I’m not sure his drug use was relevant to the circumstances surrounding his death
amazing...
Unless he swallowed them quickly before he was caught with them in his pocket.
Fentanyl reduces your heart rate and when you od you suffocate.
You take a 270 lb man on meth and you have a real threat to people trying to subdue him. I’m sure that the defense lawyer will use this.
His drug use could well be very relevant to his death, but as other posters have noted, not relevant to the cop kneeling on his neck which is not what police are taught to do.
In the end, the cop may have found exactly the wrong circumstance to carry out that wrong/prohibited practice. In a healthy person, the person may not have died, but someone carrying Fentanyl and Meth on board could quite possibly be the difference between a drug abuser with a sore neck and a dead drug abuser.
In the end, if it is a dead drug abuser due to the physical actions of the police, he is still dead due to malpractice of police techniques.
I try to give cops the benefit of the doubt, but in this case, both the cop and the deceased druggie seem like pieces of crap to me, the druggie is dead, but the cop is alive to face the music, and the rest of us have to burn because of the stupidity of both of them.
Damn them both to hell.
“I’m not sure his drug use was relevant to the circumstances surrounding his death”
NO? WHY NOT?
“Fentanyl works in the brain to block pain and is in the same class of drugs as morphine or hydrocodone but is about 50 to 100 times more potent.
Just 2 to 3 milligrams of this drug can kill a person. It blocks opioid receptors and its most dangerous side effect — like other opioids — is respiratory depression, which can quickly lead to coma and death.”
https://www.drugs.com/illicit/fentanyl.html
“respiratory depression” HELLO?????
“can quickly lead to coma and death” HELLO?????
If this cop gets a fair trial (doubtful) he will get a very much reduced charge if not acquitted. AS HE SHOULD BE! (reasonable doubt, VERY reasonable)
He held Floyd down WAY TOO LONG, YES. KILLED HIM? I think not.
George Floyd killed himself.
It appears that he died of a heart attack. You don't think Meth and Fentanyl had some impact on this?
Let’s see, meth, fentanyl, contributig factor? Nah.