This line here: "...George Floyd, who later died at a hospital..." turns out not to be true. The EMT's from the moment they picked him up could not find a pulse, checking several times on the way to the hospital. So he was dead on the street, with a knee crushing his windpipe. Great way to go, eh?
I'm guessing only an MD can pronounce death in some (most?) jurisdictions, so if the EMT's are repeatedly unable to find a pulse, it's still not "official" until the first MD examines him.
At some point the Coroner's report will announce the Cause-of-Death. This is what the MPLS Police Union is holding out a slim hope for when they say over & over: "Don't jump to conclusions just yet" - ie that there's some totally unforeseen cause of death that will be unrelated to choking. Like maybe he was deathly allergic to peanuts and there was peanut butter oil on the spot on the street under his face .... or some other longshot like that. It probably won't happen, but they can cross their fingers and hope.
I dunno why the Guv hasn't sent in the Natl Guard yet ... how can you expect the local police to restore order when nobody in town trusts them now?
What's depressing is that I can understand how one rotten apple makes all the cops in a city look bad, and you have to take that into account when making blanket judgments; but to have one cop killing someone while 3 more cops just hang around doing nothing ... now that's depressing.
See #12...
National Guard is there.
Agreed. No one said anything? Un friggin believable! The video is evidence George Floyd did not die of natural causes.
Looking for signs their actions were racially motivated. Any evidence on that?
Yes, the whole thing is depressing on many levels. The situation is reflective of the situation with the FBI. Corrupt operators within a bureaucracy, instead of being rooted out, get cover. The bureaucracy protects itself, to the point of becoming malevolent. Many within the bureaucracy feel powerless to stop the corruption knowing that if they try they'll be the ones targeted. Corruption then spreads like a cancer.
In this instance, the cop has a history of violence, and low and behold, Amy Klobuchar was one of his enablers.
https://theweek.com/speedreads/916926/amy-klobuchar-didnt-prosecute-officer-center-george-floyds-death