Whoa, trigger! I never said it was justification for killing him. My point was that Chauvin didn’t kill him. At the time he was on a combination of speed and opiates and trying to drive a car. The combination of the drugs in his body and the stress he was under caused his death. I’m sure the doctors who did the autopsy were pressured if not physically threatened to “make the right call or else” given the political climate today. I’m just saying his past speaks to his character and that character was not good.
Here’s something else to consider: Have you ever been in a sleeper choke hold? I have a few times because of some training I used to do. If you have you know that what happens is your blood supply is cut off to your brain and you start to blackout. That didn’t happen to George Floyd. He was yapping and moaning and groaning for most of that time until he stopped. And he stopped because he had a heart attack because of the drugs and stress. If Chauvin was applying that much pressure to his neck he would’ve blacked out long before that. The whole thing is bullshit propaganda.
Fair enough. I'm just getting used to hearing people say "Floyd was a bad man". As though that is the justification, and nothing else need be said.
Of course there were other contributing factors. But I want to know why you need to stand on somebody who is in restraints and is no longer a threat. Working as a doorman in a mining town, we ended up helping the RCMP out quite often. I have seen some things that were more than questionable.
One was kind of funny. A jackass we had in a room (be damned if I recall why). He was mouthy and kept telling the cops that his dad was important. The cop backhanded him, and I laughed. On the other hand, cuffing a person, throwing him forcibly in the back of a van bashing his head off the wall and not checking on him for an hour was pretty much over the line (that was the city police and not RCMP.)
