched it https://t.co/VsQMtdr3TE
— Ali Velshi (@AliVelshi) June 16, 2020

Tear gas used on protesters in 98 US cities

This will also make them more vulnerable to getting the coronavirus at the protests.

Law enforcement agencies are using tear gas against people protesting police brutality and racism at levels not seen since periods of unrest in the 1960s and 70s, experts say.

We examined how and where it was used. This is what we found. https://t.co/v2wehPbaFJ
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 16, 2020

Police spending grows as cities have become far safer

In Boston, Los Angeles and Milwaukee, about one in every 10 dollars of local government spending goes to the police. In Minneapolis, it’s about one in every 20 dollars.

Police spending has grown over the past 40 years, even as cities have become far safer https://t.co/XUosJIXcf0
— Wesley (@WesleyLowery) June 13, 2020