PhoenixRising

Did you even watch the videos?

sum1

Not yet. I don't usually watch videos immediately.

wickedrum

I need to be in a certain mood for that as well

PhoenixRising

Why do I bother?

sum1

Because you're pushy?

PhoenixRising

Perhaps. Just wanted to give you guys some context as to what's going on here.

sum1

Watched the vids. They were very useful, thanks. Chauvin was even more out of line than we all thought he was. I heard some testimony on the radio today from a guy who I think was head of Minneapolis police.

PhoenixRising

You finally watched the vids I posed? About time.

Yep, he's being called out by his own police department.

sum1

The guy started with the military police, which fits with him being rougher than civilian police are supposed to be, then he did 19 years in the police after that, and got 17 complaints against him in those 19 years. That's nearly 1 complaint a year. Serious attitude problem. And I don't know if this is true, but I read that he once knelt on the neck of a 14 year old. Seriously bad record. And he's got the meanest looking face. He strikes me as a domination freak.

PhoenixRising

I read that on his Wikipedia page. But what stuck me was the recording of his conversation with one of the bystanders who told him that he thought what he did was out of line, and Chauvin said, "That's one person's opinion. We've got to control this guy because he's a sizable guy... and it looks like he's probably on something." He sounded like a punk.

sum1

To me the word "punk" means people with spikey hair.

wickedrum

To me it’s a music genre

PhoenixRising

punk

noun

noun: punk; noun: punk rock; plural noun: punk rocks; plural noun: punks

1. a loud, fast-moving, and aggressive form of rock music, popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

"punk had turned pop music and its attendant culture on its head"

an admirer or player of punk rock, typically characterized by colored spiked hair and clothing decorated with safety pins or zippers.
noun: punk rocker; plural noun: punk rockers

2. informal North American

a worthless person (often used as a general term of abuse).

"you think any of these punks they got fighting today could stand up to Joe Louis?"

wickedrum

well, I don't speak 'North-American'.

PhoenixRising

And I have no idea what haggis is.