The video looked pretty awful. Chauvin didn’t help himself. If he was wrongfully convicted, I am sorry. If police can act like that and still be patrolling later, that is sad.
Police ought to know that a lot of criminals are on drugs and be ready to call the ambulance immediately. The Chauvin case should, obviously have been handled differently, let the jury see all of the evidence. Change the venue. Stop the riots.
His mistake, and same for any cop anytime, is that he still retained command of the incident while he was hands-on. At that moment the role of incident commander should be automatically passed on to someone else. If all 4 cops are hands-on the scream some code for that to your dispatch line & they must follow up with reinforcements.
If there had been 12 cops there then no cops would have gone to prison. There was only 4 there. They were short staffed. And none of their chain of command has been held accountable for that mistake.
Was really bad optics that day. With St. George of Floyd on his stomach and uttering can’t breathe with Chauvin’s knee on upper back who then knew he was dying from a self inflicted fentanyl overdose? Chauvin didn’t help himself here but true evidence shows his actions were not the cause of death.
The Media is adept at cutting and editing video to make it look “pretty awful” so that the emotions of their viewers are engaged rather than their intellect. It is done intentionally for effect, and with a malignant purpose behind it, even beyond the simple mechanism of needing to draw users and make money.
And people still fall for it.
I stopped watching the Media back in the mid-late Nineties for that very reason.
I view with a jaundiced eye anyone who still watches it an any way, shape, or form, and conclude they have to be intellectually weak to even partake of any Media product, especially if they do so regularly for reasons other than determining what the Leftist talking points are.