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originally posted by: FlyinHeadlock
Withholding this info is criminal. I never believed he died from the knee. Officer used that tactic before without incident otherwise he would not be doing it. It's effective. It's wrong but not lethal. He wasn't trying to kill him only restrain a totally out of control drug addict. Unconventional situation requires inconventional methods. Tazing him would have certainly killed him then what. Now he's charged with murder for tazing...meh.
originally posted by: yuppa
a reply to: KansasGirl
Chauvin should get 2nd degree murder,the others lesser charges.
originally posted by: trollz
originally posted by: Baddogma
Opiate addicts frequently have "lethal" doses in their system and continue to "live" as usual.
What's lethal for a normal person is not necessarily a killing dose for an addict.
Fentanyl kills addicts all the time.
originally posted by: rickymouse
The most the charge should be for the cop is manslaughter. That allows for unknowingly causing someone's death. Floyd was resisting arrest because he had drugs on him and in his system and he knew they would be testing him because of his past history of using drugs if he got hauled in. He was not a good guy, he was someone I surely would not want to hang around with because of his criminal history. They should not be making a martyr out of someone like him, it discredits the good black people that are in our society. Make a martyr out of good people who are killed by cops, not criminals.
If a cop told me I had to act a certain way because I had broken the law or was suspected of breaking the law, I would be nice and cooperative, the black people that are getting shot are defying the cops, not cooperating. If a white person does that, he might get shot or roughhoused too.
originally posted by: Gnawledge
originally posted by: panoz77
originally posted by: Gnawledge
a reply to: Rekrul
He was training the rookies. But that cop had 16 years experience and he was on the guys neck for 8 seconds. They may be rookies with him but they are trained - he had plenty of backup to get that guy in the squad car.
They tried for 10 minutes to get him into the car, he claimed he "couldn't breathe" in the car and was resisting the entire time, next.
If they couldn't get one guy in a car (on fentanyl of all things) in 10 minutes? They shouldn't be cops.
originally posted by: wantsome
Sure Fentanyl
Nope didn't have anything to do with a cop kneeling on his neck for 8 minute.
The criminal complaint says that a person called 911 on May 25, 2020, and reported that a man “bought merchandise from Cup Foods…with a counterfeit $20 bill.”
Officers Thomas Lane and J.A. Kueng arrived at 8:08 p.m. They learned from store personnel that the man “who passed the counterfeit $20 was parked in a car around the corner from the store on 38th Street.”
originally posted by: UKTruth
I am beginning to wonder whether this was set up.
The evidence is that he had a fatal level of fentanyl in his system - what was he doing wandering around getting involved in trying to pass funny money when so overdosed? Could someone have given him that overdose and called the police?
The official autopsy and toxicology report states that no life threatening injuries were present. No a single injury to the neck.
originally posted by: UKTruth
a reply to: vonclod
I wonder was he given the bill and a higher does of drugs than he realised he was taking...
Need to know who called the police.
Not sure of that.
originally posted by: vonclod
originally posted by: UKTruth
a reply to: vonclod
I wonder was he given the bill and a higher does of drugs than he realised he was taking...
Need to know who called the police.
Not sure of that.
The store owner called, apparently it the law regarding counterfeits