I just started watching the George Floyd body cam videos and I have to say the initial handling of the situation by the cops was not great. They were quick to pull a gun on him. Maybe they had no choice, but once they could see his hands, and certainly after he was cuffed, cooler heads would have tried to deescalate things. It was 3 minutes into the ordeal before they told him why he was being arrested.
Things deteriorated after that, and undoubtedly the Fentanyl in his blood stream didn’t help. No, I’m not blaming the cops directly for his death. They probably did things ‘technically’ by the book, and it was probably the Fentanyl that ultimately killed him, but their handling of the situation exacerbated his agitated state.
If this was a FF, maybe that was the plan all along. Get the guy all jacked up on Fentanyl, get him to spend a phony C note at a ‘friendly’ establishment that would call the cops on him rather than just returning the bill. Then let the combination of Fentanyl and a stressful arrest take its course.
Hugh Hewitt interview with POTUS from today. The interview is about 30 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pY2GUD8p8Y