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Can you tell me why it’s necessary, when a man is handcuffed and on the ground, to keep your knee on his throat for nine minutes?
“Can you tell me why it’s necessary, when a man is handcuffed and on the ground, to keep your knee on his throat for nine minutes?”
First I would appreciate if within your question you did not lie. The cops knee was on the side of his neck per training and not on his throat.
If you wish to further discuss this that is great but I insist on the truth and not questions or statements that do not reflect reality and video proven fact.
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Good question. Why did they do that to a white guy who also died (prior to Floyd’s death) and laughed at him while he lay dying?
The whole thing was captured on bodycam footage that was suppressed for several years and the officers all walked on charges.
Standard technique used by many agencies. Not saying it was correct in this case but it is used many times with no problems.
What difference did it make at that point? Floyd was already dead from an overdose...
I’m with you
I know you just fainted....hope u didn’t hit your head on a sharp corner going down
Well here we go again...
The autopsy report listed cardiac arrest as cause of death, probably caused by the drugs in his system. Not asphyxiation or strangulation.
He had almost 4 times the lethal amount of Fentanyl in his blood, plus heroin and methamphetamine. That is a chemical cocktail known as a speedball, same thing that caused John Belushi to OD. In Belushi’s case it was just heroin and meth, Fentanyl didn’t exist yet.
Watch the video a little closer. The cop had his knee at the base of the neck (in back, not on the throat) at about the area where the label of a t-shirt is. It’s not hard to see how that works, lie on your stomach with a large rubber band around your wrists, behind your back, and a 4 year old can easily hold you down with one hand no matter how much you struggle. I can hold you down with 2 fingers. It’s almost impossible to choke a person in that position, using the knee in that location. Maybe if you parked a truck there...
The autopsy report also stated that they found no bruising or trauma to the neck area, which means the cop didn’t use enough pressure to leave a bruise. The hyoid bone was not broken, it’s almost always broken in cases of strangulation or asphyxiation. Any method you use to choke a person WILL leave a bruise.
Fentanyl can cause a condition known as “wooden chest”. The sedative action of the drug affects the muscles of the chest, reducing their functionality, making them feel as if they are stiff and inflexible, hence the term wooden chest. This could be why he comlplained that he was unable to breathe, but just the fact that he could talk indicates he could breathe.
I saw a man choke right beside me one night, on a piece of meat. He had to use hand signals to get me to understand, because he literally could not speak, he was choking. In fairness, I suspected it already and was asking questions, all he had to do was nod. I got him standing and used the Heinlich maneuver, he was still vertical and breathing last time I saw him. If you can’t breathe, you can’t tell anyone you can’t breathe, you’ll be frantically using hand gestures.
George Floyd had a long criminal record, dating back to at least age 18, he was 47. Drug possession and sales, assault, armed assault, and I think armed robbery. He left Houston after getting out of prison on an armed assault charge. I think he did 2 years on that one. That was not his only time in prison.
He was also working with a group known as “Young Risk Takers”, (YRT) associated with a porn website, acting as “George the Landlord”. They look for the youngest girls they can find and have them do any kind of porn scene they can dream up with no condoms or other protection, hence the name YRT.
George Floyd killed himself, almost 4 times the lethal dose of Fentanyl, he was a dead man walking before the cops got there. They had an ambulance on the way, and made a 2nd call to get it to hurry up when they realized he was going downhill fast. I’m not sure if they had Narcan, or if it would have made any difference with that much Fentanyl in his system.
Bottom line, just like Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Freddie Gray, if he had not been resisting arrest, this story would have never hit the news. But in Floyd’s case, he would have been found dead from an OD the next morning if the cops had not been called. Brown, Garner and Gray would be alive right now, in jail maybe, but alive, if they had simply let the cops put the cuffs on. Floyd would not have made it to the CNN news, but would most likely be another OD statistic anyway, he had way too much Fentanyl to last the night.
But he was not killed by a cop, and this trial shouldn’t even be happening. But they have to have their pound of flesh...