It is possible to overdose and die from even 2 ng/ml of Fentanyl. It hapoens to opiate addicts all the time.
No, it is not, and no it does not. The blood serum concentrations used for anesthesia by medical professionals ranges from 10-20ng/mL, WAY above 2ng/mL. The lethal dose is higher than that. For opiate addicted people, the lethal concentrations are going to be higher, possibly MUCH higher depending on the severity of addiction. Your statement is flat out false and it shows you do not have a clear understanding of what you are talking about. The amount of meth in his system was very low, too. And besides that, meth actually serves to increase the amount of opioids required to suppress breathing enough to kill, except in overdose situations (levels in the blood of 0.15 to 0.5mg/mL are associated with psychosis and are still under the level of overdose... Floyd's blood concentration levels were MUCH lower than that). You are either being willfully ignorant, or lying to suit your narrative.
Source:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22890811/
from the source study said:
Results: The manners of death included 40 accidents, 36 natural, 8 suicides, 5 therapeutic complications, and 3 undetermined deaths. Among the accidental fentanyl intoxication deaths, 32 of 37 involved substance abuse. The majority (95% ) of the 37 accidental deaths involving fentanyl were multi-drug intoxications. The substance abuse deaths had a mean fentanyl blood concentration (26.4 ng/ml or μg/L) that was over twice that of the natural group (11.8 ng/ml). Our analysis suggests a relationship between total patch dosage and mean postmortem fentanyl concentration up to the 100-μg/h dose.
(emphasis mine - note that the mean lethal concentration of 26.4ng/mL involved 95% of the subjects being under the influence of multiple other drugs, too)
I don’t care what kind of person Floyd was. Why does it matter? Really like? At the end of the day it wasn’t Chauvin’s place to punish Floyd for anything. It was his place to bring him in to custody. That is it. He used excessive force for a crime that wasn’t even violent. On a guy who was compliant after putting him into that hold and having 3 other officers beside him for support. Chauvin wasn’t under pressure from anyone. The crowd were standing back although they were expressing concern. Like any normal person would when they see someone being suffocated.
This, exactly
You know George Floyd was a career criminal, right? He stole lots of cars, wrecked them, sold guns, and broke in a random stranger's home, robbed her, beat her up, threatened to kill her and her fetus/child, and this is not normal behavior, he was never going to change, become 'reformed', had zero empathy for anyone at all he had hurt, and prisons and jails are full of people just like him
I don't understand what's so hard about this. I don't care what Floyd's history was, or what kind of person he was. Unless he was currently assaulting a pregnant woman or endangering the lives of civilians, it is entirely inappropriate for cops to kill people who are under arrest, or to use excessive force to endanger their lives. Our entire justice system, and the justice system of any civilized nation, relies on the right of people to face a jury of their peers in a trial to determine their guilt or innocence, and face their punishment according to their crime. Allowing Chauvin to escape any consequences for his actions sets an extremely dangerous precedent whereby it empowers cops to act as judge, jury and executioner if they feel like it. This is the last thing we want. It is NOT the cops' jobs to punish criminals, it is the cops' jobs to arrest them and let them face their day in court. THAT is what this is about. Contrary to what I'm sure you've snap judged me for, I am not trying to make Floyd out to be a hero. I think he wasn't a good man. He deserved to be arrested that day. He did some bad things in the past and maybe even that day, I don't know. It is not about Floyd, it is about not letting a cop get away with his actions, actions which, if allowed to pass, will set a dangerous precedent for the future.
Do you want to live in a country where cops can choose to abuse people they're arresting just because they feel like it? I don't, and I seriously doubt you do, either, if you're being honest. But I imagine you're going to react to this post with the laughing reaction to show your disrespect of my time spent trying to engage with you in honest debate, and disregard what I'm saying because it doesn't support the narrative you wish to push in this incident. I am not looking at this even as a racial issue, it is a police brutality issue, and we need to draw a line in the sand, because police brutality is a problem we all face, and we need to do something about it so that it stops. It happens to people of all races, and it's wrong, and dangerous.
