Absolutely shocking.
Mayor of Petal, Mississippi, Hal Marx has suggested George Floyd is a liar and says the cops involved in his death are being ‘crucified’
Marx’s response, written Tuesday, was to another Twitter user who had responded to an initial, vaguer tweet he’d sent the same day saying: ‘Why in the world would anyone choose to become a police officer in our society today?’ The mayor took to Twitter the day after the death of Floyd. The 46 year-old security guard was filmed shouting ‘I can’t breathe’ while Minneapolis Police Department cop Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck.Floyd, 46, died shortly afterwards.
‘I’ve seen too many cases before where the police were judged to be guilty in the public’s eye but later were found to be not guilty under the law.
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