Other side of the Story?

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[–]StrategicTactic 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

George Floyd has multiple priors, and in one particular instance, he ingested the drugs he had on him so they could not be found. Then he feigned (or maybe it was real) paranoia, where he claimed "He couldn't breathe". Sound familiar? During the time with Derek Chauvin, he was put into the patrol car where he kept crying out in terror about being claustrophobic and demanded to be put outside. That is when Chauvin restrained him. I believe the cops were waiting for medical services, since WHILE IN THE CAR he was saying he could not breathe. Since you CAN breathe if you can talk, it was probably not considered an emergency by medical.

The autopsy report showed no soft tissue damage to the neck or spine (which would have happened if trauma was caused, including suffocation), and a mixture of drugs including Fentanyl. The amount in his system was 3 times what has been known to cause death elsewhere. Another report from the same coroner said that if he had not seen the video and was told it the toxicology report was from someone pulled from an apartment, he would have declared it to be an overdose.

[–]StillLessons[S] 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks for this. Each time I hear more about the details, I learn more. In what you write here, for example, I didn't know that he had been put in the car before being taken out and restrained.

One thing is becoming increasingly clear with each detail that arrives: the dominant narrative in this case is completely ignoring the incredible difficulties and deep stress put on cops every time they have to deal with a person who is deeply intoxicated, especially a large and thus potentially quite dangerous individual. Handling people under the effects of powerful drugs is not a trivial matter, and judging cops in that situation can never represent more than vast oversimplification of super super stressful instants in time.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The amount in his system was 3 times what has been known to cause death elsewhere

That doesn't necessarily mean anything when you take tolerance into account. Addicts routinely take more than normal people could handle.

[–]jykylsin2034 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The point still stands