It certainly shows a much bigger picture of the incident at the very least. Through watching this video it becomes much more apparent that he's very much intoxicated from the substances found in his blood during the autopsy.
Giving an honest critique, the officers seemed to be much more subdued than the media's claims would have people believe. I'd say they could work a bit on people skills -- when dealing with those who accompanied him -- but I don't see any reason they would expect him to be in a particularly "fragile" condition. I still believe the main officer, Chauvin(?), crossed the line with how he handled the knee on the back of the neck, but I'll stand by my initial reaction that he didn't do it expecting that Floyd would die; there also doesn't appear to be any racial motivation involved either. I would think the most they could get him convicted of would be criminal negligence and possibly a manslaughter charge, but I guess we'll have to wait and see how this circus performance ends up.
To be honest, I feel worse for that rookie cop being tied into all of this nonsense. Saw a video of some Karen nagging him and making a scene in a grocery store; it was pretty annoying to watch. Imagine being in your first couple days, trying to do some good in life and this shit happens.
Here's the Minneapolis Police Procedures and Policies https://archive.is/lR2os (the link function isn't working for me right now), 5-311 is where you'll find neck restraint procedures. Here is the medical examiner's autopsy report as well http://archive.is/bUYyC . Good luck getting 2nd degree murder charges pressed when the officers were following their procedures, and Floyd took a potent cocktail of drugs and overdosed resulting in a cardiopulmonary arrest.
Well, the transcript was right about that. The problem for the cops is that he actually told them about it when they asked him and they still treated him like a regular suspect and got him worked up rather than get him to calm down and tell them about the drugs so the paramedics could assist.
This is what Robert Barnes was saying before the transcript was released. It sounded like he was on drugs, so the procedure changes.
They called in a code 2 to EMS, and quickly escalated it to code 3, shortly after the video stops. You can see this in the transcript. This was shortly after they started asking him what drugs he was on.
They followed recommendations about restraining Floyd to prolong his life, as he displayed the symptoms of someone suffering excited delirium, but as is usually the case, the heart failed.
I agree, but I feel like they needed to communicate it better to him and get him to cooperate. If he had been cuffed and they made the situation clear, we wouldn't have gotten the shitshow we got.
Hard to say. You can't really reason with unreasonable people, and those in a state of drug fueled excited delirium can show superhuman strength before they expire. They took the action that minimized risk to the officers, and also prevent Floyd from doing some dumb shit like getting up and running into traffic. Quite possible we would have gotten a different shitshow had the officers acted differently, but Floyd was a shitshow waiting to happen to someone.
It certainly shows a much bigger picture of the incident at the very least. Through watching this video it becomes much more apparent that he's very much intoxicated from the substances found in his blood during the autopsy.
Giving an honest critique, the officers seemed to be much more subdued than the media's claims would have people believe. I'd say they could work a bit on people skills -- when dealing with those who accompanied him -- but I don't see any reason they would expect him to be in a particularly "fragile" condition. I still believe the main officer, Chauvin(?), crossed the line with how he handled the knee on the back of the neck, but I'll stand by my initial reaction that he didn't do it expecting that Floyd would die; there also doesn't appear to be any racial motivation involved either. I would think the most they could get him convicted of would be criminal negligence and possibly a manslaughter charge, but I guess we'll have to wait and see how this circus performance ends up.
To be honest, I feel worse for that rookie cop being tied into all of this nonsense. Saw a video of some Karen nagging him and making a scene in a grocery store; it was pretty annoying to watch. Imagine being in your first couple days, trying to do some good in life and this shit happens.
Prepare for the Planet of the Apes 2 when the trial comes to a conclusion.
Here's the Minneapolis Police Procedures and Policies https://archive.is/lR2os (the link function isn't working for me right now), 5-311 is where you'll find neck restraint procedures. Here is the medical examiner's autopsy report as well http://archive.is/bUYyC . Good luck getting 2nd degree murder charges pressed when the officers were following their procedures, and Floyd took a potent cocktail of drugs and overdosed resulting in a cardiopulmonary arrest.
"YES! I was hoopin' earlier..."
Well, the transcript was right about that. The problem for the cops is that he actually told them about it when they asked him and they still treated him like a regular suspect and got him worked up rather than get him to calm down and tell them about the drugs so the paramedics could assist.
This is what Robert Barnes was saying before the transcript was released. It sounded like he was on drugs, so the procedure changes.
They called in a code 2 to EMS, and quickly escalated it to code 3, shortly after the video stops. You can see this in the transcript. This was shortly after they started asking him what drugs he was on.
They followed recommendations about restraining Floyd to prolong his life, as he displayed the symptoms of someone suffering excited delirium, but as is usually the case, the heart failed.
I agree, but I feel like they needed to communicate it better to him and get him to cooperate. If he had been cuffed and they made the situation clear, we wouldn't have gotten the shitshow we got.
Hard to say. You can't really reason with unreasonable people, and those in a state of drug fueled excited delirium can show superhuman strength before they expire. They took the action that minimized risk to the officers, and also prevent Floyd from doing some dumb shit like getting up and running into traffic. Quite possible we would have gotten a different shitshow had the officers acted differently, but Floyd was a shitshow waiting to happen to someone.