Good to know that you can be murdered in broad daylight by agents of the state as you beg for your life and still have people do apologetics for law enforcement
Just like Eric Garner, we can all be reminded that Floyd was no choirboy, and when we watch the video evidence the smear-artists and propagandists can ask "who are you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?"
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Anyway, Chauvin like any defendant deserves an active and zealous defense in the court of law. It doesn't look good for him though IMO...there's going to be tremendous political pressure to convict, I don't see him walking away from this one.
This looks like it's going to be another case where liberals' news sources just tell them what they want to hear (i.e. activism and advocacy rather than actually evidence based factual journalism) and they will have no idea what is actually happening and the verdict will be a complete surprise. I have been following the daily recaps at LegalInsurrection (highly recommend), and it's clear that prosecution has a huge problem in that Floyd was clearly fighting the police and had a lethal level of drugs in his system. The first time Floyd said "I can't breathe" was when he was sitting in his own car I believe, which means he was probably already having a medical episode (from ingesting more meth & fentanyl most likely). The behavior of the crowd is also unbelievable like you said and probably made the situation worse. because they had to dedicate 1-2 of the officers to crowd control.
If Chauvin is really convicted I can't imagine anyone would ever want to work as a police officer in MN ever again. I mean, Floyd made every bad choice imaginable, from passing a fake bill and refusing to make good with the cashier, to taking a lethal dose of drugs, to fighting the police, etc, all while having health problems including Covid. Why can't we just say that the police officers did they best they could in a difficult situation, and that they should be given the opportunity to lean from their mistakes (if any)? Putting the officers in jail for decades just seems completely out of line here, and they were following orders.
The cops didn't murder or kill George, his heart stopped and he was having trouble breathing because he overdosed. Even if he had been given narcan or taken immediately to a hospital he would have died due to the massive amount of opiates in his body.
By calling him an ambulance, upgrading the priority, and giving him CPR, the cops did everything they could to save him.
Also the woman who is supposedly an EMT who saw George Floyd overdose from swallowing METH and fentanyl knows she cannot voluntarily join crime scenes.
George Floyd was a career scumbag, and a deadbeat parent his children who won the ghetto lottery and who will waste the $ did not even know who he was at all. He robbed a pregnant woman at gunpoint and placed the gun up to her unborn child as a threat for compliance. That’s who you’re defending. He wasn’t a good guy who made good choices with his life and got unlucky. He brought his eventual demise upon himself and it should be a warning to others that doing bad things leads to bad consequences. I’m not applauding his death or defending any officer’s actions, but these are circumstances that could have been avoided if Floyd wasn’t a habitual violent criminal offender.
If you watch the actual footage I linked above, George is saying he can’t breathe and that he’s going to die before cops even touch him.
