That’s not threatening lmao. I’ve seen the video. Once you handcuff him and sit him down he literally poses zero threat. Sitting on his upper back / neck for 8 minutes is extremely unnecessary and reckless. Hence the jury verdict 👍
Then you see him laying,moving about the car, they left the door open for ventilation for him, then you see him start trying to get up and straight up walk away from then
They also where fine with GF sitting/laying himself on the ground while they waited for the ambulance
Also not on his neck, as a first aider I'd of probably asked him to lay on his back or sit with his head down on sidewalk, but he stopped responding to commands while he was slowly going into cardiac arrest
Fwiw, restraining someone is actually kinda hard. three people can overpower one but people can produce a surprising amount of strength with you aren't fully restraining their mobility.
On one of the cop bodycams you can see him put a white substance/pills in his mouth. He had enough fentanyl in him to kill him 3 times. The police said he was exhibiting excited delrium and called for an ambulance almost right away and treated him very well given the circumstance. The hold Chauvin used was a reasonable restraint for such a large perp. Maybe if Floyd told the cops he took too many narcotics, they would have administered NARCAN in time. Maybe if there wasnt a crowd harassing the cops and blocking the road, the EMS could have got their sooner.
while i fully agree Floyd's death was 100% his own fault, "excited delirium" is not actually a thing outside the legal system. Its not a real condition.
It's the exact phrase police are taught when a suspect is exhbiting what Floyd was doing. So whether or not it's a correct term doesnt matter here. It was the term police were taught to use when calling for backup, reports and calling EMS.
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u/camz_47 25d ago
No longer a threat?
Please go watch him freaking out in the back of the cop car and trying to flee the situation while he was ODing