Derek Chauvin guilty in death of George Floyd: Live updates

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[–][deleted] 11 insightful - 4 fun11 insightful - 3 fun12 insightful - 4 fun -  (5 children)

If the manslaughter charge is correct, every cop that has had a druggie OD on them also is guilty of manslaughter. The fact that the jury was overwhelmingly black and female is the only reason he was sentenced for any of the charges.

[–]antireddit 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

You dont kneel on someones neck for 9 minutes after they've been handcuffed. It was criminally stupid. It doesnt take a genius to know some structures that are pretty important to keeping you alive are located in your neck, so it should be common sense that kneeling like that for that length of time was a pretty bad idea.

Maybe he was distracted by the cameras and worried if he quickly removed his knee people would say aha he knows we just caught him using unnecessary force, so he played it off like it was totally cool, I dont know, but he obviously screwed up regardless of whether that was the primary contributor to Floyd's death. It seems like he was taught by someone to do this in certain situations somewhere down the line, I havent followed the case close enough to know if that came out or not.

[–]EuropeanAwakening14 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Yes, but there was no damage to the neck, so your point is what? Yes, this restraint is SOP for MPD as established in the trial. Obviously you're not very informed about the case.

[–]antireddit 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

There doesnt have to be damage to his neck. If I put someone in a chokehold I could make them pass out fairly quickly and if I kept it up could kill them, and there might not be any actual damage to their neck. Its the lack of oxygen or blood flow that killed them. Now do that to someone with heart disease and on a cocktail of drugs like George was and you make it more likely they die.

Also it doesnt really matter if kneeling on his neck actually caused his death. The point is that it COULD, and if someone happens to die while you're doing it guess what, u done fucked up son, and thats what happened to Chauvin, who did it while being filmed no less, in todays political climate. So again, it was criminally stupid and unnecessary, since he already had the guy in cuffs.

I'm not saying he should have received all the charges he did. It was obviously political, and the fact the jury found him guilty of ALL charges with a pretty quick deliberation makes it likely they were scared shitless of finding him innocent of anything and/or motivated by the same media onslaught and black worship the rest of the country is.

[–]Nombre27 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Floyd was talking for over 3 minutes while that knee was on him. Secondary footage shows the knee to be more on his upper back area than on his neck. The knee isn't pointed enough to occlude from that angle so it wasn't on his carotid artery.

[–]EuropeanAwakening14 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So, you admit that there was reasonable doubt involved? You admit that IT COULD have killed him. So, you expect police to take evey suspects medical history into account while restraining them? Lol. How is that reasonable?