Did the corporate media failed or did exactley as they were told. I go with latter.

@Krunoslav Good question. Either way they failed, but you raise an interesting point.

This is about how the police officer in Floyd's case was treated compared to how Michael Byrd was treated. Do you think Chauvin should be treated like Byrd?
But how was Floyd treated anyway? You certainly like to conflate things that really have no association. Babbitt was never convicted of a crime or served any time. How does that compare to George Floyd's lifetime criminal record?

@FrankZeleniuk when Floyd was killed, all of Conservative media spent days blaming him. They said he was resisting arrest and didn't comply with police orders, so it was his fault. They said he engaged in criminal activity in the past, which justified being killed over an alleged counterfeit $20 bill this time. They said the police were doing their job by the book (even when the police chief flat out said it was against protocol) and that Floyd was the only one responsible. The police flat out lied about what happened, and the only reason we knew the truth and Chauvin was held accountable was because someone filmed it.

Compare that to Conservative media with Babbitt's death. She had a criminal past as well, and multiple run-ins with law enforcement over property damage and disorderly contact. She also tried to run her husband's ex off the road and stalked her, leading to a restraining order. None of this was brought up - instead they painted her as a patriot veteran. No one cared that she was participating in an insurrection, made her criminal actions quite clear on her Twitter, and was trying to break through a window to get over a barricade to get to members of Congress. No one mentioned how law enforcement had guns on her and told her to get back and stop multiple times, and she did not comply. Conservative media started a witch hunt for the officer who shot her, and jumped through hoops to paint Babbitt as some innocent bystander executed for no reason at all.

I think both deaths were unjustified and tragic, and it shows a serious issue with police brutality and qualified immunity in the US. Now that isn't to say that there isn't a huge difference between a man being accused of having a fake dollar and being knelt on and slowly killed for over 9 minutes, versus a woman participating in a mob yelling that they are trying to kill members of Congress and being shot in the heat of the moment as she bashes through a window blockade. But I do still think both deaths were unnecessary.

Compare that to Conservatives who are die-hard "back the blue" when Floyd and Taylor and Brown and Jefferson were killed, and shout "don't resist", but then switch to "fuck the police" when Babbitt was shot or they start resisting being removed from grocery stores for violating mask laws. Or when Sean Hannity, who spent days justifying the murder of Floyd, had a bar-owner on his show and touted him as a hero after he ran over two officers with his car trying to escape a COVID violation.

@JacksonNought It's seems to be all about "what aboutism" with you. Do you ever look at a case based upon its merits alone without comparing it to some other case?

The lifelong criminality of George Floyd and the relationship struggles of Ashli Babbitt that amounted to a restraining order are hardly comparable. As much as you'd like to think it to be, she had no criminal history. George Floyd was a career criminal.
Before anything was known about George Floyd. I think it was clear to most people that Derek Chauvin was abusing his authority as a police officer. When Floyd's history became known there probably was little sympathy for him, I'll grant you that.
If it was a simple case of passing off a counterfeit $20 bill there would not have been such a kerfuffle. The fact is he was high, even overdosed on whatever. He was resisting arrest and it was pretty sad to watch his pleading to let him go. It was probably the physical exertion he used to resist arrest that contributed to his demise. Just saying, it's not a fact.

As to the actions of police and the apparent hypocrisy of the right when they are all for Back the Blue yet turn on them in other instances. I have my own personal opinion on law enforcement. But for your contention Backing the Blue is supposed to be about supporting law enforcement. No one will back the blue if they are not supporting the law. Chauvin was duly punished perhaps a little heavy-handedly, in my opinion it was a little politically influenced. He abused his authority as a police officer and should not ever be a policeman again. So you got your justice there. When police are not "serving and protecting" but enforcing an illegal mandate they are likely to lose some support in such instance but then again most police actions are supported. Because of the nature of their profession they need some leeway in their decision-making.

But let me ask you this, if George Floyd had been white, do you think the story would have made it anywhere outside the local news? You can't say that it would never have played out in the exact same manner if he were white because you would never have heard the story. It just would not have made the national news. The media, however is under pressure to push the narrative if an encounter with a police officer and a Black man goes awry - that will be covered for a week, at least. If activists organize it will be months in the news.