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.
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.