JoeB131
Diamond Member
Hmm, after careful consideration, and hours of head scratching I came to an epiphany: you missed the bloody point like a perfect idiot. Your last reply/comment just came off as TMI gaslighting. So many things going on here. I will stick to one issue: George Floyd. First of all I can only find evidence of 2 examinations of Floyd. Both found that Floyd had twice the level that would cause fatal overdose. A rather suspicious private funded examination that found Floyd died from a knee on the neck. Surprise surprise. Secondly, and more authoritatively":
Chief medical examiner Dr. Andrew Baker, who listed Floyd’s death as a homicide, thought the amount of fentanyl in Floyd’s blood was “pretty high” and could be “a fatal level of fentanyl under normal circumstances.”
“[Dr. Baker] said that if Mr. Floyd had been found dead in his home (or anywhere else) and there were no other contributing factors he would conclude that it was an overdose death.”
But there was a contributing factor. Chauvin had his knee on the guys neck for nine minutes.
Just like if you smother a terminally ill patient, no one is going to give you a pass because "they were going to die anyway".
The statement was that it COULD be a fatal level. But here's the thing, Floyd was a life-long drug addict. That level would probably kill me, I have absolutely no tolerance. But he had been taking drugs for years.
Now, on video evidence that Floyd during his arrest, (You can see it on the video) George Floyd was in the midst of exited delirium brought on by a drug overdose. (fentanyl). He even said : "I can't breath" BEFORE anyone laid a finger on him. HE was already SUFFOCATING before anyone touched him! That can not be overlooked. (Floyd also had heart disease AND COVID19, which also cause HYPOXIA). AND, most DAMNING OF ALL, the coroner admitted his conclusion was based NOT ON THE OVERALL FACTS, but on the "OPTICS' of that video. Really? OPTICS, not a scientific independent conclusion? Penn and Teller use "optics" when they pull a rabbit out of fucking hat, too. This is more about mob justice. Because violent mob threatens to burn down shit, not because of actual independent verifiable facts obtained scientifically. This is what you support?
Uh, yeah, I'm all for hanging Chauvin out to dry because what he did was wrong. Because now the NEXT thug cop is going to think twice about using a choke hold on a suspect.
The point is that Chauvin used a knee to the neck to subdue a man who was already in distress, over a PETTY crime. Floyd wasn't a murderer or a rapist, he was a guy who passed a fake $20 in a store.