Drunks can certainly be difficult...many years working in a big city ER taught me that.But my years there also taught me that one doesn’t place their entire weight on someone’s neck unless a) they’re utterly insane or b) they’re trying to “send a message”.
I predict Chauvin will say he didn’t have his full weight on Floyd and that he thought his pleas were crying wolf. If you can talk, you can breathe, so he could reasonably make that claim. But just kneeling there with hands in pockets on top of him for so long once he stopped struggling is tough to explain away.
see post 8