# What were you THINKING?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 27, 2023, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/429 "2023-12-27T01:46:32Z")

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> [@Atamasama](#):
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> Cops were called about a counterfeit $20 bill, some stuff happened, and then those defenders of the peace got unjustly imprisoned for doing their jobs.

I know, right? And it’s not like one of those officers was _already guilty of a felony way worse than (allegedly) trying to pass a counterfeit 20_, right?

:cough:

> **[Derek Chauvin, convicted of killing George Floyd, pleads guilty to tax evasion](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/derek-chauvin-ex-officer-convicted-killing-george-floyd-pleads-guilty-rcna72173)**
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> The onetime Minneapolis police officer is already behind bars for Floyd's death, a murder that sparked a summer of civil rights protests across America.

But send a man like that to prison for murder, just for gleefully kneeling on a man’s throat until he asphyxiated to death, and it’s the end of (“western”) civilization as we know it, right?

Anyway, I don’t know why we’re in this thread. This thread is for otherwise good posters who _aren’t_ trolls, and yet here we’re talking about **Lumpy**?

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