Posted on 07/16/2020 6:51:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
New bodycam video has been shown to journalists that reveals a fuller picture of the interaction between George Floyd and police before his death.
The recordings come from former Minneapolis officers Thomas Lane and J Kueng's bodycams.
"I'm not a bad guy," Floyd reportedly tells police as they try to get him into the patrol vehicle. He then begs them not to put him in, arguing he is claustrophobic and he just had coronavirus.
"I just had COVID, man, I don't want to go back to that,” he says.
A passerby tells him to stop resisting: "You can't win,” to which he replied, "I don't want to win."
He reportedly volunteered to lay on the ground instead of going into the car.
Kueng and Lane arrived at Cup Foods at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in south Minneapolis shortly after 8 p.m. on Memorial Day after reports that someone tried to pass counterfeit money.
They briefly talk to the store manager, who points out a truck across the street. Lane takes out his flashlight as he crosses 38th Street. He taps on the truck's front driver's side window with the flashlight, and Floyd is startled.
"Let me see your hands," Lane tells Floyd. Floyd is moving around in the vehicle and apologizing to the officer, who swears at Floyd and demands to see his hands. Lane draws his gun and points it at Floyd, who tells him that he got shot the "same way by another police officer before," and begs Lane not to shoot him, telling the officer that he just lost his mom.
Lane tells Floyd to get out of the car, pulls Floyd's hands behind his back and cuffs him just about two minutes after he'd approached the vehicle. […]
About a minute later, Kueng tries to push Floyd into the squad while Lane pulls him from the other side. Floyd is splayed across the back seat, frantic and yelling. At least twice while being forced into the squad, Floyd says, "I can't breathe," and tells the officers he'll lie on the ground instead. (NPR)
At this point ex-Officer Derek Chauvin comes to the side of the car. The angle of the video makes it unclear whether Floyd pushes himself out of the vehicle or if he is removed, and he goes to the ground near the back tire of the police vehicle.
Chauvin put his knee on Floyd’s neck. He cries out for his “mama” and says he can’t breathe. Lane asked multiple times if they should put him on his side instead. Chauvin’s response was, “just leave him.”
Kueng checks Floyd's pulse, and says "he can't find one."
Several minutes after Chauvin put his knee on Floyd's neck, an EMT arrives and Chauvin gets up.
The officers help the EMT get Floyd onto a stretcher. Lane rides with him in the ambulance for a few blocks, giving Floyd chest compressions as EMTs prepare their treatment. The officer later gets a ride back to 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in a fire truck.
Chauvin's body camera had come loose as he restrained Floyd on the ground. Kueng recovered it from under the squad. (NPR)
The video was shown to journalists and the public by appointment on Wednesday, but Judge Peter Cahill is not allowing the video to be published.
why can’t the video be shown??
“””why can’t the video be shown??””””
I don’t know for sure but I thought the judge put a gag order on this case. Yet he is allowing “journalists” to look at evidence and report on it.
It doesn’t make much sense.
it'd destroy the narrative that has been woven.
the cops didn't kill floyd....he killed himself with his actions.
“why can’t the video be shown?”
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A Minnesota law about police video while a case is pending.
Yup. Gotta keep the fake but accurate story going.
“well, I think we really know why the video can’t be shown.”
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Active criminal investigative body cam data are confidential/protected nonpublic. (§ 13.825, subd. 2(a)(3); § 13.82, subd. 7)
https://mn.gov/admin/data-practices/data/types/body-camera/
Sounds like he whined and begged a lot. But he was handcuffed and unarmed the entire time. What specific actions did he take that forced the cops to kill him?
From the article:
“He reportedly volunteered to lay on the ground instead of going into the car.”
If he voluntarily lays on the ground, why the heck was there a need to put a knee on his neck for nearly 10 minutes?
“Floyd is moving around in the vehicle and apologizing to the officer, who swears at Floyd and demands to see his hands. Lane draws his gun and points it at Floyd”
Why the heck is there a need to draw a gun on Floyd? He wasn’t armed.
Even after reading the article and trying to sympathize with the cops, I can’t help but conclude that this was a case of Police brutality.
From the article:
“He reportedly volunteered to lay on the ground instead of going into the car.”
If he voluntarily lays on the ground, why the heck was there a need to put a knee on his neck for nearly 10 minutes?
“Floyd is moving around in the vehicle and apologizing to the officer, who swears at Floyd and demands to see his hands. Lane draws his gun and points it at Floyd”
Why the heck is there a need to draw a gun on Floyd? He wasn’t armed.
Even after reading the article and trying to sympathize with the cops, I can’t help but conclude that this was a case of Police brutality.
According to Court TV the attorneys for the officers WANT the video fully public. vs. second hand selectivity
“””Why the heck is there a need to draw a gun on Floyd? He wasn’t armed.””””””””””
How would they know that?
When a cop says show your hands, you show your hands. Especially when you are a known felon and in that neighborhood.
It was on Youtube yesterday and promptly pulled.
I assume it can’t be shown because it conflicts with the official narrative. He was in cardiac/respiratory distress prior to being on the ground.
If it is as described, it condemns Chauvin but mitigates the charges against the others. What it condemns Chauvin for is another matter but - again, if as described - he’s at the very least a bad cop guilty of some flavor of negligent homicide or manslaughter, not sure how MN law classifies it.
Early on, there was a story that floyd and the cop worked for a nightclub run by the Sinoloa cartel. They both worked together for a Mexican drug running and counterfeiting organization.
I guess that means nothing now. The narrative has been written.
“Why the heck is there a need to draw a gun on Floyd? He wasn’t armed.”
Because he was a giant, certainly could have been armed, and behaving in an insane manner after committing a crime.
Once you show it to anyone, it is no longer private.
“ho points out a truck across the street.”
The “truck” is a Mercedes Benz ML350 SUV. Nice ride for an out of work bouncer. (place closed).
Posted at 7 - apparently Minnesota has some scumbag law prohibiting release of body cam video until an investigation is completely and totally finished, and there are no other investigations involving the video.
You have gullibly accepted the antiAmerican African narrative.
The cops did not kill the drugged out criminal named floyd
He died while resisting arrest and endangering the cops with his efforts.
His body did not accept the self induced stress and failed.
The proof is the knowledge of his family lawer that filed civil suit in advance of the cop’s trial. They are pressing the law suit now because they know that the cops will be aquited and they want the money. They know their cause is lost and want a civil trial before it is proven the cops did not kill the black criminal
The plaintiff lawyer should be drug through the streets for his travesty against American justice
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