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George Floyd has been sober for 308 days.
But seriously - Chauvin should have got off his neck after he clearly passed out...
And when he then stops faking it and attacks police, as has happened tens of thousands of times across the US in the last decade?
You're assuming cops should just trust violent black criminal drug addicts to behave as normal people. Absurd.
For all they knew he could have been in the downer phase of angel dust and been headed towards the eat-your-face-off phase.
u/SophiesBoyfriend is correct. He really didn't need to try and restrain the dude who had completely passed out at that point.
In fact, I'd bet money that's what they'll actually get him on: "hurr durr, you should have provided life-saving aid instead of holding his neck down = negligent homicide" or some such thing.
And yeah, he was gonna die no matter what with all the meth and fentanyl he ingested. No, he wasn't asphyxiated.
It actually kinda reminds me of the Eric Garner case. The cops didn't do anything wrong, but they didn't look like they were helping.
Difference is that Eric Garner may have actually been killed by negligence from the EMT's who preformed no life-saving efforts when he stopped breathing. If you're an EMT, and your patient stops breathing you should probably so something.
He's not right and you didn't read what I wrote.
Here's the two questions you need to answer:
Now let's take it even further beyond!
Had Chauvin had perfect knowledge of the situation, would he have been able to render aid at that point with what was available to him such that Floyd would have lived?
There is no justifiable situation whereby Chauvin was responsible for the death of George Floyd.
Floyd was a multipe-felon with a history of violent crime and drug abuse.
Stop making the mistake of thinking he could be treated as a normal, innocent bystander.
If George Floyd was a serial killer, and then started freaking out being clearly high on something, and then completely goes limp... for several minutes, and maybe even stops breathing, then kneeling on the back of his neck still doesn't do anything.
It neither restrains him, no asphyxiates him.
The biggest threat the officer had at that point, was from the crowd.
How could he tell that George wasn't faking it? For starters, it's a classic case of "Excited Delirium": dude is high as fuck, acting hysterical and controllable, then passing out, and dying of cardiac arrest. It's not the first time I've watched that play out in police footage, and I've even seen cops recognize the signs and realize "Oh shit, he's about to die" when the suspect basically fades out, and try CPR to get their heart started again.
Beyond that, he could check his pulse and his breathing. There's also a sternum rub and a few other tricks to try and wake people up to see if they are genuinely lights-out.