ThyBlackMan.com) The instant the video flashed globally of former Minneapolis police officer
Derek Chauvin choking George Floyd to death the president of the national Fraternal Order of Police, Patrick Yoes, issued an indignant statement condemning Chauvin’s act. Yoes loudly insisted that Chauvin’s action in no way represents what good cops routinely do day in day out. Yoes expressed deep concern that Chauvin’s brutal act would further diminish how the public viewed police officer’s conduct. Yoes was praised for his forthright condemnation of Chauvin.
But a year earlier in April 2019 Yoes sung a far different tune in an interview with NPR. The issue this time was the firing by the New York’s police commissioner of officer Daniel Pantaleo. Pantaleo was the officer caught on a video choking Eric Garner on the ground on a New York sidewalk. There was a choke, a shout from Garner “