Larry Schweikart: Antifa’s Deadly Beauty

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[enumerated]

You are not the only person I have encountered who is suggesting this cop may be getting railroaded, and that there may be more to this than that one video they play 24/7.

But where are you getting these time lines? How do you know what happened off camera in such tremendous detail?

Do you have links so that I can share your perspective, which - frankly - is at odds with the overwhelming national consensus, driven largely by that one video?

[marktwain]

I have posted a number of links.

There is video of George getting arrested and put in cuffs.

There is video of George and officers struggling to get him inside the police car.

There is a picture of George being held down by three officers on the side of the car.

The timeline is pieced together from a number of sources. This one shows much of what happened, but leaves out critical details, such as the clerk telling dispatch Floyd appeared intoxicated. It says officers called for an ambulance about the time they are attempting to get him into the police car. It does not show the struggle in the car.

Some is from images of partial reports that have been released.

For example, we know the police called an ambulance after George collapsed when they pulled him from the police car. It has been reported they checked for a pulse, but I have not confirmed it in official reports. The exact timeline is unclear. It has been reported the ambulance arrived in six minutes, but that doesn't appear to be correct. I suspect it is more like nine minutes. The code was changed from a code 2 to a code 3 (life threatening, as I understand, at some point. I have not found the time of dispatch on this incident report, which was written by someone who arrived after Floyd had left in the ambulance.

FDIDStateCompleteNarrativeMMDDYYYYStationIncident NumberExposureIncident Date*****2721820-001819700017 MN2520205E17 was started code-two to assist EMS on a call, then updated to code-three. Pre-arrival info stated only that pt had trauma to his mouth. E17 arrived at Cup Foods (38th & Chicago) with multiple squads on scene and small crowd of citizens. As 17s attempted to locate the patient, the crew overheard and was told by several people that the police 'had killed the man.' Bystanders were upset but not unruly. No clear info on pt or location was given by either initial pd officers or bystanders. Crew finally located an officer inside the store who stated HCMC medics had loaded the patient and relocated from the scene. E17 encountered an off-duty firefighter who had witnessed the end of the struggle and witnessed the pt go from struggling to unresponsive on the ground while handcuffed and subdued by PD. Dispatch notified E17 that medics needed Fire code-three, and E17 relocated to 36th & Park Ave.

In the original uncut video, one police officer answers a bystander, who asks: Why don't you put him in the car? The officer says: we were trying to do that for ten minutes.

I gave the link to the MPD policy on neck restraints.

It is important to note there are alternative explanations for what happened, exculpatory evidence is being uncovered, and we should follow regular order and due process.

Maybe there is police misconduct here. It seems less clear the more we know about what happened.