Did a little digging. I hadn't heard of this, and I haven't watched Griz basketball.
From https://www.montanasports.com/sports/big-sky-conference/montana-grizzlies/montana-grizzlies-encourage-solidarity-with-jersey-message, by Kyle Hansen.
Through their eight games so far this season, the Griz have sported the word "solidarity" on the backs of their game jerseys as a way to keep the conversation going about racial inclusion and equality after protests over the summer surrounding the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, solidarity is defined as "unity (as a group or class) that produces or is based on a community of interests, objectives, and standards."
I couldn't believe this shit. Where the hell was Haslam when this was going on? Why didn't he put a stop to this? TDC is using the good name of the University of Montana Grizzlies to side with this rabble? Lets look at George Floyd:
"Between 1997 and 2005, he was convicted of eight crimes. He served four years in prison after accepting a plea bargain for a 2007 aggravated robbery in a home invasion."(wiki) " Floyd continued to battle drug addiction and went through periods of use and sobriety."
"In May 2019, Floyd was detained by Minneapolis police when an unlicensed car he was a passenger in was pulled over in a traffic stop. Floyd was found with a bottle of pain pills. Officers handcuffed Floyd and took him to the city's third police precinct station. Floyd told police he did not sell the pills and that they were related to his own addiction. When Floyd appeared agitated, officers encouraged him to relax and helped calm him down, and they later called an ambulance as they grew worried about his condition. No charges were filed in connection with the incident."
"On May 25, 2020, Floyd was arrested after allegedly passing a counterfeit $20 bill at a grocery store in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood of Minneapolis.[46] He died after Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, pressed his knee to Floyd's neck for over eight minutes[note 1] during the arrest. Floyd was handcuffed face down in the street,[47][48][49] while two other officers further restrained Floyd and a fourth prevented onlookers from intervening."
"Fentanyl intoxication(more than three times the lethal dose) and recent methamphetamine use(diagnosed with HTN, sickle cell trait, and Covid) may have increased the likelihood of death.[61] Other significant conditions were arteriosclerotic heart disease and hypertensive heart disease."
Here is the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Autopsy Report: https://www.hennepin.us/-/media/hennepinus/residents/public-safety/documents/floyd-autopsy-6-3-20.pdf
Anyone who has seen the body cam videos of his confrontation, arrest, and incapacitation can plainly see he is mentally out of it, ignores the officers commands, and has to be subdued. He is not a slightly built man, but BIG, so it will take many officers to subdue him.
Even if the officers had not found him, his Fentanyl level(11NG/ML) would have killed him.
READ.
