[Toespi]

Had there not been a video of Chauvin on Floyd, I don’t believe he would have been convicted. The image was terrible, I won’t forget how nonchalant Chauvin looked on top of Floyd. People were begging him to stop and he should have, seven minutes is a really long time.

[spacejunkie2001]

You were duped

[Mr Information]

I think the first 6 or 7 minutes on Floyd were justifiable, because of the big fight he put up, but then Chauvin should have got off.

[b4me]

Chauvin’s only “wrong” was that in that time and that instance, he was white, making him an easy excuse for the racist leaders agenda of white cop bad.

Floyd was already dead from what he ingested, it just hadn’t fully exacted its effect. No way the police could or would be able to get the drugs out of him. Floyd made his choice.

The police letting him loose even partially could have resulted in worse happening and Floyd did harm to someone the public out cry of why did police not stop it or do enough to try to help Floyd. They followed protocol from what I read back then.

If someone overdoses. they overdosed. Very few times can it be changed.

[Leaning Right]

You are correct. In one picture, Floyd is down on his stomach, and fluid is seeping out of his mouth. Officer Chauvin appears completely unconcerned.

This does NOT mean Chauvin murdered Floyd. It does mean that cops now have to consider what a camera might capture, along with everything else.

What a mess.

[Charles Martel]

Being recorded on video is not the only threat to police from bystanders. The Minneapolis PD *approved* the knee-hold move that Chauvin used, mostly to enable officers to keep at least one hand free in case they come under physical attack from the onlookers while they are placing someone under arrest. That's the reality of police work in such places - and a detail that was never mentioned in court, IIRC.

Chauvin didn't look particularly nonchalant to me, he looked like an urban cop doing his job.