This isn't news to anyone who watched the body-cam video.
This isn't news to anyone who watched the body-cam video.
Exactly! My wife and I were watching the body cam footage this morning and she said the exact same thing that he was saying he couldn't breathe when no one was touching him.
That would make a decent person think he should not be strangled by a knee for 9 minutes. So you both saw Chaivin attacked a guy's problem area.
But he wasnt strangled. The county ME said he found no "tell-tale signs of asphyxiation." You would think 9 minutes of kneeling on someone's neck would leave some sign of it. But like your imbecile VP said, you people prefer truth to facts.
Chauvin did what he was trained to do.
Thug Floyd’s death was not caused by the officer’s knee, as prosecutors contend, but by Floyd’s illegal drug use, heart disease, high blood pressure and the adrenaline flowing through his body.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chauvin-told-bystander-floyd-was-sizable-guy-probably-on-something
When told to get into the squad car, Floyd repeatedly yelled, "I’m not that kind a guy!" and "I'm claustrophobic!" As officers shoved his upper body and then his legs into the car, he writhed and screamed, "Please! Please! … I can’t breathe!"
Officers were clearly exasperated as Floyd braced himself against the squad car and arched his body while they tried to get him inside. At one point, he threw his upper body out of the car, and officers tried to push him back in.
Officers eventually pulled him out and brought him to the ground. Floyd thanked officers as they took him out of the squad car.
Once Floyd was on the ground — with Chauvin’s knee on his neck, another officer’s knee on his back and a third man holding his legs — the officers talked calmly about whether he might be on drugs.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chauvin-told-bystander-floyd-was-sizable-guy-probably-on-something
Once Floyd was on the ground — with Chauvin’s knee on his neck, another officer’s knee on his back and a third man holding his legs — the officers talked calmly about whether he might be on drugs.
Exactly! My wife and I were watching the body cam footage this morning and she said the exact same thing that he was saying he couldn't breathe when no one was touching him.
One should also note that earlier in all that video, the officers did ask Floyd if he was on drugs and Floyd answered that he wasn't (clearly a lie given what we now know). Had Floyd been honest about his drug use, the officers might have responded differently.
If he already couldn't breathe that sounds like a good reason not to further impede his breathing with a knee on his neck. They had advance warning of his problem.
But not a defense against homicide.
Exactly! My wife and I were watching the body cam footage this morning and she said the exact same thing that he was saying he couldn't breathe when no one was touching him.
I understand your point but something was studied and taught after the Garner death in NYC: custodial asphyxiation.
Handcuffing behind the back and placing a big person face down on the ground can lead to it.
If the Minneapolis PD did not teach this to its officers they could face liability.